Disabilities — access pass, questions, tips

[Bear84]

carers do go free as i was offered that type of pass for my son when i bought our dream passes, but i opted for the dream pass so i could emh as well!

Thank you, does the carer need to get a one day ticket each day the person with disabled AP goes in or do you tell them you're there for however many days (say 3) and you're given a pass for that amount of days?

[toonarmylass]

im not sure i would assume if u wanted a 4 day pass they would give the carer a 4 day pass also! but also dont forget ypur doctors letter or other type of evidence for the easypass!!

[zara-x]

Thanks! Does anyone else know anything more about carers going free in conjunction with annual passes?

[toonarmylass]

no hun u dont get a free dream pass at all. thats why i bought one!!

[chickadee84]

can you only rent the normal wheelchairs or are the electric ones over there?

[alperry]

Hi. When we were in disney (august) they said that if you buy a disabled park ticket (ie 1,2,3 day) then they will give you an equivalent carers ticket for the same length of time. If you get an annual passport (with 10% discount if disabled) then each day you visit go to guest services and they will give you a carers ticket for that day, have to do it each day though.

Hope that helps.

[isobeljackmummy]

My son has autism, and will have problems queuing due to anxiety etc. does anyone have experience of what type of pass if any we will be entitled to?

What will I need to take with me?

Also we are a family of 4, will we all be able to accompany him?

Thanks for any help!

[littlemermaid83]

My son has autism, and will have problems queuing due to anxiety etc. does anyone have experience of what type of pass if any we will be entitled to?

What will I need to take with me?

Also we are a family of 4, will we all be able to accompany him?

Thanks for any help!

You need a Doctors letter, medical certificate or blue badge. Dated within 3 months of your trip.

I'm sure you will all be able to accompany him. Just ask at City Hall when you go in for your pass.

[isobeljackmummy]

My son has autism, and will have problems queuing due to anxiety etc. does anyone have experience of what type of pass if any we will be entitled to?

What will I need to take with me?

Also we are a family of 4, will we all be able to accompany him?

Thanks for any help!

You need a Doctors letter, medical certificate or blue badge. Dated within 3 months of your trip.

I'm sure you will all be able to accompany him. Just ask at City Hall when you go in for your pass.

Thank you

[polar vixen]

Hi, not sure if it was just in our case, but our diagnosis letter was older than 3 months, and it didn't make a difference ( with autism not being something that goes away I can't see why there'd be a time expiration on it?) They let all of my family on my sons disabled pass ( 2 adults with 3 children), but I've been told this can vary depending on who you deal with at city hall. You can still use the pass if you need to do parent swop, so when the ride was only suitable for 4, he'd go round with 1 parent and 1 sibling, then when he came back go round again with the other 2.

[polar vixen]

last time we were there, (sep 2011) queue jump was fantastic, however for crushs coaster they inserted you into the queue and you had to stand in a fairly squashed queue in the dark for a good 10 mins. When I asked if we could wait the 10 mins at the exit instead I was rather nastily told we had to stand in the queue if we wanted to ride. My son has autism, and doesn't like people pressing him from every side, or having to look around in the dark (moving in the dark is a whole other issue which is why the coaster was ok, but by then he was already stressed and on the verge of having a meltdown. Does anyone know if the situation's changed?

[polar vixen]

Does anyone know the process for disabled queueing for crush's coaster please? do you still have to spend 10 mins standing in the queue?

[haribosmum]

For parent swap on Crush's coaster, you go through a service corridor and come up the other side (the side people get onto the ride). I've never had to queue here, just wait to be called.
I'd have thought that if ok with mobility you'd be able to go this way with the disabled pass. My daughter was too little to ride this last visit, am considering it for our next visit when I'm hoping we will get our pass again as it's half term!

[polar vixen]

That sounds great, thanks for the reply!

[Ravenseye]

My partner is registered disabled and would find it almost impossible to stand in a queue for around 30 minutes maximum. From how I read it, there will be 3 adults in our party, only 2 of us can ride together with a disabled priority pass. If i'm right then we will only be able to all 'go on rides' with a very short or non existant queue.
Can anyone enlighten me further?

[Thaliel]

Me, my mom and my sis (who would be the sidabled person) have never had any problems getting on rides together. If an attraction is very crowded, CM might just give you a fixed time where you can come back and ride, but that hardly happens nowadays

[nathalie]

There's a new way of doing this at BTM though.

We got through the exit last week, as a friend who was with us has a pass, and the CM said it was a 40 minute wait if we wanted to get on the ride, while the regular waiting line was about 60 minutes.

[SwipatronSparks]

Curiosity has me asking this more than anything else, i am going to DLP in April and since i have never been in April am i correct in assuming that i will experience queues of a least 45-50 mins (or heaven forbid... Longer)? My knees are really bad when im left standing around for more than 10-15 mins at a time and with no kind of diagnosis as to what causes the pain though i hope to have one by the time our trip comes around (and sometimes swelling) i worry that i could end up missing out on going out or even in a worst case scenario miss an entire day in the parks (when my knees are really bad i cant actually walk properly, and can only get relief when sat in bed with a pillow shoved under my knees to keep them 'bent') so if i was to get a pass what would i need to take with me? For disney to give me one? Would i be allowed one?

[jonathan]

Curiosity has me asking this more than anything else, i am going to DLP in April and since i have never been in April am i correct in assuming that i will experience queues of a least 45-50 mins (or heaven forbid... Longer)? My knees are really bad when im left standing around for more than 10-15 mins at a time and with no kind of diagnosis as to what causes the pain though i hope to have one by the time our trip comes around (and sometimes swelling) i worry that i could end up missing out on going out or even in a worst case scenario miss an entire day in the parks (when my knees are really bad i cant actually walk properly, and can only get relief when sat in bed with a pillow shoved under my knees to keep them 'bent') so if i was to get a pass what would i need to take with me? For disney to give me one? Would i be allowed one?

In order to attempt to get a pass you'll either need a blue Disabled Parking Badge or a letter from your GP/Consultant stating that you have a problem/condition and that some form of disability pass would be of benefit to you.

[SwipatronSparks]

thanks for the help jonathan,
i knew that some people get them via a blue badge but for obvious reasons i dont have one of those, so as i said i hope to at least be on the way to getting a diagnosis as to the problem by the time my trip comes around (im not holding out hope for the symptoms being gone i have had this trouble for the last year and a half how and its getting worse) so i will get a letter off my gp and hopefully get a pass.... got until April so plenty of time yet just planning is helping hold my excitement for now =]