Originally Posted By SlikRick I was DCA a few weeks ago and my family was really tired after a long day in the sun. So, I ended up going to DCA my own that day and thought I would check out how well their single rider system worked. It turns out that it is incredibly amazing when it comes to saving you time. I managed to ride Grizzly River Run (my favorite ride in all of the Disneyland Resort), 6 times in one day and I never had to wait anymore than 3 minutes in the single rider line. The same applies to Californian Screamin, if you single ride, never expect to wait anymore than 5 minutes to ride. I managed to ride this ride 8 times in a day. There was even a brother and a sister there who were competing to see who could ride it the most (both claimed to have gone on it over 25 times that day). So if your ever with your family and theres no young kids in your party, try using single rider, it saves you hours of waiting in line, twice as fast as the fastpass.
Originally Posted By nemopoppins My 6-3/4 year old daughter pretended to be 7 last week and went as a single rider on Mulholland Madness because none of her brothers, sisters (or parents) think it's worth much more than a few minute wait. She was on in a minute and she ended up with a family of three (mom, dad, one child) who treated her like one of the family. Afterwards, the mom even came to me and told me something cute my daughter had said. That one single ride was such a rewarding experience for all concerned.
Originally Posted By ChurroMonster It's good at DCA but it is incredibly useful on Splash Mountain. You know...at the other park.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I waited about 20 minutes over spring break to get on Grizzly. And then the ride stopped for another ten minutes after we got seated, but before we left the actual boarding area. On Screamin' (same day) I waited a little more than 5 minutes and ended up in the front row. On Soarin', I waited through three cycles of the ride before I got seated. Between a combination of good loading and just the types of groups that come, you can have no wait or a very long wait using single riders. I still think it is better than waiting stand-by (especially if you actually are alone), but it isn't always a walk on.
Originally Posted By YourPalEd Single rider does not work well with the california soarin' loading scheme, i agree. You can go through several cycles before going on, which is not as much fun when you are waiting in california soarin's lower hallways. It is more fun waiting in front of the coasters, where you see happy, and unhappy faces. I don't mind standing in line a bit at splash mountain. I love watching those things go up and down the serpentine rubber belts. People are always laughing, and wet, and i love just standing there. But shhhhh don't tell anyone. I prefer people to think they need to rush around from ride to ride, so no one will notice me as i try to relax and stand still for a while. Just imagine if everyone started doing single rider. Why, every seat might be filled and the lines might disappear! Then people might think, ah look no lines on that attraction, it must not be very good. We can not have that. I suggest we clog the lines on all the attractions til they reach florida. That might be a fun phenomenae like, We are the World. Remember where everyone held hands to create a circle around the world. It could be a line of people waiting for a disney attraction, that goes completely around the world. Of course i don't stand in lines, but i might for 5 minutes to say i was part of it.
