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Universal Studios Florida Park cheat sheet

worked out from 60 days of our own wait data34 rides

Arrive for 09:00 and ride MADLANDS: Caged Cannibals Accessibility Return Time, H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: A Halloween Fright-Tacular! Accessibility Return Time and Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness Accessibility Return Time first. Leave TRANSFORMERS™ The Ride-3D until after 6pm, when its queue drops to about 12 minutes. The park's queues peak around 16:00 at 31 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
October

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. 09:0012mquietest
  2. 10:0016m
  3. 11:0023m
  4. 12:0026m
  5. 13:0028m
  6. 14:0027m
  7. 15:0027m
  8. 16:0031mpeak

Arrive for 09:00. 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. 1MADLANDS: Caged Cannibals Accessibility Return Time ~114 min typical114m
  2. 2H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: A Halloween Fright-Tacular! Accessibility Return Time ~111 min typical111m
  3. 3Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness Accessibility Return Time ~93 min typical93m

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

Leave these until later

Rides whose queues collapse late in the day

  1. 1TRANSFORMERS™ The Ride-3D~25 min typical · about 12 min after 6pm12m
  2. 2MEN IN BLACK™ Alien Attack!~22 min typical · about 10 min after 6pm10m
  3. 3Kang & Kodos' Twirl 'n' Hurl~13 min typical · about 7 min after 6pm7m

Save them for the last two hours, when the coach parties have gone and the queue is a fraction of the afternoon's.

Fill the gaps with

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

Usually under 10 minutesH.R. Bloodengutz Presents: A Halloween Fright-Tacular!5mCybergoria Accessibility Return Time5mCybergoria5mOllivanders™ Experience in Diagon Alley™6mIllumination's Villain-Con Minion Blast7mSingle-rider lineRevenge of the Mummy

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Sinnersrunning 0% of the park's open hours0%
  2. 2Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darknessrunning 0% of the park's open hours0%
  3. 3Evil Dead Burnrunning 0% of the park's open hours0%
  4. 4MADLANDS: Caged Cannibalsrunning 0% of the park's open hours0%
  5. 5INVASION: Alien Abductionrunning 0% of the park's open hours0%

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.