Around the World at Epcot - New Segway Guest Experience

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Around the World at Epcot - New Segway Guest Experience

Starting Saturday, Feburary 14, 2004, Epcot Guests will have an opportunity to learn how to operate a Segway Human Transporter (HT) and complete basic maneuvers prior to riding through World Showcase before it opens to all Guests. The experience will be offered seven days a week meeting at 8:45am and lasting for two hours.

Tour Details:
Tour capacity - 10 guests
Age restrictions - 16 & up
Signed waiver at beginning of experience. Guests 16-18 years old will need a guardian signature.
Guests will be provided with helmets.
Due to the design limitations of the Segway HT, there is a rider maximum weight of 250lbs.
In case of inclement weather, the experience may be shortened to a one hour experience (inside) at a 50% discount.
The experience will cost $80 with a 15% discount for AAA, DVC, Cast Members, Passholders and Disney Visa cardholders.
Park admission also is required.

Call 407-WDW-TOUR to book

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Tour Details:

8:45am The experience starts in the Guest Relations Lobby.

9am Guests are escorted from the Guest Relations lobby to Segway Central (previously known as the Flex Space next to Ice Station Cool).

9-10am Guests experience the device overview and rider practice indoors in Segway Central.

10-11am Guests are guided out of Segway Central and led to World Showcase by way of the Towers, then left to Mexico. While traveling in the onstage areas, Guests will be led in a single file.
* Once the group passes the ropes at Norway, they will be operating in a backstage area as they continue to ride around World Showcase.

11am The group will return to Segway Central just before

11am At the conclusion of their experience, Guests will return to the Park to enjoy the remainder of their visit.

Not to be rude, but why helments?

I thought that those only fell over if the battery runs low.

Just wondering.:veryconfu

Originally posted by Creekboy25
Not to be rude, but why helments?

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Disney can sense the greedy injury lawyers circling overhead waiting for the first person to take a tumble.

Originally posted by barnum42
Disney can sense the greedy injury lawyers circling overhead waiting for the first person to take a tumble.

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LoL!

Sad but true:

My school is in a town, the people who live in town walk and the people who don't ride the bus or drive, I drive. A girl in my 2nd period walks. Right now we have quite a bit of ice built up from this years harsch winter. This girl is going and trying to slip and hurt hersel on people's sidewalks that are not cleared. She is planning to sue those people for pain and suffering.

Edgar Snyder has created some monsters! Too many people are getting big bucks for stupid things!:hammer:

~Creekboy25

You DO have a responsibility to clear your walkway of ice and debris that could create a hazard. I remember this from when I lived "up north". Since I've been in Florida this has not been a big issue. I'm sure that the owner of the walk way has some liability, but probably not all of it.

Things in the UK are backwards here. My folks used to run a pub, but were advised by the legal beagles to NOT clear snow from outside. If they leave it alone, they were not liable. If they cleared it and then someone fell they would be liable for "not doing a propper job of it".

:veryconfu

I am so in, on my next trip (Feb 26-Mar 1) I will most defiantly do this tour.

-DonicKCo

Originally posted by barnum42
Things in the UK are backwards here. My folks used to run a pub, but were advised by the legal beagles to NOT clear snow from outside. If they leave it alone, they were not liable. If they cleared it and then someone fell they would be liable for "not doing a propper job of it".

:veryconfu

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Plausible denial. Once you acknowledge and take responsibility for something, its just that, your responsibility. Did your parents ever have to test that advice, ie did anyone ever fall on the snow/ice from a belly full of stout?

Originally posted by DonickCo
I am so in, on my next trip (Feb 26-Mar 1) I will most defiantly do this tour.

-DonicKCo

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I know you've been wanting to ride a Segway...

Originally posted by lebernadin
Plausible denial. Once you acknowledge and take responsibility for something, its just that, your responsibility. Did your parents ever have to test that advice, ie did anyone ever fall on the snow/ice from a belly full of stout?

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Nope, they ran a respectable establishment