Theme park queue jumping for DLP

Totally immoral

OP with a bit of clever planning you don't need a queue jumper for Disneyland Paris. Although I have experience with both.

They have a nifty app that shows the queuing times for each ride. Plan to go on the popular one's at the start of day, end of the day and during times when the parades are on. Rides like Pirates of the Carribean are really quiet around parade times.

Crush's coaster is the absolute worst ride for queue times so is an absolute must to do at the start of the day. Spiderman WEB adventure can also be bad.

We went in Summer 2022 as a family of 4 and got on all the rides we wanted to without a queue jumper (albeit the avengers campus opened 2 weeks after we let).

We returned Christmas 2023 with mother-in-law who has a disability and did take advantage of queue jumping. Part of me felt bad that we all skipped, but then I also thought most queuers weren't living with a lifelong debilitating illness like MIL so take the perks like jumping when they come.

You absolutely don't need a queue jumpe, I enjoyed both trips equally, but admittedly it was handy.

It's a disgusting thing to do!!!

I took my disabled child to DLP a number of years ago and we had to provide a lot of information to get the pass, without it we wouldn't have been able to visit.

That’s disgusting - i thought at first you were talking about the paid for queue bots. And i would also question what motivates a middle aged man to go on holiday with a family of complete strangers.

This. We got denied a pass at Legoland with our severely autistic child after making us queue for over an hour in the disability queue (which was a nightmare with our child) because they have changed the rules.

It seemed to benefit the people who knew how to "game" the system and not people with a genuine need

See. I dont look disabled and we never had one issued

not the entire time we were there.

Easier and less morally questionable to go with a pregnant pal @RichSherl. Think pregnant women can be accompanied by 4 people. The downside is that you can’t go on all the rides when pregnant. But you get to skip the queues for the things you can go on, and all the food/ restaurant queues.

They’ve changed it now

my pass last year (disabled pass) had my photo on it…so I had to go on the rides to use it.

Oh wait!!!

I meant I had the disabled pass. Not a queue jumper. I had one. But I have a condition which means lots of standing isn’t good for me

it was excellent but yeah. It can be restricting.

When we went to collect our priorities pass at the hotel concierge the guy did look closely at us. It was in a very friendly way as it is quite obviously my daughter is my daughter and we had the proof needed which was an identification card from an autism charity.

I wonder would that guy trigger someone in the system.

Fortunately I’m not interested in theme park big rides (big wussy) but ultimately the theme park allow too many people in. No one should have to queue for 50 minutes to get on a ride.
Years ago I took dgc to Thomas Land.
The queues were hideous and we only got onto 2 rides! Foolishly went again and managed 3 rides. Not worth the money.
#missespointofthread

I wonder if 'Mick' and his fellow queue jumpers are DBS checked, in preparation for spending days with children...

YES that was my first thought.

This chap is just making it harder for the users of disabled passes who really need them and use them appropriately. Theme parks getting wind of this may start asking to see proof of relationship or similar.

And there was me feeling guilty for considering a pass for my severely disabled non verbal son.

It would take a rather mean spirited person, to begrudge the small concessions available to disabled people, to help make life easier, or Heaven forbid, enjoyable, now, and again!

This. It’s akin to lending out your disabled badge when you’re not present in the car.

For someone disabled it just reinforces that there is no concession or facility intended to make their life easier, that some selfish twat somewhere won’t try to take for themselves. With the inevitable result that eligibility will be tightened and it will be made much more difficult to access, even for those for whom it was meant.

We don't use queue jump even though DS would qualify for it, a lot of the children I see definitely don't look like they actually need it.
We've had to leave queues at times and have to be mindful of when DC is getting close to being overwhelmed as he will run, but over the years it's got easier. The same with pantomimes, we do the regular ones and have had 2 where one of us left partway through with him, one he didn't want to go back into but the next we went back in after he'd had some time stroking the wall to calm himself. The last one we did he managed the whole way through.

Obviously there are cases where it's needed, but if the child is verbal and understands what is going on then it's not really doing them any favours avoiding exposing them to things they find hard.
Theme parks are the ideal place for practicing that too as there's the reward of the ride at the end compared to other busy places where they are just overwhelmed without much or any benefit for them to see.
I think taking a relative may be the outlier here, if it's a grandparent there is actually a benefit to them going if they actually want to, regardless of why the parent has chosen it the DGC are getting experiences with their grandparents by them going.

Exactly. It’s bollocks. But people like this are the bloody reason.

Because some people think that disabled people should sit at home and wait quietly for death.

I agree.

If my disabled son can’t go on something the other two have to queue with one of us while the other takes him to a cafe or similar. They can’t use his access pass if he’s not there!

I can’t believe this poster jumped her boyfriend ahead and then didn’t even go on the ride! Outrageous behaviour. What sort of person goes along with it too - the boyfriend going in front of actually disabled people with no shame.

My god this thread is depressing for the amount of awful people out there

If you were in a queue and there was someone with a disability struggling you wouldn’t let them go ahead of you?

Judging by the posts I seriously doubt it.

Then you should not be concerned about what concessions are available. It is not inconveniencing you one way, or another.

l’d wager that you also support the proposed cuts to disability benefits and think that Motability cars are ‘free’. Thankfully the rest of society recognises that having a disability which makes your life difficult, warrants concessions that make some things that little bit easier, or more enjoyable, and are placed above monetary value. It’s called kindness and compassion. You should try it sometime.

Sorry but I agree the disabled person should need to ride. Otherwise you could have a family using a pass where the disabled person doesn’t go on anything at all.

What if a family goes to a theme park and one child is just too small to ride the big rides? They really really want to but they’re just an inch too short. The rest of the family want to go on the big rides. Sadly, either the child needs to wait elsewhere with one family member or some parks offer parent swap but that still means they need to queue once. Same for if one person in the family is pregnant or has a back issue etc. It’s unfortunate when one person can’t ride what everyone else wants to, but in that situation there is ways round it. Disabled access is meant to make it so disabled people can access rides they otherwise couldn’t. Not just so their family don’t need to miss out on the odd ride or have to queue separately.