Evening hours at Animal Kingdom....ride times

[skateshome]

Has anyone been following these? We're going back in the end of July and I was looking over the weekend at the ride times and was blown away by how long the lines were. Then I look last night and everything looks like a walk on starting around 8:30 or 9:00.

Anyone been keeping tabs on this over the past week? I know all of this is new but if the lines are really short now during the week I don't expect that would be changing.

 

[SureAsLiz]

Then I look last night and everything looks like a walk on starting around 8:30 or 9:00

Last night the parks were in the midst of a Tropical Storm warning with some pretty intense bouts of wind and rain. It really cant be used as a considering in wait times

 

[skateshome]

Last night the parks were in the midst of a Tropical Storm warning with some pretty intense bouts of wind and rain. It really cant be used as a considering in wait times

Thank you for that info! I'll keep checking it out. I was wondering but didn't think about checking the weather.

 

[SureAsLiz]

Thank you for that info! I'll keep checking it out. I was wondering but didn't think about checking the weather.

I was at both Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom last night, and they were both empty.

With Animal Kingdom, I would also check out the wait times for nights when the show is cancelled (it's already happened several times due to weather) since I would guess that's the main thing keeping people in the park.

I'm sure someone can give a more data based answer, but you probably also want to watch what time you are checking waits as it relates to the show. I would guess they are lower during the 9pm show, and then surges about 9:30 when the crowd lets out - especially at Everest since it's right at the exit.

 

[noblemaidenfair]

Has anyone been following these? We're going back in the end of July and I was looking over the weekend at the ride times and was blown away by how long the lines were. Then I look last night and everything looks like a walk on starting around 8:30 or 9:00.

Anyone been keeping tabs on this over the past week? I know all of this is new but if the lines are really short now during the week I don't expect that would be changing.

DD and I were at AK Friday probably around 5 and had about a 10-15 minute wait to get onto EE in the standby. We were only there to ride that, so I can't speak to the other rides, but we didn't have trouble with huge crowds getting to/from the ride from the front of the park. We took the bus to SSR to walk to Disney Springs, and the bus driver commented that evening seems to be the time to go because it has lower crowds. Hope that helps!

 

[noblemaidenfair]

Also, I should note that the wait time was posted as 25 minutes and like I said, it was 10, 15 max.