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Busch Gardens Williamsburg cheat sheet

worked out from 57 days of our own wait data9 rides

Arrive for 10:00 and ride Le Scoot, Verbolten: Forbidden Turn and Tempesto first. The park's queues peak around 14:00 at 15 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
Thursday
Busiest weekday
Saturday
Quietest month
July
Busiest month
April

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. 10:006mquietest
  2. 11:0010m
  3. 12:0012m
  4. 13:0014m
  5. 14:0015mpeak
  6. 15:0015m
  7. 16:0014m
  8. 17:0014m
  9. 18:0014m
  10. 19:0013m
  11. 20:0011m

Arrive for 10:00. Queues climb to their peak around 14:00 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. 1Le Scoot ~80 min typical80m
  2. 2Verbolten: Forbidden Turn ~17 min typical · up to 23 at peak · worst around 7pm17m
  3. 3Tempesto ~12 min typical · up to 17 at peak · worst around 5pm12m

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 minutesDarKoaster®5mThe Battering Ram7mDer Autobahn8mApollo's Chariot8mFinnegan's Flyer9mSingle-rider lineApollo's Chariot

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Pantheonrunning 0% of the park's open hours0%
  2. 2Le Scootrunning 5% of the park's open hours5%
  3. 3Verbolten: Forbidden Turnrunning 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.