Patent ID: 7532941

Claim:
A method of managing access to an attraction in an entertainment environment, comprising: establishing a first physical queue by which one or more patrons may access the attraction in a first-in first-out order; establishing a second physical queue filled by patrons by which one or more patrons may access said attraction in a first-in first-out manner which avoids the first queue; receiving from a patron a priority request for an allocation of a return time, the priority request being received at a computer that determines return times for the second queue; transmitting to the patron a response that includes at least one return time to enter the second queue, the return time being dynamically determined by the computer from a plurality of factors such that other patrons may also be provided with the return time to the second queue; and permitting the patron to access the attraction via the second queue at a time indicated by the return time in preference to patrons in the first queue if the patron is present at the second queue at or after the return time.