Single Rider lines

[KaptainK]

Which rides have single rider lines and which are your favorite to use it on? Is it a good strategy to use it in combination with rider swap? For example, go up to ride with 2 small kids, get rider swap pass, have DH ride in single rider line, then go myself with the pass? If a ride has both fastpass and single rider, which might be faster?

 

[Robo]

1. Which rides have single rider lines and which are your favorite to use it on?

2. Is it a good strategy to use it in combination with rider swap?

For example, go up to ride with 2 small kids, get rider swap pass, have DH ride in single rider line, then go myself with the pass?

3. If a ride has both fastpass and single rider, which might be faster?

1. Only 3, total.
Test Track-Epcot,
Rock'n'nRollerCoaster-DHS,
Expedition Everest-DAK.

2. If you can make it work and that's a situation you'd like to try.
Seems a bit complex, but, hey.

3. That actually can change depending on the attraction, under varying conditions, even throughout the same day.

 

[BJC15]

Test track single rider is consistently good. The 3x3 seating makes for lots of empty seats to fill with single riders.

Everest tends to be quite good also, seems like few people use it.

Rock n Roller coaster is hit or miss. You still have to deal with the standby/FP merge area and attend the pre-show, so this slows things down a bit. It is my experience that it works best if the posted standby wait is 30 minutes or less. Once it jumps higher than that more people choose to split up an go the single rider route, making the line significantly longer.

 

[AquaDame]

Rock n Roller coaster is hit or miss. You still have to deal with the standby/FP merge area and attend the pre-show, so this slows things down a bit. It is my experience that it works best if the posted standby wait is 30 minutes or less. Once it jumps higher than that more people choose to split up an go the single rider route, making the line significantly longer.

This. Both times we've tried it at 45+ we have waited over an hour in the single rider line.

 

[GeorgiaHoo]

Everest is our favorite single rider line. Never waited more than 10 minutes single rider on that ride. Test Track can have long lines (20+ minutes easily) and as others mentioned Rock n Roller Coaster is really hit or miss.

 

[KaptainK]

Thank! I'm glad I asked. I will use it for EE for sure, maybe TT and not RnRC (not decided if we will do DHS anyway, seems like a park in transistion right now).

 

[msp2mco]

I have found that the single-rider line on RnRC is most effective in the morning. It seems people want to go together the first time through, but after their first ride on it, they are willing to split up. Then it can become much longer than the stand by. Also, it really depends on the CM loading the ride too. TT and Everest are always good for single rider lines.

 

[Squirlz]

I did single rider RnR yesterday because my Wife had a headache and didn't feel like riding. Posted Standby was 55 minutes. I waited about 40. I was the ONLY single party in the line. It was all families and couples. Most of them got to ride together just because they had to make the line move along. I wanted to duck the chain into the standby line because that was the only line that was moving.

They say you WILL be separated but enough people have learned that that is only about a 40% chance so they clog up the "single rider" lane for those that could really use it.

 

[GoBearsGo]

Single rider on Everest is great. My wife and son ride it 8 times in a row in the summer mid day with less than a 5 min wait. I can only ride it twice then I'm done.

 

[matth9081]

I'm in agreement with single-rider at Everest since so few people tend to know about it. The entrance is somewhat hidden and located past the stand-by/FP+ entrances so many don't even go that far.
My favorite single-rider is at Test Track since it doesn't make you design a car like stand-by & FP+. I used FP+ at Test Track and didn't like that I had to waste time creating a car. I just enjoy the ride itself.

WDW could learn from DL where many more attractions have single-rider including Soarin' & Splash Mountain, just to name two duplicates.

 

[Radiorox]

Unless I am with my fam and their 19,000 kids, we go Single Rider on Test Track. The most I've waited was about 30 min but, standby was about 60 mins. So I think that was fair.

You don't get to really create your car (they have the computers but, you get a generic one) but, after doing that a few times, it gets old. I just wanna ride! I really take advantage of single rider in the morning and when Epcot has EMH Evenings.

 

[FLchick415]

Test Track and EE are both great for single rider. EE's single rider line is not really as noticeable as the other two, so I think a lot of people miss it if they don't know to look for it.

 

[disprincess2213]

DH and I will be doing child swap for sure on many rides....can you use the single rider line for child swaP?

 

[Robo]

DH and I will be doing child swap for sure on many rides....can you use the single rider line for child swaP?

Nope.

 

[KaptainK]

Nope.

I'm confused then. I thought you could get a rider swap using the single rider line. That was one of my initial questions above.

 

[disneyworlddreaming]

I'm confused then. I thought you could get a rider swap using the single rider line. That was one of my initial questions above.

You get to go in the fast pass line!
HTH

 

[richmo]

Unless I am with my fam and their 19,000 kids, we go Single Rider on Test Track. The most I've waited was about 30 min but, standby was about 60 mins. So I think that was fair.

You don't get to really create your car (they have the computers but, you get a generic one) but, after doing that a few times, it gets old. I just wanna ride! I really take advantage of single rider in the morning and when Epcot has EMH Evenings.

True, but what you can do is create your new car AFTER you've ridden. There's three design computers on the right side after you exit the ride and before the show room. You can do a full design, then use it the next time in the single rider line (just don't do anything with the generic design stations). One time I used a design made several months earlier.

 

[KaptainK]

You get to go in the fast pass line!
HTH

But what about the first rider, can they go in the single rider line and I get a rider swap pass while I wait with the kids?

 

[bumbershoot]

They say you WILL be separated but enough people have learned that that is only about a 40% chance so they clog up the "single rider" lane for those that could really use it.

I can't speak for the people you were around, but there's nothin wrong with a group using the at line as long as they are ok with splitting up. Glad the sr line was shorter than standby at least.

I'm confused then. I thought you could get a rider swap using the single rider line. That was one of my initial questions above.

When I read robo's reply I got the feeling that he was saying it could be used in conjunction, combining the two through the day. There's no reason to use a swap pass if you are just two adults wanting to ride and there's a single rider line. Just use the sr line for each of you.

 

[estherhead]

We did RnR single rider this week and had great success. 60 min line and we waited about 10 minutes.