Whenever you are evacuated from a ride, I think that you should get a pass to return to the front of the line for a re-ride later in the day, or be offered an immediate re-ride if the attraction returns to normal operation while you're still there. If something goes wrong, and you're kept from enjoying part of your day in the park because you're stuck on a ride that's not operating properly, the park should do something to compensate you for that lost time. Theme parks shouldn't be obligated to hand over fat payments to visitors who get stuck on rides. Let's start with a basic assumption: This isn't the lottery. What's fair compensation when the theme park gremlins come looking for you? The judgment payment seemed to have been based more on Disney's apparent inability to evacuate a guest with disabilities in a timely manner, in comparison with other guest evacuations, than any "pain and suffering" in having to listen to the Small World theme song for an extended period - which is the mental image that helped the original, incorrect version go viral in the first place.īut the whole episode raises the question: What is appropriate compensation for a theme park visitor who has to be evacuated from a ride? And the ride's music was turned off just a few minutes into the ordeal. (We had it in the Blog Flume Filter last week.) But the story was wrong: The man was kept on the ride for just 30 minutes. Last week, many newspapers and TV stations reported a story about a disabled man who won $8,000 from Disney in a court case after he'd been stuck on It's a Small World for three hours. Robert Niles What's fair compensation for theme park guests who are evacuated from rides? April 3, 2013, 12:59 PM
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