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Seaworld Orlando cheat sheet

worked out from 60 days of our own wait data18 rides

Arrive for 10:00 and ride Waterfront Water Works, ALL NEW! - Expedition Odyssey Fire & Ice and Penguin Trek first. The park's queues peak around 16:00 at 24 minutes and are lowest around 10:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Wednesday
Busiest weekday
Saturday
Quietest month
September
Busiest month
July

Each ride's own quietest and busiest day, tallied and weighted by how long its queue runs. For a dated answer use the crowd calendar, which scores every day of the year.

The shape of the day

Average queue across the park, hour by hour

  1. 10:0011mquietest
  2. 11:0013m
  3. 12:0015m
  4. 13:0021m
  5. 14:0019m
  6. 15:0018m
  7. 16:0024mpeak
  8. 17:0020m
  9. 18:0021m

Arrive for 10:00. Queues climb to their peak around 16:00 and fall back through the afternoon; the last hour or two is the quietest the headliners get all day.

Ride these first

The headliners: longest queues, worst by late morning

  1. 1Waterfront Water Works ~27 min typical · up to 37 at peak · worst around 5pm27m
  2. 2ALL NEW! - Expedition Odyssey Fire & Ice ~26 min typical · up to 38 at peak · worst around 5pm26m
  3. 3Penguin Trek ~20 min typical · up to 36 at peak · worst around 5pm20m

Straight to these from the gate, in this order. Every minute before the park fills is worth three later.

Fill the gaps with

Walk-ons at any hour, and the single-rider lines

Usually under 10 minutesSuper Grover's Box Car Derby5mSunny Day Carousel5mSlimey's Slider5mSky Tower5mFlamingo Paddle Boats5mCookie Drop5mAbby's Flower Tower5mKraken®7m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Waterfront Water Worksrunning 0% of the park's open hours0%
  2. 2Elmo's Choo Choo Trainrunning 2% of the park's open hours2%
  3. 3Pipeline: The Surf Coasterrunning 78% of the park's open hours78%
  4. 4Journey to Atlantisrunning 82% of the park's open hours82%
  5. 5ALL NEW! - Expedition Odyssey Fire & Icerunning 84% of the park's open hours84%

If one of these is the reason you came, ride it the first time you see it running rather than saving it. The full picture is on the reliability page.

On the day

Your day-of sheet

The same park, for one date: the forecast, the hours, and your ride order

Plus members get this sheet for a date: the crowd forecast for the day, its published hours, a ride order worked out against that day's wait curve, and a printable version to take in.

PlusThe day-of sheet is part of Plus

Here, that is a ride order for your date, the forecast and the hours, printable.

  • Your rides, in order

    Sequenced against the wait curve, so the headliners land in their quiet windows.

  • quiet till 111pm · 66m

    Your date, hour by hour

    How the wait climbs on the day you picked, and the window it stays low.

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Everything above is each ride's own recorded queue over recent weeks, sampled every few minutes through the park's opening hours - not an opinion. A ride with too little history is left out.