For a Saturday morning with an anticipated CL of 7 TP is showing me an 11min wait for KS at 0930.
Park open is 8, with EE 7:30
11 mins seems rather slim to me. Trust it?
Edited: I have gone back to look at the actual wait times for another CL7 morning, and it seems like it might be accurate. It seems to jump from about 8mins around 9a to 40 mins around 10a.
It’s possible. IIRC it doesn’t always open when the park opens. We’ve RD EE and then got in KS with a pretty quick wait. We’ve also RD EE and waited 30-40 minutes for KS. Sometimes I think it’s the animals causing slow downs and stops as they enter the savanna. Other times they are only loading from one side
Maybe I will have us do Gorilla Falls first, and snag the LL while we are in there since I’ll be eligible again then and the return time should be near immediate?
I sure don’t have time to be waiting 40 mins for anything based on my party’s requests/desires and our limited time.
I’m also surprised that it would be so low. In the last two years, we have twice ridden KS right after EE rope-dropping FoP and NRJ (also on high crowd days), so probably within 15-30 min of regular park opening, and my photo time stamps suggest it would have already a 10-20 min wait at that time.
Maybe you’ll get lucky and it’s still that low, but the LL back-up plan sounds like a good insurance just in case. Return times could be near immediate, but could also be closer to 1hr, looking at Thrill Data trends from past 60 days.
FWIW - I saw low KS wait estimates when setting up my plan in August and was suspicious.
Since we closed down MK the night before, we (well my kids) slept in and arrived at AK at 10:45AM.
Plan was to hit FoP with ILL, Navi with LL, lunch at Satuli, then KS.
The KS estimate was also something like 10 minutes - after noon!
…and it was just about a walk on.
Granted ours was an expected CL5 that ended up being a CL4 according to TP so YMMV is definitely in play, but I never expected a walk on in the middle of the day.
That’s good info. As well as the projected vs actual crowd level
There are not a lot of CL 7s in the historical data for AK - turns out to be about once monthly - so maybe it won’t turn out to be as busy as they are predicting
Basically we’re all agreeing that 11mins wait at 9:30ish on a CL 7 with an opening of 8a/EE of 7:30a is unlikely to be accurate and having a backup plan might be the best course of action then