What if Disney offered accommodations based on that line for that person at a particular time/day? Sure we all want to know where and when we will ride our next ride, but even
Genie+ users don’t know that bc they can’t select the time they want to return (which was one of the biggest uproars when it was rolled out, other than costs.)
For instance, you have IBS (you’ve qualified for
DAS in the past, so you’ve always got it, just “in case” you have a bathroom emergency) Now, with Disney changing the accommodations, you just get in line. And you wait through 2-3 standby lines that morning with no bathroom issues. You go to get in line for your 4th ride and then it hits and you have to “go” You speak to a CM and get a return to line or bathroom pass. I don’t have IBS or pretend to know what that is like, but I’m thinking if I’m legitimately running to the bathroom every few minutes, I’m not going to be wanting to continue to be in a theme park all day when/if problems arise once I can see it’s going to be a multiple issue kind of day. From the reports here, it can vary day by day for many people. Disney could potentially add the accommodation for return to line, old DAS, etc if they can scan your magic band and realize this has been a problem multiple times that day vs giving a DAS for all day accommodation and it maybe never needing to be used that day, but the user still using it bc they can.
Same with my autistic son. I honestly don’t know how he would do waiting in a 1-2 hour line bc I know enough not to try it
if for some reason we don’t have DAS or they change it to where I can’t ride with all my kids at the same time, I will purchase Genie for our family. Even if the times, etc don’t always work out for us, I could probably get it close enough or at least better than getting in a standby line. But bc the DAS option has been available, we used it. A friend of mine also has a son with autism (and I am very aware that no two autistic kids are the same) they haven’t taken their kids to Disney yet, but she has talked about how with his diagnosis he would be eligible for DAS. But at the same time, he was standing in 30+ min lines at the county fair chatting with his friends and just having a good old time. Same for my son, maybe I try the standby line with him and if we make it fine, we continue to do that until there’s a problem. Once there’s a problem, then we speak with someone about a DAS pass for the day (not the entire trip)
I don’t know just throwing out some options, maybe it’s bc the DAS is in use, but I don’t routinely see people having medical emergencies in line. That’s also not something I want to see, but maybe Disney is so busy accommodating the “what if’s” that we are missing the bigger picture. In some ways, Genie+ could be viewed as an accommodation even though it’s paid. If anyone, for any reason, can’t stand in the standby line, the option to purchase Genie+ is available to all to skip the line. If it was back to all Standby only, that would be a disadvantage to a large group of people. In fact, we specifically didn’t bring our son during the Covid period that Genie wasn’t available, even though my husband and I took a trip. (This was before I knew about DAS.) we always had just used FP before. Maybe certain lines trigger PTSD, etc. then those would be the first rides you should choose with your Genie+. Even if JC sells out first, and you don’t really want to wait in that line but you CAN, but the dark, claustrophobic HM line is what gives you problems, then pick HM with Genie+ first and wait in the JC line that is outside. It may not be what everyone else wants to hear but it would technically get the job done and lessen the people in the LL bc you are using standby for a ride you would normally have used accommodation for even though it wasn’t necessary for that ride. Same thing could be said for JC and Space mountain in reverse if heat was the issue. Book JC for your genie and get in the Space standby line. If the reason you have DAS is for heat related issues, is there any reason you are using it on Space Mtn anyway?!
Just trying to think through how we will navigate the parks differently depending on how DAS is adjusted.