rider switch dumb questions

[adelew]

And one other point to clarify, even if you show the small child they don't just hand you a pass and let you walk off with it. One of you must enter the line and they then hand the pass to the person waiting outside with the baby.[/QUOTE]

On many of the rides, they give the rider a lanyard with plastic card on it. You then give this lanyard to a second cast member who is close to the area where they load the ride. The second cast member gives you a paper fast pass. This ensures that the first passenger actually waited through the line.

 

[cmorris303]

When we were just there in August, every time they asked to see the child that was too young to ride. They gave us a lanyard to get in line with and we got the paper pass from a CM shortly before we boarded the ride. Each time it allowed 3 people to go back on the ride.

 

[Crusader10hky]

I'm a HUGE fan of Rider Swap since I have an adventurous DD7 and DD2, we use the heck out of it. I'll throw another suggestion out there to cover your situations where someone may not want to ride an attraction that they are actually eligible for: DVC (Disney Vacation Club) Presentation

I know, sounds dumb, you didn't spend all this time planning and all this money to go sit in a presentation for a timeshare, but let me share my experience.

I recently went for a last-minute 2 day trip when I was in the area with my DW and 2DDs and still laid out a whole open-to-close gameplan. I didn't want to waist a second of my precious little time to hang out with a salesperson but it actually saved me time. I scheduled this meeting around 6PM day1. They picked us up from MK (snuck us out by Magic Mountain employee lot) and had us back to that spot nary 1hour later. For my time I received a $100 Disney Gift card (Elena dresses. Boom.) AND 3 USE WHENEVER Fastpasses PER GUEST (including my 2YO...). That meant I didn't have to schedule those Fastpasses. On Day 2, if we happened upon a ride or a meet and greet that had a 19,000 minute wait, we just walked up to the Fastpass CM and said we would like to use a whenever fastpass. Done. We made up the time we lost and then some the first time we used one of those passes.

In your situation, those could be your 'rider swap' Fast-passes so you don't have to pressure your non-riding family member. And while you wait, go blow your gift card on something THEY want

Note: you can still request Rider-Swap with the anytime fast passes in a situation where the non-rider is not tall enough etc. I seriously plan to schedule a DVC meeting every time I go back (I think there's a 1 per 6months limit fyi)