Re: Very OT: visiting disney- how to proceed?

[Guest guest]

we've been in DW 7times because my son becomes 'normal' whenever we are in

Orlando.  Hopper pass cost dearly; so once inside the theme park search the map

for kiosk spots & hit them first, before you even begin the journey, to retrieve

passes (no charge) which display showtimes to bypass the long lines.

During bag inspection, tell the security your child is very sensitive to wheat,

gluten, corn, sugar, soy, yeast, food dyes, preservatives... (enough to

disorient the guy) and whatever food/drinks you have in the bag will be ignored.

Also, be in Disney days before Christmas break

 

From: isaguzmandiaz2@... <isaguzmandiaz2@...>

Subject: [ ] Very OT: visiting disney- how to proceed?

" Autism mercury group " < >

Date: Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 3:32 AM

Dear All!

I plan to visit Disney this december.  I have heard that one can ask for a

special pass for our ASD kids.  Is this true??? What have you done in this

aspect?  Can l bring his food/drinks inside the park?

Thank you all for your kind tips!

Isa

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[Guest guest]

Go to guest services to get a special needs pass. It doesn't hurt to have a

doctor's note saying your child has autism. They don't require the note,

however. Kristy

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 29, 2010, at 9:32 PM, isaguzmandiaz2@... wrote:

> Dear All!

> I plan to visit Disney this december. I have heard that one can ask for a

special pass for our ASD kids. Is this true??? What have you done in this

aspect? Can l bring his food/drinks inside the park?

> Thank you all for your kind tips!

> Isa

>

> Enviado desde mi oficina móvil BlackBerry® de Telcel

>

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[Guest guest]

We went in June. We took food/drink into the parks w/o issue. They do inspect

bags at the entrance gates, as is done at all major public venues these days.

We had a letter from our family doctor listing our son's Dx's. We took that to

the customer service kiosk right inside the park entrance. They gave us a

special needs pass.

>

> Dear All!

> I plan to visit Disney this december. I have heard that one can ask for a

special pass for our ASD kids. Is this true??? What have you done in this

aspect? Can l bring his food/drinks inside the park?

> Thank you all for your kind tips!

> Isa

>

> Enviado desde mi oficina móvil BlackBerry® de Telcel

>

[Guest guest]

The card you ask for is called the GUEST ASSISTANCE CARD and they will

stamp it " alternate entrance "

They cannot ask you for a doctor's note, it violates HIPPA laws. You can

bring one, it helps to be holding one to back up your explanation this way

they know you have proof, but they cannot ask for one or look at one if you

give it to them.

Bring your kid up to the counter with you and explain what you need. If you

use a stroller ask them to stamp your Guest Assistance Card with

" stroller as a wheelchair " and they will give you a red strip to stick on your

stroller as well.

Kerrie

In a message dated 11/30/2010 2:36:17 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

christiansrecovery09@... writes:

We went a year ago. Disney is magical! Granted we just started biomed, but

his first words were spoken at disney.

We chose to take food in. You can email their customer service prior to

your visit. They will give you dimensions for the soft side coolers, aswell

a list of gfcf restaurants. I believe you can even make reservations if

you wanted to. I chose to do the cooler for our visit due to the small list

of foods he would eat then. I refused to spend park prices to just throw

the food away. Daily I packed a meal for him and snacks. Aswell as my 7

month olds glass jar food. - I believe I even packed boxed juice. I know I

packed the crystal lite powder for adults, diet coke(a lot of it). I bought

my soft side cooler at walmart and it was a nascar one that has a front

pouch, and a top zipper that you can just grab a soda outta or open the whole

cooler. Along with strap.

Also if you want to get a good view for parades, get someone to stand

there with the stroller 45 min or more prior to the parade. If you can I

noticed the employees seemed more interactive with my child(if they can handle

it) more towards the start of the parade. If you have a son the ladies eat

up if he blows them kisses . Gosh I could go on for days.

But disney does work with you keep an open mind and be flexible since

as you know the child is in charge

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[ ] Re: Very OT: visiting disney- how to proceed?

