Child swap at Expedition Everest

[123SA]

Our party --me DH, DD6 45inches and DS4 40 inches too short to ride EE. How does the child swap work at this ride? Thanks

 

[madfordonald]

Just go to the FP return line and tell the CM that you need a childswap pass. They will give you one. You then let whoever is riding first go via standby or FP. After they are done, the person with the Childswap pass with then return to the FP return line and show the CM the pass (it's good for up to 3 people, I believe). They will then let you in to ride while the family that rode before you will now stay with the child.
HTH

 

[mom2my3kids]

We did this in October, it was very easy. You had to take the child with you to the CM and he will give you a FP that will let 3 people back on. So I took my son and waited for my husband and two older children. Then when they rode they came back out, Then I and my two older children went thru the fastpass line and it was a awesome ride.

 

[Josiah]

We just did this a couple weeks ago. What you want is called the Rider Switch Pass, but if you ask for a child swap pass, that'll work, too. They do this all the time.

I was instructed to wait with the little one in the EE gift shop, which is where the ride lets out at the end. Once my two guys got off the ride, we easily found them, and then I rode with my guy while DH waited with our little one. (Note: the ride broke down while we were on it and we had to be 'rescued' by the CMs and led down into the inner sanctum of EE, but that's a different story altogether. We weren't scared. It was cool!)

BTW: We used this same strategy on numerous rides in the parks with never a problem. The one thing that was confusing was in Space Mountain, and the instructions were for us to take a back way exit down a flight of stairs and wait. I just had trouble hearing the instructions because it was noisy. Anyway, we got there, and it was the end of the ride, and we just waited on a bench. When we did the switch, we walked up the same exit we had gone down, and there we were. It was still very easy.

Our DGD is 6 years old, so we wondered if anyone would give us grief in asking for the Rider Switch Pass, but they never did. They handed them out without a word at the head of the line. You get specific instructions from the next CM down the queue.

Have a great time.

Grmammy

 

[beattyfamily]

Our DGD is 6 years old, so we wondered if anyone would give us grief in asking for the Rider Switch Pass, but they never did. They handed them out without a word at the head of the line. You get specific instructions from the next CM down the queue.

Just wanted to mention (for those who have never done this before) that you were very lucky because that was not our experience on several of our trips, including the last one Oct 21 - Oct 29.

For us, they measured my (very afraid of the big rides) 7 year old and if she was tall enough, no rider switch pass was given to us. She would have to wait in the line with us and we could swap at the ride itself OR we would create our own form of child swap with our Fastpasses. We'd just get 4 Fastpasses for those rides and DH & older DD would ride first and then I'd go with older DD. Worked great.

Rider switch passes are really meant for those under the height requirement so it will depend on the CM you ask at each ride on whether they'll give you a rider switch pass with a child that is tall enough to ride. We weren't as lucky as you were.