Can you skip the Haunted Mansion Preshow (Stretching Room)??

[ttintagel]

Since the rehab, it as definitely not their policy to let you skip the stretch room.

However, I've heard of a few people getting a sympathetic CM to make an individual exception for them.


So, it's POSSIBLE you may be allowed to, but you certainly can't count on it.

 

[bushdianee]

I have taken a niece to WDW 3x at ages 2, 4, & 6. At 2 she went on HM and was a little scared but nothing major. At 4 she wouldn't go near it! Last month at 6 she made it through the stretching room before wanting out. I tried to tell her that the stretching room was the worst but she didn't buy it, so out we went! She may have been okay if we had been able to skip the stretching room.

 

[CFioren317]

In 2005, pre-rehab I guess, they were kind enough to walk me and my crying 5 year old son to the back-door hallway to the ride about halfway through the stretching. In 2011, they did not even budge as my 4 year old daughter was scared and crying during the stretching. She loved the ride though and cant wait to get back on it this time. But obviously they changed how they handle the screaming kids...seems to me they don't react at all now. Which is fine with me. It isn't that long and she can close her eyes if she gets scared as I hold her anyway.

 

[beansmom]

we took my 5yr old grandson thru the HM lat year and when the lights went out, he was fine. When they came back up, he was missing!!! Finally we looked down at the floor to see him there on his back with his eyes closed and his tongue hanging out of his mouth...I guess it was too much for him.

he's not a 'tuff kid' but he wasn't a bit scared in the HM.

 

[kandb]

When I was there in November, I went into the HM mansion three times and did not stay to see the streching room. In the past, we would go in the handicap entrance and get onto the ride but now the CMs said to just go in the stretching room and walk out the exit. We enter the room, and just walk directly across the room and exit it and then get on the ride. No big deal.

 

[kaligal]

I saw people transferring from wheelchairs last week. They were boarding in the exit area.

The one and only time I did HM with someone in a chair, it was a longer wait than it would have been if she'd been able to walk.

 

[phillymummer]

I hope this is a possibility when I go in Oct. My daughter was freaked out by the stretching room (although the rest was ok) and has said that she never wants to go on it again. It is one of my favorite rides, so maybe I can convince her to go on it if we can skip the stretching room.

 

[SueM in MN]

I saw people transferring from wheelchairs last week. They were boarding in the exit area.

The one and only time I did HM with someone in a chair, it was a longer wait than it would have been if she'd been able to walk.

Before the renovation, guests using wheelchairs and ECVs could not go into the Stretching Room.

Now boarding for gusts ith ECVs and wheelchairs is in the exit area, but guests using wheelchairs go thru the whole line, get to see the Stretching Room.
When the other guests grout of that room to the boarding area, guests with wheelchairs and ECVs enter a hallway that leads to the exit. They wait there for boarding and do wait longer than the guests who simply walk thru to the regular boarding area.

 

[aubriee]

Since the rehab, it as definitely not their policy to let you skip the stretch room.

However, I've heard of a few people getting a sympathetic CM to make an individual exception for them.


So, it's POSSIBLE you may be allowed to, but you certainly can't count on it.

I noticed this was an old thread from 2007. When we were there this past Feb with our 3 y/o GS, we asked to skip the stretching room and was told we could not. We went ahead and did it, with me holding him, and he did fine, but I wish they would have let us skip that part for his sake. He didn't cry or anything, but clung to me like a leech with his fingers digging into me.

 

[ghtx]

When I was there in November, I went into the HM mansion three times and did not stay to see the streching room. In the past, we would go in the handicap entrance and get onto the ride but now the CMs said to just go in the stretching room and walk out the exit. We enter the room, and just walk directly across the room and exit it and then get on the ride. No big deal.

I noticed this was an old thread from 2007. When we were there this past Feb with our 3 y/o GS, we asked to skip the stretching room and was told we could not. We went ahead and did it, with me holding him, and he did fine, but I wish they would have let us skip that part for his sake. He didn't cry or anything, but clung to me like a leech with his fingers digging into me.

Conflicting accounts...

kandb, were you able to skip it because of an accessibility issue (e.g. ECV)? If so, maybe that is the only reason they will let you skip it. A scared/crying kid maybe is insufficient grounds.

 

[aubriee]

Conflicting accounts...

kandb, were you able to skip it because of an accessibility issue (e.g. ECV)? If so, maybe that is the only reason they will let you skip it. A scared/crying kid maybe is insufficient grounds.

It may have also depend on at which point one enters the room. We were in the back of the group of people that entered the stretching room, so getting to that door would have been hard. If the other poster were the first ones into the room, maybe the CM let them go on through. It may have also been who was working that particular day. The CM we asked, simply said if we wanted to ride, we'd have to see the stretching room as the other entrance was for handicapped only. He really wasn't very nice about it either, but I just assumed he was staying in character. My GS was not crying, just a little scared, wanting to be held. He did fine once we got on the ride, but insisted that all three of us sit in one dune buggy with him in the middle. We had planned for him to ride with either me or my husband and the other would ride by themselves in a different dune buggy. He was having none of that and wanted all three of us together.