The weather is cooling down, the Halloween decorations are out, and crowds are high — yep, it’s definitely October!
In addition to visiting EPCOT’s Food & Wine Festival, you might be a lucky ticketholder for Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party. But what about ride wait times? We’ve put together all the average wait times in Disney World from the past week — so you know exactly what you’ll be getting into for an October visit!
If standing in long lines all day doesn’t sound like your cup of tea, we totally get it — but that doesn’t mean you should have to skip your favorite rides! Genie+ is a new option for Disney World visitors, costing between $15 to $22 per person, per day. It’s kind of like the previous FastPass+ program, except it’ll cost you now.
A Genie+ purchase lets you use Lightning Lanes instead of standby lines, which typically cut your wait time down drastically. We suggest paying attention to your favorite ride wait times — are they low? High? Let’s go over the average weekly times for Disney World rides this past week!
Magic Kingdom
In Magic Kingdom, Haunted Mansion averaged 42 minutes (the same average wait time from last week), Peter Pan’s Flight averaged 51 minutes (versus its average of 52 minutes last week), and Seven Dwarfs Mine Train averaged 57 minutes (two minutes down from last week’s average of 59 minutes).
Below you can see the average weekly wait times for each ride, from shortest to longest wait time.
- Enchanted Tiki Room: 0 minutes
- Hall of Presidents: 0 minutes
- Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse: 0 minutes
- Tom Sawyer Island: 0 minutes
- Country Bear Jamboree: 0 minutes
- Carousel of Progress: 4 minutes
- Liberty Square Riverboat: 5 minutes
- Prince Charming Regal Carrousel: 11 minutes
- Mad Tea Party: 11 minutes
- Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover: 11 minutes
- Dumbo the Flying Elephant: 13 minutes
- Barnstormer featuring the Great Goofini: 13 minutes
- Tomorrowland Speedway: 12 minutes
- Mickey’s PhilharMagic: 14 minutes
- Magic Carpets of Aladdin: 15 minutes
- it’s a small world: 16 minutes
- Under the Sea – Journey of the Little Mermaid: 17 minutes
- Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: 24 minutes
- Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin: 26 minutes
- Astro Orbiter: 26 minutes
- Big Thunder Mountain Railroad: 29 minutes
- Pirates of the Caribbean: 29 minutes
- Splash Mountain: 30 minutes
- Space Mountain: 32 minutes
- Jungle Cruise: 41 minutes
- Haunted Mansion: 42 minutes
- Peter Pan’s Flight: 51 minutes
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Train: 57 minutes
It seems like wait times are slightly down in Magic Kingdom this week, but how do the rest of the parks compare?
Disney’s Hollywood Studios
In Hollywood Studios, Rise of the Resistance had an average wait time of 104 minutes this week (an increase from last week’s 100-minute average), while Slinky Dog Dash had a wait time of 96 minutes (down from the 99-minute average last week), and Tower of Terror averaged 78 minutes (a BIG increase from last week’s 56-minute average).
See what the rest of the Hollywood Studios ride wait times averaged below, from low to high:
- Muppet Vision 3D: 10 minutes
- Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy: 14 minutes
- Walt Disney Presents: 16 minutes
- Star Tours – The Adventures Continue: 20 minutes
- Alien Swirling Saucers: 35 minutes
- Toy Story Mania: 62 minutes
- Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway: 63 minutes
- Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster featuring Aerosmith: 63 minutes
- Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run: 66 minutes
- Twilight Zone Tower of Terror: 78 minutes
- Slinky Dog Dash: 96 minutes
- Rise of the Resistance: 104 minutes
Hollywood Studios typically has some of the highest ride wait times (7 rides averaged over an hour!) and this week doesn’t seem to have any significant wait time decreases.
EPCOT
Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure had the highest average wait time in EPCOT at 85 minutes (slightly down from last week’s 94-minute average). Frozen Ever After had the second-highest average wait time at 76 minutes (down from the 83-minute average from last week), followed by Test Track at 64 minutes (also down from last week’s 74-minute decrease).
Take a look below for the average EPCOT attraction wait times from the week:
- Beauty and the Beast Sing-Along: 0 minutes
- Pixar Short Film Festival: 0 minutes
- Impressions de France: 0 minutes
- Reflections of China: 0 minutes
- Awesome Planet: 0 minutes
- The Seas with Nemo and Friends: 13 minutes
- Gran Fiesta Tour: 13 minutes
- Turtle Talk with Crush: 13 minutes
- Journey into Imagination: 13 minutes
- Living with the Land: 16 minutes
- Spaceship Earth: 19 minutes
- Mission: SPACE: 23 minutes
- Soarin’: 43 minutes
- Test Track: 64 minutes
- Frozen Ever After: 76 minutes
- Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure: 85 minutes
Wait times overall went slightly down in EPCOT, although you can still likely expect to wait an hour or more for rides like Test Track, Frozen Ever After, and Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure.
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Not surprisingly, Flight of Passage had the longest average wait times at Animal Kingdom, coming in at around 103 minutes (which is slightly lower than last week’s average of 120 minutes). Next up Na’vi River Journey averaged around 71 minutes (it was 76 last week), and Kilimanjaro Safaris averaged 58 minutes (which was 68 minutes last week).
The average wait times for the rest of Animal Kingdom’s attractions were as follows:
- Gorilla Falls Exploration Trail: 0 minutes
- The Boneyard: 0 minutes
- TriceraTop Spin: 6 minutes
- It’s Tough to Be a Bug: 9 minutes
- Dinosaur: 27 minutes
- Kali River Rapids: 30 minutes
- Expedition Everest: 32 minutes
- Kilimanjaro Safaris: 58 minutes
- Na’vi River Journey: 71 minutes
- Avatar Flight of Passage: 103 minutes
Overall, wait times decreased in Animal Kingdom, although Flight of Passage still holds the award for the longest wait time.
So that was all the average wait times for the previous week in Disney World! If your favorite rides have LONG wait times and you’d prefer not to spend all your time waiting in line, you might want to consider buying Genie+. Otherwise, make sure you budget your time so you can fit in everything you want to do!
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