Disney bans kids under 14 from entering parks alone

Disney bans kids underneath 14 from entering parks alone

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Christina Cocca
, The Associated Press
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Disney thesis parks will shortly need anyone underneath a age of 14 to be accompanied by someone who is comparison than 14, a Disney mouthpiece pronounced Saturday.

The new process will take outcome Mar 23 during all U.S. Walt Disney World and Disneyland resorts and parks.

“If a expel member who is operative during a front gates sees a guest who appears to be younger than 14 but someone who appears to be comparison than that, they will rivet in a examination with a guest,” Disney mouthpiece Suzi Brown told NBC4.

The worker will verbally establish either a guest is too immature to enter on his or her own, given children that age typically do not lift marker with them, she said. The child’s primogenitor or defender would afterwards be contacted if a caller is underage, and that adult would need to physically come accompany a child into a park.

Disney chose a age of 14 after a association surveyed a guest and reached out to organizations that understanding with child welfare, Brown said. She pronounced both a organizations and visitors concluded on a new age limit.

“That was a age they felt was appropriate,” she said. “That’s also a age a Red Cross recommends for babysitting.”

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No sold occurrence triggered a change in policy, Brown added.

“We frequently examination all of a policies, and we identified an event to yield a unchanging age of acknowledgment and residence a doubt we spasmodic get from parents, ” Brown said. “The doubt is only if we have a smallest age.”

The Disneyland parks did not formerly have a set age for solo admission, and a age manners during Walt Disney World Resort sundry among a parks, she said.

“This was a pierce to move a unchanging age process opposite a domestic resorts,” Brown said.

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