My family and I go every year and enjoy ourselves. This year we have decided to take my MIL and FIL with us. My MIL is not in the greatest of health but really wants to go. We have decided to rent a scooter for her because she can not walk or stand very long. Does anyone have any suggestions for us? Please only helpful things. We are not trying to cut in lines and such. Just want to have a pleasant trip. Thanks for any help you can give us.
I had to rent a scooter for my most recent trip at the start of December due to a leg injury and having my leg in a cast. I rented from
Walker Mobility The cost is about $30 a day depending on the size of the scooter needed, which is MUCH cheaper than renting from Disney. It also gives you the ability to use the scooter at the resort and for getting to and from the parks. Walker Mobility will deliver the scooter to your resort the day before you arrive and will pick it up on the day you check out. This way you have it the minute you arrive, you just have to ask the hotel concierge to get it for you.
Don't worry about cutting the lines with the scooter. There are very few attractions where you are 'cutting' the line. Most lines now are designed to take scooters in the main line. An example of these is Soarin', Imagination, Mission: Space. Some lines that you take the scooter through will have a wheelchair branch off at the point in the line where the line proceeds up stairs - Toy Story Mania, Splash Mountain. Some attractions will have you go in the exit, but then you have to wait until they can fit you in. Examples of these are Big Thunder, Small World, Spaceship Earth. At Spaceship Earth you will go in a side door to the building which takes you into the exit area of the attraction. You will find CMs manning this area and they will find out how many are in your party. At this point you may have to wait as they tend to gather about 6 or 7 wheelchair parties together and load them all at once. You may also find that if the attraction has fast passes, that you will need to either get a fastpass or if none are available, the CM working the fastpass line will write you a return pass for the length of time that is the current standby wait time, and the number in your party. At this point, it will work just like a fast pass. You return after the given amount of time and go through the fastpass line. If your MIL cannot walk through a line and scooters are not allowed in the attraction or the line cannot accommodate them, there will be wheelchairs available at the attraction to transfer her into so that she can enter the attraction.
We found the best thing to do is to simply ask the CM that is working the attraction what the wheelchair/scooter policy is. They will be able to tell you exactly what you have to do for that particular attraction.
Just be aware that your pace around the parks and in getting to the parks will be slower.
Here's a very useful tip to keep in mind. When exiting MK at the end of the day (i.e. park closing) stay up on the sidewalk on your right as you exit the park. In other words stay on the sidewalk next to the Emporium. I had an incident where they were telling everyone exiting to keep right but I had trouble getting over as no one would let me through. Because of this I got the front wheel of the scooter stuck in the trolley tracks on Main Street and I had a Photopass CM yelling at me to get out of his way so he could take a picture. Another exiting guest was nice enough to help me get the scooter out of the tracks. After that, we stuck to the sidewalk next to the Emporium when exiting.
Feel free to ask for any more help as I am more than willing to share my experience.
