There are many reasons to visit Disney World for the holiday season!
Many families go annually as a tradition, while others come to enjoy the decor, the special entertainment, the food (especially at the EPCOT Festival of the Holidays), and the holiday parties like Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party or the all-new Jollywood Nights event. No matter the reason for your visit, you’re going to want to keep track of one thing — the wait times.
If you’re planning to ride rides in Disney World, it’s good to have some sort of strategy. That’s why you’ll find many people on the AllEars team checking the wait times in the My Disney Experience app at home — yes, we do it for fun!
We also keep track of all the wait times in Disney World. This week, we noticed that wait times decreased at most attractions! Could this be the best week to experience the holidays? We’ll just have to wait and see how this compares to future weeks, but ride wait times were better than the previous week overall.
Take a look below at the average wait times from last week (November 10th-16th) at every attraction!
Magic Kingdom
Here are the average weekly wait times for each ride below, from shortest to longest wait time:
- Hall of Presidents: 4 minutes
- Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse: 5 minutes
- Carousel of Progress: 5 minutes
- Liberty Square Riverboat: 5 minutes
- Tom Sawyer Island: 5 minutes
- Prince Charming Regal Carrousel: 8 minutes
- Mad Tea Party: 10 minutes
- Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover: 11 minutes
- Enchanted Tiki Room: 12 minutes
- Tomorrowland Speedway: 12 minutes
- Magic Carpets of Aladdin: 12 minutes
- Dumbo the Flying Elephant: 13 minutes
- Barnstormer featuring the Great Goofini: 13 minutes
- Country Bear Jamboree: 14 minutes
- Mickey’s PhilharMagic: 14 minutes
- it’s a small world: 18 minutes
- Astro Orbiter: 21 minutes
- Pirates of the Caribbean: 23 minutes
- Big Thunder Mountain Railroad: 24 minutes
- Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: 27 minutes
- Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin: 30 minutes
- Enchanted Tales with Belle: 31 minutes
- Space Mountain: 34 minutes
- Haunted Mansion: 35 minutes
- Jingle Cruise: 49 minutes
- Peter Pan’s Flight: 56 minutes
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Train: 63 minutes
Disney’s Hollywood Studios
Read the list below to see the rest of the Hollywood Studios ride wait times averages, from low to high:
- Muppet Vision 3D: 10 minutes
- Walt Disney Presents: 11 minutes
- Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy: 12 minutes
- Star Tours – The Adventures Continue: 14 minutes
- Alien Swirling Saucers: 27 minutes
- Twilight Zone Tower of Terror: 42 minutes
- Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run: 44 minutes
- Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster featuring Aerosmith: 49 minutes
- Toy Story Mania: 51 minutes
- Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway: 52 minutes
- Rise of the Resistance: 66 minutes
- Slinky Dog Dash: 71 minutes
EPCOT
See the average EPCOT attraction wait times from the week below:
- 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
- Gran Fiesta Tour: 11 minutes
- Living with the Land: 13 minutes
- The Seas with Nemo and Friends: 13 minutes
- Journey into Imagination: 14 minutes
- Spaceship Earth: 17 minutes
- Turtle Talk with Crush: 17 minutes
- Mission: SPACE: 17 minutes
- Soarin’: 37 minutes
- Test Track: 58 minutes
- Frozen Ever After: 73 minutes
- Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure: 76 minutes
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
The average wait times for the rest of Animal Kingdom’s attractions are listed below:
- The Boneyard: 0 minutes
- TriceraTop Spin: 9 minutes
- Kali River Rapids: 11 minutes
- It’s Tough to Be a Bug: 12 minutes
- Dinosaur: 16 minutes
- Expedition Everest: 22 minutes
- Kilimanjaro Safaris: 34 minutes
- Na’vi River Journey: 53 minutes
- Avatar Flight of Passage: 75 minutes
And that’s it for wait time updates at Disney World for now! Stay tuned to AllEars for more updates, and in the meantime, check out one of our newest videos below!
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What is your favorite part of the holiday season in Disney World? Let us know in the comments!
It was pouring rain for 3 days, so the parks were pretty empty. We didn’t let it stop us, but I wouldn’t call it the “ideal” week to visit either. I will say the safari at AK was a highlight, as the animals were all very active.