Child swap height restriction?

[steen995]

I just read on another thread that they only do child swaps if your child is under the height limitation? What do they do if your child is just too scared to go on most rides and you want to swap? My 7 yo DS won't even go on POTC, let alone anything actually scary. This will be our first trip with both kids over the height restrictions. Will we not be able to swap? Do you think they'd let us all wait in line together and then switch off at the exit point of the ride? (assuming I can even get him to wait in line for a ride he's too scared to go on...... )

 

[eddieras]

we did swap with my 11 year old! didn't want to do everest. no problems when we did it with him and he's well over the height restrictions!

 

[tjmw2727]

Unfortunately no if the child is tall enough but chooses not to ride they won't give you the rider switch pass. The swap pass is a convenice for a family that can't ride together due to a Disney imposed restriction - to eliminate a double wait. Its only offered on the height restricted rides so switching on POTC wouldn't be an option anyway.

If a child chooses not to ride then you can still "swap" using fast pass, IMHO its just as effective as a rider switch pass except the sibling can't ride twice.

To your second question, Yes! Most of the rides will let you switch at the exit. You would all wait the line together and then one parent and the child who dosen't want to ride would take the chicken exit. Then the second parent can return via the exit to ride after the first parent is done. We did this at RnRc since my youngest dd is tall enough to ride but dosen't want to. They did not let my other dd ride twice so I rode alone. Make sure and ask first as things can vary.

Most times we just switch using FP so the child who dosen't want to ride can do something else with the other parent.

TJ

 

[NJOYURLIFE]

One thing that we do is we will get a fast pass for the child who refuses to ride. Then my son uses his fast pass with my husband and his fast pass. Then when that ride is done, I use my fast pass and my son uses his sisters fast pass. This also protects us in case of the day when we can convince her to just try the ride once. That is actually how we first came to do this. She was suppose to go on the ride with us too so we got her fast pass and then she chickened out on us and we didn't want her fast pass to go to waste.

Lisa

 

[badblackpug]

I am confused about the "child swap." My 5 year old did not meet the height restriction to ride RnR. The CM's at RnR would not let him go through the line. I had to go through with my 10 year old, ride, come out, sit with the 5 year old, while the rest of the family waited in line, rode and came back out. I thought the point was not to make the family go throught the line twice, but we were told the 5 year old couln't even get in line because it was "unsafe."

 

[Schmeck]

I am confused about the "child swap." My 5 year old did not meet the height restriction to ride RnR. The CM's at RnR would not let him go through the line. I had to go through with my 10 year old, ride, come out, sit with the 5 year old, while the rest of the family waited in line, rode and came back out. I thought the point was not to make the family go throught the line twice, but we were told the 5 year old couln't even get in line because it was "unsafe."

Childswap doesn't give front of the line access, but it does allow up to a certain amount of people (3-4?) to get in the FP line without a FP.

Example - family goes up to CM, asks for childswap. Child is measured, found to be too short, family gets a pass for 3-4 people to use FP line without FPs. Now, if the family has FPs already, everyone but the short child and one adult goes in the FP line. Then, after they get off the ride, the adult that hasn't ridden yet, with 2-3 others from the group who want to ride again, present the childswap pass to the CM at the FP line, and they go inthe FP line.

Children under the height requirement are not allowed in the queue because some parents will pitch a fit at the embarkment point that their child should be allowed to ride...

 

[tjmw2727]

We have been using it every trip for the past 10 years, most recently with my neice and nephew. Here is how it has been working for us - most recently in April of 2007.

If you have a child that dosen't meet the height restriction you can use baby swap. The purpose (like the pp) said isn't a head of the line pass but to eliminate a double wait for a family that can't ride together.

The entire party stays together if you have a fp you go to the CM at the fp line if you are riding standby you go to the CM at the standby line. Decide who is going to ride first and ask the CM to babyswap. The CM will give the parent riding 2nd a "rider switch" pass. Its good for a maximum of 3 people to return anytime that day and ride that attraction. You won't get the swtich pass if the child isn't present or measures tall enough to ride.

We usually have dh ride with my dd's and my nephew while I take my neice to do something else. Then later in the day I ride and can take someone with me.

TJ