Adults Outnumbered by Kids?

[br200305]

Who here has taken three kids under 6 to Disney? How did it go? It was easy to ride 2 and 2, but I'm not sure how it will work with the extra child. It's not really an option to take another adult, we'll be scraping to afford the extra child.

My husband and I were planning a trip with our two kids, and found out that we may have a foster child with us at that time. All the kids are around the same age/size. Two of the kids have special needs, which may or may not complicate things.

 

[Thing 1]

most of the rides you will be fine on. Things like Dumbo and Pooh may be created for two, but one adult and two small kids will fit fine. A few may be an issue like barnstormer and the mine train, but most of the strict two people seats are for the more thrill type rides that you may not even want to do anyway. If one kids wants to do a few of these, maybe one parent can do this while the other does something with the other two.

 

[br200305]

My kids LOVE thrill rides. Actually, that's pretty much all we did the last time we were there (two of the kids will definitely be tall enough, one may or may not be by travel time). Assuming all three make the height cut off...One of the kids may be "okay" to ride with a stranger if we have to do 2/2/1 on thrill rides, but is Disney okay with this? As long as all of us are on the same ride (so none of the kids waits alone), I think they might be okay.

 

[Thing 1]

That might be a lot tougher. They are pretty strict on children under 7 not riding alone. You would need to approach a stranger and ask them if they would ride with your child. Pretty sure WDW would not randomly put your child with a stranger.

 

[br200305]

Thanks, that is exactly the information I was wondering about...Will they let us ride 2/2 and then one parent ride with the other child? So, I would ride with Child1 while DH waits with Child2, then switch. Then DH rides with Child3?

It sounds like it's going to complicate things quite a bit

 

[owliecupcake]

Last time we went, we had 2 adults and 4 kids, 2 of which couldn't ride most of the height restricted rides. We did rider swap and rode many thrill rides with 1 adult and 2 kids with no problem. My oldest either rode next to someone else or sat alone if there wasn't room for all 3 of us side by side.

 

[Disney Khaleesi]

Disney requires any child over the age of 7 to be seated with a parent. They can't put the kid in a separate ride vehicle than you or even a separate seat. The only exception to this is Space Mountain , however they wouldn't let a child under 7 enter the line alone in the first place.

I'm running the rides through my head and you shouldn't have any issues that I know of. With most thrill rides you'll be able to seat one adult with two of the children and the other adult with the remaining child. This can even be done on rides like Buzz Lightyear and TSMM, however one person in the seat won't get a blaster. I've not been on Everest or RnRC before, so I can't speak as to seating arrangements concerning those rides, but you should be fine on everything else.

 

[br200305]

Thank you, that's perfect! One less thing to worry about

 

[MmmSuite]

We were able to get all five of us into rides like Ariel and Finding Nemo. Three on Dumbo and TSMM and Spaceship Earth. Same for Buzz Spaceship Spin.

Rider swap is AMAZING!

 

[WhispyPixie]

Many of the rides they will put 3 across. On the rides that will not, use a rider swap and enjoy some special time with the remaining child!