Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure is a fun-filled 4D ride in EPCOT.
Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure
The ride is in the France pavilion. As you enter the queue, you get “shrunk” down to rat size. You eventually board the ride on cars shaped like rats like Remy and his family and begin your adventure through Gusto’s restaurant. When we say an adventure, we really mean it! You go for a wild ride dodging carts, mean chefs, and very hot ovens. The ride is a wonderful work of imagineering that involves almost all of your senses. Now, three years after it opened in EPCOT, we’ve noticed a couple of changes!
When Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure opened in EPCOT, it had signs and a separate line area for single riders. However, the line has been used VERY sparingly, if at all, in the three years since the ride opened.
Single Rider Line sign at Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure
When the ride was first opened, it used a Virtual Queue, but that has since gone away, and it now has a standby line and Lightning Lane line only. The standby line is known to get very long throughout the day, so a single-rider line here could be really useful for guests hoping to ride it but don’t want to wait in the regular line. (Single rider lines are never guaranteed to be shorter than the regular standby line, but may often be.)
When the ride first opened in 2021, the left-hand side queue was set up for single riders, but it was eventually changed to the Lightning Lane.
The left line became the Lightning Lane
But now, it appears Disney is officially testing the single-rider line at this ride! You can now enter the Single Rider queue on the left side, the Lightning Lane in the middle, and the Standby line on the right.
The single-rider queue is back on the left side!
When we went through the single-rider line, we only waited about five minutes before we were boarded onto the ride! The standby line was posted at 55 minutes when we hopped in the single-rider queue.
It was practically a walk-on wait!
We talked to a Cast Member who said the single-rider testing is going really well, and they expect it to last. But that isn’t a certainty yet.
The longest part of our very quick wait
Some guests were surprised to see a random, single rider with them in the vehicle, but the other new change helped alleviate that concern! We also spotted new numbers added to the ride vehicles. You are now instructed to line up for a specifically numbered seat when you board the vehicle. This helped riders to clearly see that there are three people per row in the vehicles. So if they have a party of two or four, they can see there are empty spaces available for single riders.
New numbers on the vehicles
Each spot in the vehicle is clearly marked, and this will likely help with any confusion when someone not in your party joins your ride vehicle.
Three riders per row
While the single rider line is currently just being tested and may only be temporary, we’ll be keeping an eye out for it to be made permanent. Both of these changes may make this ride easier and smoother to experience.
For more Disney news, keep following DFB!
Two Game-Changing Updates Announced for EPCOT in 2025
Join the DFB Newsletter to get all the breaking news right in your inbox! Click here to Subscribe!
WE KNOW DISNEY.
YOU CAN, TOO.
Oh boy, planning a Disney trip can be quite the adventure, and we totally get it! But fear not, dear friends, we compiled EVERYTHING you need (and the things to avoid!) to plan the ULTIMATE Disney vacation.
Whether you're a rookie or a seasoned pro, our insider tips and tricks will have you exploring the parks like never before. So come along with us, and get planning your most magical vacation ever!
What do you think about these changes? Let us know in the comments!
Our handy (and portable!) ebook guides make sure you get the best deals and can plan a vacation of a lifetime.
This can’t be true?? They are going to squish a stranger cheek to cheek in there with you now?? OMG
Very cool change! If only the would add Single Rider for Guardians of the Galaxy!!
We were in Epcot Sunday, Nov 17. We tried to get in the single rider lane for Rat. at 9 a.m. and were told by a cast member that it wasn’t open at the time.
They have lost their minds if they think 3 adults will fit on those seats. I’m a larger woman and when my husband is with me we would take up all 3 spots. And when I’m solo I would take up a spot and a half between being larger and because I have to sit a bit sideways to have room for my leg that doesn’t bend easily.
I guess I will have to advocate for myself on this ride if they try to squeeze me with 2 other people. And they never seem to understand me at that ride anyways so it’s going to be a pain to deal with. I hope they use their brains when loading this.
Once I was squeezed into a boat on Navi River Journey with 2 other strangers. I hated it. We were so squeezed in we could barely breath and I couldn’t sit in such a way that my arthritis knee wasn’t hurting. I was in pain for hours afterwards.
I love single ridge but if the lines get long in Single lane, I can see Cast Members putting 3 in a row and thats awfully squishy. 3 adults per row and sitting that close to somebody you don’t know can be awkward……..
I hope it’s still in use when my husband and I are there next month! I can’t ride it, but I am more than willing to wait outside sipping on a glass of Veuve while he does!
It’s going to be interesting to see how this works. It’s going to get cramped in those seats for plus-size guests. Many guests are going to be very unhappy if a stranger is crammed into the seat next to them. I am guessing that the CMs are going to have to get good at eye-balling the queue to see if a car can reasonably hold a third guest.
Good luck trying to squish a third person in there with my hubby and I! 😂
The single rider line at Disneyland Paris always worked well for our family after we rode altogether the first time. In fact, when we went last year, we didn’t realise there wasn’t a single rider line and the rest of the group asked the CM where they should go; the CM pixie dusted my family to the front of the line! Not the same, I know, because they still rode together, but we are looking forward to this option next time!
I agree with CT – I am going with my daughter in December, both being on the plus size side of the coin, it would be very embarrassing if the CM tried to fit another “single rider” in with us and they don’t fit. I really hope the CM’s pay attention.
I agree the comments that the ride vehicles for Remy are not generously sized, so I do hope cast members exercise some discretion.
In response to Kelly, a single rider line on Guardians wouldn’t work that well, as they currently split parties between odd numbers and even numbers when you get near the front of the line, and the “odd” parties get boarded together and fill in the gaps that way. Since I started riding Guardians, I thought that was quite a neat idea, but you can only use it for rides with an even number of seats, so it wouldn’t work for Remy.
Used this a couple of weeks ago. We waited 5 minutes for the ride when the posted wait time was 45 minutes. I have two words – GAME CHANGER!!!!