Disneyland- Rides that offer return time pass?

disneyfifs

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Oct 10, 2008
Hi, does anyone have a list of the Disneyland rides that offer a return time pass for guests that are in wheelchairs? The only one I could find is Pirates of the Caribbean. Are there any others. Thank you in advance for any information.
 
According to the Disneyland DAS FAQ,

  • Depending on attraction, [the wheelchair] guest may:
    - be waiting in the Mainstream queue
    - receive a return time at the attraction (NOT at a kiosk)
    - go directly to an alternate entrance at Disneyland Park (since the line is not accessible).
 
You should be able to go to Disney website and see what rides give return times
 
Any ride with an alternative entrance can potentially give out a return time. The only way to know if you'll get a return time on any give day or at any given time is to go to the ride and see if they're giving out return times.
 
Also, keep in mind that Disneyland recently dedicated money to try to make more of their older attractions have accessible lines.
Because of the age of the park and the limited space, there are some that may never become accessible. But, things may change in terms of accessible lines.

This is a link to the Disneyland park map for guests with disabilities:
https://wdpromedia.disney.go.com/me...eyland-park-disabilities-guide-2016-04-04.pdf

This link is to the Disney California Adventure park map for guests with disabilities:
https://wdpromedia.disney.go.com/me...a-adventure-disabilities-guide-2016-03-04.pdf

You will notice that many of the DL attractions have special instructions for access, such as entering thru the exit or an 'accessibility entrance'. Those are the ones that might possibly give a return time ticket. Whether they are or not would depend on things, as SMD mentioned. It could be things like how many people are already in the accessible area, crowd levels, wait times.

When you look at the California Adventure map, most say to use the regular or standard queue. Because the park is much newer, it was built with mostly accessible lines which have no need to give out return times.
There are a few attractions at that park that have other access instructions - those are the only ones likely to potentially give out return times.
 
Hello! I just visited Disneyland last week (4/24~4/28, 2016) and have some observations about going in a wheelchair. I don't regularly use a chair and, although I've visited Disneyland over 30 times, I'd never done it in a chair. The electric chairs looked large and difficult to manage. I will say, though, that I had family assistance pushing me in my non-electric chair: trying to wheel myself with those arm rests digging into my arms sucked! Renting was quick and easy. However, they didn't hand out the "Guide for Guests with Disabilities" pamphlet when/where we rented which I strongly think they should have. The Guides (one per park) can be found online. However, what isn't indicated online is which attractions require a ticket/pass scan to receive a return time and which attractions you can just roll up to and ride. They're pretty good at indicating where you need to go to enter the attraction and whether a transfer vehicle is available. The attractions that offer return scans (I don't know what else to call them) are:
Indiana Jones Adventure,
Pirates of the Caribbean,
the Haunted Mansion,
Splash Mountain,
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad,
Peter Pan,
Alice in Wonderland,
It's a Small World &
HyperSpace Mountain.

When the Jungle Cruise re-opens later this year, it will also have this feature. For whatever reason, we were obligated to get a FastPass for Star Wars and then go through another attraction entrance with an elevator. Haunted Mansion has FastPasses, too, for example, but we didn't need to get one to get our return time on our ticket/annual pass scan.

This information is NOT indicated on the paper or online Guide. We only found this out because the Cast Member who boarded us on Pinocchio's Daring Journey happened to have a family member she brings in a chair, so she knew all of the places we'd need to get scans to be able to ride. She literally circled their numbers on the map she gave us. Like I said, the Disabilities Guide was not offered to us when we rented our chair and, having never been in a chair, I didn't think to ask for one. We're very lucky she had them on her and circled the numbers of the attractions for us. I kick myself for not getting her name so I could praise her at City Hall.

California Adventure: Since my injury made me leery of rides like Tower of Terror & California Screamin', we shied away from those. We did, however, ride Toy Story Mania. This required our annual passes to be scanned. However, we were sent to an information kiosk by the ice cream vendor in front of Screamin' to get the passes scanned. This broke with the pattern in Disneyland where the Cast Member scanner stood by the entrance or exit of the ride. We got a FastPass for Soarin' and used that: I don't think they had a special scan for me based on my use of a chair. We also had a reserved "premium standing" area to watch World of Color. However, there are a few stairs to get down to it, so we asked a Cast Member what we should do. She wasn't 100% sure, but another one told us to keep rolling down to the end of the white rope and then turn left down a path to get to the area with designated wheel chair space. My advice is, get one of the Cast Members to guide you there. We followed their directions ~ through crowds ~ and got to an area that was below where we were supposed to park. I had to get out of the chair, walk up 3 steps while my Mom lifted the chair up the steps. This didn't kill either of us, but I wasn't bound to the chair, either. Would've been a whole other story if I couldn't have walked at all.

This may already be explained in one of the 600 other articles here, but the ticket/annual pass scan works a lot like a FastPass, but you don't (usually) get a paper ticket telling you when to return. For us, the Cast Member would scan our annual passes and TELL us to come back in 10 or 20 minutes (it varied), at the earliest. From that point on, we had a 1 hour window of return. I set an alarm in my phone to remind me of the return times. We only got a paper ticket at It's a Small World because the Cast Member couldn't get the scanner to work.

That's another thing: because Disney's WiFi is so... insufficient (?), we often encountered difficulty getting our annual passes scanned. I would say about half of our scans suffered from this phenomena. Excluding Splash Mtn. & HyperSpace Mtn., we rode most of those rides twice.

So, if I have to visit again in a chair (fingers crossed I don't!), I would 1) request a "Guide for Guests w/ Disabilities" either when renting the chair or passing through the gate. 2) I would further ask a Cast Member to circle the attractions that require a ticket/annual pass scan return time. 3) I'd ask for a Cast Member to guide us to our viewing location for World of Color.

Good luck & I hope this helps!
 



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