NuttySquirrel
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Just to play devil's advocate. It's not really the same situation. At Towers, the amount of RAP riders you can get onto a ride is pretty much unlimited as long as they're willing to stand in a big enough queue. At gigs or at the footy there is an actual limited number of physical seats for each event.
As opposed to the chilled disabled?Also ambient disabled can go in regularly seats at a stadium
there is a limit though, not a physical limit (although you could argue that for instance having e.g 1 disabled seat is too little and sue)It's way too boring to get into any further, but again, it's not the same. The RAP system used to be uncapped and although the queues got way too long sometimes, people were still able to queue on the day and eventually get on the ride in 98% of scenarios. In a football stadium there may be 50 seats allocated for disabled use. As soon as those are booked/filled it's physically impossible for anyone else to use them. That's an unavoidable cap. I wasn't really commenting on the wider issue, only the comparisons with football and gigs. My point stands that they are not the same. It's fact.
Yes, thisDiscrimination law expects “reasonable adjustment”, the court would have to decide what is reasonable but I doubt a court would say “at the exclusion of all others and with risk of delayed evacuation” to be considered reasonable.
Meanwhile at Europa Park all you need to do is show an Access Card and they let you on the respective queue.
And barely seen anyone using it. The UK problem continues.
I believe there is possibly bit of a culture in the UK of some people trying to fast track any way possible for free whether that is taking advantage of single rider (SR) queues or using RAP when they may not need it (or be eligible).It's a tough one because whilst it is very much a UK centric (and presumably US though for slightly different reasons) issue at theme parks, it is also a symptom of the UK arguably having some of, if not the best accessibility in the world, particularly in relation to neurodiversity.
On the flip side i personally think we have a greater culture of people "gaming the system" in this regard so those two things combined are problematic.
And of course the frequently discussed matter of this being a Merlin specific issue. You can do the same as what you described at Drayton Manor for example and Paultons typically has high availability (2 days currently booked up for the rest of the year versus the Merlin debacle). Europa falls into the same category of excellent ride availability and throughput meaning people who might otherwise require RAP can enjoy a day without it or only use it for a handful of rides.
Are there any parks in Europe that require pre-booking for RAP? I can only think of Disneyland Paris and that's more of a technicality as i'd be surprised if they ever actually reach capacity.