The lines at Disneyland can negate the family-friendly aspect of this Anaheim, California, theme park, but there are ways to avoid some lines. If you are traveling with small children, you can do something called a "switch off" where one parent stays with a child who is too young to ride; the other parent rides with the older child. After the ride, you switch adults, and the older child gets to ride twice. The Fast Pass works for any Disneyland visitor, but only some attractions use the Fast Pass.
Before you go to the theme park, check the website to see which rides offer the Fast Pass, and decide what you want to ride. The Fast Pass attractions, as of October 2010, are: Autopia, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters, Indiana Jones Adventure, Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin, Space Mountain and Splash Mountain. If you go first to the attraction you most want to ride, you might get a ticket for an early return, and you can ride while you wait for your time.
You can only get one Fast Pass at a time, but if two parents and two kids are at Disneyland together, they can get four passes, and let the kids ride twice. And if the attraction has a single-rider line--Space Mountain, for example--they can ride three times in quick succession.
Before you even use your Disneyland ticket to get a Fast Pass, check the time for your Fast Pass return. You can only have one Fast Pass at a time, so if the attraction has a return time four hours later, you might want to get a different Fast Pass with an earlier return time. After you use that one, you can get a Fast Pass at the attraction with a later time.
