A wheelchair is more work for the person pushing it. I wouldn't want to push an adult in a wheelchair all day. It's hard enough pushing a young child in a stroller. I can't imagine pushing a 100-200+ lb person in it all day long.
The problem with tandems is that they are always really heavy. Too heavy for a petite woman like myself to lift in and out of my car. I figure they also must require a lot of strength to push around all day, but I've never actually tried one. I certainly am not going to pay hundreds of dollars to rent a tandem stroller in a park when I have a perfectly good, lightweight side-by-side double stroller that I can bring with me. Tandems are usually larger than my double stroller anyway. Your argument doesn't make sense to me.
Who said the rental would be hundreds? It could even be a deposit. Is a tandem really wider, side to side, than a double wide? That's my primary issue. They take up too much lateral space to easily pass, especially in today's crowds. That and the fact strollers, overall, are overused in the parks.
i’ve seen a few pics of those & told my wife “we have to get there one day to try this”. still waiting
It would be hundreds if I have to rent it everyday for a week. And I mean they take up more overall space, if you are looking at front-back.
This is turning into another scooter/stroller/who's-got-a-better-opinion thread.
Again, I called it... Scooters for the win!
Clearly, that's why Disney calls the electric scooters "ECV"s, with the "C" meaning "convenience."
It's supposed to be a "who's got an unpopular opinion" thread. I don't expect everyone to like my opinion, and I believe my opinion is based on solid personal and anecdotal observations.This is turning into another scooter/stroller/who's-got-a-better-opinion thread.
As a handicapped individual, there have been times I have needed to use a wheelchair. I have seen and been involved in more accidents regarding bumping into pedestrians and small children and merchandise displays with the wheelchair than I have ever been with the ECV.
I don't anticipate my double stroller causing any problems. I take it to amusement parks many times per year, and it's never gotten in the way of anyone. It's no wider than two people walking side by side. I've never crashed into anyone. You are really making a mountain out of a molehill. If you're so worried about lazy kids in strollers or on scooters... well you're being lazy if you can't walk around a large stroller. This conversation is so ridiculous I'm not going to participate anymore.
Thanks for that report. However, being bumped into by a wheelchair is, to me, far preferable to being run over by someone on an ECV who may not be as familiar as you with that particular ECV's controls. After all, how many people fly down to WDW with their personal ECVs? And how many rent ECVs at WDW who never use them anywhere else?
Every trip, I have been really tempted to purchase an autograph book. I miss doing those
