Saw this come up on that recommended post thing. I have been a solo traveler in the past and will be again. I have also had trips with kid+husband, just kid, extended family, and just my cousin.
FWIW my son and husband, who love caharacters, have had shor and rushed interactions sometimes. And my kid was super-cute when little (still cute, just not little-kid cute). With Disney characters, though, THEY just don't know how to extend the interaction. Over at Universal when DH meets Rogue and Storm, they can talk for 5 minutes. But even with DH's fave Captain Hook there's just not way to extend it.
So really, that's not a solo problem.
YES YES YES YES YES.
(I was that weird cousin for a long LONG time. Still sort of am. Very conflicted.
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If someone is trying to sit next to you on those (not sure about Splash), the people sent into the line behind you have misunderstood completely.
I've heard that excuse too. I don't believe it. Oh wait, I believe it as much as I believe that Jack Sparrow was fired because of soccer moms.
I'm also disappointed. I was generally not in the SR line, but as the boring mom in a party of 3, I was on the alone side. I *loved* having a SR with me!!!
And it's hardly dark, and you have people all around you, and at any second you're going to swirl around and move to some other area, and there are cameras everywhere...
NO, the shared interaction made it AWESOME! Not awkward. "Hi, oh yeah my family is on the other side of the ride vehicle OR I'm having a trip all to myself, so have you ever ridden this before?" It was almost always "no", and so I would give my tips and tricks, and we would laugh and have a GREAT time.