It seems like one of the complaints is...
I can only tolerate 5hrs...
... under old model I could do 10 attractions..
... under new model I could only do 5 attractions..
Nevermind 'other' people could only get through maybe 4 attractions in the same period.
Some believe Disney should enable a disabled person who can only tolerate 5hrs to do 10hrs worth of park visits during the 5hr period.
That is not something Disney is obligated to do. Disney can and has, but is not obligated to. This change does stand to reduce how many attractions someone can get done in a fixed amount of time. But what it doesn't necessarily do is reduce you to LESS than what 'open' population have the potential to do. With the crowding of disabled access at some attractions it would... but the reduced abuse should help with that too.
But I think this is the disconnect for many... people thinking Disney should allow people to concentrate a full trip into a shorter amount of time. That is purely a customer service choice - not legal obligation.
And in this case, it looks like the lure for abuse was just too high.. so yes those who were in need are brought back down a bit from their previous graces offered by Disney.
The inability of someone to maximize something's potential is not something ADA or others are required to cover. A younger kid who has more stamina can do more than me.. that's just how it is. The ADA is not required to make you 'normal' stamina or throughput.. its required to allow your level of stamina to participate.
Wow! Bravo! Encore!
I could *not* have said it *any* better. *This* is the sense of entitlement that comes out of
some of the people who are bemoaning the loss of GAC. They don't see it. They are blinded by it. Why? Because they think that the GAC is MAW-lite. I'm not sure what drives it, but the mentality is that Disney exists solely to make their experience all obstruction-free, at the expense of WDW and other guests. To literally seize and plunder an experience value
well above what would be considered fair value. Never mind, the value degradation to regular park tickets by constantly abusing queues with front of the line access for their whole party. Never mind, the regular Joe who clawed and scraped for 7 years just to afford a family vacation for once in his life. His family vacation value be damned. Their park ticket values be damned.
Let me be 100% clear here. This isn't everyone. There are disabled people out there that truly need the help, deserve the help and should get the help and assistance to make their disney vacation as close to an equal experience as a regular joe. However,
NOT surpass the value of a regular joe. @
flynnibus said it perfectly!
To read people claim that a 5-15 minute wait is too long or who have boasted that their special needs child has ridden Peter Pan 5,700 times...those people, that sense of entitlement sickens me. How on earth is that even remotely fair treatment? Moreover, how someone refuses to see that the ability to skip lines that range from 15-120 minutes long, isn't a MASSIVE value to anyone, disabled or not, is mind boggling. How do these GAC defenders not realize that their behavior, as well as the behavior of sheer abusers, isn't hurting the truly needy most of all?
I'm sure it's coming, so flame away. I don't care. I'm here for the ones that truly need help....and to the ones that claim 15 minutes is too long to wait can go back to the airport and wait 60 minutes to get through TSA.