Is this acceptable (re line-ups) ...

[Luv2Roam]

The only time it bothers me, and I make them work at getting past is when there is a group up front and another group decides they should join their friends.
I figure -- guess you have two groups.
One or two -- even three with kids. But when you get into a crowd of teens doing this, then I don't make it easy for them. And if they don't work hard enough at it, they can stay in the back of line like everyone else.
I don't think anyone minds this happening occasionally. But it happens sometimes too many times on one trip. Between that and crowds, heat, humidity and long stands....
I have seen people do this when they had no one to catch up to. They just crowded and lied their way up front.

 

[MAGICinMYHEART]

I think if you have a runner for a FP you should wait for them at the next ride you are going on then go through the line together, the other person would be breaking line as they were off doing something else when the people behind you stood and waited. One or twenty it is still breaking line. Taking children to the bathroon is different.

 

[eeyoregirl]

When I was at Disneyland last summer, line-jumping was an epidemic. My family is pretty big-- mom, dad, sister, 2 brothers, my daughter, and me-- and we take the all-for-one, one-for-all approach. When one of us needs a bathroom break, we all go. The line-jumping that occurred at DL blew my mind. I did call someone on it, too. And when I got that deer-in-the-headlights and shoulder shrug as a response, it upset me a little (ok, a lot). Whole groups would cut ahead of us... never would I deny a mom and child a space in line, but 10 or 20 people? How ridiculous.

Wow, do I feel better....

 

[ChuckGA]

My belief is that you cannot "catch up" to your group in line no matter how few or why if you were not already in line with them before. To me there is a huge difference between
1. Standing in line for 10+ minutes and your child says "I have to go the the bathroom". Then taking them to the bathroom and getting back in with your party.
2. On your way to a ride, one parent takes the kids to the bathroom while the other gets in a long line. 10 minutes later the parent and kids jump up to where the first parent is.

FastPass runners, stroller parkers, etc. are not excused. As a previous poster stated: "All for one and one for all". If you want your party all together then you wait for all of your party before entering the line - PERIOD.

Since this is just about unobtainable I never confront line hoppers except when it is a group of 3+ and it clearly wasn't parent + kids to the bathroom. I also have no problems with a one parent coming up to their spouse with two kids on Dumbo or the rather common "He wants to ride with YOU" being yelled out from the line.

Chuck

 

[beattyfamily]

Originally posted by ChuckGA
I also have no problems with a one parent coming up to their spouse with two kids on Dumbo or the rather common "He wants to ride with YOU" being yelled out from the line.

That would be my family! I'd be with one DD and DH with the other DD and suddenly my 3 year old decides she'd rather ride with DH on Dumbo then go with me to the store or whatever and I usually see how far in he is and if it will effect anyone and then let her go if the people behind my DH don't seem to mind...but I never would go along.

What we do is my DH goes and gets FP while we head to the other ride with the stroller. We are slower than DH. We wait at the entrance to the second ride...we do not go into it. By the time we're ready to go into it, DH is already there!

Some rides, like RnR, it's just about impossible to join a group already in line so that can't always work anyway.

I do not mind when one person or one parent and a small child are catching up. The bathroom one is a good excuse but that's about it. I would NOT put up with a group joining a group. I'd have to say something. So far, we've never had to leave a line for the bathroom run and return. I think that's because we ask our DDs right before the ride and maybe because we go off season and the lines aren't that long. I think if I had to leave a long line for a bathroom run, I'd just forget going back in that line. I'd just feel to guilty. We'll see how it goes in August, my first busy visit.

Do unto others as you'd have done to you.

 

[Feelin' Goofy]

I don't think you should catch up either because of things like FP but can understand a parent getting out of line with SMALL childen for bathroom break.
1 time a middle age man got me ready to get us thrown out because he had to go the bathroom and then thought it was ok to cut to catch up to his family. His family should have waited, this was after a large group of teens had cut line and agraviated everyone.
What if every one did this think how you would feel if a 45 min wait turned out to be 90 min because of this.

 

[Bob NC]

We always wait for everyone before getting into a line.

I don't like anyone walking past me in a line.

We were in a line at WDW and there was a group of about 4 up a few groups ahead of us, about 5 or 6 groups behind us, (at the end of the line), along comes a group of 4 'excuse-me-ers'. They were bypassing everyone saying they were joining their party up ahead. They got as far as me before they were stopped, by me. When they said 'excuse-me', I said "No......why do you think you can pass everyone in line?" Their reply, "We want to join our group up ahead so we can ride together". Everyone around got a kick out of it when I said "How come the group in front never wants to go back in line to ride with their friends?" LOL, they didn't get past me.

 

[wdwdvcdad]

Originally posted by ChuckGA

FastPass runners, stroller parkers, etc. are not excused. As a previous poster stated: "All for one and one for all". If you want your party all together then you wait for all of your party before entering the line - PERIOD.

