Better than $6 an hour at McDonalds.

I'm not exactly sure how Disney could go about stopping this either unless they're planning to make all disabled people wait in the regular line (which they won't).

It doesn't tell us what the guide gets after Dream Tours take their cut.

what a sad, depressing, hope-for-humanity-killing thing to read to start my day. They really do believe in their heart of hearts that the rules, ANY rules, don't apply to them. We're all just so fucked.

Read the books Perfectly Legal & Free Lunch. This is just a TASTE of what they get and get away with, and much of it is legal.

defenders of the Wall Street New World Order to show up and tell us all what a good thing this is.

Libertarians have no morals what so ever.

Like, what if they had gone Galt or something?

The "Small World" line is never that long. The longest I have seen it is about 30 minutes. And as someone who has used both the regular and wheelchair lines (due to a handicapped member of my party) I can say that the wheelchair line is frequently slower than the regular line, as only a certain number of the boats are equipped for wheelchairs.

By doing your homework, arriving early, and using Fastpass, you can do pretty much all of the rides with very little wait, without paying a penny to any "tour guide".

There is no fast pass at Disney. Oh sure---you can get your ticket stamped at each ride and get a return time to get in the fast lane---but the return time varies and most of the time you can't return to the ride for a couple of hours. AND you can only do one ride at a time. Universal on the other hand let's you buy a fast pass for the day with the only restriction being that you can only use it once for each ride.

Plus---on a very busy day, all rides including its a small world are very busy.

(lived in St Pete and had the Fl resident cheapo off season ticket combo). You can FastPass more than 1 ride at a time (I think it's 3 but definitely more than 1).

FastPass wasn't always a "few hours". Some rides had lines so short you didn't need to fast pass. Others had return times of 30 or 45 minutes. Space Mountain was the longest, and that was an hour and a half. In May. At Disney. In Orlando.

And you can use FastPass more than once each ride at Disney

You put your ticket into a FastPass machine and it prints out a FastPass ticket for that ride for later in the day.

Actually, today, they started a pilot program for the new RFID-based FastPass+ (100 resort guests per day will partake)

I saw it all over Disney land when we were there..

At one point I saw the kids "switch" who got to play handicapped knee and arm braces and all---

They were between 10-14, thought it was cute-



Here are where spy drones would come in handy. Catch people doing the handicapped scam and kick them out of the park for life.

Most of the other rides, and pretty much all of California Adventure, have those in wheelchairs or scooters or special needs go thru the entire line until it branches off usually near the end.

He enjoys helping his nieces and nephews to enjoy their day at Disneyland and the like, gets to spend time with everyone and get out and about, and all it costs is an extra ticket and his lunch.

If people with money wanted to rent him for "work" like this (such as it is), he wouldn't turn them down. Where else would he (or the majority of the country) make $130 an hour and get to spend a day having fun.

God knows, life is hard enough on physically and mentally disabled people. I hope they make a small fortune having fun at Disney.

I'd have thought that they'd hire able-bodied actors to pretend they're disabled.

Doesn't this dingbat know that the term "the 1 percent" is meant as a criticism? Who the hell talks like that?

“You can’t go to Disney without a tour concierge,’’ she sniffed. “This is how the 1 percent does Disney.”

sniffed... Self pity or a coke problem?

Not being criticised, is an indicator that there's room for deeper gouging.

Money really is the root of all evil.

I can only wish that these parents never have to need one.

Why hire someone to do that?

My brain just doesn't work like that. I'm maybe not saying it's good or bad but I just don't think like that.

PB

Sounds like some disabled entrepreneurs came up with a good idea to take advantage of rich people by exploiting Disney's rule that they can have 5 other people ride the rides with them and go through the handicap line.

I'm still not finding a way to get upset about this. Disney makes the rules, the disabled person makes $100 to have fun, and we dont' have to wait in line with the rich person's bratty kid. Sounds like a win/win/win.

You can bet they take a cut of the $150+ per hour.

THAT'S the way it's done!

Individuals whose earning or productive capacity is impaired by a physical or mental disability, including those related to age or injury may be paid sub-minimum wages pursuant to a certificate issued by the Secretary of Labor. The sub-minimum wages are commensurate with wages paid to workers without disabilities. Employment at less than the minimum wage is authorized to prevent curtailment of opportunities for employment for workers with disabilities.

http://www.dol.gov/elaws/esa/flsa/docs/sec14.asp

The last thing I would do for an extra $100 is schlep around Disneyland with rich folks. Being disabled is a full time job.

For many of us coordinating and planning to create a weeks schedule is exhausting. It's one of the few things that people can appreciate only when they have to do it.

The Mouse is GREEDY. Just skip it. Go to a beach. Or a museum. Or anywhere else.

Bake

and short-sighted tunnel vision. These people are simply exercising their purchasing power in a free, market based society.

Just when you think they can't sink any lower.

who would wait 2-1/2 hours for "It's a Small World"???!!!

no thanks!
The 1% can have that ride!!!

has identification to show he is related to these 1%. I have mixed feelings on this. One hand the handicapped person can make some real good money. But yet it isn't fair to others they cut the line. I have never been to any of the Disney places. My family enjoy going to Kings Dominion in VA. Not far from DC. It's also alittle cheaper am sure. My grandkids love going there.

Tolerant utilization
People with disabilities are still marginalized, but allowed to participate to the extent that they have the ability to fulfill certain roles and duties designated by the nondisabled majority as necessary.

trickle down means.

if Disney decided that it's not worth the bad PR. Soon, the disabled may keep their entrances, but they'll have to wait just like everyone else.

I did some research into this...the company Dream Tours Florida is a tour company set up to do special-needs tours of the Disney parks in Florida and Disney Cruise Lines. What the fuss is about is their "VIP Tours," which were as the article states. (My bet is they were giving the special needs person a cut, keeping some for "overhead" (okay, profit) and using the rest to help defray the cost of the special-needs tours, which have got to be really expensive.)

Dream Tours' website has this huffy little note on the "VIP Tours" page that says they're not doing them right now due to slanderous press allegations...which breaks down to "we got busted."

If it was a group of people independently giving tours, I don't think it would be so offensive as they would be getting paid an agreed upon amount without a middleman. It seems that this dream tour group operates like a pimp.