Tiana’s Bayou Journey is the brand new attraction changing Splash Mountain at Disneyland. This information covers how one can expertise the experience since there is no such thing as a standby line (for now–see the newest replace just a few paragraphs down). You’ll want to hitch the digital queue or use the Lightning Lane. (Up to date December 9, 2024.)
Disney restricts entry to Tiana’s Bayou Journey by utilizing a free digital queue (VQ) and ‘pay-to-play’ entry through the Lightning Lane Multi-Move (LLMP), each of that are in lieu of a standard standby line. Because of this as a substitute of having 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, you could roll the cube on the VQ or LLMP.
The digital queue enrollment instances are thrice day by day, at 7 a.m., 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. In case you succeed, you’re in a position to experience Tiana’s Bayou Journey. In case you don’t…you aren’t. There isn’t any third choice. These programs are nothing new, as Haunted Mansion at present operates in precisely the identical manner. Earlier than that, Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway, WEB Slingers: Spider-Man Journey, and Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance had comparable programs.
Nonetheless, all of this has been complicated even for Disneyland diehards. Our objective right here is that will help you keep away from comparable frustrations. In case you present as much as the park, pondering you’ll be capable to experience Tiana’s Bayou Journey, you’re in for colossal disappointment.
On the contrary, you’re nearly assured you gained’t be using when you 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 a pleasant day at Disneyland!
December 9, 2024 Replace: Disneyland will discontinue the complimentary digital queue for Tiana’s Bayou Journey beginning tomorrow, December 10, 2024. That means there will be a standby line going ahead, making most of this information out of date as of tomorrow. As earlier than, friends may experience utilizing Lightning Lane Premier Move or Lightning Lane Multi-Move.
Our assumption is that climate and experience reliability are the primary causes for this. Whereas Tiana’s Bayou Journey doesn’t have an ideal monitor report at Disneyland, the attraction hasn’t had almost as a lot downtime at Disneyland. It’s throughout the bounds of what’s affordable from a brand new or redone experience. So there isn’t as a lot of a must “pulse” friends by means of, as was the case beforehand with Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance or different points of interest vulnerable to breakdowns.
Demand is one other related consideration. Tiana’s Bayou Journey has now been open for a month at Disneyland, which means the preliminary rush of demand is essentially over. Even earlier than it formally debuted, there have been Magic Key Annual Move and Solid Member previews for just a few weeks, so most locals have already gotten their repair of the brand new attraction, making the digital queue much less aggressive.
Lastly and most significantly, it’s that point of yr when Southern California will get chilly. That is true very first thing within the morning and at evening, which begins round 5 pm this time of yr. So there are principally only some hours per day when the climate is heat, and even that isn’t a certain factor–California’s local weather may be very totally different from Florida. On high of that, Tiana’s Bayou Journey will get you various levels of moist to completely soaked.
Many Walt Disney World followers are undoubtedly studying this, questioning why the model of Tiana’s Bayou Journey that opened a number of months later is dropping its digital queue first. Frankly, so are we. It’s additionally beginning to get colder in Florida and the Magic Kingdom model has turn into extra dependable.
Neither are to the identical extent as Disneyland, but it surely’s nonetheless our expectation that Walt Disney World drops the digital queue for Tiana’s Bayou Journey very quickly. Nevertheless, since Walt Disney World hasn’t already achieved this (the general reliability pattern/trajectory is now a pair months outdated) and the 2 busiest weeks are on the horizon, our greatest guess is that Tiana’s Bayou Journey at Magic Kingdom gained’t ditch the digital queue and change to standby till on or after January 6, 2025.
For now, the underside line is that Tiana’s Bayou Journey at Disneyland is shifting to a standby line for quite a lot of causes beginning December 10, 2024. Anybody visiting on or after this date in all probability doesn’t must learn the remainder of this information for digital queue functions, which is being preserved for posterity, except you’re curious the way it used to work. In case you plan on buying Lightning Lane line-skipping, skip right down to that part (recognized with the massive blue-green “Lightning Lane” banner) for every little thing you could know…
When will the digital queue finish at Tiana’s Bayou Journey?
