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It’s a bizarre little weekend story, but I thought I’d get it out there for anyone currently at the parks. As I’ve reported in the past, and then experienced last week… Disney is greatly overestimating the queue times for their rides. This is despite the parks being relatively crowded. I’m not sure if the overestimation stems from already introducing Lightning Lane formulas into the listings, or if it a public relations maneuver to make the parks seem much more crowded?
An example of the phenomenon is Frozen Ever After. When the ride posts a time of 40 minutes, it seems the actual wait time is somewhere around 20 minutes. The same is true for Soarin’. Pirates of the Caribbean follows the same pattern usually, except its times are often triple what you’ll actually wait. Yet, for unknown reasons, this doesn’t apply to a few rides that legitimately do have very long wait times similar to their listings. An example is Flight of Passage, which usually is well-matched to its displayed wait duration.
What Did Disney World's Average Wait Times Look Like the Week BEFORE Genie+? https://t.co/E3pifyWNcN pic.twitter.com/BDS7IwoXsR
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So for those of you around the parks, or going to the parks soon, it might be wise to ignore some of the wait times for the non-flagship attractions. Unless it is Tres Caballeros in the Mexico pavilion at Epcot… that queue is so convoluted and bad in the pandemic that I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone unless it is a walk-on.
Here at That Park Place, we’ll be monitoring how Genie+ affects the ride wait times, the accuracies, as well as how far it causes lines to extend beyond their intended queues. That’s already a significant problem, even now that social distancing is effectively over at the parks. So stay tuned, and we’ll keep you updated.
