Child Swap Card?

[smsnorthup]

Are they different at DL? I've done them at WDW and they are at every ride with a height restriction. What do I need to know about these at DL. We will have our DD6 who rides everything and our DS6months. Load me up with info please...

 

[dmked]

It's just a paper card. You get it from a CM that is standing closest where you get in line, whatever rides your kids can't ride on go ask for it then one parent and wait with the kids while the other rides. When the parent that rides gets back you just swap and the one that stayed off can go on the ride taking one other person (if you have one) back to the ride. They are quite simple and the CM will explain them if you are confused at all!

 

[Dizneydaz]

Correct, it's as dmked said. One thing, I have had several CMs ask to see the "baby" child before they'll give you the swap card. Just in case someone gets one so they can ride twice with little wait.

 

[ORMom2Four]

Here's a difference I noticed.

The last time we were at Disneyworld (2004), the person who waited out for the swap (the person going second) could bring two other people with them.

At Disneyland, they only allow one other person.

One more thing...there are some rides where it does not save very much wait time for the 2nd person. Especially with the Indy ride. That fastpass que is not much shorter than the standby because they merge the que before you get in the cave area.

You might also be able to take advantage of single rider lines on rides like CA Screamin' if your 6 yo is not tall enough. Much quicker than baby swap or fastpass!

 

[Dizneydaz]

Here's a difference I noticed.

One more thing...there are some rides where it does not save very much wait time for the 2nd person. Especially with the Indy ride. That fastpass que is not much shorter than the standby because they merge the que before you get in the cave area.

I was able to use a child switch pass on Indy by going through the exit. A few weeks ago DD and I were there and the FP machine messed up on her tix. I told the CM at the line entrance and he gave me a child swap card to use instead. But he did point out that at that time, the FP line was the same as standby line.

 

[bumbershoot]

I was able to use a child switch pass on Indy by going through the exit. A few weeks ago DD and I were there and the FP machine messed up on her tix. I told the CM at the line entrance and he gave me a child swap card to use instead. But he did point out that at that time, the FP line was the same as standby line.

When we used the rider switch at Indy, we went through the exit, but it met up with the regular line just before the film room, where the FP line meets up as well.

And since that room is the reason FPs for Indy don't help unless standby is an hour or so, it didn't help with rider switch either!

 

[Dukland]

Correct, it's as dmked said. One thing, I have had several CMs ask to see the "baby" child before they'll give you the swap card. Just in case someone gets one so they can ride twice with little wait.

I've never had anyone ask to see the baby. Wouldn't that defeat the purpose, a little? Because I would hate for the baby to wait in a line that he doesn't get to ride on. He would not be happy! Last time we had just 2 kids, with 1 too young. This time, we have 2 big kids. So, we will have 1 parent take 1 big kid on the ride, while the other parent takes the baby and the other big kid on another ride. Then switch! It's fun to see how many times we can get through the Pooh ride while the other half of the family is riding Splash.

 

[bumbershoot]

I've never had anyone ask to see the baby. Wouldn't that defeat the purpose, a little? Because I would hate for the baby to wait in a line that he doesn't get to ride on. He would not be happy! Last time we had just 2 kids, with 1 too young. This time, we have 2 big kids. So, we will have 1 parent take 1 big kid on the ride, while the other parent takes the baby and the other big kid on another ride. Then switch! It's fun to see how many times we can get through the Pooh ride while the other half of the family is riding Splash.

The CM out at the front of the line is the one who has the passes; you don't have to wait in the whole line.

For us it hasn't been difficult (and actually we don't do the swap anymore, b/c it's really boring for our son to sit there and think about what he can't go on or won't go on, so we just use FPs or single rider lines) b/c we go at quieter times, so even if we were just sitting over to the side of outside of Indy's line (for example), the ones riding could just point at us and we'd wave. We didn't even have to stand in line for a minute. Same with Space...there was never a line *before* the first CM who had the passes, so we just went up to that CM and snagged the swap pass.

But my info might be out of date, since we don't use it anymore.

