Longest you have ever waited in line?

[PeculiarMadmoiselle]

Just got back and saw 150 minute wait for Soarin and that got me thinking what is the longest you have waited in line for something you think is worth it?

 

[butterfly71076]

1992, we waited more than 2 hours for Splash Mt.

 

[BudgieMama]

At WDW, our longest wait was about 20 minutes last August to meet Ralph and Vanellope. Other than that, everything else was less than that, and usually less than 10 minutes. We went after a lot of the US schools went back, and used both FP+ well and the Touring Plans Lines app. There were longer queues around of course, but we skipped things to come back later when necessary.

 

[Good Morning Dewdrop]

2 hours 25 minutes for Anna and Elsa when they were in WS . DH got in line at 9 but the meet/ greet didn't start until 11 - met them at 11:25. Well worth the wait (although to be fair DH (and many other dads) did the majority of standing in line.

 

[williamscm3]

About 2 hours for TSMM...it was a cold rainy day at HS and we had nothing else to do

 

[Cyrano]

We do not get in line if the ride shows more than 30 mins. So even in the summer we found this strategy worked for us.

Can't imagine waiting in line for 90/120/240 mins for any ride

 

[prudence64]

90 minutes for TOT, but the sign said 25 when we entered and then the ride went down.

 

[Fastpassminus]

120 minutes for TSMM. It was in 2009 & my first trip as am adult. I was just learning about RD & FP. The line said 45 minutes, but then changed to 120 shortly after we entered.

 

[collcass]

15 min or so.

 

[alvernon90]

DH got in line at 9 but the meet/ greet didn't start until 11 - met them at 11:25. Well worth the wait (although to be fair DH (and many other dads) did the majority of standing in line.

Good lord, count me as a dad who would never ever do something like this. An attraction is not "well worth the wait" if somebody else is doing the waiting. If a kid is unwilling to wait in the line, the kid obviously believes that the reward is not worth the opportunity cost, and therefore it is not "well worth it."

Edit: PP noted below that the DH waited alone in line because the CMs were encouraging one member of a party to stand in line to avoid crowding in the Norway area. That definitely changes the perspective on this story, but this still happens all the time without official sanction and I think the point is the same. All waits (parades, fireworks, shows, food, characters, etc.) are worth it when someone else does the waiting.

 

[ellie05]

Longest wait was 45 min for space mnt the wait time said 15, but the ride went down and it was hard to try to get out of line so we just waited it out. We don't wait more than 30 min.

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

Close to 2 and a half hours to meet Meg and Hades at last year's 24 hour party. I think it was a good plan for us. It got us in line in an out of the way part of the park during the crazy busy hours of midnight to 2 am. So not only did we avoid the wall to wall masses of people, we got to meet 2 very rare, fun characters.

 

[MomofKatie]

We always go during slower times, so we consider anything over 20 minutes a long wait. The longest I recall waiting since I was an adult was November 2013. It was a very slow week, and the standby time was listed at only 25 minutes, but when we got in the FP+ line for Soarin', the ride went down. We ended up sitting in the long hallway right before entering one of the theaters for over an hour. Once we finally got to ride and were exiting, the standby time was posted at 80 minutes.

 

[taythecray]

40min for Rock n Roller Coaster. We wouldn't have done it but we had an hour to kill before Fantasmic.
Also waited 40min for Pirates before but that was my first trip and I was so excited to be there I didn't care XD It was right when they let us in the park at 4 for the Christmas party

 

[alldiz]

50 min 1st time for soarin.

Now I would not wait more than 20-30 for anything
Kerri

 

[Luckybee]

Neither dh and I have enough patience to wait in long lines so like a previous poster 30 min is pretty much our max. and for that much it has to be something we really badly want to do. We did wait that long for Hogswart Express and Gringotts at U. but they were extremely unique.

 

[crazy4wdw]

I happened to be at Epcot Center on the day Test Track opened. I waited about4 hours to be able to say I rode it on its first day of operation. Seems kind of silly now, 16 years later.

 

[sharona]

2008 on our last night we all wanted 1 more ride on Soarin which was the family favorite for our first trip (not counting when I was a child). Posted wait time was 60 minutes and no FP available. We decided we were ok with the hour wait (rookies!). It was more like 90+ minutes and seemed like 3 hours! By the time we got on the kids were obnoxiously tired hungry and cranky. It was a long bus ride back to the resort after that.

 

[karly05]

1 hr 40 min to meet Anna & Elsa in Norway, Feb, 2014, and totally worth it. They were great (I'm pretty sure they were the original Friends of A&E). I was lucky that at that point they started meeting at 9 am; don't think I would have waited the entire morning. 2nd longest wait was 45 min to meet Merida in 2013 (I just missed the cutoff for her first set).

I'm not sure about the longest I've waited for a ride; I know I got in a 30 min standby for Star Tours one afternoon because I wanted another go and had nothing better to do at that point. I don't generally get in a ride stand-by line longer than 30, and seldom that - but I've been going at slower times of year.

 

[DVCcurious]

We go during the summer. If you're not willing to wait in line more than 30 minutes you're only going to ride the train, the riverboat, carousel of progress, go up in the treehouse, watch the Presidents of the US, or see Stitch!

The longest I've waited is about 2 hours for Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, Test Track, Rock N Roller Coaster. You pay a lot of money and you're using your precious vacation time to go to Disney World. I want to ride the good rides and if the lines are long then there's nothing I can do about that. I'd rather wait 120 minutes for Splash Mountain than spend that 120 minutes watching the Presidents and riding the Liberty Bell 3 times each.

I'd love it if July was less crowded. So do me a favor and tell people to stop coming in July!!!

Of course now I have little kids so we don't wait more than 40 minutes because they just can't really handle 2 hour waits.