Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World

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[h=1]Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World[/h] By TARA PALMERI
Last Updated: 7:14 PM, May 14, 2013

Posted: 2:45 AM, May 14, 2013 NYPOST EXCERPT:

They are 1 percenters who are 100 percent despicable.
Some wealthy Manhattan moms have figured out a way to cut the long lines at Disney World — by hiring disabled people to pose as family members so they and their kids can jump to the front, The Post has learned.


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.
“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.

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By some reports the agency takes 20% leaving 80% for the handicapped guide. $800 per day x 300 days per year = a $240,000 a year income for riding rides.
Cut my foot off, Stat!
 

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And they are 501(c)(3) tax exempt for doing so?

*tosses a leg cast to Big Don*

Lets go in to business. I'll order you a wheelchair on Amazon :D
 
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And they are 501(c)(3) tax exempt for doing so?
I don't know but, if you called your (our ;) ) new enterprise Conservative Tea Party Patriot tours, I bet it would sail right through the IRS...
*tosses a leg cast to Big Don*

Lets go in to business. I'll order you a wheelchair on Amazon :D
You betcha! You ride MWFand Sunday...
I'm seriously considering a jaunt down to Magic Mountain this weekend.
 

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Conservative Tea Party Patriot tours has a nice ring to it! Oh and you get first dibs on days to ride on any property you can get us in to. :D
 
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Conservative Tea Party Patriot tours has a nice ring to it! Oh and you get first dibs on days to ride on any property you can get us in to. :D

I think we'd have to "work" alternate days and take the spring and fall off. Can you imagine riding rides all day all year? I mean, an easy 6 figure income sure, but, I sense a drawback...
 

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I think we'd have to "work" alternate days and take the spring and fall off. Can you imagine riding rides all day all year? I mean, an easy 6 figure income sure, but, I sense a drawback...


"Its a small world a...":shooter:
 

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Wow I know someone that does that they take a handicap kid every year not because they like her but because they can cut in line. I had no idea it was a new industry. When I see them again I will have to tell them they are trend setters.
 

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Wow I know someone that does that they take a handicap kid every year not because they like her but because they can cut in line. I had no idea it was a new industry. When I see them again I will have to tell them they are trend setters.

they can pimp out the kiddy in a non-nefarious way....
Way to create a college fund.
but with that kind of income, who needs one!
 

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