Tiana’s Bayou Journey is reimagined experience changing Splash Mountain in Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, and is tough attributable to no standby line. This attraction information solutions questions in regards to the digital queue & boarding teams, Lightning Lane, and rather more.
Disney restricts entry to Tiana’s Bayou Journey by utilizing a free digital queue (VQ) and ‘pay-to-play’ entry by way of the Lightning Lane (LL), each of that are in lieu of a standard standby line. Which means as an alternative of with the ability to present up and wait in a queue for 60-120 minutes (or regardless of the posted wait) at a time of your selecting, it’s worthwhile to roll the cube on the VQ or LL.
In the event you succeed, you’re capable of experience Tiana’s Bayou Journey. In the event you don’t…you aren’t. There isn’t a third possibility. These programs are nothing new, as TRON Lightcycle Run and Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind at the moment function in precisely the identical method. Earlier than that, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance and Remy’s Ratatouille Journey had comparable programs.
Nonetheless, all of this has been complicated even for longtime Walt Disney World followers. Our purpose right here is that will help you keep away from comparable frustrations. In the event you present as much as Magic Kingdom, pondering you’ll be capable of experience Tiana’s Bayou Journey, you’re in for colossal disappointment.
On the contrary, you’re virtually assured you received’t be driving for those who merely present up on the official opening time. Therefore this experience information and FAQ, so you possibly can plan accordingly, beat the crowds, and have an impressive day at Magic Kingdom!
When will the digital queue finish at Tiana’s Bayou Journey?
This may occasionally seem to be an odd spot to start out, however earlier than we dig in, we need to begin by noting that it’s a waste of your time to learn this put up until you’re visiting Walt Disney World in Summer season 2024. For one factor, the digital queue dynamic is all the time evolving. Walt Disney World tinkers with insurance policies, demand rises & falls, and so forth.
Within the case of Tiana’s Bayou Journey, Walt Disney World particularly acknowledged this: “Whereas a standby queue is not going to be accessible in the course of the attraction’s preliminary opening days, we anticipate to open a standby queue quickly after the attraction’s opening.”
Nonetheless, as mentioned in You Would possibly Have Issues Driving Tiana’s Bayou Journey at Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World made that assertion previous to previews and the attraction experiencing vital each day downtime. Suffice to say, our expectation is that the digital queue will not go away till the experience’s reliability has improved. That would occur by mid-July or late September–all of it relies upon upon the size and scope of the issues, and potential options.
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What’s the digital queue for Tiana’s Bayou Journey?
The digital queue is one in all two major methods to entry the bodily strains for Tiana’s Bayou Journey.
Fairly than a standby queue, you be part of this digital line by way of the My Disney Expertise (MDX) app and are notified when it’s your flip to return to the bodily queue (which, sooner or later, would be the standby line). The method requires just a few clicks in-app, however it’s fairly intuitive.
Be aware that your total wait just isn’t digital. You possibly can anticipate to come across a wait upon being known as again to the bodily line. The digital queue is just Walt Disney World’s methodology for pulsing demand to Tiana’s Bayou Journey, which is basically vital despite the fact that Splash Mountain didn’t have one, attributable to a mixture of it being a brand new experience and it being unreliable.
What are boarding teams for Tiana’s Bayou Journey?
If the digital queue have been like a lottery (it isn’t precisely), the boarding group could be just like the ticket. The tactic versus the means.
Acknowledged otherwise, boarding teams are the technique of organizing friends into teams when it’s their flip to experience. Fairly than a particular return window of 2-3 pm as is the case with Lightning Lanes, you could be in boarding group 65. Your return time just isn’t specified upfront, however moderately, as an estimate.
When can we enter the digital queue?
You possibly can be part of the Tiana’s Bayou Journey digital queue at 7 am or 1 pm by way of the My Disney Expertise app.
Anybody who has legitimate admission for Magic Kingdom that day can try to affix the 7 am VQ. The 1 pm digital queue will be joined solely by friends who’ve already entered Magic Kingdom that day.
What’s the course of like for becoming a member of the digital queue?
