One of the common misconceptions about DAS is that it’s for everyone who has a “disability.” It is not. Disney will only give a person DAS if they cannot wait in line due to their disability. If the disability relates to mobility, inability to stand, walk, etc, then they will (and always have) told the person that they will provide them with a wheelchair, etc. for the line.
To clarify. For many years up until and including 2019, my family member qualified for DAS in WDW there was never an issue. If I remember correctly we needed to go to guest services every 30 days to get re qualified? Anyway never an issue.
Sure it was an issue, but the people who couldn’t be accommodated just didn’t go. Just like they didn’t ride public buses, go to certain businesses, etc.
Today at WDW, its whatever the cast member on duty feels.
Use the option where you get your DAS pass online before your visit. Those case members are better trained.
We are going to try that. Thanks.
As a DAS user i agree. I have no issues having to come back. Like i said in the past the pro was it was like a max 30 min wait and a good amt of times they would let you literally go right on. Con to that was you had to walk from ride to ride so depending on the need that was very tiresome. Now w the ability to make everything in the app its so much easier and honestly if you know what you are doing you spend time “waiting” in line while entering and riding your current attraction but even with this i always purchase Genie+ because to me its still worth it to be able to use both and max my trip out. Yes its costing me an extra 100 per day but again vacations are not cheap and worth it imo. My worst experience with it was my 1st time using it after that as ive stated ive been pleasantly surprised by the success ive have. Granted knowing the drop times help 100% but hey a little research goes a long way
I'm not sure which way I fall on this... but do you as a DAS user think it's fair that you can redeem G+ reservations while waiting for your DAS return time?
Personally yes i do. Im paying for a service like everyone else is and im using a system that i need that Disney offers. So to me there is nothing wrong with it… how would telling someone they cant buy Genie eliminate abuse?
I don't think it would eliminate abuse. What it would do is lessen the amount of people using the system.
How so?!? If you give people the “option” who will choose an inferior paid system in Genie vs DAS and why would Disney stop people willing to pay from paying?
I would argue in the balancing of equities it would be more unfair to not let this happen.
I know it's Disneys fault due to lack of capacity and reduced hours. We also know that is not getting fixed any time soon. I will also say a big problem Disney has is the mindset of the guests. They created the mess but now Disney guests refuse to wait in standby.
To play devils advocate and im not saying you were one of them but all i hear here is people say how bad FP+ was now people were satisfied with it and opted out of DAS bc of it? Ive defended FP for a long time and have been basically been called a liar regarding my success so i find it hard that is the reason.
For my family FP and Genie+ are equally terrible. We don't want to be told what time we can ride something. We aren't planners when it comes to vacations.
And honestly im not buying that either bc then people will be in standby and yes i watched the Doc on it…. Lines are not magically disappearing sorry to break the news to everyone