There’s a world of difference between a family of Mum, Dad and 3 kids and a group of 5 adults.
I don’t know how operationally Disney would cut out the “two places at once” issue here. Require tapping in to each line? Turning away a guest because they are “in line” for a different attraction?
Looking at the whole thing in terms of wait times is where you are going wrong and where many DAS posters in this thread are going wrong when they don’t understand why DAS is having such a huge impact. It’s not about wait times, it’s about capacity. Each ride has only a certain amount of throughput per day. That amount is finite and cannot go up. That ride will never be able to accommodate more than ‘X’ users per day. DAS users are hoovering up a huge amount of ride capacity from the popular rides. The reason they are able to do this is because standby lines are a limiting factor that discourage people from riding certain rides. You may really love Rise of the Resistance, but there aren’t a ton of people willing (or able) to wait 3 hours for it. Or even if you’re willing to do that once, you’re not willing to do that multiple times per day, so the average guest rides less, or rides less desirable attractions/shows. This disincentive does not exist for the DAS user, so they, on aggregate, go on far more of the desirable rides than the non-DAS user, thus gobbling up so much of the overall capacity, and thus driving up standby lines in the aggregate a lot.
The only way to make that equal is to ban DAS holders from buying genie…and they’re not gonna do that
They’re never gonna do that
That could hypothetically be true. It seems like the physical standby lines just get longer and longer, not that people are “giving up and moving on to something else”, but that’s just my anecdotal impression. (Waited like an hour for Magic Carpets last time I was there.) Obviously I don’t have actual data on how many people decide not to ride something based on the current wait though.
I doubt that there are really that many that do both - though I do know @Splash4eva claims to do so, and a family friend with T1D does on her visits - but I don’t see how having a disability accommodation (which is supposed to confer equal access to the guest) means the company gets to prohibit the disabled from buying G+. There’s no prohibition to the general public buying it other than the finite slots they offer per day with a preference towards onsite guests.
The general public cannot get DAS. If you need DAS, why do you also need Genie+?
Wow Magic carpets is a walk on when we go. This is why we go then so we don't impact as many people. We are really conscious and concerned about how the extra time we take impacts others.
And yet on the other end, there's been posts in this thread saying the opposite - that if das users weren't also buying genie+, then it shows they were abusing DAS.
You really need an answer this. To get on more rides faster....
All four friends/family that use DAS also buy genie # so they can get on as many rides as possible without waits.... Best of both worlds as they say it. Add in the rope drop its 15 rides with ease at MK before lunch..
The general public cannot park in handicapped parking spaces. If they have those, why can they park in non-handicapped spaces?
If i still had my screenshots after each purchase i would have posted them to prove my “claims” not sure why anyone would lie about their purchases.
I can only answer for myself because DAS at times has big gaps between attractions so to fill that gap i purchase Genie + and try and book rides that will fill that gap as best as possible. Hopefully that answers your question.
Not necessarily. There could be three attractions with 30 minute waits. Assuming a ride time of under 10 minutes, they could accomplish three in two hours. A 30 minute wait time is likely too long for the DAS target demographic, though individual circumstances may vary.
