Theme park queue jumping for DLP

Well he’s certainly entrepreneurial

It's never been that busy in October when I've been.

Plus, £100 and expenses 😅

What happens if your there for 3/4 days do you have to pay his hotel as well. What a waste of money!

Blimey, that's enterprising! I agree it's awful, but you have to admire his resourcefulness.

The poll is being misunderstood I think and people mean it would be unreasonable to do this.

if you are willing to pay just use the Fastpass system for individual rides when needed.

Disgusting thing to do, frankly.

Actually hope the daily mail picks this story up and gets the guy and others like him banned from the parks!

Wow

No loophole left unexploited is there??

That’s £200 per person.

Queue assist passes aren’t queue jumping as such. Certainly in the UK theme parks they are for people who cannot queue or don’t understand queuing and waiting.

There are a limited number of passes a day and you have to prove need and then once you have a code you book a queue assist passes aren’t for the day of your visit.

In Merlin attractions this means if you use the queue assist or step free access for a ride with a 90 minute queue when you use this entrance you get a time stamped card that won’t allow you to access another ride for 90 minutes.

Its a reasonable adjustment for disability and doesn’t get you more rides or preferential treatment.

It just means you don’t need to queue if your disability doesn’t allow you to.

My ds is a wheelchair user and uses step free access.

I have no idea about DLP but I know some uk theme parks have gold tickets or whatever they are called which cost circa £200 and you get a guide and queue free access. But this does get you extra access and it’s a service you pay a lot of money for.

Gross. I wouldn't want to be in any kind of relationship with anyone who considered such a thing. Selfish, lazy, entitled... just, yuk.

By the time you’ve paid the £100 plus his park tickets etc, you might as well just buy a days fast pass. My own DS has ASD and cannot cope with queuing. He doesn’t qualify for the pass so we are buying a days fast pass for the one day we are going in the summer.

this is such British reasoning it made me laugh, but I completely agree

I have so many questions. He refers to skipping the queue at "restaurants" and takeaway kiosks, but how many disney theme parks even have queues for their restaurants? I thought they were so popular you had to book literally everything weeks/months in advance.
Then he says he brings his own packed lunch, so having blagged you in, does he sit there eating his dry sarnies while you all chow down on burgers all around him?

I think I'd die of cringe pushing in in front of a queue of kids to get an icecream five minutes faster, tbh.

If your DH has no moral qualms, from a legal standpoint, how does he know that "Mick" is legit? Presumably he will want paying upfront, he's not just going to drive all the way to the park if he's not sure your family will turn up, so what do you do if you send your £100 and he's not there? It's not like you can claim it back on your credit card or report it to the police, "Oh I paid some disabled bloke a hundred quid to pretend to be part of my family for the day so we could get on more rides at the theme park..."

By the time you pay his £100, park entrance fee (another, what, £25-50 depending on if you have any deals), and his "travel costs" (he doesn't even say where he lives, if he's charging 45p a mile it could be another £50 or more), you'd be better off just paying for q jump!

Where do you draw the line though? Hire a nurse to help you get in to the NHS cheap day at Alton Towers? Borrow a friend's child for 'mums eat free' offers at Mother's Day? Ridiculous.

My adult child is disabled and loves theme parks. I can quite see him being asked to go to a theme park by people only wanting him there for his access pass. Not sure they'd enjoy going on the same two rides over and over again though.

Side note, we went to DLP when he was younger, and the amount of eye rolls we got off staff for using access passes for hidden disabilities was constant. We've not returned because of this.

Absolutely out of order thing to do

This. As the disabled person you used to get queue jump and could wait on the platform whilst your party went on the rides. Makes sense as not all disabled people can go on every ride and if their party did they would have to queue up and that defeats the point of a disabled person having a pass.

They changed this a few years ago so now the disabled person HAS to ride. Stupid imo, I have a heart condition so cannot go on fast rides. Also cannot stand for long periods so can’t queue. It was pretty miserable when I went with my partner as he couldn’t go on any rides he wanted as that then meant I had to go and sit in a cafe or something whilst he queued for hours. The one ride I said I was going on and then snuck back through the barriers, I got a right telling off from the staff. So if you did this you would have a stranger riding around with you all day. Plus you can only have up to 4 people ride.

I won’t lecture you on the immorality of it.

Please don’t do this, it’s a real dick move. DLP is worse than Florida for queue jumpers. Are any of you on PIP or attendance allowance? You might be entitled to a free priority pass anyway. Just take your details to City Hall in Magic Kingdom and then you can use the priority lane as much as you like. Each person with a priority card can take up to 4 people I think.

I think it's 4 people including the disabled person. So, unless it's a family of 3, it wouldn't work anyway.

Tell your husband not to take the Mick!

Well the Government wants to get more disabled people into work after all, this might be a new avenue for some of us ( gets coat, and slowly shuffles out).

Fucking disgraceful on so many levels but I suspect your ‘d’husband won’t care about the ethics or impact ion kids with actual disabilities.

To appeal to his selfish side, what if the blokes a sex offender or awful in some other way, or just boring?

On every level, don’t do it

😄

For just £100 (plus travel expenses and park entrance fees) I’ll accompany your family to the theme park of your choice in the UK (or within 4 hours of Calais

Op is probably 'Mick' advertising their service

My first reaction was, that this seems a bit off, but he is not doing anything illegal.

He should be banned from all the theme parks

Is it any cheaper than just buying a queue jump pass for the rides you want to go on?

This was my first thought too!

Does your husband really want to spend the whole day with a total stranger? I’d rather just queue to be honest.

It’ll be mega awkward having to make small talk all day. And I’d hate having someone else listen in while we had the whole ‘shall we go on x or y next?’ type arguments discussions or while trying to placate grumpy kids etc. I’d tell really restricted and like I couldn’t just relax - like I’d have to include him in things like conversations, and make sure the kids weren’t too annoying etc.

What if Mike is an annoying prick or something and you have to hang out with him all day?!

It seems an expensive way to spoil a nice family day out.