That can only be due to the inherent nature of an accommodation. It cannot be an intentional choice. An elevator can be slower than the stairs because of how it operates, but you can’t make it slower to deter people from using it.
They are not making it slower to deter people from using it. The nature of getting out of and back into a line necessarily adds more time to your wait. This is still shorter than waiting in standby line all over again from the back, it is still an accommodation.
Given that the vast majority of people with DAS this weekend would have qualified before May 20th, therefore under the old rules, I'm not sure how anything this weekend can be used to support changes to DAS having any impact. Memorial Day weekend has been slow for a while now. A Blog Mickey post from 2023:
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This is why I keep saying that the courts are not the proper venue to obtain accommodations that allow people to skip lines at theme parks.
I'm not holding my breath for any updates to the ADA for any reason, line regulations or otherwise.
I think Memorial weekend is typically a dip in attendance. WDW used to do the 24hr MK day up to 2018, and likely was to draw guests. Alot of people have local, family, and graduation reasons not to travel this week. Parades, BBQs and family traditions of lakes and shores. Wait times are probably tied to attendance dip.Given that the vast majority of people with DAS this weekend would have qualified before May 20th, therefore under the old rules, I'm not sure how anything this weekend can be used to support changes to DAS having any impact. Memorial Day weekend has been slow for a while now. A Blog Mickey post from 2023:
"Ok, with that out of the way, let’s try to put our finger on just how “slow” it was at Walt Disney World this Memorial Day. The average wait time at Disney World during Memorial Day Weekend going back to 2016 is just over 31 minutes. If we throw out 2021, it’s 32.6 minutes, and if we throw out 2016, it’s over 33 minutes. Last year, the average wait time during Memorial Day Weekend was 34.5 minutes. In 2023, the average wait time was 29.25 minutes."
Disney World's Slow Memorial Day Weekend
Average wait times were below what we'd expect from Memorial Day crowds at Walt Disney World as a slow summer looms
This is true. I suspect many international guests and first timers were doing day of.
As an adult, I’ve never seen the draw of Disney cruises. We did DCL to Alaska for our honeymoon, and then did celebrity a few years later and enjoyed celebrity more for 1/3 the cost. I suppose having kids makes it a draw, but I don’t need the Disney theming when I’m in Alaska, so the IP doesn’t matter at all for us
Many of them might have in previous years, but this change was announced in early April. It made national news outlets. Every place I read about DAS between then and now, people were making their calls ahead of time knowing that in person wouldn't be available and that the rules would change. So if anything, I would assume more DAS users would have pre registered this year than in any of the prior 2 years.
I'm not saying I agree with it or think its right. I'm relaying the info provided. But I appreciate the point you are making.
Sounds like this person must not have registered for DAS because until June 19th (WDW), those who received DAS are still under the old rules. Maybe he/she did not know they could not register in the parks anymore?
No idea of the details… assuming these are people who didn’t pre apply.
So the “chaos” at the parks is that someone hit a pole with their ECV while someone else was able to (successfully) back out of the line to use the RTQ feature?
Prequel to a prequel at this point. We’ll see.
I mean, people crashing into stuff with their ECV’s is a right of passage at WDW. Have they fixed that Hollywood Studios shop wall that partially collapsed after being hit with an ECV yet?
