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nrthshgrl
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Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/disney_world_srich_kid_outrage_zTBA0xrvZRkIVc1zItXGDP?utm_campaign=OutbrainA&utm_source=OutbrainArticlepages&obref=obinsource
The “black-market Disney guides” run $130 an hour, or $1,040 for an eight-hour day.
“My daughter waited one minute to get on ‘It’s a Small World’ — the other kids had to wait 2 1/2 hours,” crowed one mom, who hired a disabled guide through Dream Tours Florida.
Dr. Wednesday Martin, social anthropologist who discovered scheme.
“You can’t go to Disney without a tour concierge,’’ she sniffed. “This is how the 1 percent does Disney.”
The woman said she hired a Dream Tours guide to escort her, her husband and their 1-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter through the park in a motorized scooter with a “handicapped” sign on it. The group was sent straight to an auxiliary entrance at the front of each attraction.
Disney allows each guest who needs a wheelchair or motorized scooter to bring up to six guests to a “more convenient entrance.”
The Florida entertainment mecca warns that there “may be a waiting period before boarding.” But the consensus among upper-crust moms who have used the illicit handicap tactic is that the trick is well worth the cost.
Not only is their “black-market tour guide” more efficient than Disney World’s VIP Tours, it’s cheaper, too.
Disney Tours offers a VIP guide and fast passes for $310 to $380 per hour.
Passing around the rogue guide service’s phone number recently became a shameless ritual among Manhattan’s private-school set during spring break. The service asks who referred you before they even take your call.
“It’s insider knowledge that very few have and share carefully,” said social anthropologist Dr. Wednesday Martin, who caught wind of the underground network while doing research for her upcoming book “Primates of Park Avenue.”
“Who wants a speed pass when you can use your black-market handicapped guide to circumvent the lines all together?” she said.
“So when you’re doing it, you’re affirming that you are one of the privileged insiders who has and shares this information.”
Ryan Clement runs Dream Tours Florida with girlfriend Jacie Christiano, whom the rich Manhattan mom indicated was her family’s guide.
A working phone number for Christiano couldn’t be found, and Clement refused to put The Post through to her. A message left on Facebook was not immediately returned by Christiano.
Clement denied that his gal pal uses her disability to bypass lines. He said she has an auto-immune disorder and acknowledged that she uses a scooter on the job.
Disney did not return repeated requests for comment.
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MandJZ
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Re: Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
This is....jaw-dropping. To say the least.
However, it's the Post. So while this sounds disgusting if true...the 'if' is an 'if' for me unless reported elsewhere, as well.
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2boys1girl
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Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
I heard this story on the radio this morning
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JennZ
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Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
DISGUSTING!!!!
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ItsaJoya19
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Re: Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
This is disgusting if it's true. They were discussing it on z100 this morning and my mouth was wide open in disbelief. Sick it it's really true.
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BargainMama
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Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
These people are stupid to pay a tour company for this. The Guest assistance card is free. So that is their karma. They paid for something that costs nothing to people who have a disability at Disney.
As someone who gets a guest assistance card for her special needs child, I find this appalling, and it ruins it for the people that truly have disabilities.
Disney does have a VIP "cut the line" program directly through them, that doesn't take require lying about a disability though. It's very expensive.
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summerBaby10
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Re: Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
Nothing should surprise me anymore. People's morals & values are crap.
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Re: Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
Holy hell. Excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the floor.
ETA: I shudder to think of the next few generations of these entitled, spoiled kids.  They won't be able to hack it as adults.
Message edited 5/14/2013 1:08:33 PM.
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BriBri2u
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Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
And to think they spawned children that will grow up to be as entitled, obnoxious, and low class as their parents.
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Re: Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
Disgusting.
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DaniJude
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GioiaMia
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Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
All of the parents who WISH and DREAM that they could attend Disney WITHOUT worrying about a "disability entrance" should be able to line up and spit in their faces.
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islandersgirl74
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Re: Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
How could anyone do something so repulsive? The article made me sick.
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MrsM-6-7-08
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Re: Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
Posted by BriBri2u
And to think they spawned children that will grow up to be as entitled, obnoxious, and low class as their parents.
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Karen
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Re: Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
Proof yet again that money doesn't buy class 
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| Posted 5/14/13 1:51 PM |
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Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
I'm not surprised.
I have no desire to do the Disney thing with my kid. It's such a machine. But I also worry that she'd feel like she missed something if we don't take her.
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jellybean78
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Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
Disgusting but I'm not surprised at all.
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AScottWolf
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Re: Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
I've heard about something like this for awhile.
I've also heard people getting these handicapped permits, or whatever they are called, prior to going to disney. It's not hard at all. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not.
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StaceyWill
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Re: Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
Posted by Karen
Proof yet again that money doesn't buy class
 
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Onemoretime
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Re: Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
Even more proof money gets you everything
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BabyBoy
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Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
Haha, between fast passes and going off season, the longest i waited in line was 30 mins. Heck, i went on Toy Story Mania 3 times in a row.
Nice grey area but if there is a service, people will pay for it.
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meloyellow
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Re: Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
wow...WTF is wrong with people?
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sometimesmommy
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Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
Sad. That people would stoop so low. I need to get special consideration if we ever go to Disney etc and while it is great we wont have to wait in long lines. I think anyone with a disability/auto-immune disease would gladly trade their illness to happily stand in the long lines healthy. POS elitest.
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KarenK122
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Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
Absolutely disgusting. Taking advantage of services for the truly disabled hits an all time low. They should all be caught and barred from the parks for life. And not for nothing, having a handicap pass does not get you in the front of the line for most attractions, only a select few. If the scooter or wheelchair can maneuver through the lines there is no "front of the line" access. So these people are paying a premium for almost nothing. Jerks.
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Bearcat
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Re: Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
Utterly disgusting.
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