The steps are equivalent to previous digital queues and just like the FastPass+ or Genie+ choice processes, for those who’ve carried out both of these.
Right here’s a fast run-through:
Begin on the house display screen of the My Disney Expertise app and simply scroll down a bit till you see the “Digital Queue” banner. Click on “be part of digital queue” on that.
Alternatively, you possibly can click on the hamburger button (backside proper nook), which is able to take you to a display screen with tiles–digital queue can also be on an inventory beneath that.
Then “Be part of Digital Queue.”
From there, it ought to default to Magic Kingdom. If EPCOT is chosen (on the high) for no matter motive, click on Magic Kingdom. You’ll see two choices–Tiana’s Bayou Journey or TRON Lightcycle Run. Presumably, you’ll need to do each throughout your day at MK–however you possibly can solely be part of one at 7 a.m.
You’ll have the choice of confirming your get together beginning at 6 am, or an hour earlier than the digital queue opens.
Click on the blue button to substantiate your get together, making certain that everybody visiting with you is chosen for the digital queue. As long as tickets are correctly linked and everybody legitimate admission for Magic Kingdom (and park reservations, if vital), this course of needs to be clean crusing and self-explanatory.
When you affirm your get together, you’ll see the above display screen till 7 am.
Use the “quick finger” technique beneath to get the timing proper, after which both hit the refresh button or pull right down to refresh at 7 am on the dot. You’ll then see the “Be part of Queue” button. Faucet that and also you’re carried out!
This reveals your estimate ready time, which shall be a number of hours into the long run (and never essentially correct) at 7 am since Magic Kingdom isn’t even open but.
As soon as the park is open, this similar display screen will present you which of them boarding teams have been known as. Relying upon the circumstances, it might additionally present an estimated wait time–however even then, return instances can fluctuate based mostly on downtime and different components.
As soon as it’s your flip to affix the bodily queue, you’ll obtain a notification (for those who’ve allowed the My Disney Expertise app to ship notifications). You may also see your digital queue standing in the direction of the highest of your My Disney Expertise dwelling display screen, in addition to on the digital queue web page itself.
With that stated, there’s no substitute for seeing for your self. Whereas it received’t allow you to full the method, you possibly can undergo the primary a number of steps of becoming a member of the digital queue from dwelling. Be on the MDX app some morning proper at 7 am and undergo the motions. It’s good follow for the actual factor!
Subsequent, we’ll cowl some methods to enhance your velocity and enhance your probabilities of success on the Tiana’s Bayou Journey digital queue!
Digital Queue Pace Technique
Disney WiFi versus Mobile Knowledge?
It actually depends upon your service and the place you’re situated within the park/resort/and so on.
We’d suggest doing a fast velocity check with each a couple of minutes earlier than it’s time to affix the digital queue. Something at or above 50 Mbps needs to be ample, however the larger the higher. If vital, transfer round to get away from different folks or enhance your velocity to that threshold.
Are there any methods to enhance velocity?
Clearly, there’s solely a lot that’s inside your management on the subject of your web velocity at Walt Disney World. Two large issues are getting away from congested areas and out from below issues. Decrease-level Walt Disney World resort rooms have points, as do outlying buildings. Because of this, you may need to go exterior, to the foyer, the balcony, an exterior walkway, and so on. for the 7 am entry time.
In the case of the 1 pm digital queue, keep away from congested areas of the parks. If in any respect attainable, try to affix whereas not standing in line for the rest, as some queues have ‘lifeless zones’ with out WiFi or mobile service. In Magic Kingdom, many of the park is fairly good–the one space that involves thoughts as being problematic is Beneath the Sea ~ Journey of the Little Mermaid.
How ought to we put together for becoming a member of the digital queue?
This may sound like overkill, however milliseconds matter.
Be certain that your telephone is totally up to date and power shut all apps, together with My Disney Expertise shortly earlier than it’s time to affix the digital queue. Double-check the time in your telephone or watch towards time.gov, which is what Disney makes use of for opening the digital queue.
What’s the perfect strategic strategy for becoming a member of a boarding group? Ought to one individual strive for everybody, ought to we every strive individually, or what?
