My wife doesn't like rides!!

[garrman]

We are going for our first trip T-22! My wife doesn't like any of the rides that will jostle her stomach around. I have twins that will be 4 and a half. My question is, do most of the rides seat 3? if they only seat 2, should I just let them sit together and sit behind them?

I'm sure that there are a number of rides that are 2, and a number that are 3, obviously I'm only concerned with the rides that seat 2.

garrman

 

[LuvBaloo]

A number of rides are just a bench, so you and the kids would fit just fine (Pirates). Splash Mountain at WDW can sit 2, so you could put the kids together in front of you (that way you can reach over seat and hold their hands if they want that.
Those are the first 2 that pop in my head. I'm sure somebody else will give a more thorough answer.

 

[SmallWorld71]

A number of rides are just a bench, so you and the kids would fit just fine (Pirates). Splash Mountain at WDW can sit 2, so you could put the kids together in front of you (that way you can reach over seat and hold their hands if they want that.
Those are the first 2 that pop in my head. I'm sure somebody else will give a more thorough answer.

Splash Mountain fits 3 across no problem.
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad fits 3 easily as well.

There are only 3 rides that I can think of that "jostle" you where you can only fit 2 across, Expedition Everest and Rock'n'Roller Coaster. IF your kids are tall enough (44" and 48") and wanted to ride, get fast passes and take one on and then the other. They would not be able to sit alone on these rides. (Children under 7 must ride with an adult.)
The one I am not sure of is Goofy's Barnstormer. I have never tried to put 3 on that one. We just had our oldest sit alone.

 

[brymolmom]

Goofy's Barnstormer can only fit 2. I brought my two little ones alone one time and had to put the older one in front of dd and I - he didn't like riding alone so we only did it once. Maybe you can tell your kids you'll ride it twice - once with each of them?? Or they can ride together.

 

[letsgoagainsoon]

I think on most rides you'll be fine. DH, DS and me ride on almost all the rides that I can think of in the same seat. But, really there aren't too many rides that your wife would get jostled on.

 

[hanutedmansionmomma]

Hi - I don't like rides either, and was a little nervous about going to Disney for the 1st time xmas 08 and having to wait at every exit for the family. I can't even sit in the back seat of a car without feeling oogey.

Was I suprised to find out that many are "attractions" where you literally sit there and look at stuff while a little cart type thing takes you along a track about as fast as an escalator. I'm writing this hoping to reassure your DW that there are really only a few "real" rides, and even they're very tame. There are a lot of wonderful 4d shows where you sit in a theater too.

I hate rides and went on every single thing. Really! They were all tame, maybe with exception of Everest, but I even lived thru that. Where I felt the most sick as in those Star Tours motion simulators - they don't go anywhere, but move around a lot and while you see images on a screen. I just closed my eyes and lived thru it ok.

Hope this helps a little - because if she isn't riding, the exits are not near the entrances on just about everything. It will be a bit of a pain if she's always having to find and wait around at an exit.

Feel free to ask me about any particular ride - I went on just about everything.

 

[Denine]

Hi - I don't like rides either, and was a little nervous about going to Disney for the 1st time xmas 08 and having to wait at every exit for the family. I can't even sit in the back seat of a car without feeling oogey.

Was I suprised to find out that many are "attractions" where you literally sit there and look at stuff while a little cart type thing takes you along a track about as fast as an escalator. I'm writing this hoping to reassure your DW that there are really only a few "real" rides, and even they're very tame. There are a lot of wonderful 4d shows where you sit in a theater too.

I hate rides and went on every single thing. Really! They were all tame, maybe with exception of Everest, but I even lived thru that. Where I felt the most sick as in those Star Tours motion simulators - they don't go anywhere, but move around a lot and while you see images on a screen. I just closed my eyes and lived thru it ok.

Hope this helps a little - because if she isn't riding, the exits are not near the entrances on just about everything. It will be a bit of a pain if she's always having to find and wait around at an exit.

Feel free to ask me about any particular ride - I went on just about everything.

I do the same thing wit the ride simulator. I usually skip it though.

I bring a book with me to the parks and tell DH where I will be and he finds me.

Most of the rides will not jostle though. I just like to sit and read my book in peace and quiet while DH takes DD on Test Track, Star Wars, Mission Space... They can ride as many times as they want and I get to read and people watch.

 

[WantToGoNow]

I would think your wife will be fine on most of the rides that your children are big enough to ride. There are more rides that don't shake you around than rides that do - the only ones that bother me at all are the Teacups, Mission Space, Star Tours, Primevil Hurl (Whirl) and Dinosaur. I would imagine that your 4 y/o's will not be big enough for Expedition Everest or Space Mountain.

 

[Ela1972]

I am like your wife. We have a 9 year old and a 4and a half year old. I was so concerned with keeping the little one in her seat and safe on the rides I didn't notice what was happening to my stomach. I did say I would try the rides once and if there was anything I really didn't like I wouldn't do it again!

the people in front of me however now need hearing aids as I screamed so loud on some rides they must have gone deaf!!

Good luck to you all