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鈾匡笍WHEELCHAIR TRAVEL鉁堬笍: Check-in: Security: Aisle chair: Special Assistance: Transferring: Toileting - YouTube
Channel: Wheelsnoheels - Gem Hubbard
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Today's the day folks. We are going to Disney Land Florida.
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Me here! (giggles) Me and Mummy
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We're ready, we are asked. We're just going through our
checklist
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Oh my god I so excited!
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I back!! (applause sound) and if you hadn't realized
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that I have been away I have seen away
on a once-in-a-lifetime vacation to Walt
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Disney World Florida for two weeks with
my family it was absolutely out of this
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world everything that I could have hoped
it would be and more I have vlogged so
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much useful content for you so make sure
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you don't miss any of these travel vlogs.
This first one is all about my airport
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experience we're going door-to-door from
London to Orlando I'm going to be
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talking about special assistants I'm
going to be talking about how I managed
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on the flight and I'm going to be
answering some of your frequently asked
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questions from Instagram so stay tuned
and enjoy
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trying to get the wheelchair in the boot
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(When you wish upon a star plays)
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"off they go"
"and where are you guys going" "dubai!"
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"Get the lift!" "virgin atlantic!"
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"Theres me look the most Un disney person! " "ah cool lets have a photo!"
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heading to the checking Gems
panicking.. she's got check everything.
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Gem's been checking for
special assistance now we're going first class.
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"upper class always!" "thank you"
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Unfortunately we didn't fly
upper-class but usually when you go to
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check in at the airport there will be a
special assistance desk where you can
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check in and you don't have to que
however because we were so early the
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special assistance desk was closed for
virgin so they just checked us in an
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upper-class and I wasn't going to
complain.
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There goes my bag...bye bag
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So when you go and check in at
the airline they will ask you a couple
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of questions "have you booked a special"
assistance which I always booked well in
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advance through the airline and they
will ask you if you're going to check
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your chair in there with your luggage
or are you going to keep your wheelchair with
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you to the aircraft door I always like
wheelchair until I get to the aircraft
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door they will give you a label with
your tracks label to attach to your
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wheelchair
make sure you attach this to a part of
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your wheelchair that's not going to come
off and make sure that it is visible.
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You'll get a receipt for it as well so
make sure you keep that nice and safe I
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always keep it with my passports.
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"Shall I get some with me in?"
"he came too. He wasn't in any pictures or
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video footage but he did come!"
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They will also
ask you if you can walk from the
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aircraft door to your airplane seat or
if you need to have the aisle chair and
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I request the aisle chair which they
should have ready for you when they take
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you down to the aircraft door. With the
special assistance through the airport
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they can offer things such as guiding
you through the airport they can offer
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electric car buggies for people who
can't walk long distances they also fast
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track you though security then you get
through to the amazing special
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assistance lounge
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Look at this though!! we have just bee though the special assistance route
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Look at this amazing facility I've never seen a special
assistance lounge before.
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So they will give you a pager.
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Ok so we are all though special assistants and we just
literallyGlided though. It was so easy
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So we have got our pager. then we com back about an hour before and then
they'll take us down to the flight
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now one of the
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frequently asked questions that I
received was how do special assistants
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help people with invisible disabilities?
There is a whole wealth of information
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on the Gatwick website about how they do
help people with invisible disabilities
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if you fancy going and having a look at
that but they do help people with
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invisible disabilities and one of the
ways in which they do this is that they
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give you a different colored pager as
you can see the pager that I got had
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sort of a turquoise green color ribbon
around it the people with
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invisible disabilities receive a pager
with a different colored ribbon around
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it. Now you don't have to wear it around
your neck if you don't want to but you know
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you can have it upon your person
throughout the airport. the airport staff
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have been trained to identify the
differences in these pagers. with autism
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for example you may want to carry that
pager on you so that the airport staff
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throughout know that you have different
needs to other families perhaps.
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Lets go get some breakfast! im hungry!!
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There is no Mc Donalds!
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"Oh no... epic fail"
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OMG
people everywhere. Ive never seen an air port this buys!
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I can believe there is no McDonallds here! But here is a little brioche! how cute?
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it's a good substitute
Daisy's got a really cute sandwich.We are in Pret btw
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"its very cheesy!"
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"mmm so good! " Hitting the spot.
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we're on our way to the aeroplane
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we're gonna meet special assistant down at the aeroplane. We are
making our way to the gate.
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When we have special assistance we don't normally
have someone escort us through the
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airport to the aircraft door we usually
meet someone at the boarding gate but
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you can either take the buggy or someone
can push you if you want to be pushed or
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they can escort you but because I had
Shaun we just made our own way down there.
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Gate 52 whooo hoooo (airport noice)
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traffic jam! gems hitched a ride
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I hitched a cheeky little ride on
this buggy and the guy in the buggy told
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us to follow him because he was going he
was taking people to the flight to
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Orlando but he didn't realize that I was
grabbing on but it was so much fun
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Probably don't recommend it.
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I can keep up with you now!
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I almost tripped over and fell
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this is so much fun
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As I have said I take
my wheelchair to the aircraft door and
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then I transfer into the aisle chair and
they kind of strap you in like Hannibal
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Lecter and then they take you right to
your seat and if you do have special
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assistance then what is quite nice is
that you get to board the aircraft first
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before anybody else so it gives you a
bit more time to get your luggage up in
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the overhead lockers get yourself sorted
and get yourself comfortable
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it's also quite nice because the
aircraft isn't full of people you know
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no one's sort of like staring at
you. so we always board first.