 

[avalon451]

I don't know if anybody else has experienced this, but when we did baby swap on Indy, the family ahead of us was doing the same thing. We had DD5 who was plenty tall enough but didn't want to ride, a bit too scary for her. The family ahead of us had a toddler, though, below height restriction. The CM explained to them that they would have to do their own baby swap outside the queue, because they were not allowed to let children go through the queue who were below the height restricton, due to safety rules in the queue (? not sure what those were). This is the only ride we were on where kids under the height restriction couldn't go with the queue with you.

We, however, were allowed to take DD5 through the queue with us, which worked out fine. One of us was directed to wait near the exit area of the loading room. We sat down on a convenient stone niche in the tunnel, relaxed and chatted with DD until the other parent came out, then went back to the area where the CM took us out of line, handed him the baby swap card, and got back in with DD10 who loved the ride.

 

[Dizneydaz]

The CM out at the front of the line is the one who has the passes; you don't have to wait in the whole line.

For us it hasn't been difficult (and actually we don't do the swap anymore, b/c it's really boring for our son to sit there and think about what he can't go on or won't go on, so we just use FPs or single rider lines) b/c we go at quieter times, so even if we were just sitting over to the side of outside of Indy's line (for example), the ones riding could just point at us and we'd wave. We didn't even have to stand in line for a minute. Same with Space...there was never a line *before* the first CM who had the passes, so we just went up to that CM and snagged the swap pass.

But my info might be out of date, since we don't use it anymore.

No, this is still the way it's done. It's the CM at the entrance to the line that gives it to you. It's also the CM at the entrance to Screamin' that gives you a single rider pass (the only ride that requires one that I know of)

 

[ORMom2Four]

When we used the rider switch at Indy, we went through the exit, but it met up with the regular line just before the film room, where the FP line meets up as well.

And since that room is the reason FPs for Indy don't help unless standby is an hour or so, it didn't help with rider switch either!

When we were there in May, they combined the fastpass line with the regular line right at the entrance to the cave. It saved no more than 5 minutes off the wait (and the wait was about 45 min at one point). Is that normal??? It was frustrating to waste a fastpass on it.

 

[bumbershoot]

When we were there in May, they combined the fastpass line with the regular line right at the entrance to the cave. It saved no more than 5 minutes off the wait (and the wait was about 45 min at one point). Is that normal??? It was frustrating to waste a fastpass on it.

By the cave, do you mean where the rope saying "do not pull" is, before you enter the room to watch Mr Rhys-Davies in the safety film?

If we're talking about the same thing, I was told that it was b/c everyone had to watch the safety film (yeah, 'cuz you can understand what he's saying when everyone's talking in that echoey area), and that's why the lines met up there.

If there's a big line outside, snaking around the area that you can see from JC, I can see relying on a FP for a shorter ride. If not, I don't expect a shorter line, or I don't use the FP and just enjoy the line!

 

[bumbershoot]

avalon451, I haven't been on ANY ride where a too small child is allowed in the line (or rather, the true part of the line, not the line that leads up to that person). It's why the swap passes were created!

The CM standing at the measuring stick at Indy has always been the person who gives out the swap passes. A too small child isn't allowed any further.

At Space Mountain I think it was the person up the ramp monitoring the line and the FP line. We've just gone up the ramp NOT in line, gotten a swap pass, and the first rider(s) go back down and get in line while the others do whatever they are going to do.

Dizneydaz I wish I knew or remembered about the other SR lines! I wanted to use it on Grizzly recently, but since the stand by line was only 5 minutes, it wasn't open (go figure). I did the single line on Splash but it was late and I was tired, so I don't remember if there was a pass.

I like getting the pass for Screamin'. I feel like I'm making the CMs day, b/c so few people seem to know about it (or will split up their group). I feel like I'm getting a mental high-5 from them. Then again, hubby had a BAD experience with Screamin' single rider line on the 29th, where the line got too long, so they took all the singles, put them on the elevator on that side of the loading platform, sent it up, then they shuffled over the tracks, got in the other elevator, and went down to a holding pen. It was obviously done b/c the single rider line was getting too crowded, and seemed to be a great idea, BUT the CM on the other side (the normal loading side) IGNORED THEM! The people who came into the SR line well after hubby and his "group" were getting on right and left while the normal loader CM refused to look at them or seat them. They finally had to call him over and ask what was going on before he did anything. It was kinda rotten!

 

[smsnorthup]

Can you get the swap card from the CM at the fast pass entrance or only with the CM at the stand-by entrance?