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I stay until the last song is played. Then the lights go out and we say goodbye for another year. It is a beautiful tradition. My family also puts together a large Christmas train garden in my house complete with a Magic Kingdom section: monorail, Castle, train station, Emporium, rides...

It depends on the wheelchair. I have a newer powerchair (with a tilting base) that is 26 inches wide and a lot longer. (I do not bring it to Disney but instead use my petite 22" chair.) The new one, while comfier, is really too big to maneuver well into my HA van or tight corridors. An ADA...

That reminds me of when I went to London and had to go through International security at Heathrow. They insisted on taking my power wheelchair from me before Security, which meant I was then ferried about the airport in a manual chair and had little way of knowing what happened to my beloved...

Um handicapped bathroom stalls, if abused, are also taking up a resource designated for the disabled. Laws haven't made it an offense worth fining, but clearly you are prohibiting the disabled from using it if you do. In the UK they have special keys given to the disabled to use handicapped...

But you didn't need a wheelchair to get a GAC with an alternate entrances stamp. That step was pointless and cost the fools extra money. I wish they'd created a stamp for "must use wheelchair ride vehicle". That would have been a lot more helpful in weeding out the abusers while helping the...

Ditto. As someone who's gone several times a year for oh 7-8 years now, I'm plain getting bored. I already skipped my trip for next Spring and have yet to book Autumn. You do get Disneyed out. A baby step for TDO yes. Let's hope they're one of those toddlers who takes off running once they...

I saw that and responded. October 30th is when I should expect MDE to open my FP+ window? Cool! Thanks for the heads up. I'll keep checking and follow your advice. I love going to WDW for NYE. People think I'm crazy when I say I'm going then. They think I'm going for the daytime touring and...

The ironic thing is renting a wheelchair to get into an alternate entrance was dealt with a decade ago. There are only maybe 2-3 places in all of WDW you ever have an alternate entrance for a wheelchair. So the joke is on the idiot who tries this. And still I go back to my main contention that...

Thanks, I'll follow your advice. Best time to check on whether MDE has the correct ID numbers for the rest of my party. It is showing AP tickets for them but I know I didn't enter anything for them. I figured it was auto-entered when they purchased them and we converted the paper PAPs to RFIDs...

Eek! Did you see the "No FastPasses Today" thread? Sounds like TSM is royally messed up in the FP+ trial. People are reporting the FP line is backed up 30 mins in October. That line is never long. Now I'm worried my plan to ride TSM on NYE in time to also enjoy Osborne will be foiled after all...

Eek! Doesn't sound good for TSM at all. No wonder they wanted the GAC users out of that line. So they've royally screwed up FP+ for TSM? Awesome! I guess there goes my plan to celebrate the new year with a ride. In other news, is the fact I'm going to Disney with my DVC points and have a...

First of all, thank you for the intelligent debate. I appreciate the time and effort you're putting into these responses. It's invigorating and giving me lots of good ideas. I always love it when I encounter a poster who shows such respect and wit that it adds to a debate rather than descends...

That's getting into the "who deserves it more" debate. Not something I chose to indulge in. Just because my disability is due to a childhood illness I had no control over doesn't mean my needs are greater than someone who got drunk at senior prom and had a car accident that left them...

This presumes that people like me who wish to avoid crowd situations for safety reasons don't do just that when they go about outside of an attraction situation. I don't leave a park right at closing. I wait somewhere else away from the crowd and let it disperse. 30-40 minutes is not uncommon...

Thank you. I agree. My concern is that Disney's new DAS policy is forcing a lot more of these vulnerable folks into potentially dangerous crowd situations. I fear for the first person with a walker or in a wheelchair who gets hurt by the impatient pedestrian crowd around them. Whenever I saw...

Thank you! I confess the DAS change did upset me a great deal during my trip. I hate changes that upset my apple cart and I have no way of knowing how to right it. But I have decades of experience dealing with upset apple carts. My first NYE trip to Disney, Southwest Airlines BROKE my power...

One other thing to note, my situation is one where I can have the best possible adaptation to DAS because I did not rely on GAC to do all my touring. I used it for the few headliner attractions I can do (I cannot ride most of the headliners with my disability). Using GAC allowed me to mitigate...

This thread is dominated by posters who are not in WDW nor have been in recent weeks. I happen to be one person who was there during the GAC/DAS changeover. I reported my experiences and what issues I experienced. Yes I was initially denied a DAS on the basis I use a power wheelchair and was...

It's far worse than that. Wheelchair guests are specifically told they are not allowed to get a DAS card. Their disability is taken care of with wheels alone. So unless they have another issue that makes waiting in a Standby queue difficult, they are told to go to Standby or get a FP like...

Might I suggest there's also the effect of using fP+s more often than people did paper FPs. It's easier to commit to a ride schedule you pre planned over a few hours than come back much later in the day. I'm saying FP+ is being redeemed more than FP. That's another reason you know Disney wanted...