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Another frequently asked question was how was it
transferring into the aircraft seat? I'm
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not gonna lie it's quite tricky and the
arms of the weight of the aircraft seat
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don't lift up so you've kind of got to
get over that big heavy arm or you can
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come in as a bit of an angle which is
kind of hard for me to explain. one of
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the frequently asked questions was, what seat do you sit in on
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the aircraft? Now when I'm flying
long-haul on one of the larger planes
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I always request the bulkhead seats and
that would be my advice for myself and
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my needs
now the bulkhead seat are at the front
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of the row and you will have the sky
cots in front of you for babies and it
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gives you just a little bit more room
and a little bit more room to transfer
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as well you can come in at a little bit
more of an angle rather than next to the
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seat you can come in like this and
transfer accross like this how I
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transferred across they're also closest
to the toilet. Now that was another
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frequently asked question how
do I manage of going to the toilet let
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me explain so on the Long haul flights they will usually have an on board
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wheelchair so when you are booking
special assistance if you need the on
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board wheelchair make sure to let them
know that you will need it so they have
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the on board wheelchair, which is a thin
little wheelchair and I chose to go to
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the toilet in the dead of night when all
the lights on the aircraft were off and
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two female cabin crew attendants helped
me to the bathroom one pushed me and one
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went in front of me aisle they got to
the toilet now there is a disabled
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toilet on board and this means the door
opening outwards completely rather than
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a concertina like the other doors do, the
toilet is tiny and it is not easy, I'm
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not gonna lie there are a few grab rails
to make it a tiny bit easier for you. The
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cabin crew helped me transfer they also
clean the toilet for me and they were
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absolutely fantastic they made sure that
nobody could see what was going on and I
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honestly couldn't fault them. Don't be
embarrassed they have been trained and
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it's just something that you've got to
do. I kind of built it up in my head to
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be worse than it was but then once I did
it I was like actually you know I
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couldn't fault the virgin cabin crew
they were absolutely amazing. I've
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recently found out that virgin have
taken their staff on a special course
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and how to deal with people with
disabilities and also importantly
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invisible disabilities as well and I
felt you know so welcomed and I felt in
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really safe hands and nothing was too
much of a problem for them and they weren't
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fazed by anything at all.
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Ive got a baby FAB
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I've never had one of these on the plane. "everything is tiny! all the cups are tiny, all the food is tine"
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"everything is tiny!"
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"tiny food for tiny people"
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" here she comes in here skin wheelchair."
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another question I received over on
Instagram how do I look after my legs
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and prevent pressure sores and things
like that
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well I invest in some Fight socks not
entirely sure what they do but I thought
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it's better to be safe than sorry so I
wore them I also kind of massage my legs
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as I was on the plane as well to prevent
any DVT deep vein thrombosis also keep
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your wheelchair cushion and sit on your
wheelchair cushion throughout the flight
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I didn't and I just say I'm paying for
it and I was in horrendous pain on the
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way back so annoying you think of these
anyway and also
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remember to adjust your seat position
throughout the flight as well to prevent
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any pressure sores
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So when we got off the aircraft we went
straight into customs where we had to
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queue for no joke three hours I'm just
gonna leave it there it was horrendous!
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but we got approved and then we have to
get this to the monorail thing to the
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main terminal
it was completely accessible and I just
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rolled on and just make sure you hold on
tight there because I think kind of rock
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back like that
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We made it!Daisy?whoooo After three hours in the que to get in!
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once we got to the main terminal we then
had to figure out how to reclaim our disney dollars,
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I've been watching the
get Binky Vlogs on YouTube and they
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showed us how to get our disney dollars
so hopefully we've got the right lift we
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go down to level 1 where all the rental
cars are hi if you're watching and thank
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you so much for your videos they did a
whole video on how to find the Virgn
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desk to reclaim your dollars to reclaim
your dollars it's on one side of the
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airport to get the Magical Express to
your hotel is on the other side of the
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airport oh yeah access to Disney's
Magical Express it's at a terminal B
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there we come back up and they go across
to B and I get the feeling virgin do this on pourposu.
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of do this on purpose it was quite easy
to find after watching Dells video which
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I will leave a link to don't miss it if
you're going to Disney it was really
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really useful so thanks for that Dell
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Found it
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because we were staying on Disney
property we've got our hotel transfer
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from the airport included so we had to
board the Magical Express these run very
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regularly throughout the day so you
don't have to worry about catching a
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certain bus at a certain time we have
the most awesome bus driver called
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Robert he was so cool and so much fun
and we just rolled on and you're given
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priority boarding on the bus which is
great and I went up on this lift I've
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never seen one of these lifts before but
it was great I didn't have to get out of
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my wheelchair and it just lifted me on
clamped me in and off I went
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"daisy your on the disney bus"
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"y'all follow me"
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thre massive bus coming...
They dropped us right at the front of
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our hotel and that is where the
adventure begins
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I can't wait to show you
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the rest of my Vlogs so make sure to
subscribe I'm going to be doing a hotel
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tour an accessible room tour I'm going
to be talking about so many things all
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access related at Disney World Florida
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I
really hope you enjoyed this video be
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sure to share this video with someone
who may be traveling soon and I look
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forward to seeing you in my next video xxxx
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