Kali River Rapids to begin delayed openings starting today at Disney's Animal Kingdom

By WDWMAGIC Staff · Sunday May 16, 2021 7:15am ET · "Kali River Rapids"
Kali River Rapids to begin delayed openings starting today at Disney's Animal Kingdom

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Starting May 16 2021, Kali River Rapids at Disney's Animal Kingdom will begin operating an hour later than regular park opening.


The white water river raft adventure now opens an hour after park opening, which means a 9am start for most days with Disney's Animal Kingdom opening at 8am. The ride remains open until park close.

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Weird. Makes sense in January when it’s 50 degrees, but now, not so much.

Not that I’d ride it first on any DAK day, anyway.
Outside of the new rides (star wars, runaway train and slinky)... this is rhe only ride I have never been on.

Now I want to go on it... in the morning!
I feel like this has happened before?
↩ replying to dreday3
Yes it has happened a lot, but usually off season.
Went on it the other day and avoided getting soaked. Just as a warning .. at this point in time they do not have the covered area in the middle of the float available to keep your items from getting wet.
↩ replying to MansionButler84
I waited an hour once in the heat just to get a splash of cool water- never again lol.
↩ replying to JIMINYCR
Weren’t the covers removed when they added the lockers?
Rode Kali for the first time in years last month. My daughter and I noticed that it was a walk on first thing in the AM so it was actually worth it and we enjoyed it. So now of course they take that away. Would not wait more than 15 minutes.
↩ replying to peter11435
They added lockers for kali?
↩ replying to disneygeek90
Yeah.. like 8-9 years ago
↩ replying to peter11435
I guess I don’t even notice them 😅
↩ replying to peter11435
When were there at the end of 2016 they had removed the covers and added lockers, so it’s certainly been quite a while.
↩ replying to nickys
They’ve been gone for a while. Not sure exactly when, but they added free lockers and subtracted the center storage console.
↩ replying to hathawaybrowne
I believe it happened in 2012
So we went on the one at Universal that looks a lot like this. For people who have been on both... how does the drench factor compare?
Yes. I'm the old dude that wears a poncho and goes shoeless.