Updated ride order?

[matsterrocks]

Can someone please provide a new updated order of what order to do the rides for 2024 to make the most of your time in the park. (Ride focused)

 

[drenalin'junkie]

Manta, Pipeline, Penguin, Mako, Kraken, Icebreaker works best for us.
If doing Journey, we stick it between Mako and Kraken.

 

[matsterrocks]

Manta, Pipeline, Penguin, Mako, Kraken, Icebreaker works best for us.
If doing Journey, we stick it between Mako and Kraken.

Just curious why Mako before Kraken?
Also we bought tickets from the Seaworld website do we have to go to a ticket booth to get hard tickets? Also how do we claim our front of the line passes and dinning passes bought online?

 

[drenalin'junkie]

Mako is newer and lines are typically longer.
I really don't know anything about ticketing,sorry.
We are FL residents and always have passes vs tickets.

 

[matsterrocks]

Thank you so much for the info. Do you by any chance have a ride order for Bush Gardens? I haven't found a message board for that park.

 

[steve_rob]

Busch Gardens is quite a circular park by nature; once you've started going in one direction, you can't cut across the park (unless you want to backtrack all the way) so you're probably better off continuing round the circle. Therefore the only real decision is whether you start off going clockwise or counter-clockwise. Clockwise you'll hit Iron Gwazi first, then Sheikra, Tigris and the water rides. Counter-clockwise starts with Cheetah Hunt, a small detour to do the rides in Egypt (Montu, Cobra's Curse) before heading up to the Serengeti area. Both paths will meet up around Kumba and then you'll follow the route back round the other way.

 

[matsterrocks]

Busch Gardens is quite a circular park by nature; once you've started going in one direction, you can't cut across the park (unless you want to backtrack all the way) so you're probably better off continuing round the circle. Therefore the only real decision is whether you start off going clockwise or counter-clockwise. Clockwise you'll hit Iron Gwazi first, then Sheikra, Tigris and the water rides. Counter-clockwise starts with Cheetah Hunt, a small detour to do the rides in Egypt (Montu, Cobra's Curse) before heading up to the Serengeti area. Both paths will meet up around Kumba and then you'll follow the route back round the other way.

We are looking at taking the Bush Gardens transfer from Orlando so will arrive at the park 30 min after opening on Friday Sep 20th. Which direction would you recommend traveling clock or counter clockwise?

 

[steve_rob]

We are looking at taking the Bush Gardens transfer from Orlando so will arrive at the park 30 min after opening on Friday Sep 20th. Which direction would you recommend traveling clock or counter clockwise?

I'd say it depends more on what your priorities are - if you want to do Iron Gwazi, go there first and then follow the route round from there. If you think that's a bit too intense of a ride (I've only ridden it once and that was enough!), then go the other way round and finish there.

While getting there after park opening isn't ideal, it's a weekday in September, so there probably won't be big queues regardless. My last visit was on a Tuesday also in September and I didn't see a wait longer than 15 minutes all day and some rides were even walk-ons.