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

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.

Full NY Post Article

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  • Sometimes when I’m in a restaurant I see a headshot photograph of a celebrity with some sort of shout out to the establishment and an autograph.  I know there are various classes of celebrity, but I wonder if the restaurant staff asks for such a thing, or do some celebrities mail one in on their own as a nice gesture or brings them in (the minor or local ones) with hopes of them being hung.  It’s probably somewhere in between, but I always thought it would be funny for me to sign a headshot of myself and see if it can be hung and tricking them into thinking I’m actually a somebody.  I bet that trick would work before we all had the World Wide Web at our fingertips.
  • This whole IRS unfair targeting issue smells fishy.  The news broke on a Friday, as if officials were hoping it would get swept under the rug.  And then if you mix in that this happened during election time in one of the most important battle ground states against organizations that oppose the incumbent administration, it all just smells bad.  I’m not going as far to say that the President pulled a Nixon and ordered such a thing to occur, but something ain’t right.
  • But I’m not going to go as far as Sen Marco Rubio to call for a nonexistent IRS director to step down.
  • There is now news about the Justice Department secretly collecting phone records from the AP.  I really haven’t had time to check out the details, but that also smells fishy, but so far I think the excuse was to try to find a leak of some sorts.
  • OJ sure has put on some weight since being behind bars.
  • The ultimate retro video game cake?  
  • A bit underwhelming – The 10 (make that 11) buildings that define Dallas
  • I caught a ‘Modern Marvels’ last night about smells and it stated that the average adult pig produces 12 lbs of manure a day.  That’s a lot of crap.
  • It took eight full seasons, but us ‘How I Met Your Mother’ finally know who Ted’s wife is going to be.  We still don’t know the character’s name, but we’ve now seen her from toe-to-head and she’s played by Cristin Milioti.  Right after the episode aired and I found out her name, I thought it was a bit funny and interesting her Wikipedia page was already updated with this new info.
  • One of my favorite ‘Seinfeld’ moments is when Jerry is talking about fake breasts and states “It’s like finding out Mickey Mantle  corked his bat.”  Now there’s a story that the Mick may have done such a thing.
  • Speaking of the Mick, did you know his body is in a mausoleum in Dallas?  I remember when he died they aired his funeral live on KDFW Fox4 and Billy Crystal and Bob Costas were in attendance.  After the broadcast, KDFW sold copies of the funeral with proceeds going to some kind of charity or organization.  My dad that was a weird way to raise funds, selling a video cassette of a funeral.
  • I recently learned about Luna 15.  Right when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were about to leave the moon, an unmanned  Russian ship named Luna 15 was suppose to pick up moon soil samples and return to Earth, but it crash landed some 700 miles away from the Americans.  Could you imagine what would have happened if Luna 15 somehow interfered with Apollo 11?
  • I’ll be seeing my ear, nose, throat doctor today about my sleep apnea.  My guess, a sleep study comes next.
  • 4-year-old mayor is running Minnesota town
  • The new Philadelphia Eagles head coach sure is upsetting is players by getting rid of Taco Tuesday and Fast Food Friday.
  • Here’s a great retro video game time-waster from Google.
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