Can I get two child swap passes at once?

[mggeary]

Group: Mom, Dad, DD8, DD4 (tall enough), DD3 (not tall enough), DD0, Grandma, Grandpa

Scenario: We all approach FP line with reserved FP+. It will likely be obvious we are all in the same group. Mom, DD8, DD4, and Grandpa ride. Dad sits out with DD0, gets a rider switch pass. Grandma sits out with DD3 gets another child swap pass.

Seems fair and should work, but I wonder if they'll nix it if they know we are all part of one big group, and Dad and Grandma could ride later with just one pass.

Anyone?

 

[kmb584]

I doubt they'd give you two. One rider switch pass is good for 3 people, so dad and grandma can both ride with it.

 

[mggeary]

I doubt they'd give you two. One rider switch pass is good for 3 people, so dad and grandma can both ride with it.

I get your you're reasoning but in the past we have traveled with another family and they have given one rider swap to us and another to them (for each of our too small to ride kids). No real difference in this vs our current scenario with grandma and grandpa. If need be, we could pretend we are separate parties, but I was hoping to avoid that.

 

[LSUfan4444]

DD8, DD4 (tall enough), DD3 (not tall enough), DD0

How many kids is this?

An 8 year old, a 4 year old a three year old and.......????

 

[mggeary]

How many kids is this?

An 8 year old, a 4 year old a three year old and.......????

Sorry, 4th child is a 3 monther I'll be carrying in a frontpack.

 

[staceyeileen]

Scenario: We all approach FP line with reserved FP+. It will likely be obvious we are all in the same group.

Are you going to be wearing matching shirts or something? I don't see how it'd be obvious as long as you approached the CM separately to ask for the rider swap. So, you and DH with one kid who can't ride approach and get rider swap ticket. Grandma and grandpa approach with another kid too short to ride and get a 2nd rider swap.

Now, some people probably have a problem with this and think it's cheating the system, but it's the system Disney has designed IMO.

 

[LadyRayado]

Are you going to be wearing matching shirts or something? I don't see how it'd be obvious as long as you approached the CM separately to ask for the rider swap. So, you and DH with one kid who can't ride approach and get rider swap ticket. Grandma and grandpa approach with another kid too short to ride and get a 2nd rider swap.

Now, some people probably have a problem with this and think it's cheating the system, but it's the system Disney has designed IMO.

Um, please no flaming, but that is what we did in October. Six adults and two-under-two. We went up in two separate groups and were able to grab two passes. We then rode in two groups using the passes, and no one had to wait in line.

 

[ArwenMarie]

Um, please no flaming, but that is what we did in October. Six adults and two-under-two. We went up in two separate groups and were able to grab two passes. We then rode in two groups using the passes, and no one had to wait in line.

So you never waited in line? How?

 

[LadyRayado]

So you never waited in line? How?

I hope this doesn't get this thread shut down - but at Tower of Terror for example - one group would walk up with the baby, stroller, all of our stuff, and ask for a pass. We'd then say something like, "ok let's go put everything down over there" and wander off back toward the gift shop area. The next group would do the same. We'd walk to some place out of sight of the CM (some places this worked, some places it didn't), wait a few minutes or even leave and come back later. We'd then use the rider swaps like legacy FPs one group at a time.

 

[mggeary]

I hope this doesn't get this thread shut down - but at Tower of Terror for example - one group would walk up with the baby, stroller, all of our stuff, and ask for a pass. We'd then say something like, "ok let's go put everything down over there" and wander off back toward the gift shop area. The next group would do the same. We'd walk to some place out of sight of the CM (some places this worked, some places it didn't), wait a few minutes or even leave and come back later. We'd then use the rider swaps like legacy FPs one group at a time.

Not sure why you would have to wander away and come back later.if original ride is with FP+, and later rides are with the two child swaps.

 

[triplejen]

I might be wrong, but it sounds like she's saying that they then all rode immediately in two groups using the passes with nobody staying behind? Like they got the swap passes for a kid that then ended up riding?

Or maybe the first group rode immediately while the second stayed behind with the non-riding child, and then they switched, and the "gaming" was that the first group was able to walk on using swap passes for a ride they did *not* have fastpasses for? I forget - do child swap passes go through the fastpass line?

I am confused even as I try to figure it out

 

[LadyRayado]

Sorry I should have clarified, we did not have FPs. So usually one adult would have to go through the standby and then "swap" the baby, and the other adult goes through the FP line. The way we did it, we never used the SB line. We had two passes for a total of six adults. We still had to ride in two separate groups, but we wandered off and then came back later with the baby swap passes so no group had to wait in the SB line. Three adults rode using the first swap pass through the FP line, while three waiting with the two babies. Then we swapped, and the other three rode with the second swap pass through the FP line. I hope that makes more sense?

 

[ArwenMarie]

Sorry I should have clarified, we did not have FPs. So usually one adult would have to go through the standby and then "swap" the baby, and the other adult goes through the FP line. The way we did it, we never used the SB line. We had two passes for a total of six adults. We still had to ride in two separate groups, but we wandered off and then came back later with the baby swap passes so no group had to wait in the SB line. Three adults rode using the first swap pass through the FP line, while three waiting with the two babies. Then we swapped, and the other three rode with the second swap pass through the FP line. I hope that makes more sense?

Wow, so you kind of had endless FPs?

P.S. Totally not judging, if Disney allows it, so be it.

 

[LadyRayado]

Wow, so you kind of had endless FPs?

P.S. Totally not judging, if Disney allows it, so be it.

Pretty much, yes. We used this for Rock'n'Roller Coaster, Tower of Terror twice, Star Trek, Space Mountain, and Test Track - and used our actual FP+'s for other things. It only worked because no CM ever made the first riding party get in line that very instant.

Edit: and because we had enough people to make it work, at least two babies and four adults so we could split into two groups and get two passes.

 

[staceyeileen]

It only worked because no CM ever made the first riding party get in line that very instant.

I've never had a CM insist we immediately enter the line. Even when we're not trying to cheat the system in any way, we usually get our rider swap ticket and then walk away to put our stuff down somewhere and park the stroller, mostly because the person watching the child is usually also watching everyone's stuff and the stroller.

For example, when riding Thunder Mountain we usually walk over to that little play area near splash mountain, park the stroller, and make sure the child is happily playing before the rest leave.

 

[chris1212]

Kind of along the same lines... 2 adults and 2 kids too little to ride space mountain... I go with fp+ and get rider swap. If my husband has fp+ too, can he ride and get another rider swap then? We never did this last trip, so not sure if the CM would remember you and say no?

 

[mummabear]

Group: Mom, Dad, DD8, DD4 (tall enough), DD3 (not tall enough), DD0, Grandma, Grandpa

Scenario: We all approach FP line with reserved FP+. It will likely be obvious we are all in the same group. Mom, DD8, DD4, and Grandpa ride. Dad sits out with DD0, gets a rider switch pass. Grandma sits out with DD3 gets another child swap pass.

Seems fair and should work, but I wonder if they'll nix it if they know we are all part of one big group, and Dad and Grandma could ride later with just one pass.

Anyone?

It's not in the spirit of the child swap but you should be able to do it

 

[Schmeck]

Whenever we've had someone in front of us requesting a rider swap, the CM has made sure that people in the group go in the queue right away, be it standby or FP+.