There are a couple of ways to hack long lines for Disney World rides, including purchasing Lightning Lane Multi Pass or Lightning Lane Single Pass, which allows you to bypass long standby lines for shorter Lightning Lanes. However, if you’re visiting Disney World by yourself, there’s also the Single Rider line option, which puts you in a separate line and then fills the ride with single riders so that every ride vehicle is run at capacity.
Everest Single Rider Line
Generally speaking, the single rider line can often save you a LOT of waiting, but we’ve got some bad news about the option at one attraction in Disney’s Animal Kingdom: the single rider line at Expedition Everest will be going away soon.
As of September 21st, the single rider line option at Expedition Everest will go away forever. Now, this news isn’t a HUGE surprise. Back in May, Disney began experimenting with how it loaded the ride. Previously, when you reached the end of the line, Cast Members would assign you a row and then have single riders fill the gap. However, Disney started experimenting with pre-sorting guests in the final section of the queue into even and odd groups, allowing ride vehicles to be loaded more efficiently.
Expedition Everest queue
Disney continued to utilize this system, which meant that fewer single riders were getting called fewer times, and the single rider line began moving slower. We pretty much figured this could eventually mean the end of the single rider line, and it turns out that we were right.
Expedition Everest entrance
Disney shared that the new loading process for Expedition Everest was so successful in lowering wait times that the single rider line no longer offered the experience that Disney World visitors expect from single rider lines. So the single rider line will be removed, as will all single rider signs at the attraction.
Single Rider signs will be removed
However, Disney stresses that the single rider option at other select rides still offers a useful tool to help Cast Members fill the remaining seats in ride vehicles that aren’t occupied by folks using standby lines or Lightning Lanes. So it will remain in place at other attractions.
Single Rider Line at Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure
We’ll keep an eye out for other changes in Disney World, so stay tuned to DFB for more.
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