Single Rider explanation?

[COscrapper]

At our local amusement park, when you get to the loading area of a rollercoaster, the attendant just lets a certain amount of people through and then you go and pick out spaces for the cars and try and count to see if you are going to end up on the same ride. This is not the case with Disney at all. It's very structured. They only queue up one or two trains at a time.

You might want to go to YouTube and go through videos of Disney coasters, like Big Thunder Mountain. The videographer may have grabbed the queue so you can see how it works.

Yes, that is exactly what I was picturing. In my amusement park experience, when we get in line for a ride, we all just hope we will get to sit together (usually not a problem, but you never know). Kinda nice that it will be guaranteed at Disney.

I think I understand it better now - thanks! I am trying to figure out how to approach RnR Coaster...my younger son is too short, so not sure if we should use a precious fastpass, or try single rider - can you still do rider swap with single rider? There are other things we would like to use the FP on as a group, so not sure if we should use it for RnR if it has single rider...or just suck it up and do standby...

 

[SaintsManiac]

Yes, that is exactly what I was picturing. In my amusement park experience, when we get in line for a ride, we all just hope we will get to sit together (usually not a problem, but you never know). Kinda nice that it will be guaranteed at Disney.

I think I understand it better now - thanks! I am trying to figure out how to approach RnR Coaster...my younger son is too short, so not sure if we should use a precious fastpass, or try single rider - can you still do rider swap with single rider? There are other things we would like to use the FP on as a group, so not sure if we should use it for RnR if it has single rider...or just suck it up and do standby...

We did RnR at RD and used the child swap option. There wasn't really a line that early anyway and I was in the first group. When my husband went to ride it was really quick with the swap lanyard.

 

[DopeyDame]

Yes, that is exactly what I was picturing. In my amusement park experience, when we get in line for a ride, we all just hope we will get to sit together (usually not a problem, but you never know). Kinda nice that it will be guaranteed at Disney.

I think I understand it better now - thanks! I am trying to figure out how to approach RnR Coaster...my younger son is too short, so not sure if we should use a precious fastpass, or try single rider - can you still do rider swap with single rider? There are other things we would like to use the FP on as a group, so not sure if we should use it for RnR if it has single rider...or just suck it up and do standby...

You can definitely do child swap with the single rider line, although if it's just the three of you, it might not really buy you much compared to just both doing the single rider line.

 

[bumbershoot]

So...does that mean if my family is not in the single rider line, we automatically get to ride together? I guess I was confused because most amusement parks I've been to do that all the time, without having a "single rider line". If a car isn't full, they just call out something like "we have one seat here" or whatever, and then if anyone wants it, they just step up. Aternatively, if I want to ride with my family of four but a car pulls up with only say, 2 seats, I would just let the group behind us go first. I've never seen a seperate line for it before.

So for rides that do not have a single rider line, the CM's just run the ride with empty seats here and there? Seems like they would want to fill the cars (or boats, etc.) as much as possible, no? I just figured they'd be filling every seat every time.

What rides are you thinking about?

When they just pull from the main line (and that's for most rides at WDW), there aren't a lot of people paying much attention. IMO it holds things up. SR lines are awesome IMO.

though Kali River Rapids is getting a test for it.

Fabulous.

can you still do rider swap with single rider?

You can definitely do child swap with the single rider line

What would be the point, though? You can only expect to ride alone with SR, so part of the benefit of swap is gone (that you can take another person or two with the one that waited first).


Plus, the longest SR line I've encountered (when things are running correctly) is RnRC. That line can be bewilderingly long. I'd rather just snag a FP for it and do swap and be done with that.

 

[DopeyDame]

What would be the point, though? You can only expect to ride alone with SR, so part of the benefit of swap is gone (that you can take another person or two with the one that waited first).


Plus, the longest SR line I've encountered (when things are running correctly) is RnRC. That line can be bewilderingly long. I'd rather just snag a FP for it and do swap and be done with that.

