15 minute wait or less DAS Question

[andypooh]

So if the standby wait for an attraction is 15 minutes or less my understanding is they will let you in immediately through the LL line. In these cases is it okay for us to have another DAS already set up for another attraction?

 

[Matt'sMom]

We've never had a CM allow us to use LL via DAS at an attraction while we are already holding a DAS return time for a different attraction. (Not talking about the advance video registration pre-scheduled DAS windows, but the normal scheduled on-the-day DAS return times as these are two different animals.) On-the-day DAS use is set up for use at one attraction at a time. It has only allowed one attraction via DAS at a time, regardless of if that return time may be within the next few minutes, or over an hour into the future. If you've ever tried to schedule your next DAS return before passing through all of the required tap points in a queue, you'll know that the system won't allow it as it detects this as doubling up. That said, in general when an attraction's posted stand-by wait time is 10-15 minutes, it is typically a 'walk-on' (line continuously moving), or a very, very short wait. And so we simply use the stand-by queue when the lines are that short, and only use the DAS when wait times are longer.

 

[OurBigTrip]

So if the standby wait for an attraction is 15 minutes or less my understanding is they will let you in immediately through the LL line. In these cases is it okay for us to have another DAS already set up for another attraction?

If it’s 15 minutes or less, I would expect them to have you go through the standby line.

 

[SueM in MN]

This is what the WDW Website DAS FAQs says :

« Do Guests have to obtain a DAS return time for an attraction if the posted wait time is 15 minutes or less?
No. As was done in the past, if the posted wait time for an attraction is 15 minutes or less, the Guest utilizing DAS and their party typically are given access to the attraction right away. The Guest simply needs to inform the Cast Member they are registered for DAS at the entrance to the attraction queue. »

We have just gone thru the Standby line without asking about DAS unless the Standby Line is not wheelchair accessible (DD uses a wheelchair to meet some of her needs, but has others it doesn’t meet).
We have been let right into the Lightning Lane (and Fastpass Line before LL existed) when the Standby Line was not accessible. The CM read DD’s Magicband, which made the Mickey head glow blue; she overrode that and had the rest of us scan our Magicbands. Our Magicbands all glowed green at the next scan point.

 

[Evita_W]

If it’s 15 minutes or less, I would expect them to have you go through the standby line.

No, as for some needs, the design of the Standby queue is in and of itself the problem, doesn't matter how many people are in it.

Generally DH has always been sent to the FP (now LL) entrance when he tells them he has a DAS and the wait is under 15 minutes, sometimes happens even with longer waits. And all they do is scan to verify he has a DAS, one time he did have another return time that he wasn't going to use, so he was planning on the new attraction overriding it, but they just let him through and the return time remained. Oddly, it was for Rocmin Roller Coaster we left the park after that for the day and went back to Hollywood Studios the next day and he was then feeling up to the ride, so went and asked for a return time and they told him the one from the day before was still there and valid for right then......never had that one happen before or since and he told them honestly it was from the day before and they still let him on without a new return time.

 

[HopperFan]

If it’s 15 minutes or less, I would expect them to have you go through the standby line.

Yes, we have been directed to the SB line in this situation a few times.

It has been rare to find a line with 15 minutes or less posted anyway.

 

[OurBigTrip]

No, as for some needs, the design of the Standby queue is in and of itself the problem, doesn't matter how many people are in it.

Generally DH has always been sent to the FP (now LL) entrance when he tells them he has a DAS and the wait is under 15 minutes, sometimes happens even with longer waits. And all they do is scan to verify he has a DAS, one time he did have another return time that he wasn't going to use, so he was planning on the new attraction overriding it, but they just let him through and the return time remained. Oddly, it was for Rocmin Roller Coaster we left the park after that for the day and went back to Hollywood Studios the next day and he was then feeling up to the ride, so went and asked for a return time and they told him the one from the day before was still there and valid for right then......never had that one happen before or since and he told them honestly it was from the day before and they still let him on without a new return time.

Yes, but those situations would be the exception, not the norm.

 

[WantToGoToWDW]

When we scheduled our preselected rides, the CM on the phone said we could enter the LL of any ride that had a 10 minute standby wait or less.

 

[gap2368]

I have been. directed to the standby line when the wait time is less then 15 minutes

 

[Lilsia]

This is one of those things that it is up to the cast member standing there. I have had it where they tell you to go through the regular line, since it is so short. I have had them just wave me through the FP line and not scan my band. And I have had them first scan my band to check to see if I already had an existing DAS. So I guess the best that you can do is see what they do at the time. Either way, you will be getting on the ride pretty quick.