Chuck

gee, thanks for setting all of us straight, don't know what I was thinking!

 

[wdwdvcdad]

Originally posted by Bob NC
We always wait for everyone before getting into a line.

I don't like anyone walking past me in a line.

We were in a line at WDW and there was a group of about 4 up a few groups ahead of us, about 5 or 6 groups behind us, (at the end of the line), along comes a group of 4 'excuse-me-ers'. They were bypassing everyone saying they were joining their party up ahead. They got as far as me before they were stopped, by me. When they said 'excuse-me', I said "No......why do you think you can pass everyone in line?" Their reply, "We want to join our group up ahead so we can ride together". Everyone around got a kick out of it when I said "How come the group in front never wants to go back in line to ride with their friends?" LOL, they didn't get past me.

I'd get by.

 

[jiminyml]

I think that's a perfect suggestion to make. To very politely say that you'd be glad to let the folks from their party in front of you move back to join them!

If their goal is simply to ride together......how could they refuse!

BRAVO!!

 

[Feelin' Goofy]

wdwdvcdad

What gives you tring to start a fight online? With an attitude like that maybe you should stay home.

 

[Aisling]

wdwdvcdad

What gives you tring to start a fight online? With an attitude like that maybe you should stay home.

ROFL! Where's the fight??

 

[crow11ad]

Well I say let them go. If not then me and my DW might not have been able to ride splash mt in April. This was our first time to the parks and we hit MK and put everything into the lockers. Got in ride for Splash and saw that Big Thunder was right there and thought lets get fast passes. Ooopss all the way back at the lockers. So I ran all the way back through the crowds and got them to run back again through a parade and high school marching bands. Everyone was clapping when they saw me and the guy let me cut through the fast pass line of splash even though I didn't have fast passes for splash to meet up with my dw. So in that case let someone if it's 1 cut through.

 

[MAGICinMYHEART]

How many have this problem we get into line and my southern gentleman steps back because of other pushy guest and we turn around and he is 10 people behind...Happens every trip we use to stand aside let the people pass to wait on him now I just say "Excuse me he is with us."

 

[bajanswife]

and agree with those who say that one person doesn't bother them - wouldn't bother me either. But the all of nothing attitude I'm not so sure about when it relates to one person. Most rides are not one person rides. If our group is four people and we're planning to ride two by two for example, how does it impact anyone else if one of our group joins late? We will still take up the same 2 rows whether our group was 3 or 4! No-one behind us will be affected unless there was perhaps a single rider right behind us who could have sat with one of us. I really don't see a major issue here.

I do see the potential for inconvenience if several people are joining a group up ahead - it really would set everyone else in line back a few minutes, and that is not fair.

 

[wdwdvcdad]

Originally posted by Feelin' Goofy
wdwdvcdad

What gives you tring to start a fight online? With an attitude like that maybe you should stay home.

a) you might want to reread the posts. It was the internet tough guys to whom I was responding that should be the reciptient of your scolding.

b) thanks for the advice, but it appears as though you are picking the fight. myob.

 

[philaround]

I don't have a problem with 1 or 2 catching up with the rest of the family, but watch out in late May and early June for all those junior high groups on 1 day school outings, especially the girls. If they see a few of there group way up in a line they will all try to join them. I had 1 girl try to tell me that they were told to stay in a group by their teacher. I asked her why then 2 girls were alomost all the way at the front and these 6 girls come along a good 1/2 hour after the first 2 got in line. Even so I probalbly would not have said anything if they were just walking thru the line, but they were actually going under the chains.

They did not jump that line that day.

 

[SnackyStacky]

Good grief.

The OP asked for opinions regarding butting in line after getting Fastpasses.

State your opinion and move on. If you have a problem with someone's opinion, take it up with that person via a private message, or I'll have to lock this thread.

It's late, and I'm tired. PLAY NICE!

 

[HollyJoy]

I wouldn't have a problem if it were one person, or even a parent with two children..maybe they had to use the bathroom..ya never know. BUT, I would have a problem with a group of adults or older kids coming into line. Just not acceptable.

 

[Spartan]

I personally don't feel comfortable trying to get past people to catch up. I've made 3 trips with a 3yo, so we have had to get out of line a couple of times, but we just mark it up as part of being a parent, and my wife and I both leave the line. Of course, we always go more in the offseason, so lines are really never that much of an issue. That being said, I've never really had a problem with one person, or an adult with a kid, trying to catch up - just never understood why it's so important to them. I also think it's a little different depending upon the type of ride. With those rides that have a continuously moving line - I think the up front people should stand off to the side and let people move past until their party catches up if they don't want to leave the line. If it's a show or some sort of pre-staging area where everyone is waiting together in a room, then that's a different situation.