Don’t strive individually–you received’t be in the identical boarding teams, which means you received’t experience collectively.
We suggest everybody strive for everybody in your get together. Launch the MDX app about 10 seconds earlier than the official digital queue entry time and hit the “Be part of Boarding Group” button. If that doesn’t work, force-refreshing by flattening “arduous.”
Everybody in your get together who has legitimate admission for Magic Kingdom (and park reservations, if vital) ought to already be pre-selected. The individual in your get together with the quickest fingers will rating the boarding group, whereas everybody else will obtain a “Not So Quick/Already in Boarding Group” message. Simply ensure that anybody in your get together who tries for boarding passes makes an attempt so as to add everybody.
Once more, it’s good to do a follow run or two at dwelling so that you’re snug with the method within the My Disney Expertise app so that you don’t get flustered and mess up. We’ve heard horror tales of readers clicking by way of too rapidly and forgetting so as to add one in all their members of the family. Don’t freak out if that occurs–go to the Visitor Expertise Group Solid Members stationed on the blue umbrellas.
As soon as notified that “your group has been known as!” how lengthy do we’ve got to return?
You’re anticipated to return inside 1 hour of being known as.
Will we should be within the park for the 1 pm digital queue opening?
No. Nonetheless, everybody in your get together does must enter Magic Kingdom in some unspecified time in the future earlier than 1 pm with a purpose to “unlock” entry to the digital queue at 1 pm. Which means you can arrive for park opening, take the monorail again to your resort for lunch and a pool break, and check out once more at 1 pm.
It’s not geofenced or based mostly upon proximity—this performance unlocks within the My Disney Expertise app for every visitor after they’ve bodily tapped into the park’s faucet/turnstiles. You possibly can depart after tapping in and nonetheless be part of in the course of the afternoon entry time out of your resort room or wherever.
You could possibly actually be inside Magic Kingdom or in Manitoba. The digital queue system solely validates whether or not you’ve tapped into Magic Kingdom, not your present location. It could actually truly be advantageous to go away Magic Kingdom noon, as that’s when crowds and wait instances are worst. In the event you’re like us, you additionally might choose to do lunch at a Magic Kingdom space resort moderately at Walt Disney World’s worst meals park.
Tiana’s Bayou Journey Lightning Lane Technique
Is there some other solution to experience Tiana’s Bayou Journey?
Sure.
Tiana’s Bayou Journey additionally affords Lightning Lane entry by way of Genie+ (by way of July 23, 2024) and Lightning Lane Multi Move (beginning July 24, 2024). You possibly can learn in regards to the former in our FAQ for Genie+ and Lightning Lanes at Walt Disney World and the latter in Lightning Lane Multi-Move at Disney World FAQ.
What’s the distinction between the digital queue and the Lightning Lane?
Other than the digital queue being free and the Lightning Lane entry costing cash, the latter is quicker. Lightning Lanes are Walt Disney World’s line-skipping possibility, colloquially referred to as “paid FastPass.”
With the digital queue, a part of your wait is digital, however you’re nonetheless going to face within the bodily line and spend some period of time ready. Against this, friends within the Lightning Lane will transfer sooner than you, and wait much less time. (Except the experience breaks down, through which case you each could be caught.)
Which possibility is best?
The paid one, minus the entire “costing cash” half.
Along with the road shifting sooner, the opposite large upside with the Lightning Lane is that there’s extra certainty–and that’s a giant cope with an unreliable experience that suffers quite a lot of downtime, like Tiana’s Bayou Journey. Whereas nobody is “assured” to have the ability to experience, Lightning Lane friends have the closest factor to that. Against this, if the experience has a nasty day and doesn’t get to later boarding teams, the digital queue friends are simply out of luck.
Do you suggest shopping for Genie+ or Lightning Lane Multi Move?
For Magic Kingdom, completely. It’s the one–and solely–park at Walt Disney World the place the paid FastPass programs are an absolute no-brainer and unequivocally one of the simplest ways to beat crowds. (As mentioned in Greatest Time-Saving Methods for Walt Disney World, that isn’t all the time the case with the opposite parks.)
