Be Warned: Wait Times Are INCREASING for Some of Disney World’s Most Popular Rides

It’s that time of year, folks. Disney World is getting BUSY.

From Halloween festivities like Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party to EPCOT’s Food & Wine Festival to the overall cooler Florida weather (sometimes ? ), October can be a popular time to visit Disney World. And that can equal some high wait times. So that you know exactly what you’re getting into, we’ve compiled all the average wait times in Disney World from the last week!

Before we check out the wait times (some of which increased pretty significantly from the previous week!), we wanted to make sure you know your options with rides.

Genie+ is the new paid replacement for FastPass+, and now through the end of October, it’ll cost you anywhere between $15 to $22 per person, per day — depending on the day. Prices for the future can vary, however.

Paying for Genie+ gets you one day of access to attraction Lightning Lanes, which are typically faster than the usual standby line. When you read through the average wait times listed below, we recommend noting your favorite rides. That way you can see how long average wait times are for that ride and better decide if Genie+ will be necessary or worth it for you.

Magic Kingdom

Let’s start with Magic Kingdom. This week the Jungle Cruise averaged a 42-minute wait (down from the 45-minute average from last week), Peter Pan’s Flight averaged 52 minutes (slightly down from the 53-minute average last week), and Seven Dwarfs Mine Train averaged 59 minutes (slightly UP from the 55-minute wait last week).

Here’s a look at the average weekly wait times for each ride from the shortest to the 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: 4 minutes
• Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover: 10 minutes
• Prince Charming Regal Carrousel: 11 minutes
• Mad Tea Party: 12 minutes
• Barnstormer featuring the Great Goofini: 14 minutes
• Tomorrowland Speedway: 14 minutes
• Dumbo the Flying Elephant: 15 minutes
• Mickey’s PhilharMagic: 15 minutes
• Magic Carpets of Aladdin: 16 minutes
• Under the Sea – Journey of the Little Mermaid: 16 minutes
• it’s a small world: 18 minutes
• Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: 24 minutes
• Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin: 27 minutes
• Astro Orbiter: 27 minutes
• Big Thunder Mountain Railroad: 29 minutes
• Pirates of the Caribbean: 30 minutes
• Space Mountain: 36 minutes
• Splash Mountain: 38 minutes
• Haunted Mansion: 42 minutes
• Jungle Cruise: 42 minutes
• Peter Pan’s Flight: 52 minutes
• Seven Dwarfs Mine Train: 59 minutes

Ultimately, no ride in Magic Kingdom averaged over an hour in terms of wait times for this past week — not too bad!

Disney’s Hollywood Studios

In Hollywood Studios, Rise of the Resistance had an average wait time of 100 minutes this week (UP from the 90-minute average of last week), while Slinky Dog Dash had an average of 99 minutes (UP from the 86-minute average last week), and Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster had an average of 66 minutes (UP from the 54-minute wait time last week).

Check out the average weekly wait times for each ride in Hollywood Studios, from the shortest to the longest wait time, below:

• Muppet Vision 3D: 10 minutes
• Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy: 14 minutes
• Walt Disney Presents: 17 minutes
• Star Tours – The Adventures Continue: 18 minutes
• Alien Swirling Saucers: 40 minutes
• Twilight Zone Tower of Terror: 56 minutes
• Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run: 60 minutes
• Toy Story Mania: 63 minutes
• Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway: 65 minutes
• Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster featuring Aerosmith: 66 minutes
• Slinky Dog Dash: 99 minutes
• Rise of the Resistance: 100 minutes

In this park, 6 rides had a wait time of an hour or more in terms of the average for the week. Be prepared to do a bit more waiting here!

EPCOT

Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure had the highest average wait time in EPCOT at 94 minutes (this is a pretty big jump from last week when the average was 67 minutes). Then, we had Frozen Ever After at 83 minutes (a jump from the 68-minute average of last week) and Test Track at 74 minutes (another big jump from the 56-minute average of last week).

Take a look at the average ride wait times below from the week to see how long you should expect to wait for some of your favorite rides:

• 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: 16 minutes
• Turtle Talk with Crush: 18 minutes
• The Seas with Nemo and Friends: 20 minutes
• Living with the Land: 20 minutes
• Journey into Imagination: 22 minutes
• Spaceship Earth: 25 minutes
• Mission: SPACE: 30 minutes
• Soarin’: 52 minutes
• Test Track: 74 minutes
• Frozen Ever After: 83 minutes
• Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure: 94 minutes

The top 3 rides here really moved up in terms of average wait times, so take that into account when planning your day.

Disney’s Animal Kingdom

And unsurprisingly Flight of Passage had the longest average wait time at Animal Kingdom, coming in at a whopping average of 120 minutes (another big increase from last week, where the average was 73 minutes). Then, Na’vi River Journey averaged around 76 minutes (again an increase — last week that number was 60 minutes), and Kilimanjaro Safaris at 68 minutes (another big jump from the 46-minute average seen last week).

Check out the average wait times from this week in Animal Kingdom:

• Gorilla Falls Exploration Trail: 0 minutes
• The Boneyard: 0 minutes
• It’s Tough to Be a Bug: 15 minutes
• TriceraTop Spin: 18 minutes
• Dinosaur: 35 minutes
• Expedition Everest: 39 minutes
• Kali River Rapids: 50 minutes
• Kilimanjaro Safaris: 68 minutes
• Na’vi River Journey: 76 minutes
• Avatar Flight of Passage: 120 minutes

Again, there were some significant jumps here in terms of average wait times.

So that’s all the average wait times for the previous week in Disney World! Several average wait times went UP so be sure to allot a little extra time in your plans if you’ll be thinking of waiting in the standby line for these. Or consider utilizing Genie+ to SKIP those long lines.

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