Baby swap confusion

[Pluto777]

Lets say you have 2 groups: 2 Adults and 2 tots (group 'A'), and 2 Adults (granny & grandpa - group 'B'). If you had 4 fastpasses for group 'A' would it be possible to enable group 'B' to ride with them? (I ask because group B wont get their tickets until last minute and want them to be able to ride with the grandkids). Thanks!

 

[pookybean]

Who is not riding? One of the tots? I think its a little confusing because you say group B wants to ride with the grandkids?

 

[danielocha30]

when you baby swap they issue and paper fast past for the amount of riders that are riding on the first place, so let’s use your example if group A have 3 riders you will get 3 fast passes for the other adult and the current children’s on the party to ride again. Grandparents will need to be part of the first group of riders.

 

[smiths02]

To get a rider swap, usually there has to be a child who is not tall enough for the ride. At the very least, there needs to be a child who cannot be left unattended (and therefore needs an adult) who is not wanting to ride the ride.
It is not a swap so that parents ride with the kids and then grandparents ride with the kids. It is to enable a caregiver to remain with the child who cannot ride but not lose a place in line.

 

[smiths02]

when you baby swap they issue and paper fast past for the amount of riders that are riding on the first place, so let’s use your example if group A have 3 riders you will get 3 fast passes for the other adult and the current children’s on the party to ride again. Grandparents will need to be part of the first group of riders.

No, Rider swap is one pass given for up to 3 people (it doesn't matter how many people ride in the first place). The idea is that one person will stay behind to care for the child(ren) not riding. (Disney is nice and allows 3 people to ride on a rider swap pass so the person who stayed behind doesn't have to ride alone)

 

[Queen of the WDW Scene]

Your post is very confusing.

Not sure what getting FP+ and having the grand parents use them to ride with the grand kids has to do with rider swap.

As long as the tots are 3+ so they have a ticket you can book 4 FP+ and then have group B plus the tots in group A use them.

This of course would mean adults in group A don't ride.

 

[Crusader10hky]

When DW and I took the grandparents and my DDs were almost 1 and 5, we just swapped magic bands around as needed. They won't care who is using the band as long as that band has a fastpass. Now, if you were asking if there was some way to add on group 'B' just because the 'Group A' had fast passes, that won't necessarily work. Use the heck out of everyone's fastpass allotment and rider swap.

For example, Disney doesn't stop my toddler from attaining a fastpass on a rollercoaster just because she's too small to ride it. Someone else could borrow her band and use that fastpass, attain a rider swap because someone has to stay back with the toddler, and then hand that rider swap (good for 3 riders) off to the other 3 people and all 4 adults would have ridden a roller coaster based on a single toddler fastpass. Just an example, obviously use these to enhance the kids' experiences not take advantage of them

Also, rider swap doesn't work for a ride that your children are actually physically eligible to ride. For rides that the 5 year old could ride that the 1 year old couldn't, we would reserve 2 fastpasses. an adult from group A would accompany the 5yo on the ride and attain a rider swap. Then, the 5yo would ride a second time with 2 other adults.

Sorry if I gave you way too much tangential information!

 

[Wubar]

I heard back from Guest Services and a different CM that insisted Rider Swap is NOT limoted to height restrictions - you should be able to get one if you have a child that is tall enough to ride the ride but doesn't want to. I had asked because my 4 year old will probably be 45" in January, and tall enough to ride almost all of the height restricted rides, but we aren't sure he wants to ride Mission Space or Space Mt.

Is this not the case, based on how CMs at the ride implement the policy?..

 

[marcyleecorgan]

The scenario you describe is NOT intended to be used with the Rider Swap pass.

There really is no way to "bridge"/"merge" two parties FP+ times together if they weren't reserved together in the first place and there are no other FP+ times available during that hour. Either you all buy your tickets together and get everything linked up ahead of time, or you are stuck with "making do as you go along", checking the wait times on standby vs. FP+ (sometimes it's worth it to standby, other rides are worth more to FP+ the line).

If all else fails, then you or your partner can decide to stay off a ride and hand G&G your MB so they can use the FP+ scheduled on it. I don't think that's against rules, since all of you needed a ticket to get into the Parks, and CM's seem pretty flexible about understanding that Adults are Interchangeable as long as the MB has the FP+ entitlement on it. They might roll their eyes, but seriously in the big picture of ride operations, as long as the FP+ is valid, there's not a massive change in quality/capacity of service should Granny Bertha choose to ride instead of Granny Martha.

 

[turtlechick6]

I heard back from Guest Services and a different CM that insisted Rider Swap is NOT limoted to height restrictions - you should be able to get one if you have a child that is tall enough to ride the ride but doesn't want to. I had asked because my 4 year old will probably be 45" in January, and tall enough to ride almost all of the height restricted rides, but we aren't sure he wants to ride Mission Space or Space Mt.

Is this not the case, based on how CMs at the ride implement the policy?..

that was how Universal did it at least.

 

[DisneyOma]

Lets say you have 2 groups: 2 Adults and 2 tots (group 'A'), and 2 Adults (granny & grandpa - group 'B'). If you had 4 fastpasses for group 'A' would it be possible to enable group 'B' to ride with them? (I ask because group B wont get their tickets until last minute and want them to be able to ride with the grandkids). Thanks!

You can only get 4 FP for group A if everyone has admission tickets. Do the tots have tickets?

It doesn't matter whose name is on the FP/magic bands. If you want to forgo riding with your kids so the grandparents ride with them instead, just give them your magic bands.

I heard back from Guest Services and a different CM that insisted Rider Swap is NOT limoted to height restrictions - you should be able to get one if you have a child that is tall enough to ride the ride but doesn't want to. I had asked because my 4 year old will probably be 45" in January, and tall enough to ride almost all of the height restricted rides, but we aren't sure he wants to ride Mission Space or Space Mt.

Is this not the case, based on how CMs at the ride implement the policy?..

CMs you reach over the phone are not even in the Disney parks. They give out incorrect info pretty much as often as correct info. Your tall enough kid may or may not get a rider swap offer at an attraction. It depends on the CM (and his/her training) at the attraction entrance. Sometimes they give you a swap, sometimes they make you go in the queue and do the swap at the ride vehicle.

 

[DavidNYC]

Wow - lots of misinformation in this thread. Since you didn't give enough info to really answer your question let's start from the beginning.

First - if you have 4 fastpasses you will not be able to do anything to get all 6 of you on at once.

If you only have 4 Fastpasses - 4 People will be allowed to ride via Fastpass.
If one of the children is staying behind with an adult because they cannot ride, you will be given a swap pass which will be good for three people. So the grandparents could use that to ride swap - they would go on the ride with the tall enough child while the parents who just rode with that child stay behind with the shorter child. The tall enough child gets to ride twice - once with parents and once with grandparents.

Now - if both children are tall enough - do not count on being able to use swap at all. Forget what anyone here says about the "rules" and what is "posted". It is handled inconsistently in practice and often they will not give them if children are tall enough. That being said, if they're just barely tall enough, or tall enough but still really young, you may be able to get one.

If both kids are tall enough to ride the ride, and are planning on riding the ride, you should not be using rider swap at all. You can always allow the grandparents to use your bands so they can ride with the kids.