I live in florida and we have an annual pass, so we go alot. We just go to

customer service and say my son has autism and we need a special needs

pass - its called an alternate entrance pass. They tell you it doesn't get you

in every ride, but we have not been denied on any rides so far. I have

never been asked to give a note or Dx. Once in, you always go to through the

fast pass line and show your special needs pass and you can bypass the long

lines. For rides that don't have fast pass, you go to the EXIT part of the

line and a disney person will let you in. It has saved us so much time and

prevented tantrums and sensory overload for my son. There is no way I

would be able to brave disney without it.

Also, most restaurants have GFCF options, and even have the Energy GFCF

rolls. Disney is awesome at accommodating special needs guests.

We meet so many of my son's goals when we're there b/c it is the ultimate

reinforcer for him!

Have a fun and magical trip!

>

> Dear All!

> I plan to visit Disney this december. I have heard that one can ask for

a special pass for our ASD kids. Is this true??? What have you done in

this aspect? Can l bring his food/drinks inside the park?

> Thank you all for your kind tips!

> Isa

>

> Enviado desde mi oficina móvil BlackBerry® de Telcel

>

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[Guest guest]

I live in florida and we have an annual pass, so we go alot. We just go to

customer service and say my son has autism and we need a special needs pass -

its called an alternate entrance pass. They tell you it doesn't get you in every

ride, but we have not been denied on any rides so far. I have never been asked

to give a note or Dx. Once in, you always go to through the fast pass line and

show your special needs pass and you can bypass the long lines. For rides that

don't have fast pass, you go to the EXIT part of the line and a disney person

will let you in. It has saved us so much time and prevented tantrums and sensory

overload for my son. There is no way I would be able to brave disney without it.

Also, most restaurants have GFCF options, and even have the Energy GFCF rolls.

Disney is awesome at accommodating special needs guests.

We meet so many of my son's goals when we're there b/c it is the ultimate

reinforcer for him!

Have a fun and magical trip!

>

> Dear All!

> I plan to visit Disney this december. I have heard that one can ask for a

special pass for our ASD kids. Is this true??? What have you done in this

aspect? Can l bring his food/drinks inside the park?

> Thank you all for your kind tips!

> Isa

>

> Enviado desde mi oficina móvil BlackBerry® de Telcel

>

[Guest guest]

We went a year ago. Disney is magical! Granted we just started biomed, but his

first words were spoken at disney.

We chose to take food in. You can email their customer service prior to your

visit. They will give you dimensions for the soft side coolers, aswell a list

of gfcf restaurants. I believe you can even make reservations if you wanted to.

I chose to do the cooler for our visit due to the small list of foods he would

eat then. I refused to spend park prices to just throw the food away. Daily I

packed a meal for him and snacks. Aswell as my 7 month olds glass jar food. - I

believe I even packed boxed juice. I know I packed the crystal lite powder for

adults, diet coke(a lot of it). I bought my soft side cooler at walmart and it

was a nascar one that has a front pouch, and a top zipper that you can just grab

a soda outta or open the whole cooler. Along with strap.

Also if you want to get a good view for parades, get someone to stand there with

the stroller 45 min or more prior to the parade. If you can I noticed the

employees seemed more interactive with my child(if they can handle it) more

towards the start of the parade. If you have a son the ladies eat up if he

blows them kisses . Gosh I could go on for days.

But disney does work with you keep an open mind and be flexible since as you

know the child is in charge

Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with Nextel Direct Connect

[ ] Re: Very OT: visiting disney- how to proceed?

I live in florida and we have an annual pass, so we go alot. We just go to

customer service and say my son has autism and we need a special needs pass -

its called an alternate entrance pass. They tell you it doesn't get you in every

ride, but we have not been denied on any rides so far. I have never been asked

to give a note or Dx. Once in, you always go to through the fast pass line and

show your special needs pass and you can bypass the long lines. For rides that

don't have fast pass, you go to the EXIT part of the line and a disney person

will let you in. It has saved us so much time and prevented tantrums and sensory

overload for my son. There is no way I would be able to brave disney without it.

Also, most restaurants have GFCF options, and even have the Energy GFCF rolls.

Disney is awesome at accommodating special needs guests.

We meet so many of my son's goals when we're there b/c it is the ultimate

reinforcer for him!

Have a fun and magical trip!

>

> Dear All!

> I plan to visit Disney this december. I have heard that one can ask for a

special pass for our ASD kids. Is this true??? What have you done in this

aspect? Can l bring his food/drinks inside the park?

