“Skip The Line” Strategies A Bit Of A Misnomer

aarthurperry, you make a good point. Often "skip the line" means skipping the line to buy tickets, not necessarily walking right in. The security lines can be longer than the ticket lines in many cases.

The fact that “skip the line” entry tickets do not allow skipping the security line should not surprise anyone. You can’t buy a way to side step security and why on earth woukd that even be possible?

Norma, its just an observation. I've stood in the lines several times, and heard or seen complaints from people expecting to go to the head of the line, a special line, or to cut in front because of having some sort of a pass.

Ah .... I see.

....of course, they weren't Canadians.

"Right now in Italy it seems as if every school across the country is on Field trips. Group after group of hundreds of Italian school kids from 8 to 18 are on the move in the train stations and adding to the lines at important sights."

I spent the first 3 weeks of May 2016 in Italy and had the same experience. Everywhere from the cities to villages of Tuscany. I'm happy these children have the opportunity to do these trips, but I would personally choose not to travel to Italy in May again. It did affect some of our sightseeing.

Yes, May is school field trip time in Italy.

First world problems.

Our last trip to Italy was in late April and all of May. We really enjoyed seeing the various school groups in their matching ball caps wending their way around Ostia Antica. High spirited but very well behaved kids. While on the Funivia up to Orvieto a group of students from Naples engaged us in conversation, wanting to know where we were from etc. They wanted to practice English speaking and we enjoyed trying out our very limited Italian tourist phrases. In Taormina, Sicily there were school choirs performing in the main plaza and they were so good that we spent an hour enjoying their concert. I felt that these experiences gave us a window into typical, seasonal Italian life and would gladly travel again in May to Italy.

Just to clarify, I wasn’t addressing the security line issue at all. That’s a completely separate thing. I was solely referring to the actual ticket lines to get in. I have found the security lines to be fast friendly and efficient. However if people would leave all those little back packs in their rooms they would go a lot faster still. (But that’s for another post)

I am not sure how my post got misconstrued to be about the security lines. Security here is certainly necessary and done very well in my opinion.

My main objective was to just give a heads up to those who may read something into the text in RS books or others who may believe the tag lines used by the Cards themselves to just be aware that so many are getting the cards the lines are at times pretty long...but still much shorter than the regular ones.

About the Kids...yea they are fun and amusing and pretty well behaved for sure. But it is a fact that you will encounter maybe up to a hundred of them in line (or more) at a time. Personally I think we should do more of this field trip thing to our great museums in New York and
Washington for our kids...

Actually trip season, whether school field trip, class exchange programs between countries, visiting Grandma and Grandpa who live in the capital city, or family tripsn begins at Easter break. The museums and other attractions start filling almost overnight. It lets up in November. We’ve run into school groups with prioity entry during fall semester, too.