Single Rider Line Length

[Eeee-va]

It may be luck, but when I've ridden Indy SR, it seemed to go way faster than FP, probably because the FP line still backs up quite some distance into the cave, while SR gets to cut a lot of that. I definitely think it's worth SRing.

I'll agree with the others that Single Rider on Soarin' isn't so great. We were going FP and ended up with a Single Rider in our row...the CM must have miscounted or something, because either her or her friend assigned to the same area (I forget which) didn't actually have a seat when they went in! Not sure what happened to them.

 

[JimmyJam838]

I used the single rider line last month for California Screamin. You ask the cm by the fastpasses for a single rider pass. Then you go over to the handicapped entrance which leads down to the platform. Most of the time they tell you to take the elevator up and over and back down to the main platform. I've never had to wait more than 5 min total.

I didn't think any attractions in DCA had a seperate handicapped entrance. We've always had to take our ECV through the normal lines, even CS.

 

[damaris13]

Something I just thought of...we'll still be able to swap while doing single rider, right? They won't make me go through stand by or FP if we're swapping... right? I guess we'll ask to make certain when we're there, but it will be helpful to know ahead of time.

 

[ArchOwl]

I didn't think any attractions in DCA had a seperate handicapped entrance. We've always had to take our ECV through the normal lines, even CS.

I think they meant the handicapped exit. The same place where you would take your ECV through to exit the ride is the same place the single riders enter. They have a little line set up there complete with posts and chain.

You are correct that ECVs go through the regular line, but the ECVs exit differently since the exit on Screamin' has stairs.

 

[bumbershoot]

skiingfast, i think that Screamin's single rider is way to the "left" of the FP & Standby lines (i would ask a CM when the OP gets there....it's hard to find). A person has to enter thru a gate, take an elevator up, walk across & down the stairs to the loading.

The way they work that line varies. Now I'll admit we haven't been there in awhile, but when I've done the SR line there, we just load from the other side.

The time hubby did the SR line, they waited and waited on the opposite side, then that area was filling up, so they were loaded into the elevators and came down to the "corral", where they were thoroughly ignored for a LONG time. The CM doing the seating seemed to despise the SR group.

What made it so much worse was that then the opposite side started filling up again with *brand new people*, and the seating CM started calling riders from THAT group, ignoring the group in the corral who had been waiting and waiting! It was AWFUL for DH. And for me (I was with DS who was snoozing, and I was just waiting and watching and getting an ulcer watching the seating-CM ignore the people who had been waiting and waiting).

But hubby's experience was NOT the norm; there was something wrong with that CM that day.

I would NOT use the Soarin' single rider line. It could take forever for a single spot to open up since it's more of an auditorium ride and they can load in so many people, and who knows how many cycles you might have to wait! We asked the CM at the entrance, and she said it could take anywhere from 5 minutes or the entire wait of the standby line (which was 50 minutes at that point)!

I actually don't mind the Soarin' SR line, but I totally recognize that it is all up to the specific people in the FP and standby lines. If the numbers all work out and they don't have single seats, then they just don't have it. I find that part of it is a mental game...I've passed by the standby line SO quickly that I get excited that I'll get on quickly, but then you're made to wait once you're deep in the building, and that feels like it's longer than it was. In my experience.

Everyone keeps telling me to not do SR for Soarin', but that's one that Ridemax has available. I plug it in SR, and it says I have time for it in the parameters I've given about (15 minutes coming in around 5 p.m.). Take out SR, and I don't have time.

I really don't think you should totally put your trust in that; the wait for single line, as I mentioned above, is TOTALLY up to the specific groups at Soarin' and how they happen to be at the time. If there are 10 seats in a row, and the groups of people in standby/FP just happen to keep on making up 10 people, the wait will be longer. If groups are odd numbers, then you'll get on quicker (OK unless there are groups of 1 in there that keep taking the empty spot LOL).

Something I just thought of...we'll still be able to swap while doing single rider, right? They won't make me go through stand by or FP if we're swapping... right? I guess we'll ask to make certain when we're there, but it will be helpful to know ahead of time.

If you're both going to do the SR line, there's no need for child swap (rider switch). The two systems aren't compatible nor do they need to be.

Child swap is where one person waits in the line (either FP if you have a FP or standby), then you swap, and the second person doesn't have to wait in that full line again. If you're on a ride with a SR line, you don't do that process.

 

[cgh]

The way they work that line varies. Now I'll admit we haven't been there in awhile, but when I've done the SR line there, we just load from the other side.

If you're both going to do the SR line, there's no need for child swap (rider switch). The two systems aren't compatible nor do they need to be.

Child swap is where one person waits in the line (either FP if you have a FP or standby), then you swap, and the second person doesn't have to wait in that full line again. If you're on a ride with a SR line, you don't do that process.

This confuses me -as do pretty much all the options. Is 'child swap' different then just the mom and dad switching places?

If DH and I want to ride a ride that our DS can't go on- and we both go through the singles line-DH will hop on the ride, then I must wait for him to return before I can go, then he takes over with DS. (so in my head we are "child swapping'

Is 'child swap' different? Does only one parent stand in line then give the other parent a ticket who is otherwise doing something else with DS so that that parent could head to the front of the line? Or does the whole family wait in the line, then you switch? If that's the case, can we do that in the single rider line? Or only the standby line? How about in the fastpass line?