The Jungle Cruise, a popular attraction at Walt Disney World, has undergone significant changes over the years and is still one of the most popular attractions at Magic Kingdom. The average wait time for this comical boat ride is around 30-60 minutes, with peak times extending to over 90 minutes. The queue line isn’t terribly exciting, but it can get over an hour on a busy day.
The Jungle Cruise line takes about one hour, and it’s advisable to get to the ride as soon as the gates open to avoid a long queue. On very hot days, the Jungle Cruise has a Standby Line and Lightning Lane, but there is no Single Rider Line. The standby line is typically the lowest first thing in the morning, and at the end, Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, and Jack Whitehall make Disney’s theme-park-inspired Jungle Cruise movie feel fresh, fun, and exciting.
The Jungle Cruise is a classic pun-tastic ride that runs through a river. The ride’s enjoyability depends on the skipper, who gives the ride their own spin and adds jokes. The wait was supposed to be 70 minutes but ended up being 2 hours and 15 minutes for a horrible corny 3 minute ride with bad animatronics.
The Jungle Cruise is geared toward children, making it fun. It’s best at night and can be great if you get a good skipper, but can be extremely boring if you get a bad one. Lines can get really long, and standby wait times often exceed 60 minutes, especially during the middle of the day.
On average, there are 0 minutes worth of delays per day, as the attraction does not report wait time data for 10 minutes or more.
📹 90 minutes WAIT for jungle cruise but was it worth it YOU decide
Hey all we waited in the que for 90 minutes for jungle cruise at WDW but was it worth it we origanlly got in the que it said 30 mins …
📹 How to know how long a queue REALLY IS | Pirates, Jungle Cruise and Indiana Jones
There’s the posted wait time, and then there’s what our eyes tell us. It’s one thing for Pirates to say the wait is 40 minutes, but is it …
As a skipper on Jungle Cruise, I highly advise you to go left, even if you’re near the turnstile. The left side of the boats have more capacity than the right side, and everyone always tends to go right. We have to fit groups based on the size of the benches on the right side (center box is about 8, front right side is about 6, right side by the engine is about 4, and the doorway can seat 2) whereas the left side is the full bench all the way from the front of the boat to the rear doorway.
Oh! Here it is! We are the family that said “Hi!” in the French Market! We later saw you filming as we stood in line for “Pirates,” would not have bothered you then. Thanks for being so gracious and letting me take a picture with you, you are my favorite YouTuber. Your articles helped us so much on planning our trip, Thanks again for everything! ❤
Your production values are really through the roof since going full time. I really like the balance you have of food/ride/talk/ambiance in the articles lately. I’d love to see a similar dissection of the Incredicoaster regular line vs single rider. My experience indicates the wait times are about the same, but the normal line is much easier to wait in. Your analysis would be interesting.
Something to also remember, on the right side (the back loading boat) might also be the boat that they use to load in the DAS passes that come in thru the exit since pirates is not ADA compliant. All wheel chairs and scooters would come in and park near the back of the exit dock to stay out of the way of guest who are getting off the ride.
My family always had a patern at DL and I still seem to follow it..MS…Adventure land,JC..Bengal BBQ(after the Sunkist juice bar closed..same location btw) and when NOS came along ..Pirates..perhaps because my dad was left handed but I think you’re right Dave.we came from Adventure land…I still do it today..but bring Bbq over to Trop hideaway..love this Dave
I think with Pirates a lot of the “extra time” you’re seeing for the door to exit thing is due to that “round about” backing up. I don’t know why, maybe it’s normal, however every time I’ve ridden Pirates recently I’ve always been held up at the bottom of that lift hill before the round about, sometimes for a substantial time. Additionally the last time I rode I went right and can confirm that they loaded a DAS party (who had to come in through the exit vs the front) in my boat actually, so that could explain some of the variances on the whole. Right boat is the “back” boat at load and so if you have a DAS party and it’s taking some extra time… It’s kind of like Space Mountain and what causes a cascade fail, however you don’t have to estop the ride. Also random comment on Indy and Lightning Lane, very rarely do I not see a LONG queue on Lightning Lane for Indy, sometimes to the point where it wraps through Tarzan’s Treehouse and towards Pirates. I feel like given how much an x-factor Lightning Lane is that when you’re thinking about Indy you may want to factor in that initial Lightning Lane. If it’s really growing then you can expect Standby outside to really slog down
We totally passed you on Wednesday afternoon and weren’t sure if it was you or not. If I had been more confident it was you, I would have paused to say thank you! We’re visiting for the week and have been utilizing your rope drop tips both starting in Tomorrowland and in Fantasyland. We’ve managed to do a ton of rides and are grateful for you and your website.
