At a Glance Guide: All the Preview Dates for Tiana's Bayou Adventure at Disney World

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Tiana's Bayou Adventure preview
Posted: Tuesday May 14, 2024 10:31am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney has announced multiple preview opportunities for Tiana's Bayou Adventure at Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World. These previews are available to different groups, including Annual Passholders, Disney Vacation Club members, Disney Cast Members, media, and Club 33 members.

Here’s an at-a-glance guide, sorted by date, to help you plan your preview.

Disney Cast Member Previews

Eligible Disney Cast Members will be the first to experience the new ride and get a sneak peek of Tiana's Bayou Adventure on the following dates:

  • June 2: Magic Kingdom Cast Members only
  • June 3-7
  • June 23-26

Registration opens on May 20 and closes two days before each preview date or when capacity is reached. Cast Members can bring up to two guests.

Full details.

Disney Vacation Club (DVC) Member Previews

DVC members have exclusive preview opportunities on:

  • June 12, 2024, from 1 pm to 4 pm ET
  • June 19, 2024, from 9 am to 12 pm ET

Registration for these previews opens on May 16, 2024, at 10 am ET. Members must have a valid theme park admission and reservation for Magic Kingdom on the day of the event. Each DVC member can bring guests listed on their resort reservation as of May 12, 2024.

Full details.

Media Previews

Media previews are scheduled for:

  • June 10-11

Club 33 Previews

Club 33 members have their preview on:

  • June 12

Annual Passholder Previews

Annual Passholders can enjoy a sneak peek of Tiana’s Bayou Adventure on the following dates:

  • June 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20

To participate, Passholders must:

  1. Make a park reservation for Magic Kingdom on a preview date.
  2. Join a virtual queue via the My Disney Experience app at 7:00 am for Magic Kingdom park reservations or at 1:00 pm for reservations to any theme park.

Full details.

Official Opening

Tiana’s Bayou Adventure will officially open to all guests at Magic Kingdom on June 28, 2024.

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Surferboy567Less than a minute ago

Ah, that makes sense

SirwalterraleighLess than a minute ago

None of the criticisms had anything to do with the video. 1. There’s no story/suspense in the ride 2. They don’t have enough AAs/characters in the scenes 3. It doesn’t make any sense. 4. It’s a bad use of PATF But have fun believing all that “experiency” stuff they pump relentlessly…it’s not like you were cancelling the next trip or anything

Incomudro1 minute ago

Disney needs to get over the idea that giving kids a thrill/scare is a bad thing. So do parents of kids. The whole basis of their animated classics revolved around overcoming such a thing. It's the journey, reward, growth of conquering such a thing that worked so well. And conquering a "scary" ride does that too. I remember the feeling very well with my son's at Expedition Everest for instance when they were perhaps 8 years old: "Whoa, are we up for this?" I still have the picture on my bedroom wall. And going down Summit Plummet. We (my son's are twins) didn't do it the first year, but the next year we did it! I remember how the came up to my wife and cheered "We did Summit Plummet!" So thrilled!

Sirwalterraleigh3 minutes ago

Nah…this has been going on for quite sometime Everytime something doesn’t go well…it’s either silence or shade thrown at the audience Far too many high profile examples.

JustInTime4 minutes ago

I’ve got a feeling this will hit different when experiencing in person.

Starship8247 minutes ago

Really? A bit dramatic much. There have been PLENTY of people acknowledging the downfall of Disney creative especially in these boards. People were excited for this attraction based on what had been seeing about the ride for the last few months like the animatronics episode and little that was showed in the last episode, my self included. I can also see people thinking this attraction being good based the things we had been seeing in Tokyo with Fantasy Springs, yes OLC runs the Tokyo parks, but the same WDI makes the rides.

monothingie8 minutes ago

Harmonious got tossed because it didn’t get the boost in revenue from merch, food, and beverage sales that was expected and because it was costly to operate. TBA is a response to fix a problematic Disney Attraction because of social and political issues brought about by a small but vocal contingent of people on social media, who had probably never set foot inside a Disney Park. Given the way corporate reacted to that, I have no doubt they wouldn’t hesitate to start attacking the fans.

Musical Mermaid10 minutes ago

The more I think of the plot for the attraction, the more confused I get. Looking in a bayou for musicians doesn't make sense to me as a story for a Princess and the Frog ride. I thought Louis was a unique circumstance, so wouldn't it be easier to find a human band? Maybe I missed the backstory and Tiana planned the party too late, so all the human musicians were booked at other Mardi Gras parties already. I also started to think of what it'd be like if this is what they used as a plot for something like the Little Mermaid. For most of the ride the only characters are Ariel, Sebastian and random sea creatures. Let's find some ocean animals to play in Sebastian's concert. There is no Ursula anywhere. Maybe you see King Triton using some magic to make you smaller for some ridiculous reason and you pick up some musical shrimp, then voila, you are ready to get big again for the concert and finally get to see the rest of the characters in the finale. I find the idea lame. I don't understand why they didn't use the plot of the movie. If they were doing a classic ride from scratch for Tiana, it wouldn't be nearly 10 minutes. It'd probably be closer to 3 or 4. The frog thing wouldn't be that big of a problem because they could still include at least 3 human animatronics of Tiana in different dresses: an "Almost There" scene, Charlotte's party where she meets Naveen, and a big finale in her classic green princess dress. They could also have a Dr. Facilier scene and a scene where Tiana and Naveen are frogs falling in love in the bayou. It's all from the movie and would've made a wonderful dark ride for families. We don't have enough of those. I still think that this was the wrong property for Splash's bones, it shows with how contrived the story is, but they can't undo that decision. They should be thinking of a plan B now though to improve what was delivered.

Phineas14 minutes ago

That’s the worst part though: my trepidation was never about Tiana! I adore her as a character, love her voice actress and her “I want” song is an instant ear worm. And she’s a great role model for young children watching-It’s great and wonderful to dream, but you have to help those dreams along yourself. Princess and the Frog is a charming film, and absolutely deserves its own attraction. But what they’ve come up with is a strange, monotonous mess.

WowFactor15 minutes ago

So, we've lost Splash and Tiana all at once? It's just sad...

Starship82415 minutes ago

I don't necessarily agree with this they have changed things when the vast majority of people don't like them. They completely destroyed Harmonious and didn't "blame the fans" for that. The idea that they're doing that is just not true imo, at least in the parks in recent years.

Cliff19 minutes ago

Disney's sharp creative decline in the past 5+ years in both, the parks and the studios has been glaringly evident. A big reason for this is that way to many of Disney's best creatives were either pushed out or they got tired of the mess and just quit and were snapped up by other companies. For those here that are sincerely shocked at how bad this attraction is and are shocked that Disney destroyed "Spladh Mountain" to make this???.. Shame on you. You have NOT been paying attention closely enough. There is no excuse for anybody to claim that this attraction failure came suddenly out of left field. This is a clear trend that too many people are refusing to aknowledge.....

HonorableMention24 minutes ago

I think I understand why DL enclosed their Slippin Falls now. That transition from daytime into the dark bayou is a little weird and there’s some odd light bleed going in. That was a minor issue with Splash too but it didn’t matter as much since the show scenes were in the daytime too.

docnabox30 minutes ago

I get more of an "Oh good, it is almost over" feeling