How useful has single rider been during the recent high crowd times?

[biochemgirl]

Specifically, which attractions did it save a ton of time? Any attractions you advise against using SR?

Our last visit in August 2016, we had some busy days, but nothing compared to what has been happening this past winter and spring! Our favorite SR queues for saving time were RSR and CS at DCA and Matterhorn and Indy at DL. We're ready to try some more!

What about space mountain, SR?

 

[ashley0139]

Specifically, which attractions did it save a ton of time? Any attractions you advise against using SR?

Our last visit in August 2016, we had some busy days, but nothing compared to what has been happening this past winter and spring! Our favorite SR queues for saving time were RSR and CS at DCA and Matterhorn and Indy at DL. We're ready to try some more!

What about space mountain, SR?

Matterhorn is usually the slowest. It can be 10+ minutes between when they need single riders. It's the one I find least useful. Space Mountain does not have single rider.

 

[figment_jii]

In general I think SR is usually beneficial; there have only been rare instances when I think the standby line went faster. It's more of a toss up with FP (I think RSR FP is probably faster than the SRL in general).

I've also found that Matterhorn is one of the most inconsistent SR lines; sometimes I've barely had to wait and other times I've waited more than 30 minutes. My general feeling is that if the SR line is back to the turnstile/entrance to the little covered areas (where the line splits), then you're in for a long wait even with SR (although, it will probably still be shorter than the standby line).

According to Disneyland.com the following attractions have SRL:
California Screamin
Goofy's Sky School
Grizzly River Run
Indy Jones
RSR
Splash Mountain
Matterhorn

 

[tarheelalum]

Splash Mountain is probably the most useful in my experience. RSR can also work out pretty good sometimes.

 

[Robinjay]

Indy is hit or miss too. It usually saves time if the wait is reaching an hour. RSR is usually a great time saver. Standby can be over an hour and single rider 15 minutes or less. For Matterhorn, my experience is similar to those mentioned above but that all could change with the new fastpass and reopening this past week.

I have had good experiences asking what the single rider wait is (approximately) at the entrance, especially for RSR. I have walked on a number of times with over an hour wait for standby!

 

[Mysteryincorp]

We did RSR yesterday. Single rider was 30 minutes and standby was 2 HOURS!

 

[Westcoastwild]

Indy is hit or miss too. It usually saves time if the wait is reaching an hour. RSR is usually a great time saver. Standby can be over an hour and single rider 15 minutes or less. For Matterhorn, my experience is similar to those mentioned above but that all could change with the new fastpass and reopening this past week.

I have had good experiences asking what the single rider wait is (approximately) at the entrance, especially for RSR. I have walked on a number of times with over an hour wait for standby!

I've had the opposite experience with RSR. But it may have been simply bad luck or a technology issue.

Indy and splash are probably the most useful to me, but the question with Indy is always will it break down or will they close single rider. Grizzly is often a walk on for single riders or at least has been for me.
Matterhorn is sometimes long but that doesn't matter much for me, because I ride it once and immediately remember why I don't ever ride more than once. It's not one I enjoy period and it's even worse as a single rider.

It's useful on screaming but only rarely. Screaming does not seem to get super long lines and even stand by is just usually not that bad.

 

[Robinjay]

I've had the opposite experience with RSR. But it may have been simply bad luck or a technology issue.

Indy and splash are probably the most useful to me, but the question with Indy is always will it break down or will they close single rider. Grizzly is often a walk on for single riders or at least has been for me.
Matterhorn is sometimes long but that doesn't matter much for me, because I ride it once and immediately remember why I don't ever ride more than once. It's not one I enjoy period and it's even worse as a single rider.

It's useful on screaming but only rarely. Screaming does not seem to get super long lines and even stand by is just usually not that bad.

I usually ride in the late mornings or early afternoon. Maybe that is why?

I forgot about Screamin. Def not worth single rider. The single rider line is longer than the standby (it at least feels that way) and placement is sporadic. I feel like the Castmembers forget about the line too and as you wait cars with single riders go by. At least that is my experience.

 

[Westcoastwild]

I usually ride in the late mornings or early afternoon. Maybe that is why?

I forgot about Screamin. Def not worth single rider. The single rider line is longer than the standby (it at least feels that way) and placement is sporadic. I feel like the Castmembers forget about the line too and as you wait cars with single riders go by. At least that is my experience.

Yeah, probably it. RSR is usually a late afternoon thing for me, and to be fair, the time I ran into a really, really long line, I'd actually ridden twice that day already. Once with fp, once in standby. and I think it's pretty likely that was a technical issue too because I just remember standing in the line for twice as long as the estimated time and that doesn't seem normal to me. Well..at any rate the experience made an impression!

 

[panthergirl]

I've had great success on Indy and the absolutely WORST experience on Soarin. They kept pulling singles and doubles from the Standby line and ignored single riders. Lesson learned!

 

[ashley0139]

I've had great success on Indy and the absolutely WORST experience on Soarin. They kept pulling singles and doubles from the Standby line and ignored single riders. Lesson learned!

Soarin doesn't have single rider since the refurb anyway.

 

[closetmickey]

Goofy's Sky School has a decent single rider line as well.

 

[Congo Queen]

I was just at Dland last weekend and had excellent experience using single rider on RSR and GRR. On Saturday night about 7pm (after dinner at CCT) we walked over to Carsland and basically walked right onto RSR using single rider line. There were 6 in our group and bam, bam, bam we were on the vehicles immediately. GRR we did single rider on Friday afternoon. It was hot, and standby wait was well over an hour. We waited about 10 min in the single rider line.

 

[panthergirl]

Soarin doesn't have single rider since the refurb anyway.

Makes sense - it really was a waste.

 

[dislaney]

We've really only used single rider on RSR. It worked well this past week, for us, except the day the ride went down, which was understandable.

 

[kristabelle13]

Soarin' doesn't have SR but 7/8 rides, I've been pulled out of line to jump on an earlier flight. So, it saves roughly 10-15 mins.