Quantcast Beyond Fast Pass
 
INTERCOT: Walt Disney World Vacation Planning Guide Walt Disney World Disney Cruise Line Mousehut Mail WebDisney News INTERCOT: Walt Disney World Vacation Guide
News Discussion Theme Parks Resorts Info Central Shop Interactive Podcast INTERCOT Navigtion
Site Sponsors
  magical journeys travel agency
  INTERCOT shop

INTERCOT Affiliates
  disney magicbands & accessories
  disneystore.com
  disney fathead
  disney check designs
  amazon.com
  priceline.com

News
  site search
  headlines
  past updates
  discussion boards
  email update

INTERCOT Other
  advertising
  sponsors
  link to us
  contact us
     

INTERCOT Ads
 

 
 

Results 1 to 10 of 10
  1. #1
    Join Date
    Jun 2000
    Location
    Macomb, MI, USA
    Posts
    659
    Post Thanks / Like

    Default Beyond Fast Pass




    Moms pay $1,000-a-day to hire disabled members to skip lines at Disney

    Published May 14, 2013
    FoxNews.com

    Some families reportedly have hired disabled people to allow them to be able to cut the line at Disney World.Disney
    Forget the FastPasses. Apparently the secret to skipping the long lines at Disney World is to hire a disabled person.

    The New York Post is reporting that some deep-pocketed New York City moms are hiring a motorized scooter-bound guide to pose as a family member so they and their kids can jump to the front of the lines.

    According to the report, families book tours through an outfit called Dream Tours in Florida, which on its website claims to provide "quality based, memorable, and affordable vacations, to people with special needs." The Disney guide charges $130 an hour, or $1,040 for an eight-hour day, citing a Manhattan mom who claims she hired a tour guide using a motorized scooter.

    “You can’t go to Disney without a tour concierge,’’ she told the Post. “This is how the 1 percent does Disney.”

    The mom said that a guide using a motorized scooter escorted her, and her husband and their two sons around the theme park and were able to immediately go onto rides while others waited for hours.

    Disney allows each guest who needs a wheelchair or motorized scooter to bring up to six guests to a “more convenient entrance.”

    The New York mother indicated that Jacie Christiano --who works at Dream Tours and is the girlfriend of the tour company owner, Ryan Clement--was the family's guide. Clement told the Post that Christiano doesn't use her disability to bypass lines and says that she has an auto-immune disorder.

    Calls made by FoxNews.com to Clement and Disney representatives have not been returned.

  2.     Please Support INTERCOT's Sponsors:
  3. #2
    Join Date
    Jun 2003
    Location
    Fort Mill, SC
    Posts
    213
    Post Thanks / Like

    Default

    This type of abuse of the system really disgusts me...
    --Heff

  4. #3
    Join Date
    Jul 2005
    Location
    Connecticut
    Posts
    15,837
    Post Thanks / Like

    Default

    We now have two threads on this topic, see this one.

    Can we please combine them into one, mods?
    Sherri
    Next: Aulani Celebration 10/2018 (50th)
    Past Stays: Contemporary, GF, Poly, BC, POP, POR, Dolphin, AKL Kidani, BLT
    1990 August Honeymoon- GF
    Delighted Disney Return Guest since 1981, DVC (BLT) since 2014


  5. #4
    Join Date
    Jun 2000
    Location
    Macomb, MI, USA
    Posts
    659
    Post Thanks / Like

    Default

    Keep this one - posted earlier & will relieve everyone of having to find/read the article. Just kidding - I don't care.

  6. #5
    Join Date
    Jul 2005
    Location
    Connecticut
    Posts
    15,837
    Post Thanks / Like

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Dixie Springs View Post
    Keep this one - posted earlier & will relieve everyone of having to find/read the article. Just kidding - I don't care.
    Haha, maybe they will keep them both. Was just trying to be helpful in streamlining. It's ridiculous enough for several threads.
    Sherri
    Next: Aulani Celebration 10/2018 (50th)
    Past Stays: Contemporary, GF, Poly, BC, POP, POR, Dolphin, AKL Kidani, BLT
    1990 August Honeymoon- GF
    Delighted Disney Return Guest since 1981, DVC (BLT) since 2014


  7. #6
    Join Date
    Aug 2004
    Location
    Martinsburg, WV
    Posts
    3,983
    Post Thanks / Like

