What's the longest you've waited for an attraction?

[princessallegra]

Waited 60 mins for Soarin' when it firs opened, and we felt it was totally worth it. Waited probably 60 maybe even 90 for ToT the year that opened, I was in middle school and I was sooo scared! But loved it!

 

[GaBelle]

We waited over 90 minutes for TSM 2 yrs ago. Hubby thought "surely it won't take that long" after the wait time was posted for 55 minutes.
Ugh! Never again!

 

[Princess Disney Mom]

I'm thinking 2 hours is my longest.

 

[Dr Ken]

I rarely wait more than 20 minutes. We travel off-season, use EMH, use Fastpass, and arrive before Rope Drop. So, by 10am we're usually completed the big ticket items. By noon, we usually head back to the resort for a nap. Later in the day we do the fast loading rides.

I too am fascinated by the outrageous wait times I see posted. Time at WDW is too expensive to waste an hour on one attraction.

 

[brymolmom]

Generally speaking - we don't wait in anything more than 30 minutes.

However, we have done LONG waits (for us at least) twice in our many Disney visits.

One was on Rock N Rollercoaster. We were with our friends whom we travel frequently to WDW - so we're all 'experts'. We had just gotten a FP and the standby wait said 40 minutes I believe - and for whatever reason we wanted a break and said 'let's just wait'. So we got in line. Well...after 60 minutes of waiting we were NOT HAPPY, but honestly - you've committed so much of your time to that ride at this point you kind of HAVE to wait it out. I think we ended up waiting about 75 minutes or so. Would NOT have done so had we realized.

Other one was actually in DisneyLand. Toy Story Mania was one that we really wanted to try there - to see if there were any differences from WDW. We went there first thing (just like DHS) and were met by a CM who said the ride was closed and she was telling everyone she had no idea when it would open. So we did some other things and went back an hour or so later - it was open alright - but apparently it had been for awhile - it was about a 60 minute wait. Turns out all 4 of us got in line but dd was not behaving well so I pulled her out of line and only DH and DS rode this. They waited a bit over an hour.

Honestly though for the hundreds of rides we've ridden - the average wait is maybe 18 minutes I would guess, and that's not bad at all.

 

[pepe of ohio]

I rarely wait more than 20 minutes. We travel off-season, use EMH, use Fastpass, and arrive before Rope Drop. So, by 10am we're usually completed the big ticket items. By noon, we usually head back to the resort for a nap. Later in the day we do the fast loading rides.

I too am fascinated by the outrageous wait times I see posted. Time at WDW is too expensive to waste an hour on one attraction.

I agree with this post 100%..... Us to a T, at the rope at opening, thru our favorites and out by 12-1...... Enjoying the resort and pool, pool lunch and beverages and to a park later in the evening....

Not gonna run ourselves ragged, nor stand in a 30 minute line.... Not what our vacations are about.... Also, no crowd predictions, tour plan or dining plan for us.....

 

[nooneshome]

I won't get in a line if the wait is more than 30 or 40 minutes. Once we got into line for Kali and the wait time wasn't much. After about 1.5 hours we finally made it to the front and they shut it down. That was my first experience with Disney Rage.

 

[1stvisit0909]

I'm thinking 2 hours is my longest.

In high school my band was there for magic music days and we waited 3 hrs for splash mountain. We didn't know any better bc we were used to six flags crazy waits.

With the family, longest has been 50 mins for dinosaur, and 60 for ETWB.

 

[Rheinhold]

I waited an hour for Peter Pan with my 3 year old son on my shoulders the whole time! Now that my son is 13 we both agreed 1/2 hour is our limit. If there's something we really want to do that's longer than that, we get a fast pass or come back early another day.

 

[PSUGuy]

Our first WDW trip was the week before Easter the year MK celebrated it's birthday and the castle looked like a cake, whenever that was. We didn't know any bettter, got to MK after rope drop and went straight to Space Mtn where th ewai was 90 mins. We thought that this was the norm. Since then we did 45 mins in Spl Mtn once but now 25 or so mins is our limit. When the standby line gets to that point, we hop to WS.

Bill From PA

 

[shademan]

For us, the longest lines are character meet and greets. I won't ride an attraction with more than a 30 minute wait. With the old system there really was no reason to. Hopefully the new system will be the same way.

But the meet and greets are important to my kids, so I grit my teeth and wait. Fortunately we try to take care of a lot of them with character meals. That helps a lot.

 

[mad madam mim78]

90 minutes for soarin. Fastpasses were gone and that was the only way to ride.

 

[scoutie]

I too am fascinated by the outrageous wait times I see posted. Time at WDW is too expensive to waste an hour on one attraction

I agree. Four hours?! I can't wrap my mind around it.

 

[1stvisit0909]

I agree. Four hours?! I can't wrap my mind around it.

We saw posted wait times of 300 minutes for Soarin' Christmas week.
I cant even imagine. But someone must be in those lines, right?

 

[DOOM1001]

3.5 hours for Splash Mountain on NYE in the mid 90's.

 

[Paula Sedley-Burke]

Interesting thread. I am disabled so have a GAC card so not relevant but wanted to know do you find the wait times accurate? Do you generally time it? I think I would!

 

[Cat0727]

I think the longest we waited 45-50 minutes for Splash, EE, and Soarin'.

 

[graceandhayes]

Waited 50-60 minutes to ride Soarin' our first time. Decided it was not worth more than a 30 minute wait. Waited about 40 minutes for TSM when posted wait was 60 minutes. One of the main reasons I am probably one of the few people looking forward to FP+. HS is a 1/2 day park for us, and I hate getting up early to make RD just for TSM. Generally I would not wait more than 30 minutes in standby which is why I probably would never go during peak seasons.

 

[Tarheel Mom]

We waited 2 hours for TSM on Thanksgiving Day 2011. It was our second HS day and all the fp were gone. Since we had already done our favorites and we had never ridden it before we bit the bullet and got in line ~ never again. If we can't get a fp or the standby line is longer than 30 minutes we won't ride it.

 

[ktlm]

Our longest wait is usually for characters or shows. We won't get in line for a ride posted at more than 60 minutes, and generally we don't even do that. 45 is usually our maxium to get in a stand by line.

Characters are another story. DD's favorite thing is the characters and sometimes that means we have to suck it up and wait. We've had several times we've been stuck waiting over an hour for characters. I've waited an hour before MVMCP started for Belle and Beast in their Christmas clothes and not even near the front of the line at that, so it was at least another 15-20 minutes before we saw them. We were at WDW right about the time the Rapunzel craziness started, so we got in line an hour before they came out and it was another half an hour before we saw them (with the annoying coloring and dance that they used to force before the meet and greet)- so that was an hour and a half wait total. We were lucky, because after that some people were waiting up to 3 hours for them. The fairies were posted at 45 minutes, a couple of years ago and it wound up being an hour and a half wait for them, but DD wasn't going to budge out of that line.

Shows, it is DL where we have the longest waits. We hardly ever wait more than 20 minutes at WDW. People stake out spots for Fantasmic hours in advance at DL, and their version is better than WDW's so we buy the dessert package with reserved seating, but that involves me sitting for about an hour by the podium while DH and DD run around the parks because you have to get in line before a certain time to sign in and select the seats for your party on their seating chart (then you all run around the park awhile before it is time to actually go in the seating area). World of Color at CA is another one. We do the dinner package, but you still have to go stake out a spot about 60 minutes in advance. I'd say both shows are definitely worth it, but it is a bit of a pain.