This may increasingly look like an odd spot to begin, however earlier than we dig in, we wish to begin by sharing Disneyland’s official announcement in regards to the digital queue:
“Upon its grand opening, becoming a member of the complimentary digital queue, accessible solely through the Disneyland app, is required to expertise Tiana’s Bayou Journey. A standby queue won’t be accessible throughout the attraction’s preliminary opening days.”
What does that imply? It’s anyone’s guess. For one factor, the digital queue dynamic is all the time evolving. Disneyland tinkers with insurance policies, demand rises & falls, and so forth.
For an additional factor, Walt Disney World particularly acknowledged this again when its model of Tiana’s Bayou Journey opened: “Whereas a standby queue won’t be accessible throughout the attraction’s preliminary opening days, we count on to open a standby queue quickly after the attraction’s opening.”
That was over 4 months in the past, and the Florida model remains to be utilizing a digital queue and there aren’t any indicators it’s going away anytime earlier than 2025. Digital queue within the “preliminary opening days” and “standby queue quickly after the attraction’s opening” will need to have totally different meanings to Disney than they do to me.
The explanation for the delayed adoption of a standby line, as we’ve documented in a number of posts, is that Tiana’s Bayou Journey has skilled important day by day downtime and experience reliability woes. The excellent news is that the Florida model has improved significantly within the final month-plus, and Magic Key previews counsel the Disneyland model is extra dependable from the outset.
Not solely that, however Southern California will get chilly this time of yr and this model of Tiana’s Bayou Journey actually soaks friends. Accordingly, our expectation is that the digital queue will go away a lot quicker in California. That would occur as early as December or in Winter 2025–all of it relies upon upon a combination of downtime and demand.
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What’s the digital queue for Tiana’s Bayou Journey?
The digital queue is one in every of two essential methods to entry the bodily traces for Tiana’s Bayou Journey.
Somewhat than a standby queue, you be a part of this digital line through the Disneyland 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, but it surely’s fairly intuitive.
Observe that your whole wait will not be digital. You may count on to come across a wait upon being known as again to the bodily line. The digital queue is solely Disney’s methodology for pulsing demand to Tiana’s Bayou Journey, which is essentially essential although Splash Mountain didn’t have one, on account of a mixture of it being a brand new experience and it being unreliable.
When can we enter the digital queue?
There are 2 day by day alternatives to request to hitch the digital queue for Tiana’s Bayou Journey:
- 7:00 AM – Company will need to have a park reservation for Disneyland Park with a one-park ticket or a park reservation for Disneyland Park with a Park Hopper ticket to request to hitch the digital queue.
- 12:00 PM (Midday) – Company inside Disney California Journey Park with a Park Hopper ticket or inside Disneyland Park can request to hitch the digital queue.
- 4:00 PM – Identical because the midday digital queue, we assume.
What’s the course of like for becoming a member of the digital queue?
To affix the digital queue for Tiana’s Bayou Journey at Disneyland, begin by hitting the hamburger button on the decrease proper nook of the Disneyland app.
From there, choose the “Digital Queues” tile. Then “Be a part of Digital Queue.” Alternatively, there’s a shortcut from the house display screen on the Disneyland app when you simply scroll down slightly bit–search for “Request Entry with Digital Queue.” Generally the entire tiles take a bit to load on right here after you first open the app.
Right here’s what the screens seem like, albeit for a unique Disneyland experience to do a VQ:
You’ll have the choice of confirming your social gathering beginning at 6 am, or an hour earlier than the digital queue opens. Click on the blue button to substantiate your social gathering (above left), guaranteeing that everybody visiting with you is chosen for the digital queue. As long as tickets are correctly linked and everybody has a park reservation for Disneyland, this course of ought to be easy crusing and self-explanatory.
