Critique my Epcot Strategy please!

[MegMouseketeer]

Ok, we have a trip planned to WDW the last week of September. I am trying to finish up my fastpass requests so I can get them to my travel agent by the beginning of July. There will be 6 of us traveling: Me, my husband, my sister (28), my mom (gets very motion sick and can't ride many rides), and my twin girls (4). I am pretty sure both of my girls will NOT hit the 40" mark before our trip. They are shorties. Anyway, we have a 8:05am PPO breakfast at Akershus. We were hoping to boogie straight over to the A&E Meet after breakfast. Here is where it gets tricky. My husband and sister want to use their Tier 1 FP for Soarin later in the day. Of course, the girls will want to ride FEA that morning and my mom will too since I think it will be easy enough to not make her sick, so I was planning on using their Tier 1 FP on that ride. I know the girls will want me to ride as well. If I get a FP for FEA, when my husband uses his FP for Soarin later, can we do the Rider Swap since the girls are not tall enough to ride and will I be able to ride that as well? I don't want to buck the system, but I really would rather ride Soarin, but I think the kids are going to make me ride FEA. Boo. Thoughts?? Reading on the Rider Swap, I think it is fine, but we have never gone since we have had kids and I am not comfortable actually using it.

 

[wallskm]

Yes that will work. You will just go to the entrance to the soarin line and ask for a rider swap. Sometimes they want to see the kid that's too small to ride (they did with my DS- they actually measured him to see if he was too short!), sometimes they don't. Your husband will get either a paper ticket or a lanyard to exchange for a paper ticket further down the line. Then you can ride the ride any time later (the paper ticket is good for the rest of the month usually).

 

[PabloMax]

If you are going on a weekday in late September, I would think you may well find the lines short enough to handle for everyone to do both, especially if you time it right.