Really enjoyed this article. Question regarding pirates – the last time I went which was in December, we didn’t get the option to choose the left or right option everyone was just in same line throughout. First time I’ve ever had that happen. Do you know why maybe that happened? The line was shorter, probably only took 15 minutes so maybe that has something to do with it?
I was hoping we’d see you in the parks while we were here! I had every intention of yelling “fresh baked!” If I saw you. when I did see you, we were walking right behind you as you stood on the bridge filming the pirates queue. A combination of not wanting to yell right behind you and being a tad star struck I didn’t! So here it is….. “FRESH BAKED!!” Thanks for making such great content. Definitely a celebrity sighting for me!
Thank you so much David I learned so much and boy did it feel good to learn something new keep up the good work and I have a lot of respect for how hard you work your like the energizer bunny you keep going and going and I can see it in your face that you truly do love ❤️ what you do also the proof is in your very well made articles now with that being said peace ☮️ love ❤️ and happiness to you David and Liz and I’ll see you on the next vlog adventure wherever it takes you also please be safe out there
Pirates ride side has the disabled guests, pirates left side has the side of the building if they use it. That extra fast queue on the left side can be used got the LL Experience pass when an attraction breaks down. Jungle Cruise left side is fastest as you are about to board the boat. Right side has to deal with less space and disabled guests.
Thanks so much 4 ‘ur insights-👍 Very much enjoy Disneyland ⚠️ nothing like it on the planet. Truly appreciate the conditions of the park content. In our camp, in past years we’ve been able to embark on a multi day vacation to the parks while going on other vacations. In our case I believe Disneyland forgot they are in direct completion for vacation dollars. As much as we 🤍 the parks, other experience are winning. To include all inclusive resorts and cruises. As I write this- we are in Miami awaiting embarkation on the Scarlet Lady ship headed to the Caribbean on Sunday. From our observation Disney parks emerged from the trials offering less and charging more. Not good math for us. However, given time I do believe the Disney ship will be righted. Not giving up, just waiting it out, still 😀 – Regards, looking forward to enjoy the parks again in the near future and saying “hello” & thanking you again in person if the opportunity presents itself 😀- C U on the next post at best ✅, excellent work and efforts 👍
Hey what’s up fresh baked when you’re doing your test 4 Line times I feel that in the morning hours if you get there they’re going to be a little bit more busier because it’s people just getting into the park instead of later in the evening that’s when we go we go pretty much every Friday night and we get into the park about 4 to 5 p.m. and sometimes we catch lines really low around that time opposed to if we go in the morning when everybody’s trying to run to every line and every attraction just food for thought
I went this Tuesday and used Lightning for Indiana, the regular queue was actually much faster and much shorter. However this was after the the ride was stopped for a short while, do they give those in the regular line a fast pass when a ride stops? Otherwise, lighting has ALWAYS been much faster and 100% worth the money 🤣
Ok wait times aside, what’s your footwear like for Disney? I use a decent enough walking shoe, but I find my feet get so painful by the end of day no blisters or anything like that just a pain that requires me to put my feet up. So yeah what’s the super secret trick there? Inserts? Copious amounts of painkillers? rest breaks after every ride?