VB - Tap on to 'Ride Now' rides?

[Badger66]

Hi,

Apologies for what I imagine is a daft question: I'm good at coming up with bizarre 'what-if' scenarios.

I'm off to Volcano Bay in a couple of weeks for the first time. I've been reading about the Tapu system.

I understand that you can only be in one virtual queue at a time - that's fine. My question is around 'Ride Now' rides.

If I am already in a virtual queue, and I see a 'Ride Now' ride, do I just walk on (no tap)? Or, do I have to tap on the 'Ride Now' screen (to 'prove' it was Ride Now when i entered the physical line), in which case because it is Ride Now my other virtual queue is safe?

Apologies for the silly question, but I couldn't find a consistent answer when I looked on line. Any help greatly appreciated!

[YLL]

Ha ha - the simplest answer is usually the correct one. No tap needed.

[guinness_79]

we were made to tap in on ride now rides last time we went ... apparently thats how they analyse queues!

[grant_w]

The only rides we tapped into were ones where we were in the virtual queue for, not for Ride Now ones

[orlandoamber]

We go to VB a lot when we are in Orlando. 80% of the time they ask you to tap for ride now rides (it doesn’t affect rides you’re in a queue for as far as I know, but to be honest we use extra morning hours usually and don’t particularly need the virtual queue system so I can’t be 100%). I think it depends on the worker at that ride at the time, but I do think they’re supposed to get you to do it to monitor queues.

[Badger66]

Thanks to all who replied

It looks like it can vary day to day, but in general, you do tap on to 'Ride Now' rides.

Cheers all!