So we will be going Oct 1st doing the CC dinner package. We will need HC (we have a scooter). there is one showing (8:15) that night. We have never saw the show before. What time should we get in line and where would you advise us to try and see the show from (I have read this entire thread and I am more confused that I was when I started)
You'll definitely need to ask the CMs about all that. I thought that they set up a handicapped section in the dining area if it was needed, but that was back when the WoC dining options were Ariel's Grotto or WCT.
I went with my mom and her scooter in November 2011, to the second show (general admission, not dining). So things could be different now, but I haven't read anything saying so. Dining may work similar to this, or maybe not even remotely like this.
From what we could tell for general admission, they had a separate waiting area at the front of each color's line. This queue was just for people in wheelchairs, scooters, and with other special needs, and their parties. You needed a Fastpass to wait in this line. I imagine if someone had an invisible disability they would probably need a GAC, but if you have a scooter that's all you need. (If my party were more than 6 people I would double check with City Hall or Guest Relations, because I think 6 is often the cutoff for how many people can be in a party with someone using handicapped seating/etc.)
Anyway, the handicapped queues were allowed in first, before anyone else. Guests could either take the handicapped area if they wanted, or they could choose any other area in the color of their Fastpass. Only when the handicapped people had their places, did they start letting in the other guests.
So IF that is still the case, then if you WEREN'T in the dining section, then in theory all you'd have to do is arrive maybe 10 minutes before they started letting the handicapped people in. We were careful to get there much earlier than that, but from what I could tell, if you didn't want the handicapped area, then it didn't matter at all how early you were, as long as you got there before they allowed the other guests in, because you could find a good area somewhere. (If you arrived after they were done letting the handicapped people in and they were letting in the other guests, however, I imagine you'd be relegated to the handicapped section. If that were full, I don't know if the person in a scooter could get any view at all.)
Again, I don't know if that's how they do things now, and I'm not sure if dining does the same kind of thing or if you'll just have a designated handicapped section that's where your party will be and that's that. But at the
barest minimum I would plan to be there 10 minutes before they start loading anyone in, whenever that is. More is probably better unless someone can tell you exactly what you need to do from experience. It's also probably best to ask several CMs beforehand, and hope you get similar answers from at least a couple of them. Which I hear can be a rare occurence.
