This is getting so out of hand.
Everyone should just stop guessing how it will work AND asking "but we are a a party 2, how does Disney intend for X to work for us? It makes no sense!" We don't know, no one knows, you won't get an answer until it's time for your trip and you call Disney and see what they say. Asking and bringing up repeatedly like clockwork how X won't work for you isn't helping, and it's just opening the door for more speculation even thought the mods have asked repeatedly that it stops.
The last 10 pages have been like a dejavu of the same conversation over over again interlaced with confused people trying to find actual facts.
So facts:
- Disney has explicitly stated that DAS use has tripled in the last few years. It doesn't matter if it's because of abuse, overuse or there's simply lots of more folks with disabilities going to Disney Parks. Disney has said the program as it is unsustainable. We don't need the numbers. Disney has the numbers. This is a problem. This is a fact.
- Disney is taking steps to fix it. Such as:
- Limiting DAS to certain needs. Specific wording implies it's intended for developmental disabilities. Nowhere does it say it's limited to those.
- New rules start May 20th at WDW and June 18th at DLR.
- 10 minute wait after tapping for booking your next DAS.
- Limiting a DAS party to 4 guests, including the DAS user.
- Moving guests with certain needs to different accommodations instead of having DAS as a one-fits-all. Some of the accommodations mentioned by Disney are Rider Switch and a Return-to-Line Pass. We don't know how this will work yet in the context of guests with disabilities.
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Please I am begging everyone to stop guessing (we are all trying to help, I get that, but we aren't helping anymore), stop asking how it will work (no one but Disney knows) and stop stating how anything other than DAS won't work for your specific party because X or Y and Z. It's not helping anyone, it's creating more anxiety, it's confusing people, it's giving information to abusers on what to say, AND it's making important information like first hand accounts of guests who have applied get lost.
I am not trying to be insensitive, it's understandable to be scared, but at some point we all need to take a breath and wait for actual information to come instead of talking around in circles and hoping to get an answer that doesn't exist yet.
And if your trip is in July or later, dear gods stop emailing and calling Disney for clarification and making it harder for guests with immediate trips to call them. Even if you get thru and ask they might not even have the information ready and whatever they say might not apply after the new rules come into effect.