MickeyChick
02-03-2008, 01:43 PM
Argh. Not sure this is the best place to post this but I need to get this off my chest.
Just got back from seven days at the world. Everywhere we went we saw large groups with 1 person on an ECV move to the front of lines-- for busses and for rides.
Now, I have a bad ankle with pins and screws holding it on. By the end of the day at the parks, I was barely able to move, but I wanted to go to Disney so I dealt with it and took lots of meds. I understand everyone deserves a chance at the magic of a trip to Disney, but I don't get the preferential treatment.
Standing in a long line for It's a Small World, I watched one older (very heavyset) woman on an ECV go to the front of the line with FOURTEEN people in tow go directly to the front of the line. Then while we were on the ride, we got stuck in one spot for awhile and the CM later told me it was because they had to load someone from an ECV into a boat.
Leaving the Magic Kindgom one night, the line for the bus back to Pop literally filled the entire chain maze and went all the way back to the gates of the park. And if you've stayed at Pop, you know that the bus stop is the very last one. Still people on ECVs skipped the hundreds of people waiting and got on the next available bus. I was furious. I would have loved to have stayed in the park to the very last minute, but I wanted to decrease my wait time for a bus.
I know federal regs say that disabled people have to be loaded into busses before other people get on the ride or on the bus, but why doesn't it work so that the disabled party gets in the handicapped or disabled line and the rest of their party gets in the main line. When the ECV person's other party members reach the point in the line where they are about to load, the ECV person then gets loaded first onto that bus or that ride? It just seems more fair to me.
I was there with two preschoolers who hated the wait and I dealt with the crying and the tugging. No one likes to wait and I'm just vexed that the system is so unfair to everyone.
Just got back from seven days at the world. Everywhere we went we saw large groups with 1 person on an ECV move to the front of lines-- for busses and for rides.
Now, I have a bad ankle with pins and screws holding it on. By the end of the day at the parks, I was barely able to move, but I wanted to go to Disney so I dealt with it and took lots of meds. I understand everyone deserves a chance at the magic of a trip to Disney, but I don't get the preferential treatment.
Standing in a long line for It's a Small World, I watched one older (very heavyset) woman on an ECV go to the front of the line with FOURTEEN people in tow go directly to the front of the line. Then while we were on the ride, we got stuck in one spot for awhile and the CM later told me it was because they had to load someone from an ECV into a boat.
Leaving the Magic Kindgom one night, the line for the bus back to Pop literally filled the entire chain maze and went all the way back to the gates of the park. And if you've stayed at Pop, you know that the bus stop is the very last one. Still people on ECVs skipped the hundreds of people waiting and got on the next available bus. I was furious. I would have loved to have stayed in the park to the very last minute, but I wanted to decrease my wait time for a bus.
I know federal regs say that disabled people have to be loaded into busses before other people get on the ride or on the bus, but why doesn't it work so that the disabled party gets in the handicapped or disabled line and the rest of their party gets in the main line. When the ECV person's other party members reach the point in the line where they are about to load, the ECV person then gets loaded first onto that bus or that ride? It just seems more fair to me.
I was there with two preschoolers who hated the wait and I dealt with the crying and the tugging. No one likes to wait and I'm just vexed that the system is so unfair to everyone.