Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
HEIGHT REQUIREMENTS
A NUMBER OF ATTRACTIONS REQUIRE
children to meet minimum height and age re-
quirements; see chart opposite. If you have children too short or too young to ride,
you have several options, including
switching off
(described). Although the alternat-
ives may resolve some practical and logistical issues, be forewarned that your smaller
children might be resentful of their older (or taller) siblings who qualify to ride. A
mom from Virginia bumped into just such a situation, writing:
You mention height requirements for rides but not the intense sibling jealousy this can
generate. Frontierland was a real problem in that respect. Our very petite 5-year-
old, to her outrage, was stuck hanging around while our 8-year-old went on Splash
Mountain and Big Thunder Mountain with Grandma and Granddad, and the nearby
alternatives weren't helpful (too long a line for rafts to Tom Sawyer Island, etc.). If
we had thought ahead, we would have left the younger kid with one of the grown-ups
for another roller-coaster ride or two and then met up later at a designated point
.
The reader makes a valid point, though in practical terms splitting the group and
meeting up later can be more complicated than she might imagine. If you choose to
split up, ask the Disney greeter at the entrance to the attraction(s) with height require-
ments how long the wait is. Tack 5 minutes for riding onto the anticipated wait, and
then add 5 or so minutes to exit and reach the meeting point for an approximate sense
of how long the younger kids (and their supervising adult) will have to do other stuff.
Our guess is that even with a long line for the rafts, the reader would have had more
than sufficient time to take her daughter to Tom Sawyer Island while the sib rode
Splash Mountain and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad with the grandparents. For sure
she had time to tour the Swiss Family Treehouse in adjacent Adventureland.
Attraction and Ride Restrictions
THE MAGIC KINGDOM
•
The Barnstormer
35" minimum height
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Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
40" minimum height
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Seven Dwarfs Mine Train
38" minimum height
•
Space Mountain
44" minimum height
