Walt Disney World Wait Times for Third Week of November 2024

Happy Thanksgiving Week to my American friends! To everyone else, enjoy a lovely non-holiday week.

Here in the United States, fans are flocking to the theme parks as the holiday approaches.

However, the week before Thanksgiving isn’t generally that busy, at least not historically.

How were the crowds this past week? Here are Walt Disney World’s wait times for the third week of November 2024.

Disney’s Animal Kingdom

Tree of Life

I’ve got friends at the park right now. They divided their stay such that part of it was before Thanksgiving Week.

In exchanging texts today, they’ve joked that things looked a LOT different a couple of days ago, which is to be expected.

Animal Kingdom

Many fans wait until Saturday or Sunday before Thanksgiving Week to travel to Disney.

For this reason, I’d expect a modest week at Animal Kingdom now, followed by an extremely busy one next week.

Am I right? Here are the park’s average wait times last week:

• Avatar Flight of Passage – 59 minutes, down 5
• Na’vi River Journey – 50 minutes, down 6
• Kilimanjaro Safaris – 39 minutes, down 8
• Adventurers Outpost – 32 minutes, down 7
• Expedition Everest – 20 minutes, down 10
• DINOSAUR – 15 minutes, down 9
• It’s Tough to Be a Bug! – 10 minutes, no change
• Kali River Rapids – 9 minutes, down 8
• TriceraTop Spin – 8 minutes, down 2

Overall, guests stood in line for an average of 27 minutes, which is six full minutes lower than last time.

So, Walt Disney World crowds may have been waaaaay down last week, unless Animal Kingdom is just an outlier.

Disney’s Hollywood Studios

Hollywood Studios

Here’s the park where all the action occurred last week, and it had nothing to do with the crowds.

Disney confirmed our worst fears in revealing that Monstropolis will take over Muppets Courtyard.

Jim Henson and the cast of Muppet*Vision 3D. Photo: Disney

In the process, Muppet*Vision 3D must die, which is a brutal loss to anyone familiar with Muppets history.

This attraction proved the final time that Jim Henson voiced Kermit the Frog. So, it matters.

Muppet*Vision 3D

Disney has indicated that it’ll try to find a new home for Muppet*Vision 3D in some form, but we don’t know what this is yet.

Also, Disney isn’t always the best at keeping its theme park promises. Let’s hope the company does here.

Photo: Steven Diaz

Anyway, here are the average wait times at Hollywood Studios last week:

• Slinky Dog Dash – 79 minutes, no change
• Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance – 65 minutes, down 2
• Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway – 44 minutes, down 11
• Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith – 41 minutes, down 14
• Toy Story Mania – 40 minutes, down 4
• Red Carpet Dreams – 37 minutes, down 3
• Twilight Zone Tower of Terror – 35 minutes, down 3
• Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run – 34 minutes, down 15
• Alien Swirling Saucers – 28 minutes, down 6
• Celebrity Spotlight – 15 minutes, down 4
• Muppet*Vision 3D – 10 minutes, no change
• Star Tours – The Adventures Continue! – 9 minutes, down 9

Overall, Hollywood Studios guests waited for an average of 33 minutes per attraction, which is four minutes less than last time.

EPCOT

The EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival officially closed on Saturday, November 23^rd.

So, six of the seven dates we’ll discuss featured the festival. Only Sunday’s data doesn’t.

Notably, there isn’t much of a festival gap at the park, as the EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays begins on Friday.

That’s another reason why EPCOT crowds will soar later in the week as guests discover the new festival offerings.

As usual, MickeyBlog will offer comprehensive coverage of all the new booths, food, beverages, and merchandise.

But that’s a conversation for Friday. For now, here are EPCOT’s average wait times last week.

• Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure – 53 minutes, down 9
• Frozen Ever After – 51 minutes, down 7
• Royal Sommerhus – 36 minutes, down 6
• Soarin’ Around the World – 34 minutes, down 11
• Meet Mickey & Friends – 26 minutes, down 2
• Mission: SPACE – 20 minutes, down 1
• Living with the Land – 19 minutes, down 7
• Turtle Talk with Crush – 18 minutes, down 1
• Spaceship Earth – 16 minutes, down 6
• The Seas with Nemo & Friends – 15 minutes, down 11
• Journey into Imagination with Figment – 14 minutes, down 2
• Gran Fiesta Tour Starring the Three Caballeros – 11 minutes, down 5

Photo: Disney

Overall, EPCOT continued the trend of sharp declines. Attractions here required an average wait of 26 minutes, six less than last time.

Magic Kingdom

Finally, here are Magic Kingdom’s average wait times last week:

• Tron Lightcycle / Run – 91 minutes, down 11
• Seven Dwarfs Mine Train – 51 minutes, down 1
• Peter Pan’s Flight – 46 minutes, down 3
• Jingle Cruise – 42 minutes, down 4
• Big Thunder Mountain Railroad – 34 minutes, up 4
• Haunted Mansion – 32 minutes, down 5
• Pete’s Silly Sideshow – 31 minutes, down 5
• Princess Fairytale Hall – 31 minutes, down 1
• Space Mountain – 31 minutes, down 5
• Ariel’s Grotto – 30 minutes, down 1
• Town Square Theater – 30 minutes, down 1
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh – 29 minutes, down 4
• Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin – 26 minutes, down 3
• Enchanted Tales with Belle – 24 minutes, down 3
• Astro Orbiter – 23 minutes, no change
• Pirates of the Caribbean – 20 minutes, down 6
• It’s a Small World – 19 minutes, down 3
• The Barnstormer – 17 minutes, down 5
• Country Bear Musical Jamboree – 17 minutes, up 1
• The Magic Carpets of Aladdin – 17 minutes, down 1
• Mickey’s PhilharMagic – 17 minutes, down 1
• Under the Sea ~ Journey of the Little Mermaid – 17 minutes, down 6
• Dumbo the Flying Elephant – 16 minutes, down 2
• Tomorrowland Speedway – 15 minutes, down 1
• Walt Disney World Railroad – 15 minutes, no change
• Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor – 14 minutes, no change
• Mad Tea Party – 13 minutes, down 1
• Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover – 12 minutes, down 3
• Prince Charming Regal Carrousel – 11 minutes, down 1
• Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress – 5 minutes, no change

Final Thoughts

Minnie’s Wonderful Christmastime Fireworks

Only two Walt Disney World attractions increased their wait times week over week, which tells the whole story here.

At Magic Kingdom, guests stood in line for an average of 23 minutes, which is one minute less than last time.

Magic Kingdom is the only park that didn’t drop significantly, and that’s partially because its average wait time is already quite low for here.

What we can tell from this information is that tourists definitely waited for the holiday to visit Disney.

You can safely expect MUCH longer wait times this week.

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