Is it OK to save a spot in line?

[mousiegirl]

Do you consider it rude to have a few people wait in line, and have the remainder of your party join you later? Particularly if they are able to do so at a convenient point, where they can just duck under the rope, and do not have to shuffle and push their way through?

There are a number of reasons this situation could arise, just wondering what is generally considered to be acceptable.

 

[ses1230]

Imo, unless a little one needs a potty break, everyone should enter - and stay in - the line.

 

[smitch425]

Do you consider it rude to have a few people wait in line, and have the remainder of your party join you later? Particularly if they are able to do so at a convenient point, where they can just duck under the rope, and do not have to shuffle and push their way through?

There are a number of reasons this situation could arise, just wondering what is generally considered to be acceptable.

All party members should enter the line together. There are actually very few lines that would even allow someone to duck under a chain, so that doesn't really work at WDW. Even for a child's potty break, if it occurs before your party enters the line, there is no reason they can't wait for the child and adult to return before entering the queue.

 

[Hannathy]

Rude and unacceptable, 99.9% of the time.

 

[mousiegirl]

Cool.

When people join their party in front of me, it doesn't really bother me because I assume they had some reason...but I wasn't sure what other people thought. Obviously if everyone did it, that would be terrible.

 

[kaligal]

Do you consider it rude to have a few people wait in line, and have the remainder of your party join you later? Particularly if they are able to do so at a convenient point, where they can just duck under the rope, and do not have to shuffle and push their way through?

There are a number of reasons this situation could arise, just wondering what is generally considered to be acceptable.

Yes, it is rude to cut in line.

 

[mesaboy2]

Agree with PPs. Saving a spot in any line defeats the purpose of the line.

 

[mrcarder]

We don't do it for anything that has a snaking line, just because it would be difficult for my kids to catch up and we don't expect to push through anyone.

I do do this often for my wife and little kids where it makes sense, like long M&G waits, especially if it's in the hot sun. Other than this, we wait together unless we have a potty situation.

We also go in the fall, so I suppose the lines are not as bad and other families tend to do what we do and very few blatant line cutters.

 

[minnie mum]

OP, I see from your post count that you are new here. Just to let you know that the subject of saving spots in line and line cutting (different ends of the same spectrum) is a VERY hot button topic. A lot of folks feel that anyone passing other guests in a line to get a spot further up the line is line cutting and that it is wrong. Usually slack will be cut for a parent taking a child out of line for a potty break and then returning. But that's about it.

I feel that other than that, your party should wait outside the line until the whole party is together, and then you should take your place in line. Everyone can wait together and you aren't prolonging the wait of those behind you.

Now buckle up.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

When I worked at Indiana Jones a few years ago we specifically told people that they had to enter the queue together and that saving seats was not permitted. And we did enforce this rule by telling other Guests to fill in all available space in a seating row.

And I had a few Guests complain to managers about this; they told the Guests they would talk to me about it. The discussion was: "Mike you did your job properly; next time you might try to be a little more polite when you enforce the rules".

 

[DOOM1001]

Imo, unless a little one needs a potty break, everyone should enter - and stay in - the line.

I agree,if you're talking about rides I feel the entire group should come in together and wait like everyone else.Shows like Fantasmic where you have people saving seats is probably more tolerated since many people do it but when entering ride lines everyone should be there,like the PP said if a 5 year old needs to go to the bathroom I'd be fine with that.Since I do a lot of the concerts at the America Gardens theatre during the Epcot festivals this issue sometimes also comes up.Many people wait in line hours before the shows and come and go while others save their space in line,this is also fine with me with the exception of the day we were like 8th in line for a David Cassidy concert.In front of us were three guys and this was like the second or third concert of the day,as soon as the previous concert let out the entire David Cassidy fan club which consisted of about 35-40 British women who were seeing the previous show went under the rope as apparently the three men were with them.So we went from being 8th in line to like 50th,we would still get a decent seat so we didn't say nothing but were we OK with this,obviously not.

 

[ilovefh]

You'll find the general consensus around here is that it is not acceptable. Personally, I don't care, within reason. Mom and child wait on line and dad and other child join them, no big deal to me. Mom waits in line and 8 people join her then I'm a bit annoyed.

 

[mousiegirl]

OP, I see from your post count that you are new here. Just to let you know that the subject of saving spots in line and line cutting (different ends of the same spectrum) is a VERY hot button topic. A lot of folks feel that anyone passing other guests in a line to get a spot further up the line is line cutting and that it is wrong. Usually slack will be cut for a parent taking a child out of line for a potty break and then returning. But that's about it.

I feel that other than that, your party should wait outside the line until the whole party is together, and then you should take your place in line. Everyone can wait together and you aren't prolonging the wait of those behind you.

Now buckle up.

Whoops. Didn't mean to be the clueless newb who starts a fire.

 

[ppony]

My thoughts are, if you need to ask, then you know the answer. Yep, rude is a polite word for it.

 

[Mickeyrella]

Do you consider it rude to have a few people wait in line, and have the remainder of your party join you later? Particularly if they are able to do so at a convenient point, where they can just duck under the rope, and do not have to shuffle and push their way through?

There are a number of reasons this situation could arise, just wondering what is generally considered to be acceptable.

No, I don't really mind tbh, sooner or later I will get to the ride, those little things don't really bother me.

 

[cymbaldiva]

Yes, it's rude. My time is just as valuable as anyone elses; if I can wait in line, so can they.


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[CurlyJo224]

Yes, it's rude. My time is just as valuable as anyone elses; if I can wait in line, so can they.


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This!

 

[Kudrah]

I do think it's rude for rides....however, I will say that the last two times we were in MK right at rope drop during EMH, either me or my husband high-tailed it to the Rapunzel meet and greet line and stood there while the rest of our party ran around and got fast passes (this was before the back end of the time window was enforced). I'd do it again, too. The CMs acted like it was pretty much par for that attraction...they asked each person in line how many were in their party. I guess I look at it differently in that case because the attraction wasn't open yet. Pretty tough to get a 5 year old to stand in line for an hour when the line isn't moving at all and all of Fantasyland is beckoning . No one had a problem with it, and most parents were operating the same way...one parent had the kid and the other parent was texting them to come back as soon as it was time to start. I told the CM my husband would be bringing my daughter back when it was time to let the first group in, he went on counting until he reached 30 kids (or however many they actually let in) and put the rope down. That particular meet and greet is unique, I think, just because of how long it takes to get in if you aren't in that first group...and they only count children but adults are allowed in on the sidelines.

 

[klineyqueen]

I didn't realize this was such a bad line. Appreciate the heads up from you. Sorry I can't answer your question, but I did get a take away from your post.

 

[Cyrano]

Whoops. Didn't mean to be the clueless newb who starts a fire.

Welcome to TPAS There is no problem with any new poster asking an innocent question. As helpful posters have pointed out there are some hot button topics where DISers have a divergance of views

However the fire is only every started by the respondants.

This thread has shown that helpful advice can be given.

By the way I concur with the consenus that line etiquette is that the entire party should join the line together. Only if someone has to leave the line e.g. potty break that they can ask others to rejoin