Walt Disney World Embraces Guests of All Shapes, Sizes, and Abilities
Nearly every large family trip includes someone with a “special need!” Walt Disney World is indisputably a favorite destination for those with “special needs.” Much more than a “handicaps and wheelchairs” guide, PassPorter Walt Disney World For Your Special Needs provides detailed information on Disney’s accommodations for a wide and inclusive range of “special needs.”
Ann Arbor, MI (PRWEB) August 25, 2005 -- America’s most popular resort
destination makes it to the top of the charts for many reasons—a hug from
Mickey, a childhood revisited, a cleaner, safer, friendlier
world....
Chief among them is Disney’s hospitality. Every visitor is a
guest, and Disney’s parks, restaurants and hotels strive to embrace everyone.
It’s hardly a one-size-fits-all world at Disney’s Orlando property, yet everyone
seems to fit. Sometimes these efforts are obvious—you’ll see more wheelchairs
and electric scooters in Disney parks than you’re likely to see anywhere else
unless it’s a medical center or retirement community. More often though, it’s
the invisible—accommodations available for those who know to ask:
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devices to help a hearing- or vision-impaired guest enjoy a show
- theme
park maps and translation devices in six languages
- “Special assistance”
for children with autism or ADD
- a sheltered spot to breastfeed an infant
- chefs and waiters schooled to serve a wide spectrum of special dietary
needs
- rides sized to fit guests of various disabilities and dimensions...
You could fill a volume, and indeed, that’s what PassPorter Travel Press
and authors Deb Wills and Debra Martin Koma have done in a new guidebook.
“PassPorter’s Walt Disney World for Your Special Needs” delivers more than 400
pages of in-depth information for Walt Disney World vacationers of all
abilities. Just released in August 2005, this new addition to the PassPorter
Travel Press catalog offers in-depth coverage of every ride, attraction and
resort on Walt Disney World property from a distinctive “special needs”
perspective. Consider the typical multi-generational family planning a
vacation—pregnant and nursing moms, parents with infants, cousins “keeping
Kosher” or Halal, grandparents with declining mobility, a child with food
allergies, an uncle struggling with obesity, a teenaged daughter recently
“converted” to vegetarianism... everyday people coping with everyday needs. And
Disney World does more to accommodate their many needs than nearly anyplace
else.
To bring this publishing vision to pass, PassPorter recruited
authors Deb Wills and Debra Martin Koma, respectively founder/publisher/editor
and senior editor of http://www.allearsnet.com, the most often cited and respected
independent guide to Walt Disney World on the Internet. As publisher Dave Marx
explained, “We knew Deb and Debra would be perfect for the job. Their input as
expert peer reviewers for our ‘regular’ Walt Disney World guidebook has been
invaluable. Deb’s site already contains many valuable articles addressing what
we consider ‘special needs,’ and AllEarsNet’s sensitive, comprehensive,
accurate, and eminently readable approach to travel information was just what we
needed.”
Look for “PassPorter’s Walt Disney World for Your Special
Needs” (ISBN 1-58771-018-8) from booksellers nationwide and online.
Deb
Wills is the creator of Deb’s Unofficial Walt Disney World Information Guide
(WDWIG) (http://allearsnet.com). Over the past eight years, it has
become one of the most up-to-date, independent resources about Walt Disney World
on the Internet.
Debra Martin Koma is a freelance writer who shares her
passion for the Orlando resort with readers of AllEarsNet and its weekly
companion newsletter ALL EARS through feature articles and restaurant reviews.
Koma’s articles have also appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
Travel-Holiday magazine, and the airline in-flight magazine, TWA
Ambassador.
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