That's why I specifically said it wouldn't buy her much if it's just the three people (two adults and a baby). But since there is a "younger son" I'm assuming there's also an "older son" and two parents. So you could send the first person through the single rider line, get the swap, and then the other two get to go through the fastpass line using the child swap. So no one waits in the standby line and you don't use any fastpasses.
I know people here have frequently said that the RnRC single rider line isn't worth it, but that just really depends on the crowds that day - in my experience it's been faster than standby unless standby is unusually short.

 

[shh]

If you really want to design your own car for single rider go through the gift shop and to the exit games. There is an area to design a car in that area. Design a car and it gets assigned to your MB or admissions ticket. Then you can use your designed car in single rider.

I never knew this....thanks for posting. I always ride alone because my husband can't tolerate the jerky motion of these rides. I've always wondered what the "design your car" part of the attraction was like, but had to miss out.

So I assume you design the car and it asks you to scan your band? Then when it's your turn in the single riders line, it automatically matches you up to that car design? That would be so cool. But how does that affect the other people waiting in line to design their car if I go to the exit and use that machine - am I cutting in front of them? Or are their stations in a different area? And when they pair me up with another person as 2 single riders, whose car is used?

 

[wilkeliza]

I never knew this....thanks for posting. I always ride alone because my husband can't tolerate the jerky motion of these rides. I've always wondered what the "design your car" part of the attraction was like, but had to miss out.

So I assume you design the car and it asks you to scan your band? Then when it's your turn in the single riders line, it automatically matches you up to that car design? That would be so cool. But how does that affect the other people waiting in line to design their car if I go to the exit and use that machine - am I cutting in front of them? Or are their stations in a different area? And when they pair me up with another person as 2 single riders, whose car is used?

It is a separate set of design kiosk at the exit of the attraction. Most people don't even stop there. You do not use the ones in the regular queue. You tap your magicband or admissions card to start the design process. When you are done it is linked to whatever you tapped at the beginning. When you get to the attraction you tap your magicband or admission card to the reader at the load platform. A single test track ride vehicle can have up to 6 custom cars "testing" as there is one reader for each rider.

 

[HelenParr]

Yes, that is exactly what I was picturing. In my amusement park experience, when we get in line for a ride, we all just hope we will get to sit together (usually not a problem, but you never know). Kinda nice that it will be guaranteed at Disney.

I think I understand it better now - thanks! I am trying to figure out how to approach RnR Coaster...my younger son is too short, so not sure if we should use a precious fastpass, or try single rider - can you still do rider swap with single rider? There are other things we would like to use the FP on as a group, so not sure if we should use it for RnR if it has single rider...or just suck it up and do standby...

Single Rider lines on Everest and Test Track are highly effecitve, and can cut your wait time substantially. RnR is a whole different story. Other than first thing in the day, the Single Rider line at RnR can be longer than the stand by line. Not sure why, but it happens (often).

 

[RafikiTiki21]

Note that when doing Single Rider, you do not get to pick your seat-- so if you have your heart set on riding in the front, it may not happen.

I have mixed experience with this, some CMs letting me get the front when I ask/if it makes sense with the rest of guests in the regular queue set-up, but most enforcing the (now I know its a rule) rule.

If you're only riding once, and really want the front row, don't risk Single Rider lines.

 

[mikeyg1479]

I'll just add that I wholeheartedly recommend the single rider lines if you don't mean being seated on your own. I walked right past a 50 minute wait for EE my last trip- was hopping in a car in less than 5 minutes, no joke. you literally walked right into the train boarding area and they seated you (because inevitably there is a party of three and they can fill you right in- crazy. Similar experience for RnRR and TT which took maybe 10-15 mins tops on busy days.

 

[maxiesmom]

I want to make sure you are aware that if someone in your family is too short, they won't be allowed in the line at all.

 

[OrangeCountyCommuter]

And if you really want to see a CM mad at you, show up and announce that you and your kid in the single rider line have to ride together. She actually sent them all the way back out. She was nice, but firm about it (This was a EE)