Our favourite ride at Walt Disney World is Test Track in EPCOT. This is basically a fast car ride round an outdoor track simulating test track conditions. What gets me is the queuing required to get on the ride.

Where possible we also use Disney’s fastpass that allows us to skip to the front of the line. To do this you need to collect tickets from a machine into which you scan your park tickets. This gives you ride tickets for a timed period same time later the same day. We queued to collect these tickets (queue 1), albeit only a very short time.

At our allotted time we entered the the building holding the ride and went straight to the fast pass line (2). We were then released to a queue in front of a set of grey double doors (3). After a wait of 5+ minutes the doors opened and we went into a room showing a video (4). At the end of this a new set of doors opened and we shuffled out onto a single line queue (5) making our way to the ride itself.

All of this probably took no more than half an hour but still consisted of five separate queues. Compare this to those who chose not to go the fast pass route and waited in line. There journey probably lasted the best part of an hour and a half.

I guess you could consider this all to be good management on behalf of WDW and by fragmenting the journey makes it seem a whole lot quicker. I would beg to disagree.

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