Wheelchair Help!!! Going Tomorrow!

[MyRoseBlue]

Tomorrow, I'm going to Disney World with my grandparents. Disney is really special to them; they visited even on their wedding day! I'm hoping for it to be really fun, special trip for them, but they can't walk very well. Although they can walk moderately, Disney is a lot of walking. So, they're going to stay in the wheel chair all day. I don't know if there are many rides they can go on because it's really hard for my grandma to step down into a ride and then even harder to get out. So, I think the only rides they're going to go on are the ones they could get in while on the wheelchair. So, I was wondering if there was a list of all wheel chair accessible rides for the Magic Kingdom. If there is we'd really appreciate it! Thank you so much!

 

[KPeveler]

Here you go:
List of which attractions you can stay in a wheelchair for and which require a transfer:

Magic Kingdom® Park
Can stay in a wheelchair or ECV:
Ariel's Grotto
Castle Forecourt Stage Show
Country Bear Jamboree
Donald's Boat
Fairytale Garden
Frontierland® Shooting Arcade
Galaxy Palace Theater (seasonal)
Judge's Tent
Jungle Cruise
Liberty Square Riverboat
Mickey's PhilharMagic
Mickey's Country House
Minnie's Country House
Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor
Shrunken Ned's Jungle Boats
Toontown Hall of Fame
"The Enchanted Tiki Room Under New Management"
The Hall of Presidents
Tomorrowland Arcade
Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress (seasonal)

Guests in motorized vehicles, ECVs, must transfer into an available wheelchair at these attractions (if you are already in a wheelchair, you can use it in the attraction and won't need to transfer:
Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin
"it's a small world"
Stitch's Great Escape!™
The Magic Carpets of Aladdin
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Tom Sawyer Island Rafts
Walt Disney World Railroad

Attractions requiring Guests to transfer from their wheelchair to board the attraction include:
Astro Orbiter
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
Cinderella's Golden Carousel
Dumbo the Flying Elephant
Mad Tea Party
Main Street Vehicles
Mad Tea Party
Peter Pan's Flight
Pirates of the Caribbean
Snow White's Scary Adventures
Space Mountain®
Splash Mountain®
Swiss Family Treehouse - Guest must be ambulatory
The Barnstormer at Goofy's Wiseacre Farm
The Haunted Mansion
Tomorrowland® Indy Speedway


Also check out Post #11 of the FAQs thread for more info

 

[MyRoseBlue]

You are so awesome! Thank you so much, this is going to make it really cool! They can go on so many more rides then I expected! Thank you very much!

 

[SueM in MN]

Here’s a little more information - I copied it from a post on the disABILITIES FAQs thread. Post 9 on page one of that thread has a list of attractions with moving walkways. You can find the disABILITIES FAQs thread near the top of this board or follow the link in my signature.
Along with the list that KPeveler posted, this might be helpful if they are thinking of trying some of the attractions that require a transfer.
(This post of the FAQs thread was about ECV accessibility because many people have questions about that).

For MK, this is a list of attractions with ECV accessibility information.
I put those in bold that guests would be able to stay in the ECV for.
The ones that have a wheelchair ride car are in blue bold. The guest would need to be able to transfer to a wheelchair.
The ones just in black regular type are ones that require a transfer that may be difficult.

• Magic Kingdom Railroad - about a 12 inch step up into the train car
• Astro Orbiter - about a 12-15 ins step over the side of the car and the seat is very close to the ground
• The Barnstormer at Goofy's Wiseacre Farm - a step up and into the ride car
• Big Thunder Mountain - fairly level step in, but opening is narrow
• Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin - about 4-6 inch step up into ride car. Moving walkway, which can be stopped or slowed.
• Carousel of Progress
  [*]Country Bear Jamboree
• Donald's Boat
• Dream Along with Mickey (show on the castle stage)
  Dumbo the Flying Elephant - about a 6 inch narrow step over the side of the ride car.
• Enchanted Tiki Room
  [*]Hall of Presidents
• The Haunted Mansion - has a moving walkway, which can be slowed or stopped. Floor almost level with moving walkway.
• it's a small world - about a 12 inch step over the side of the boat, then about 10-12 inches down to the seat and about 10-12 inches down to the floor.
• Jungle Cruise - about a 6 inch step up to the top of the boat and then about a 10 inch step down into the seat of the boat and another 10-12 inches down to the floor
• Liberty Square Riverboat
• Mad Tea Party - about 6 inch step up over the edge of the saucer, then about an 8-10 inch step over the side of the teacup - narrow opening
• The Magic Carpets of Aladdin - narrow opening with about a 6 inch step over the side of the carpet
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh - about a six inch step up into the ‘honeypot’
• Mickey's Country House
  [*]Mickey's Philharmagic
  [*]Minnie's Country House
  [*]Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor
• Peter Pan's Flight - moving walkway which can’t be slowed or stopped. Floor of pirate ship is almost level with moving walkway.
• Pirates of the Caribbean - about a 6-8 inch step over the side of the boat, about 6 inches down to the seat and another 8-12 inches down to the floor. Steep moving walkway to get back up to ground level at the unload area. There is an elevator down a small hallway to the left
• Prince Charming's Regal Carrousel - there is a chariot, but it is a step up
• Snow White's Scary Adventures - about a 6 inch step up into the ride car
• Space Mountain -step over the side of the ride car
• Splash Mountain - Regular line has a flight of stairs. about a 15 inch step over the side of the ride car with a narrow opening.
• Stitch's Great Escape! -not a ride car, but is a wheelchair spot where you can experience all the special effects
• Swiss Family Treehouse - MANY flights of stairs, some are twisting, most are narrow and many are steep
• Tom Sawyer Island - island is not accessible, but guests in wheelchairs can go on raft over to island
• Tomorrowland Speedway - low car with step over side to get in and seat close to ground level
• Tomorrowland Transit Authority - not accessible; the station is at 2nd floor level and there is a very steep moving walkway to get there and back down. Ride load and unload includes a moving walkway which is not stopped. Small step up into ride car
• Toontown Hall of Fame

In addition, guests MIGHT be able to make a transfer onto the ride car for Haunted Mansion if they can transfer from a wheelchair. It is not that difficult of a transfer because it has a level floor and the transfer car has a door wider opening. You can park a wheelchair as close as you need to park by the ride car with the moving walkway closed. The guest would need to explain what is needed to the CM. Here is a picture of the transfer doombuggy.

This is a link to the DIS site (wdwinfo) page which has links to more information about each attraction.

 

[Michigan]

Even if they are going on rides with wheelchair cars only one wheelchair will fit in it.

 

[SueM in MN]

Even if they are going on rides with wheelchair cars only one wheelchair will fit in it.

Thanks for the reminder.

 

[MyRoseBlue]

Thank you all so much! We all had so much fun. Disney was much easier then I expected it would be with them. It was really special, and something I'll never forget. Thank you again!

 

[SueM in MN]

Thank you all so much! We all had so much fun. Disney was much easier then I expected it would be with them. It was really special, and something I'll never forget. Thank you again!

Glad you had a good time and thanks for coming back and letting us know.