Though the opening of Tiana’s Bayou Journey definitely provides to the worth of the line-skipping service, it’s not the one motive why. You need to be capable of rating at the least a half-dozen worthwhile Lightning Lanes in Magic Kingdom–greater than some other park at Walt Disney World. It’s use of cash, particularly in case you have restricted trip time and don’t need to spend that standing in strains.
How excessive of precedence is Tiana’s Bayou Journey on the subject of Lightning Lane rankings?
For Summer season 2024, it’s a simple #1 choose–forward of Peter Pan’s Flight and Jungle Cruise–in Magic Kingdom. You’ll want to e book as near 7 am as attainable, or get fortunate with a experience reservation refill later within the day.
Even Splash Mountain ranked within the high 3 in the course of the summer season months, however Tiana’s Bayou Journey being model new and having each day downtime strikes it up significantly. For at the least the subsequent couple months, it’s most likely the #1 Lightning Lane Multi Move, forward of even Slinky Canine Sprint.
Is it attainable to attain a spot within the digital queue and buy a Lightning Lane for Tiana’s Bayou Journey?
Sure. There’s nothing that stops it apart from how rapidly each e book up–which means that there’s no coverage stopping you from double-dipping that method. Nonetheless, it may be a problem juggling each proper at 7:00:00 am–until you will have one individual in your get together “assigned” to every.
Is there any distinction for on-site versus off-site friends?
Not for the digital queue. Everyone seems to be handled equally, with out regard to their lodging.
On-site friends may have a bonus in shopping for Lightning Lane Multi Move.
Is Tiana’s Bayou Journey open for Early Entry at Magic Kingdom?
No. We don’t anticipate that to vary, both. Solely Tomorrowland and Fantasyland can be found throughout Early Entry, which isn’t a brand new growth. Frontierland opens at common rope drop.
What about Prolonged Night Hours?
Tiana’s Bayou Journey just isn’t at the moment on the listing of points of interest that can function throughout Prolonged Night Hours. We anticipate that to vary within the coming weeks or months–maybe as soon as the digital queue is dropped or the experience turns into extra dependable.
Will Tiana’s Bayou Journey function throughout Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Occasion or Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion?
It’s too early to say. Though it was/is on the listing of points of interest for Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Occasion (MNSSHP) and/or Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Occasion (MVMCP), that’s merely a matter of expectations at this level and shouldn’t be handled because the gospel.
Whether or not Tiana’s Bayou Journey is open throughout MNSSHP and/or MVMCP depends upon downtime. If it’s nonetheless affected by reliability woes, we’d anticipate it to not function. Disney simply received’t need to mess with it. If the issues are getting higher, it’s a possibly. In the event that they’re gone, it’ll function.
For a similar causes, whether or not it’ll use a digital queue or standby line throughout these occasions can also be presently unknown.
Can we be part of the digital queues for each Tiana’s Bayou Journey and TRON Lightcycle Run?
Sure, however you can’t maintain spots in each digital queues on the similar time.
As a sensible matter, which means not solely do it’s worthwhile to achieve success with one experience at 7 am, but additionally that it’s worthwhile to be so profitable that you just get a fairly low boarding group quantity and have an earlier return time–so that you’re known as again and faucet into the primary digital queue earlier than 1 pm.
Alternatively, you possibly can be part of the digital queue for one and purchase Lightning Lane entry to the opposite. You could possibly additionally probably achieve free digital queue entry to each and buy Lightning Lane entry to each for those who’re actually environment friendly…and need to expertise each twice, for no matter motive.
Which experience ought to we do first?
Whichever is larger precedence for you. From a strategic perspective, it’s six of 1–half dozen the opposite. As long as Tiana’s Bayou Journey has reliability woes, downtime might happen each time. And that might find yourself throwing a monkey wrench into even the perfect laid plans, and boarding teams obtained with the quickest fingers.
As soon as Tiana’s Bayou Journey is extra dependable, we’d suggest going for it first. Whereas each rides are higher at evening, TRON Lightcycle Run is a lot higher at evening. (If each rides are equally vital, that is additionally our recommendation–Tiana’s Bayou Journey at 7 am and TRON at 1 pm.)
