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Sea World Gold Coast cheat sheet

worked out from 16 days of our own wait data15 rides

Arrive for 11:00 and ride Trident, Boots' Banana Boogie and SpongeBob's Boating School Blast first. The park's queues peak around 13:00 at 12 minutes and are lowest around 11:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Thursday
Busiest weekday
Monday

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. 11:009mquietest
  2. 12:0011m
  3. 13:0012mpeak
  4. 14:0011m
  5. 15:0010m

Arrive for 11:00. Queues climb to their peak around 13:00 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. 1Trident ~19 min typical · up to 21 at peak · worst around 12pm19m
  2. 2Boots' Banana Boogie ~17 min typical · up to 20 at peak · worst around 1pm17m
  3. 3SpongeBob's Boating School Blast ~15 min typical · up to 18 at peak · worst around 1pm15m

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 minutesVortex5mCastaway Bay - The Reef5mRide It Backwards - Leviathan5mCastaway Bay - Sky Fortress5mPatrick's Jellyfish Frenzy6mDora's Fiesta Carousel6mBikini Bottom Crosstown Express7mDonatello's Ninja Flyers8m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Leviathanrunning 33% of the park's open hours33%
  2. 2Donatello's Ninja Flyersrunning 34% of the park's open hours34%
  3. 3Tridentrunning 64% of the park's open hours64%

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

With a free account you 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.

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An account gives you a ride order for your date, with the forecast and the hours, ready to print. Free, and no card needed.

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  • 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.

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.