Eliminating wait times with RideMax software (or not?)

kronk's angel · Post by **kronk's angel** » May Tue 30, 2006 12:49 am

Hope this doesn't seem spammy, but I just got this in the popular Internet Tourbus newsletter... I haven't used it before but thought it looks interesting. (We always used those unofficial guides which were sort of helpful, but a fun read regardless.) Has anyone here used/heard of this software?

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RideMax
Audience: Windows users planning
to visit Disneyland or Disney World
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With Disneyland a scant 13.9 miles from my home in beautiful Irvine,
California, I tend to spend WAY too much time inside the gates of the
holy rodent empire. In fact, three Sundays ago I spent an entire day
in Disneyland with my girlfriend and her two nieces. We rode the
Matterhorn [twice], Dumbo the Flying Elephant, Peter Pan's Flight, Mr.
Toad's Wild Ride, Mad Tea Party, Autopia, Space Mountain, Buzz
Lightyear Astro Blasters, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, The Haunted
Mansion [twice], and the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. And
then, at 12:30, we stopped for lunch.

No, you didn't just misread that. We rode 13 rides before lunch! On
a Sunday! In May! In a Disney theme park! How did we do it? Well,
before we left the house, we used a commercial Windows program called
"RideMax." RideMax computed the historical wait times for each of the
rides we selected and then created a printable, minute-by-minute,
ride-by-ride itinerary that routed us around the longest lines We
printed our personalized RideMax itinerary, took it with us to the
park, and then proceeded to completely wear out my girlfriend's two
nieces [who actually fell asleep at lunch.] Our longest wait time was
approximately 10 minutes [Autopia], and on most of the rides we simply
walked on without any wait time at all.

RideMax isn't free, and it only runs on Windows. I normally don't
promote commercial software on our little bus of internet happiness,
but after buying and using the software -- I am a full-paying RideMax
customer and the company has no idea who I am or that I am reviewing
their software in today's post -- I was so impressed with RideMax I
thought you should know about it.

Two versions of RideMax are available, one that covers all of the
theme parks in Orlando's Walt Disney World [US$29.95] and one that
covers the two theme parks in Anaheim's Disneyland Resort [US$26.95.]
Both are available at

http://www.ridemax.com/

Once you download and install the RideMax software on your personal
computer, using the software is relatively easy. In fact, check out
the "How RideMax Works" page at

http://www.ridemax.com/howridemaxworks.php

to see what RideMax looks like and learn how the software uses
historical wait time data to create the optimum itinerary for you, one
that helps you and your family spend more time riding Disney's rides
and less time waiting in Disney's never-ending lines. You then print
your RideMax itinerary and bring it with you to the theme park:

http://www.ridemax.com/sampleplan.php

If you are thinking about spending any time at either Anaheim's
Disneyland Resort or Orlando's Walt Disney World, check out RideMax.
The software isn't free -- it costs between US$25 and $30 depending
on the Disney property you'll be visiting -- but it should help you
avoid Disney's "Infamous Adventure of the Endless Ride Queue."

SpaceyMounty · Post by **SpaceyMounty** » May Tue 30, 2006 3:29 am

That sounds really cool! I am intrigued......

James

AKLRULZ · Post by **AKLRULZ** » May Tue 30, 2006 6:33 am

Very interesting, but it seems a bit too structured for me.

knedeau · Post by **knedeau** » May Tue 30, 2006 8:07 am

Muahahahahaha! This is a Webmaster's dream come true! More stuff to play with online!