    Angry

    The stupidity of this article and this tour company makes me furious.
    First of all it is just not true.
    As a scooter (EVC) user with mobilty problems I well know Disney policy and you do not get front of the line access on the majority of attractions. On things that to the general public appear to be "front of the line" you are usually taken to a holding area and gradually feed into the flow of everyone else (prime example is Spaceship Earth). If a Fasspass is needed for immediate boarding, you sure as heck better have one or you are going nowhere. With boats sometimes you have very long waits for the only boat that has the ability to take a disabled person. At almost all theater type sitting you are put in an area where the viewing is not the best.
    What a brilliant idea for seperating fools from their money.
    KAY

    DVC MEMBER - OKW & HHI
    First trip to WDW - Dec, 2005
    Last visit to Disneyland - 2014

    First trip to Disneyland - 1955

  8. #7
    Join Date
    Dec 1969
    Location
    INTERCOT, U.S.A.
    Posts
    31,938
    Post Thanks / Like

    Cool

    Quote Originally Posted by Dixie Springs View Post
    “You can’t go to Disney without a tour concierge,’’ she told the Post. “This is how the 1 percent does Disney.”
    Forgetting all the other issues with this story, this comment makes me want to throat punch this woman.

    Disney needs to tighten up policy here, if you ask me. The abuses of the system are excessive and need to be controlled.
    Ian ºOº
    INTERCOT Senior Imagineer

    Veteran of over 60 trips to Disney theme parks and proud to have stayed in every Disney resort in the continental United States! º0º

    Next trip:

    April 2018 - Saratoga Springs Treehouse

    Help support INTERCOT's sponsors!!!

  9. #8
    Join Date
    Jun 2002
    Posts
    1,849
    Post Thanks / Like

    Default

    What a horrible lesson to teach your children... first that they're above everyone else and then that disabled individuals are to be used. This whole idea is disgusting.
    "One little spark of inspiration is at the heart of all creation, right at the start of everything thats new, one little spark lights up for you!"


    ºoº


    Mom to our little Prince Everett and Princess Adelaide
    August 2020 Caribbean Beach!
    Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.

  10. #9
    Join Date
    Aug 1999
    Location
    Bayonne NJ
    Posts
    13,739
    Post Thanks / Like

    Default

    CNN) -- Disney World is looking into reports that some wealthy visitors are hiring disabled people to pretend to be family members so that they can skip lines.

    "It is unacceptable to abuse accommodations that were designed for guests with disabilities," spokesman Bryan Malenius told CNN Wednesday. "We are thoroughly reviewing the situation and will take appropriate steps to deter this type of activity."

    Reports of the alleged practice sparked fury on social media, with some people calling the actions "crazy," "awful," and "despicable."

    But others defended the idea, arguing it's a way to help some disabled people make good money.

    The debate began with an article in the New York Post.

    "The black-market Disney guides run $130 an hour, or $1,040 for an eight-hour day," the report said.

    Social researcher Wednesday Martin "caught wind of the underground network" while working on a book about practices among New York City's Park Avenue elite, the Post reported.

    "It really is happening," Martin told CNN's "Starting Point" Wednesday.

    "I live among the privileged and powerful parents of New York City," she said, "and once in a while I come across a practice that's really surprising."

    She added, "It's not my job to judge."


    Just a little update
    Jeff (aka JPL)
    Former VMK alias figgiefig
    Intercot Staff
    Disney Tech - Software, Games & Web
    The Locker Room
    Disney Vacation Club

    [email protected]




    "Remember it all started with a Mouse"

  11. #10
    Join Date
    Jun 2000
    Location
    Macomb, MI, USA
    Posts
    659
    Post Thanks / Like

    Default

    May just be a coincidence, but a new Scooter Store just opened on International Drive (JK).

Share This Thread On Social Media:

Share This Thread On Social Media:

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •  

 
Company
Advertising
Guest Relations
Community
Discussion Boards
Podcast
Newsletter
Shop
Social
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
YouTube
Pinterest
Subscribe to our Newsletter
Enter your email address below to receive our newsletter:
INTERCOT Logo PRIVACY STATEMENT / DISCLAIMER | DISCUSSION BOARD RULES
© Since 1997 INTERCOT - a Levelbest Communications Website. This is not an official Disney website.
> Levelbest Network Site