Tiana's Bayou Adventure Virtual Queue Stays Open for 8 Hours Amid Freezing Wind Chills

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Tiana's Bayou Adventure Virtual Queue

Posted: Friday January 10, 2025 8:17am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

January 7 2025 saw the second-longest 1 pm virtual queue window for Walt Disney World's Tiana's Bayou Adventure, staying open for 8 hours.

After just over 200 days in operation, the only longer window was December 24, 2024, when it reached 8 hours and 59 minutes. Cold weather with near-freezing wind chills likely kept guests away from outdoor attractions, particularly those involving water, contributing to the extended availability.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure Virtual Queue

On typical weather days, the virtual queue fills much faster, especially for newer attractions like Tiana's Bayou Adventure, which has an average 1 pm availability window of around 60 minutes.

While the afternoon window has seen record-setting availability, the 7 am virtual queue drop has shown no signs of slowing down. Guests continue to secure their spots within seconds, with the queue often reaching capacity in under a minute, even during the cold snap.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure remains one of two Walt Disney World attractions still operating a virtual queue, the other being EPCOT's Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind.

While Disney has suggested a standby queue may be introduced at some point, no timeline has been announced. Notably, the attraction has operated without a virtual queue during special event evenings, including Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party and Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party, where guests have been able to ride using only a standby queue with wait times typically between 25 minutes and an hour.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure Virtual Queue

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EagleScout6105 hours ago

Today marks two years since Billy (the ghost of SM) was told to "Be nice to Tiana". Yeeeahh, I don't think he's been very nice to Tiana

GhostHost10007 hours ago

Unreal. Tickets go up. Attraction availability and park hours go down

Tha Realest7 hours ago

Like Nemo and Friends, it is preemptively closing down low-demand attractions to save money on staffing.

EagleScout61017 hours ago

I'm suprised they didn't do a closure this winter. I get it's new but I think it could have benefited from a couple weeks down so they can figure out what's wrong with the ride.

ToTBellHop18 hours ago

I suspect its wait times will rise once it gets back over 80 degrees. By next January, I’m sure it’ll close for refurbishment like it used to.

SingleRider18 hours ago

Not in the current 40-something-degree weather.

gerarar18 hours ago

The afternoon 1pm VQ drop has been lasting the entire day through park close, which indicates not enough people are joining that drop to get a BG. The BG call average speeds up towards the end of the day too, progressing from 5mins/BG to 2-3mins/BG. Also, reportedly if you do get a BG in the later hours of the day, your callback is around 10-15 mins. Just seems like there's not overall enough demand for the ride currently. It should be off its VQ by now tbh.

EagleScout61018 hours ago

Is it not pulling enough people to warrant being open late?

DCBaker18 hours ago

Interestingly enough, according to the Walt Disney World website, Tiana's is scheduled to close early at 6pm on the following weekday dates: January: 23, 27, 28, 29 (there is an early close at 4:30 on Jan. 30 due to an early closure at MK) February: 3, 5, 6 No early closures scheduled on Fridays, Saturdays or Sundays.

gerarar19 hours ago

Ah just saw the other thread about the cold weather advisory today. That explains it.

Jedi1419 hours ago

Maybe the cold. I think it was in the 40s today.

ToTBellHop19 hours ago

Because it’s cold?

gerarar19 hours ago

Any idea why TBA closed early today at 6pm? The VQ hasn't called any BGs since around 5pm today – thought it was due to downtime but the rides hours show a 6pm close today. The afternoon 1pm drop also stayed open until the ride closed for the day. That side of the park must really be empty and quiet with BTMR and TBA closed tonight.

Brer Oswald1 day ago

It would still suck to lose the stellar soundtrack and cohesive plot, but it still would have been a solid attraction. It would not have been hard to make this into a 7 or 8 out of 10.