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When you up to the standby line at an attraction, ask the CM to assist with Child Swap. The CM will give you a special "fastpass" like cards. Part of the party gets in the "fastpass" lane and the rest wait. When they come out you swap, get into the fastpass lane with your card and go on the ride. It is very simple and such a blessing to be able to do this!!!
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You can also use your fastpasses for it. Just go to the FP line CM, with your entire party (they have to see the child and parent staying). The rest can use regular FPs and when they return you and 2 others can use the Parent Swap FP. DD went on lots of rides twice this way!
Works wonders and our older DS was able to ride everything twice once with DH and my dad and once with my mother and I.
Ok...I think you just answered my wuestion but just to clarify...
If DD and Ds can ride a ride but the baby can not they will be able to ride twice? Once with me and once with DH? That's cool! They'll be psyched!
Thanks everyone! I think I have a better understanding of it now. We'll have 3 adults on this trip so I'm sure my DH will be the "kid" that gets to ride everything twice!
Ok...I think you just answered my wuestion but just to clarify...
If DD and Ds can ride a ride but the baby can not they will be able to ride twice? Once with me and once with DH? That's cool! They'll be psyched!
Yes, I believe the pass they give you is good for up to 3 people so you should be fine.
We loved the baby swap/rider swap!! Each ride is a little different -- sometimes your whole family will stay together through the line (Star Tours was this way) and then you just sit off to the side until they are done riding, then it's your turn the second time around. Other times, the people who are riding first will go in while someone waits outside the ride with the little one...then when they come out, you go in through the FP line. (I know Test Track was this way, maybe Soarin', can't remember what else right now.)
I'm trying to remember how it worked with Fast Passes...we walked onto Test Track, so I know that wasn't an issue, but definitely had FP for Soarin'...I think DH just got to go through the Fast Pass line. Not sure where he would have gone if we hadn't had FPs...maybe we wasted a FP? Oh no -- I remember....they took his FP at Soarin' and traded it for a rider swap pass. And then when it was his turn, he went in the FP line.
Yes, some people can ride twice in a row...I don't know what the limit is, as we just had DD. But when we did it, as an example, DH would ride with DD first, then we'd swap and I'd ride with DD the second time while DH stayed with DS. It was not only great so that we could all participate, but it also was great for DD's cries of "Let's ride it again!!" Cause she could!
When you up to the standby line at an attraction, ask the CM to assist with Child Swap. The CM will give you a special "fastpass" like cards. Part of the party gets in the "fastpass" lane and the rest wait. When they come out you swap, get into the fastpass lane with your card and go on the ride. It is very simple and such a blessing to be able to do this!!!
I don't believe you walk into the FastPass line initially -- you walk into the stand-by line and request the baby swap ticket. Once you go through the stand-by line and the attraction, you make the swap of one parent for the other (switching who watches the child.) Then the parent that didn't get to ride used the baby swap "FP" and can enter the FastPass line at that point.
If you have FPs for everyone in the group, then you just use the FP and switch out the baby as makes sense -- using the Baby Swap only if the original "baby watcher" wants people to come with them on their ride.
Am I wrong in thinking this? (We only used it one time and I wasn't really paying much attention.)
Eileen
I don't believe you walk into the FastPass line initially -- you walk into the stand-by line and request the baby swap ticket. Once you go through the stand-by line and the attraction, you make the swap of one parent for the other (switching who watches the child.) Then the parent that didn't get to ride used the baby swap "FP" and can enter the FastPass line at that point.
If you have FPs for everyone in the group, then you just use the FP and switch out the baby as makes sense -- using the Baby Swap only if the original "baby watcher" wants people to come with them on their ride.
Am I wrong in thinking this? (We only used it one time and I wasn't really paying much attention.)
Eileen
Yup your right. Only the second group to go through gets to use the FP line. The first group, when you get the baby swap ticket, waits like everyone else in the stand-by line.
I don't believe you walk into the FastPass line initially -- you walk into the stand-by line and request the baby swap ticket. Once you go through the stand-by line and the attraction, you make the swap of one parent for the other (switching who watches the child.) Then the parent that didn't get to ride used the baby swap "FP" and can enter the FastPass line at that point.
If you have FPs for everyone in the group, then you just use the FP and switch out the baby as makes sense -- using the Baby Swap only if the original "baby watcher" wants people to come with them on their ride.
Am I wrong in thinking this? (We only used it one time and I wasn't really paying much attention.)
Eileen
Thanks! That's pretty much how I understood it. I didn't think you'd automatically get to go through the FP line, but hoping you could the '2nd' time if you had FPs originally.
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