Balloons: What do you do with them when on rides?

[Red Sox]

My daughter loves balloons, but if you buy a balloon in Magic Kingdom where do you put it when you hit the rides? We won't have a stroller to tie it to as I'm sure many folks do. Just curious.

 

[sophie_the_pooh]

Maybe you could buy it on your way out?

 

[JasonP]

Maybe you could buy it on your way out?

Sometimes that may be near impossible. I would like to know the answer to this as well as this is the first time that I am going with my own kids and I am NOT the kid. ha!

 

[Tom]

I'm pretty sure they don't allow them on the rides, so I'm guessing people who buy them either tie them to their strollers....or they get them on the way out.

 

[jonabyte]

We made that mistake one year, I ended up tying it to my backpack and leaving it outside by the strollers for each ride we all went on. It was a pain and now just get them on the way out.

 

[Red Sox]

We made that mistake one year, I ended up tying it to my backpack and leaving it outside by the strollers for each ride we all went on. It was a pain and now just get them on the way out.

Thanks! That does sound like a pain.

 

[CAPTAIN HOOK]

We made that mistake one year, I ended up tying it to my backpack

.........and the backpack floated away, never to be seen again

 

[BigHero4]

Never even thought about this... have always had a stroller to tie it to. I'll keep this in mind for when my kids are older. It seems like @jonabyte had the best idea about tying it to a backpack - if you have one.

 

[jonabyte]

.........and the backpack floated away, never to be seen again

LOL, yeah those balloons are pretty strong too. I bet you tie a few them and it would!

 

[The Empress Lilly]

Amateurs.

Me I suck in all the helium from the balloon and blow it back in after the ride.

 

[cdi]

Can any one tell me how much the balloons cost?

 

[habuma]

If you buy a balloon before you get on the ride and have nothing to tie it to while you ride, you really only have one choice...

Sorry...couldn't resist.

 

[TubaGeek]

Can any one tell me how much the balloons cost?

Those balloons are something along the lines of $10. Incredibly, they hold multiple-day-long classes for the CMs that fill them so they're uniform, and not over or underfilled.

The best thing to do with them at rides, though, is to simply ask a CM before you're inside or in the queue. The experienced ones are VERY used to stashing them on a nearby rail or chain, and know how to attach them without tying the string in knot. Just remember that it'll be at the attraction ENTRANCE when you're done; I've seen a great number of them go unclaimed because people forget about them.

 

[Tom]

Can any one tell me how much the balloons cost?

Bout tree fiddy

 

[jonabyte]

Bout tree fiddy

And they last for weeks, even months. We bring them home, driving and they are still as good as new when we get here.

 

[JIMINYCR]

If you buy a balloon before you get on the ride and have nothing to tie it to while you ride, you really only have one choice...

Sorry...couldn't resist.

Just thinking out of the box.... You could slip it under your shirt and then youd fit in with the hundreds of other obese guests. Just have to be careful of pulling down on the lap bar too hard. Ouch!!

 

[graphite1326]

.........and the backpack floated away, never to be seen again

NOW that makes sense. I once found a backpack with a flat balloon tied to it in my front yard.

 

[ksa1314]

Balloons are $10, $12, or $15 depending on which one.

 

[cdi]

If I'm gonna Let it Go, as suggested by habuma, should I get the $10, $ 12 or $ 15? Do they allow you to buy a balloon just to Let it Go?