> Thank you all for your kind tips!

> Isa

>

> Enviado desde mi oficina móvil BlackBerry® de Telcel

>

[Guest guest]

I agree Disney was magical for my son. He did far better than I expected. That

being said, I thought the whole food situation sucked. I was really

disappointed. I flew there and had to ship food overnight, so my options were

limited in what I could get to take into the parks myself. I had a difficult

time acquiring " safe " food for my son to eat that I could prepare while in our

resort to take into the parks, and I was terribly disappointed with the food in

the parks. Most of the " restaurants " are nothing more than fast food - you

stand in a long line, get your food, the struggle to find a quiet place to sit

and eat it.

In the sit down restaurants, which were difficult to get into, and we often

waited in line 30 minutes or more - even with a reservation, we would have to

wait a looooong time for the chefs to come out and speak to me about my son's

allergies. And yes, I did notify in advance. I sent paperwork before we even

left, per Disney's protocol, I called ahead, every time. Yet the thing was this

- just ask for the chef when you arrive at the restaurant. We did that. And

waited. By the time the chefs would come out to find out our situation, the

entire rest of my family would have ordered and received their food. This

happened in every restaurant. It was very, very stressful to keep my child

patient while we waited for his food. I couldn't eat my meal which would already

have arrived. I ate cold food the whole time the whole time we were there

because of this - I would have my son outside the restaurant to keep calm,

waiting until his food arrived.

We have soy allergy and are not GFCF. There were plenty of GFCF options - that

I'll give you. But the food was still heavily processed and full of chemicals.

Organic food was not to be found, either.

By the time we got home, my son was constipated, had a migraine, and starting a

rash from the chemicals in the food. For being so " environmentally aware " Disney

sure doesn't have the food to show it.

> >

> > Dear All!

> > I plan to visit Disney this december. I have heard that one can ask for a

special pass for our ASD kids. Is this true??? What have you done in this

aspect? Can l bring his food/drinks inside the park?

> > Thank you all for your kind tips!

> > Isa

> >

> > Enviado desde mi oficina móvil BlackBerry® de Telcel

> >

>

[Guest guest]

The pass is called a Guest Assistance Card.

In a message dated 12/1/2010 7:17:22 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,

autismtookmickie@... writes:

I know you can get a speed pass in Disneyland in California, so I'm sure

it's the same in all their parks and you can also take in his food.

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:32 PM, <isaguzmandiaz2@...> wrote:

> Dear All!

> I plan to visit Disney this december. I have heard that one can ask for

a

> special pass for our ASD kids.

[Guest guest]

I went to Disney as a raw foodist and was very well taken care of. But I did

everything in advance and brought my own food too. The Disney resort I was

at--they gave me name of head chef, I talked him thru it, he had never heard of

some of the stuff I was doing, but he did raw juices fresh for me every

morning--he brought in a juicer his wife had bought and never used. Did

macrobiotic or raw for me at meals. I brought own food to the park and own

vitamix and rented a car to get to supermarket for own food supply in my room.

Room has counter space, fridge, etc. Park food is pretty dreadful, to

appearances, but I found a fruit salad at one point. But you have to talk to

chef before you fly out there and email menu etc and discuss with him. They

pride selves on doing this for people. The parks are a whole nother can of bad

food. And be prepared for how far the room is from anything--it's like a 10

minute powerwalk to get to the breakfast hall.

Fiona

>

> Dear All!

> I plan to visit Disney this december. I have heard that one can ask for a

special pass for our ASD kids. Is this true??? What have you done in this

aspect? Can l bring his food/drinks inside the park?

> Thank you all for your kind tips!

> Isa

>

> Enviado desde mi oficina móvil BlackBerry® de Telcel

>

[Guest guest]

I know you can get a speed pass in Disneyland in California, so I'm sure

it's the same in all their parks and you can also take in his food.

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:32 PM, <isaguzmandiaz2@...> wrote:

> Dear All!

> I plan to visit Disney this december. I have heard that one can ask for a

> special pass for our ASD kids. Is this true??? What have you done in this

> aspect? Can l bring his food/drinks inside the park?

> Thank you all for your kind tips!

> Isa

>

> Enviado desde mi oficina móvil BlackBerry® de Telcel

>

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