Walt Disney World Wait Times for Post-Easter Week 2023
The prices for Lightning Lanes and Disney Genie+ have dropped in recent days. This can only mean one thing!
Easter Week has ended, which should reduce the crowds at various theme parks across the country. But did it? Let’s find out!
Here are the average attraction wait times at Walt Disney World for post-Easter Week 2023!
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
On a recent day during Easter Week, I checked My Disney Experience for the wait time at Avatar Flight of Passage.
I’m neither joking nor exaggerating when I say it was so bad that I closed my app and didn’t look again for a while.
Anytime the wait time has three digits and starts with a two, I know it’s disastrous. Thankfully, that’s less of a concern once the holiday ends.
Here are the average waits at Animal Kingdom this past week:
- Avatar Flight of Passage – 109 minutes, down 53
- Na’vi River Journey – 80 minutes, down 27
- Kilimanjaro Safaris – 51 minutes, down 31
- Adventurers Outpost – 47 minutes, down 11
- Expedition Everest – 38 minutes, down 25
- Kali River Rapids – 37 minutes, down 35
- DINOSAUR – 29 minutes, down 21
- TriceraTop Spin – 15 minutes, down 11
- It’s Tough to Be a Bug – 14 minutes, down 8
Overall, the average wait time for an Animal Kingdom attraction was 47 minutes, which is 25 minutes less than last time.
Remarkably, the 47-minute average is still on the high side for this park, which reinforces how ridiculously massive the Easter Week crowds were.
Disney’s Hollywood Studios
When Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith closed for extensive repairs, I wondered about the impact on other Hollywood Studios wait times.
Aerosmith has sustained its popularity since the 1990s. The park always struggles in its absence, or at least it always had.
During the past five years, Hollywood Studios has introduced Toy Story Land, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, and Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway.
So, the temporary closure of one attraction shouldn’t impact the park the way it once did.
How were the wait times for this past week? Let’s check:
- Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance – 125 minutes, down 37
- Slinky Dog Dash – 122 minutes, down 13
- Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run – 89 minutes, down 28
- Toy Story Mania! – 79 minutes, down 4
- Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway – 77 minutes, down 5
- Twilight Zone Tower of Terror – 68 minutes, down 2
- Alien Swirling Saucers – 49 minutes, down 3
- Red Carpet Dreams – 44 minutes, down 6
- Meet Sulley at Walt Disney Presents – 37 minutes, down 5
- Star Tours – The Adventures Continue! – 32 minutes, down 9
- Celebrity Spotlight – 27 minutes, down 3
- Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy – 15 minutes, up 3
- Muppet*Vision 3D – 10 minutes, down 4
Overall, guests stood in line for an average of 55 minutes, a drop of seven minutes from last week.
This park could use Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster to divide the crowds a bit more evenly, but it’s been just fine lately.
EPCOT
During Spring Break, EPCOT’s wait times soared relative to Magic Kingdom’s.
The sheer volume of attractions at Magic Kingdom generally keeps the wait times static.
Even though EPCOT hosts many attractions as well, some of them typically require waits of 20 minutes or less.
When those attraction wait times soar, all bets are off. That’s definitely what happened during Easter Week. Did the crowd sizes shrink last week?
Here are EPCOT’s average wait times:
- Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure – 85 minutes, down 33
- Frozen Ever After – 82 minutes, down 21
- Test Track – 80 minutes, down 11
- Soarin’ Around the World – 51 minutes, down 26
- Royal Sommerhus – 38 minutes, down 11
- Mission: SPACE – 36 minutes, down 20
- Spaceship Earth – 26 minutes, down 16
- Turtle Talk with Crush – 19 minutes, down 7
- The Seas with Nemo & Friends – 18 minutes, down 14
- Journey into Imagination with Figment – 15 minutes, down 9
- Living with the Land – 13 minutes, down 9
- Gran Fiesta Tour Starring the Three Caballeros – 12 minutes, down 6
Overall, EPCOT guests spent an average of 39 minutes per attraction, which is 15 minutes less than last time.
Again, a 39-minute average remains on the upper end for this park, reinforcing that even after Spring Break, Walt Disney World attendance has remained high.
Magic Kingdom
Here were last week’s average wait times at the most popular theme park in the world:
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Train – 114 minutes, down 1
- Peter Pan’s Flight – 93 minutes, no change
- Space Mountain – 74 minutes, down 2
- Jungle Cruise – 69 minutes, down 4
- Big Thunder Mountain Railroad – 57 minutes, down
- Haunted Mansion – 53 minutes, down 2
- Pirates of the Caribbean – 50 minutes, down 1
- Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin – 49 minutes, down 7
- Princess Fairytale Hall – 46 minutes, down 6
- Ariel’s Grotto – 45 minutes, down 4
- Astro Orbiter – 44 minutes, down 1
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh – 43 minutes, no change
- It’s a Small World – 42 minutes, down 1
- Town Square Theater – 41 minutes, down 1
- Pete’s Silly Sideshow – 40 minutes, down 1
- Dumbo the Flying Elephant – 39 minutes, down 1
- The Barnstormer – 38 minutes, down 3
- Enchanted Tales with Belle – 38 minutes, down 7
- Under the Sea ~ Journey of the Little Mermaid – 36 minutes, down 5
- Tomorrowland Speedway – 34 minutes, down 1
- Magic Carpets of Aladdin – 29 minutes, down 11
- Mad Tea Party – 24 minutes, down 2
- Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover – 23 minutes, up 2
- Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor – 21 minutes, down 2
- Walt Disney World Railroad – 20 minutes, down 2
- Prince Charming Regal Carrousel – 19 minutes, down 2
- Mickey’s PhilharMagic – 18 minutes, no change
- Country Bear Jamboree – 5 minutes, no change
- Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress – 5 minutes, no change
Final Thoughts
The average wait time across all Magic Kingdom attractions was 40 minutes. That’s one minute less than last time.
Something we should accept is the heightened crowd at Space Mountain.
I presume that Tron Lightcycle / Run is causing a halo effect for the other Tomorrowland roller coaster.
To a larger point, exactly one show (Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy) and one ride (the PeopleMover) increased their waits from last week.
Everything else dropped or stayed the same. That’s the surest sign that Easter has ended at the parks!
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