Walt Disney World Wait Times for Easter Week 2026
Easter Week has ended, and it’s time to assess the crowds.
Here are Walt Disney World’s wait times for early April 2026.
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Last week featured two holidays, Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
Also, many North American schools timed their Spring Break weeks to align with the holidays.
For this reason, Disney theme parks experienced some of the highest attendance levels of 2026.
Did this behavior lead to ridiculously high wait times? Well, we’re about to find out.
Mr. and Mrs. Bunny
We’re starting with Animal Kingdom, the park that’s the most susceptible to overcrowding.
Since this park is operating at half-mast right now, the rides here sometimes require extended waits.
This behavior will continue until the Tropical Americas opens next year.
Until then, Animal Kingdom is shorthanded on rides, which can cause problems.
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Did it last week? Here are the park’s average wait times for Easter Week:
- Avatar Flight of Passage – 94 minutes, up 26
- Kali River Rapids – 72 minutes, up 24
- Na’vi River Journey – 66 minutes, up 10
- Expedition Everest – 51 minutes up 15
- Kilimanjaro Safaris – 50 minutes, up 12
- Adventurers Outpost – 36 minutes, up 5
- Zootopia: Better Zoogether! – 24 minutes, up 3
Na’vi River Journey
Overall, Animal Kingdom guests waited for an average of 56 minutes last week.
That’s a whopping 13 minutes more than the previous week.
Disney’s Hollywood Studios
Hollywood Studios
This park just reshuffled many of its character meetings over the past two weeks.
The timing of these moves shouldn’t be lost on you, as they serve a purpose.
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By moving the characters to different locations, Disney could influence traffic flow.
With the characters in new places, some of the popular rides could have been impacted. Still, fans tend to think for themselves. So, the strategy may not have worked.
Let’s find out by evaluating the average wait times at Hollywood Studios last week:
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- Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance – 109 minutes, up 8
- Slinky Dog Dash – 104 minutes, up 18
- Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run – 84 minutes, up 16
- Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway – 63 minutes, up 7
- Twilight Zone Tower of Terror – 62 minutes, up 10
- Toy Story Mania! – 59 minutes, up 6
- Alien Swirling Saucers – 43 minutes, up 3
- Red Carpet Dreams – 39 minutes, up 5
- Star Tours – The Adventures Continue! – 26 minutes, up 10
- Celebrity Spotlight – 21 minutes, up 1
Overall, the average Hollywood Studios attraction required a wait of 61 minutes.
Yes, people waited an average of an hour per attraction, which is eight minutes more than last time.
Did I mention that it was Spring Break AND Easter Week?
EPCOT
The big news at this park continues to be the EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival.
This year’s event has proven to be a big hit and quite the crowd draw. Even when the rest of Disney World had smaller crowds, EPCOT has overachieved.
Did that behavior continue last week? Here are the park’s average wait times for Easter Week:
- Test Track – 108 minutes, up 13
- Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind – 105 minutes, up 12
- Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure – 76 minutes, up 9
- Frozen Ever After – 73 minutes, up 7
- Soarin’ Around the World – 71 minutes, no change
- Royal Sommerhus – 49 minutes, up 3
- Spaceship Earth – 30 minutes, no change
- The Seas with Nemo & Friends – 28 minutes, up 1
- Meet Mickey & Friends – 25 minutes, up 1
- Mission: SPACE – 25 minutes, up 3
- Journey into Imagination with Figment – 22 minutes, no change
- Living with the Land – 21 minutes, down 5
- Turtle Talk with Crush – 21 minutes, up 1
- Gran Fiesta Tour Starring the Three Caballeros – 15 minutes, no change
Overall, Easter Week guests at EPCOT spent an average of 48 minutes in line per attraction.
That’s three minutes more than last time, which is actually not as significant as the other parks.
Magic Kingdom
Ariel’s Grotto
Finally, here are Magic Kingdom’s average wait times last week:
- TRON Lightcycle / Run – 86 minutes, up 14
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Train – 75 minutes, up 11
- Tiana’s Bayou Adventure – 68 minutes, up 9
- Peter Pan’s Flight – 60 minutes, up 7
- Space Mountain – 59 minutes, up 9
- Jungle Cruise – 58 minutes, up 4
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh – 46 minutes, up 2
- Princess Fairytale Hall – 40 minutes, up 6
- Haunted Mansion – 39 minutes, up 3
- Ariel’s Grotto – 36 minutes, up 4
- Astro Orbiter – 35 minutes, up 5
- The Barnstormer – 34 minutes, up 7
- Pirates of the Caribbean – 34 minutes, up 1
- Under the Sea ~ Journey of the Little Mermaid – 33 minutes, up 5
- Dumbo the Flying Elephant – 32 minutes, up 5
- The Magic Carpets of Aladdin – 31 minutes, up 4
- It’s a Small World – 29 minutes, up 5
- Town Square Theater – 29 minutes, up 4
- Enchanted Tales with Belle – 28 minutes, up 4
- Tomorrowland Speedway – 25 minutes, up 6
- Mad Tea Party – 23 minutes, up 3
- Walt Disney World Railroad – 22 minutes, no change
- Mickey’s PhilharMagic – 16 minutes, up 1
- Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor – 16 minutes, up 2
- Prince Charming Regal Carrousel – 16 minutes, up 3
- Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover – 16 minutes, no change
- Country Bear Musical Jamboree – 13 minutes, no change
- Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress – 5 minutes, no change
Final Thoughts
Overall, Magic Kingdom guests stood in line for an average of 36 minutes per attraction.
That’s five minutes more than last time. So, yes, Disney World’s crowds were huge last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Easter Bunny Meet-and-Greet – Magic Kingdom
However, the overall average wait wasn’t quite as long as during mid-March’s Spring Break.
That statement explains just how huge Spring Break is as a Disney crowd factor.