When you affirm your social gathering, you’ll see the above proper display screen till 7 am. Use the “quick finger” technique under 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 a part of Queue” button. Faucet that and also you’re achieved!
If profitable, you’ll see an estimate of your ready time, which will probably be a number of hours into the long run (and never essentially correct) at 7 am since Disneyland isn’t even open but. As soon as the park is open, this identical display screen will present you which of them boarding teams have been known as plus a extra correct estimate wait time. Even then, return instances can fluctuate primarily based on downtime and different elements.
As soon as it’s your flip to hitch the bodily queue, you’ll obtain a notification stating “Your group has been known as” (above center). You too can see your digital queue standing in direction of the highest of the Disneyland app residence display screen, in addition to on the digital queue web page itself.
To entry the digital queue for Tiana’s Bayou Journey at Disneyland, you’ll must click on that notification (or just return to the digital queue web page within the app), which is able to then pull up your boarding move (above proper). Scan that on the entrance and also you’re good to go!
Subsequent, we’ll cowl some methods to enhance your pace and improve your possibilities of success on the Tiana’s Bayou Journey digital queue!
Digital Queue Velocity Technique
Disney WiFi versus Mobile Knowledge?
It actually is determined by your service and the place you’re situated within the park/resort/and many others.
We’d advocate doing a fast pace take a look at with each a couple of minutes earlier than it’s time to hitch the digital queue. Something at or above 50 Mbps ought to be enough, however the greater the higher. If essential, transfer round to get away from different folks or improve your pace to that threshold.
Are there any methods to enhance pace?
Clearly, there’s solely a lot that’s inside your management with regards to your web pace at Disneyland. Two massive issues are getting away from congested areas and out from beneath issues.
On the subject of the 12 pm digital queue, keep away from congested areas of the parks. If in any respect potential, try to hitch whereas not standing in line for anything, as some queues have ‘lifeless zones’ with out WiFi or mobile service.
How ought to we put together for becoming a member of the digital queue?
This would possibly sound like overkill, however milliseconds matter.
Be sure your telephone is absolutely up to date and power shut all apps, together with the Disneyland app shortly earlier than it’s time to hitch 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 very best 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 gained’t be in the identical boarding teams, which means you gained’t experience collectively.
We advocate everybody strive for everybody in your social gathering. Disney’s official recommendation is not to try this, because it might trigger issues. This isn’t true, or whether it is, we’ve been extremely fortunate to by no means have any points on account of this. Everybody making an attempt will increase your possibilities of success and minimizing points in case one individual’s telephone freezes or is sluggish for no matter purpose.
The individual in your social gathering with the quickest fingers will rating the boarding group, whereas everybody else will obtain a “Not So Quick/Already in Boarding Group” message. Simply make certain that anybody in your social gathering who tries for boarding passes makes an attempt so as to add everybody. It’s good to do a apply run or two at residence so that you’re snug with the method within the Disneyland app so that you don’t get flustered and mess up.
Tiana’s Bayou Journey Lightning Lane Technique
Is there every other approach to experience Tiana’s Bayou Journey?
Sure.
Tiana’s Bayou Journey additionally presents line-skipping entry through Lightning Lane Multi-Move. You may examine this technique in our Information to Lightning Lane Multi-Move at Disneyland.
What’s the distinction between the digital queue and the Lightning Lane?
Apart from the digital queue being free and the Lightning Lane entry costing cash, the latter is quicker. Lightning Lanes are Disneyland’s line-skipping choice, colloquially often known 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 quicker than you, and wait much less time. (Until the experience breaks down, by which case you each is perhaps caught.)
Which choice is best?
The paid one, minus the entire “costing cash” half.
