Time for some self serving questions here, specifically about Disneyland. The DAS guest in question is my autistic older brother, Matt. Matt is in a group home, cannot function by himself and loves Disney. He is who the DAS system is intended to accommodate and I have no question that he should be eligible for use.
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@lentesta's latest show, he discussed how if you were previously using this service for legitimate reasons such as autism, you shouldn't be impacted by these changes. However, it's conceivable that because of the "fraudulent usage", we could be restricted on the number of guests that can accompany my brother on any given attraction. That in itself could certainly be argued as a "reduced benefit".
- Historically, Disney World's DAS usage has had a soft cap of 6 guests. Was Disneyland's cap also a soft cap or no?
- The website for both WDW and Disneyland now specifies 4 guests, but there have been multiple reports that they can include additional guests if the family is larger than 4. Family is a remarkably broad term and I don't see that specified on their respective sites.
- Would the flexibility to add more than 4 guests be approved on the video call or in the park? Under the current rules, you would get 6 guests approved on the call, and additional guests potentially added in the park.
- We have an upcoming trip in July that will have 10 ticketed guests for one of the days, 9 ticketed guests for most of the days. When we planned the trip we thought there was an outside chance they would accommodate all 10 of us, but we were planning as if they would accommodate 6 of us.
- If they define "immediate family" as parents and children then that would be 5 ticketed guests. My parents, my sister, myself and my brother. The fact that we're all adults should presumably be moot here.
- They could also conceivably allow for the significant others of those in the immediate family. I'm married and my sister is married, so we're at 7 ticketed guests.
- My sister has two kids and I have two kids (one of whom is 2 and doesn't require a ticket). All of this is pushing the boundaries of what is likely considered a reasonable accommodation, but at the same time these are accommodations that were largely satisfied in recent history.
- Independent of all of these questions, I also really don't understand why they are keeping the advanced DAS selections in place. This was absolutely the time to remove those.