only 10 more days till our trip. I'm taking my parents and my dad cannot walk well and I have been reading about the wheelchair room for this attraction? Has anyone experianced this? I am really looking forward to this ride and he may ride the actual ride depending on how the stairs are.How do you access this alternative any help would be appreciated.

We did it before when it first opened. They let us go in almost immedialty no wait too. You will take the wheel chair right into the room with you and then the others in the party will sit in benches next to the wheel chairs. (They can accomidate 2 it looks like) The show is the same you see on the sub but no small portal window to look at or moving at all. The graphics are great on the Screen too. Go towards the exit and you can get on it almost right away.

The actual ride you also go to the exit but sometimes have to wait a bit. (I have seen up to an hour wait but normally closer to a half hour) You will park the wheel chair before boarding and sit on the far end of the sub. The stairs are a spiral case and pretty steep but since the handicap is loaded last they are not pushed in any way which helps.

Depending on how crowded it is, they may allow you to enter at the exit, but usually they will send you to the "handicap entrance" which is over near where the switchbacks start near Matterhorn. They board one HA family every 7 minutes. If there are 5 groups ahead of you, the line is 35 minutes. The other night, one gentleman was very upset as he thought he would get to board immediately because he had a wheelchair with him. If you are going during a slow time, the wait may be short, but when we went in July, the handicap entrance wait was 2 hours, and 2 nights ago the wait was about an hour.

One little note to go with Malcon10's post, if you want to actually ride the subs then just be prepared to wait the length of the HCA line, if you're wanting to go into the observation room with your group and not worry about the subs, go to the exit and let that CM know that you would like to go to the observation room. Often the folks in the 'wheelchair' line want to ride the actual sub so they occassionally will take a group for the room thru the exit and 'board' them as soon as the cycle runs and the boarding light turns green.

mammasilva thats been our expierience too. We never waited in the exit "line" for the room. And the main line was probably 2 1/2 to 3 hours long when we went on it back in July. The light was red when we approached and it went green pretty quick and we was in the room right away. I would suggest asking the person working the exit because Im sure they will let you skip the handicap line line for the room since not many like to use the room from what I can see. I wholeheardly agree with ride the subs means wait your turn, but to wait for the room when nobody is using it seems silly.

I would just add that when we waited in the wheelchair line in September for the room, the cast members didn't just suggest but were adamant that we not wait in the line again, but go dirctly to the exit. They felt terrible that we had waited in the wheelchair line for the room.