Overall, the week of 10/3/2021, beginning on Monday, September 27th, and ending on October 3rd, ranked 54th out of the past 65 weeks with a resort wide average wait time of 18 minutes. On Friday, everywhere but the Magic Kingdom was sparse and that trend continued on Saturday. Sunday wait times began to return to normal a bit. Rise of the Resistance, a highly popular attraction now featuring a standby queue, never eclipsed a 2 hour posted wait time this weekend, and that one occurrence was shortly lived.
Below are more comparisons of average wait times comparing last weekend to the 50th anniversary weekend at Walt Disney World Resort. Why were waits so low? Likely a confluence of factors, including COVID-19, lack of international guests, and guests anticipating large crowds and then wanting to avoid them.
Magic Kingdom
- 9/24/2021: Average Wait Time: 23 minutes
- 9/25/2021: Average Wait Time: 27 minutes
- 9/26/2021: Average Wait Time: 24 minutes
- 10/1/2021: Average Wait Time: 16 minutes
- 10/2/2021: Average Wait Time: 26 minutes
- 10/3/2021: Average Wait Time: 19 minutes
- Weekly Change: Average Wait Time down 4 minutes
- 9/24/2021: Average Wait Time: 19 minutes
- 9/25/2021: Average Wait Time: 27 minutes
- 9/26/2021: Average Wait Time: 23 minutes
- 10/1/2021: Average Wait Time: 12 minutes
- 10/2/2021: Average Wait Time: 14 minutes
- 10/3/2021: Average Wait Time: 18 minutes
- Weekly Change: Average Wait Time down 5 minutes
- 9/24/2021: Average Wait Time: 16 minutes
- 9/25/2021: Average Wait Time: 19 minutes
- 9/26/2021: Average Wait Time: 19 minutes
- 10/1/2021: Average Wait Time: 13 minutes
- 10/2/2021: Average Wait Time: 17 minutes
- 10/3/2021: Average Wait Time: 15 minutes
- Weekly Change: Average Wait Time down 2 minutes
- 9/24/2021: Average Wait Time: 34 minutes
- 9/25/2021: Average Wait Time: 38 minutes
- 9/26/2021: Average Wait Time: 30 minutes
- 10/1/2021: Average Wait Time: 20 minutes
- 10/2/2021: Average Wait Time: 24 minutes
- 10/3/2021: Average Wait Time: 27 minutes
- Weekly Change: Average Wait Time down 7 minutes
See all of the park average wait time data in the images with this post. Wait times were down 11 minutes from this week last year.