If you and your child wait have to wait longer at Disney World queues, blame the wealthy Manhattan mothers. The New York Post reported that some wealthy mothers from Manhattan have come up with a new technique of cutting the queue at Disney World. They hire and pose handicapped tour guides as their family members so that they can jump to the front of the line.
These guides charge $130 per hour or $1,040 for eight hours.
"My daughter waited one minute to get on 'It's a Small World' - the other kids had to wait 2 1/2 hours," a mother, who hired a disabled guide through Dream Tours Florida, told The Post.
She said that she and her husband hired the guide to usher their one-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter through a park with a handicapped-signed vehicle. They were given straight entries to each attraction. She said that one can't go to Disney without a tour concierge.
Families who hire disabled tour-guides sit lavishly in the motorized scooters and roam the popular attractions such as Peter Pan's Flight, Space Mountain and It's a Small World.
Although, Disney provides facilities of fast passes and VIP guides, Wednesday Martin, a social anthropologist, who revealed the 'black-market' to The Post, said visitors do not opt for speed passes when they have the option of hiring a black-market tour guide.
Disney quickly reacted to the matter. Bryan Malenius, a Disney representative, told Yahoo Shine that they are reviewing the situation and will take appropriate steps to stop such activities.
