Waits for rides.....

[MOQ3424]

Have you ever noticed that the wait for lines aren't always as long as they say it is.

We were at Epcot and we just got off Test Track and we wanted to ride it again. So we asked the guy and he said 90 minutes! But since the only thing they like in Epcot is Test Track we decided to wait. We walked in and we were like wheres the line? But instead of 90 minutes we walked right on.

Also,
when we were in MK they said the same thing. But we walked right on!

So if that's ever happened to you I want to hear your stories!


THANX

 

[Horizons16]

Hmm

If it was a sign then i wouldnt mind too much... it may be broken or not been changed... but a cast member?

Somebody needs some wake-up juice jimmy!

 

[pfc123]

90 minutes and it's a walk on? now thats screwing up. but i think they are taught to over estimate because it yields the best results. think about....

they tell you 60 minutes and its only 40 then you are happy!

they tell you 30 mminutes and its 60... you are fuming!

the negative side to this is scaring potential riders who don't want to wait 60 minutes. however, true fans of disney like myself will wait so more for me. jk!!

 

[anne60]

I found that the fast pass attractions had their waits inflated by a lot, especially early in the day, perhaps to encourage you to use the FP. Haunted Mansion was listed at 50 minutes and we were in the stretch room in under 10 minutes. T of T was listed at 70 minutes and we were in the TV room in about 20. I now no longer believe any of the FP waits before 11 a.m. I have only waited longer than the advertised time twice: once for Dumbo (wait said 30, and we waited 35, close enough) and once for the living seas (about 15 minutes longer than they said). I have found that non-fastpass attractions are pretty accurate, maybe 5-10 minutes LESS than posted, usually.

 

[tjkraz]

When we visited in January, WDW had started using an automated system of setting wait times on FastPass attractions. CMs at the gate would hand a key card to a rider every few minutes. The card would then be swiped through a reader by another CM when the rider reached the end of the queue. The card would then track the exact time it took to make it from the beginning to end of the queue, and update the standby time accordingly.

I'm not sure how recently this system was installed, but I thought I read an article indicating it was fairly recent.

Unless they have some sort of built-in buffer time, this system should be very successful in tracking the standby time if use properly.