Universal baby swap

[tinker-belle]

Hi. We're disney veterans but universal newbies. How does baby swap work, specifically with FJ?
Would all of us be able to do the entire queue in the castle together and dh would wait with my 3 year old at the end of the queue before the ride and we can swap there? Or does he have to wait at the beginning of the queue?
I'm asking because I heard you can spend a half hour exploring the castle itself, and it would be much more time saving if we all can do that together and only have to wait the 4 minutes of the ride instead of 34 minutes for each one of us.
Thanks!

 

[HPMonkey4]

I've never been there either, but from what I've gathered reading posts on here. You get up to the front of the queue, then you tell them that you are doing baby swap. One of you gets on the ride while the other parent waits with the child, then when you get off you go to watch the child and the other parent gets to get on the ride at that point. I don't believe you have to wait through the queue again.

Hopefully someone else answers soon too, but I figured I'd try to help with what I have heard.

 

[damo]

I've never been there either, but from what I've gathered reading posts on here. You get up to the front of the queue, then you tell them that you are doing baby swap. One of you gets on the ride while the other parent waits with the child, then when you get off you go to watch the child and the other parent gets to get on the ride at that point. I don't believe you have to wait through the queue again.

Hopefully someone else answers soon too, but I figured I'd try to help with what I have heard.

This is correct.

 

[zack123]

The entire party enters the regular line together. At almost the end, there is a break in the line. If you have a child who is obviously too small to ride, the TM will probably ask you if you are doing child swap.

From there, they sort people into three lines - child swap, single rider, and and regular line (single rider is a continuation of the single rider line that starts near the castle entrance). The child swap people usually go straight up to where the cars are if it's not too busy, where another attendant will ask who is waiting first, and direct them to the waiting area. The other people get on the ride as soon as a car is available.

When the first group gets back, you swap out, go right to the front of the line again, and the rest of your party can ride.

Little kids may be too short to see it, but adults can see the leaving and returning cars from the child swap waiting room.

 

[tinker-belle]

Thanks so much! Great- so we can all walk through the castle together. Do they allow one or two kids who rode with the 1st adult, ride again with the waiting one, the way they do in disney, so that adult isn't riding alone?

 

[disneybirds]

We just went and I was very impressed with the child swap area. It is an small room with benches and a tv. The four of us walked up to the front of the line and then my husband and youngest daughter headed to the child swap area. I rode the ride with my oldest daughter. I am not sure if she was supposed to, but my oldest daughter got back in line with husband and rode again while I sat with the youngest daughter.

There was also a boy about 7 or 8 that came in while we were waiting. I guess his parent(s) rode the ride and the attendant sat with him while they were on the ride. She was so good and explained the ride to him.

 

[cindianne320]

We had 3 adults and 1 baby. First DH and I rode, then my sister and I rode- so I got to go twice while waiting only once! They have a similar room at Spiderman and Dudley Do-Right.

 

[Anjelica]

The nice benefit of the child swap at FJ is that you don't have to worry about putting your bags in the lockers and can head straight into line. They told us that we needed to put our bags in the lockers before we got in line and we said we were doing child swap (our son is to short to ride) and they told us to head on through the line.

I have to say I am impressed with the child swap areas at Universal Studios more so than Disney's. We used the US child swap at the Mummy, RRR and FJ and all had little waiting rooms with a TV to entertain our son while we waited for Daddy/Mommy and sister to ride the ride.

 

[thumbalyna]

your entire party can ride again, the same was true for Hulk. they were the only rides we used the child swap at.

 

[tinker-belle]

Thank you!!!