What time does Tiana’s Bayou Journey run out of boarding passes?
There isn’t a set time, however anticipate the primary digital queue to replenish earlier than 7:01 am every day for many of the summer season. That’s what has occurred with all points of interest which have come earlier than and used digital queues.
As for the 1 pm digital queue, that actually relies upon upon demand and downtime. There have been low to average crowd days when TRON Lightcycle Run has nonetheless had availability after 2 pm, and even after 4 pm. On busier days, it’s gone inside minutes of 1 pm. Within the close to time period, we’re anticipating each Tiana’s Bayou Journey digital queues to replenish quick–inside seconds or minutes, not hours.
Can we depart the park as soon as becoming a member of the queue?
Sure. You could possibly return to your resort and take a nap, eat lunch, and so on.
How do we all know after we can return?
In case your telephone has push notifications for My Disney Expertise enabled, you’ll obtain an alert that your boarding group has been known as.
Failing that, the “My Standing” display screen on the Tiana’s Bayou Journey digital queue display screen shows the identical data. That must also offer you an concept of how quickly you’ll be known as.
What occurs if we’ve got an Advance Eating Reservation that conflicts with our return time?
Ideally, you need to see a Solid Member on the Visitor Expertise Group stands (search for the blue umbrella) situated all through the park. They will help with scheduling conflicts.
Failing that, see a Solid Member on the attraction entrance–they’re usually fairly versatile.
Does Tiana’s Bayou Journey accommodate Incapacity Entry Service (DAS) card?
Sure, however that is nonetheless actually first come, first served.
Meaning everybody should be part of the digital queue first, which suggests arriving and going by way of that similar to everybody else. To reap the benefits of DAS, go to the Lightning Lane return line as soon as your boarding group is named.
What about Rider Change?
Yep, similar course of as above.
Which days of the week are finest for visiting Magic Kingdom?
Statistically talking, Wednesdays and Thursdays are at the moment your finest bets for the bottom crowds at Magic Kingdom. That’ll probably change throughout Occasion Season, although.
For extra complete recommendation and explanations, see our Greatest & Worst Days to Do Every Park at Walt Disney World. That gives definitive recommendation for selecting dates, and never only for Magic Kingdom, however for all 4 parks.
When will the Tiana’s Bayou Journey digital queue get simpler?
The excellent news is that Tiana’s Bayou Journey isn’t a model new attraction and it shouldn’t have the identical fanfare as Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind or TRON Lightcycle Run.
Our expectation is that the ‘reimagined experience’ scent will put on off fairly rapidly. By mid-August, our hope that demand has cooled down or Tiana’s Bayou Journey has gotten extra dependable. Ideally, each. Through which case, the digital queue will keep open for hours as an alternative of seconds/minutes. Or higher but, it received’t be vital in any respect and the standby line will open.
Ought to we simply wait to do Tiana’s Bayou Journey till our 2025 Walt Disney World journey?
Though the digital queue creates winners and losers, for those who’ve already learn the ~3,000 phrases above, you’re more likely to be one of many winners. You might be much better positioned than 95% of different friends–a lot of whom arrive with out figuring out what a digital queue even is or when it’s supplied–and are extra probably to achieve scoring a boarding group. With a digital queue, your wait time shall be considerably shorter than for those who simply wait till subsequent yr or each time the digital queue is changed with a standby line.
Our official place on digital queues is that they’re unhealthy and needs to be eradicated. The entire course of is complicated (therefore this put up) and extremely visitor unfriendly because of this. Visiting Walt Disney World is already too sophisticated, and this simply provides one other layer of stress and unpredictability, with extra it’s worthwhile to know. With that stated, we selfishly sort of like digital queues as a result of we’re good at them and so they give us a bonus–and shorter wait instances than standby strains. It’s an analogous story for you now that you just’ve learn all of this. You’ve already discovered what to do and how one can do it–now put that information to make use of in experiencing Tiana’s Bayou Journey!
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