Along with the road shifting quicker, the opposite massive upside with the Lightning Lane is that there’s extra certainty–and that’s a giant cope with an unreliable experience that suffers a whole 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 foul day and doesn’t get to later boarding teams, the digital queue friends are simply out of luck.
How excessive of precedence is Tiana’s Bayou Journey with regards to Lightning Lane rankings?
For the rest of 2024, it’s a simple #1 choose–forward of Indiana Jones Journey and House Mountain–in Disneyland. You’ll want to guide ASAP when you enter the park, or get fortunate with a experience reservation refill later within the day.
With that mentioned, Splash Mountain ranked within the high 3 throughout the summer time months, however fell from the highest 5 throughout the winter months. Tiana’s Bayou Journey being model new and having day by day downtime will maintain it within the high slot even as soon as the temperature turns chilly, at the least for the primary couple of months. As soon as January and February 2025 roll round, it may very well be a unique story.
Is it potential to attain a spot within the digital queue and buy a Lightning Lane for Tiana’s Bayou Journey?
Sure. There’s nothing that forestalls it except for how rapidly each guide up–which means that there’s no coverage stopping you from double-dipping that manner.
Is Tiana’s Bayou Journey open for Early Entry at Disneyland?
No. We don’t count on that to alter, both. Solely Tomorrowland and Fantasyland can be found throughout Early Entry, which isn’t a brand new growth. Bayou Nation opens at common rope drop.
Can we be a part of the digital queues for each Tiana’s Bayou Journey and Haunted Mansion?
Sure, however you can not maintain spots in each digital queues on the identical time.
As a sensible matter, which means not solely do you could achieve success with one experience at 7 am, but in addition that you could 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 12 pm.
Alternatively, you possibly can be a part of the digital queue for one and purchase Lightning Lane entry to the opposite. You would additionally doubtlessly acquire free digital queue entry to each and buy Lightning Lane entry to each when you’re actually environment friendly…and wish to expertise each twice, for no matter purpose.
With that mentioned, we’re anticipating Haunted Mansion Vacation to drop its digital queue throughout the coming weeks. Up till then, we’d extremely advocate prioritizing Tiana’s Bayou Journey.
What time does Tiana’s Bayou Journey run out of boarding passes?
There isn’t any set time, however count on the primary digital queue to replenish earlier than 7:01 am every day for the remainder of 2024. That’s what has occurred with all points of interest which have come earlier than and used digital queues.
As for the 12 pm digital queue, that actually relies upon upon demand and downtime. 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 go away the park as soon as becoming a member of the queue?
Sure. You would return to your resort and take a nap, eat lunch at Disney California Journey, and many others.
How do we all know after we can return?
In case your telephone has push notifications for the Disneyland app 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 also needs to offer you an thought of how quickly you’ll be known as.
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 a part of the digital queue first, which suggests arriving and going by means of that identical to everybody else. To reap the benefits of DAS, go to the Lightning Lane return line as soon as your boarding group is known as.
What about Rider Swap?
Yep, identical course of as above.
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 different latest rides like Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway and WEB Slingers, each of which dropped their VQs pretty promptly.
Our expectation is that the ‘reimagined experience’ scent will put on off fairly rapidly. By early 2025, it’s probably that demand cools down or Tiana’s Bayou Journey has gotten extra dependable. Ideally, each. During which case, the digital queue will keep open for hours as a substitute of seconds/minutes. Or higher but, it gained’t be essential in any respect and the standby line will open.
Though the digital queue creates winners and losers, when you’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 understanding 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 will probably be considerably shorter than when you simply wait till subsequent yr or every time the digital queue is changed with a standby line.
Our official place on digital queues is that they’re dangerous and ought to be eradicated. The entire course of is complicated (therefore this submit) and extremely visitor unfriendly because of this. Visiting Disneyland is already too difficult, and this simply provides one other layer of stress and unpredictability, with extra you could know. With that mentioned, 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 traces. It’s an analogous story for you now that you just’ve learn all of this. You’ve already realized 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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