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Universal Islands Of Adventure cheat sheet

worked out from 60 days of our own wait data18 rides

Arrive for 09:00 and ride Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure™, Jurassic World VelociCoaster and Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls® first. The park's queues peak around 12:00 at 25 minutes and are lowest around 09:00.

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
February

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. 09:0016mquietest
  2. 10:0021m
  3. 11:0024m
  4. 12:0025mpeak
  5. 13:0025m
  6. 14:0024m
  7. 15:0022m
  8. 16:0022m
  9. 17:0022m
  10. 18:0020m
  11. 19:0019m
  12. 20:0018m

Arrive for 09:00. Queues climb to their peak around 12:00 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. 1Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure™ ~57 min typical · up to 63 at peak · worst around 1pm57m
  2. 2Jurassic World VelociCoaster ~31 min typical · up to 34 at peak · worst around 3pm31m
  3. 3Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls® ~27 min typical · up to 48 at peak · worst around 6pm27m

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 minutesStorm Force Accelatron®5mCaro-Seuss-el™6mOne Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish™7mThe Cat in The Hat™8mThe High in the Sky Seuss Trolley Train Ride!™9mPopeye & Bluto's Bilge-Rat Barges®9mDoctor Doom's Fearfall®9mSingle-rider lineJurassic World VelociCoasterDudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls®Skull Island: Reign of KongThe Incredible Hulk Coaster®

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Skull Island: Reign of Kongrunning 0% of the park's open hours0%
  2. 2Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls®running 65% of the park's open hours65%
  3. 3Popeye & Bluto's Bilge-Rat Barges®running 69% of the park's open hours69%
  4. 4Hogwarts Express™ - Hogsmeade™ Stationrunning 71% of the park's open hours71%
  5. 5Hagrid's Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure™running 79% of the park's open hours79%

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.

£16.99for two daysor £49.99 for a whole year. Paid once - it never renews.

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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.