Hey guys welcome back in today’s video we're going to see how accurate the wait times are
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button we are here at Islands of Adventure and as you know Universal has posted wait
time and we just want to see how accurate those are so in today’s video what we’re
going to is we’ll ride a few rides probably some here and then we'll go over to Studios
and ride a couple there and we're just going to time them we're going to look at the post
Wait Times report what those are show you and then we're going to start our timer will
start a timer it soon as we enter the queue and then we will stop it as we are getting
onto the ride we just checked the app and it looks like Forbidden Journey is only a
25 minute wait right now so we're going to head on up to hogsmeade we’ll double check
that wait time before we jump on because sometimes it changes by the time you get up there but
that's the first ride we’re going to go try to hop on I know you probably can't see
it but it is still saying it's a 25-minute wait so we are going to put our stuff in the
locker and see how long it actually is we just got off of Forbidden Journey and we waited
almost exactly 27 minutes so with a 25 minute wait time that's pretty accurate but as soon
as we got in the queue we got stopped like in the herbology greenhouse and I pulled out
my phone and checked that app and the wait time had gone up to 45 minutes so what happens
a lot of times is when people see these lower wait times especially at a popular ride like
forbidden journey they see that lower wait time on the app or on the boards posted and
there’s kind of this big rush to the ride and that's kind of what we saw when we were
walking up when I checked on that the first time I was like oh I bet it'll be at least
35 minutes when we get up there it still said 25 but that quickly changed if you're going
to get stuck in a queue it might as well be the Forbidden Journey because it is the best
queue anywhere so we bypassed Jurassic Park/World yeah we will come back to that maybe but we’re
over here by Kong and we're going to go ahead and jump on this it is currently a 55 minute
wait so Kong does tend to stay pretty busy I'll be honest I don't think we've ever waited
in the standby line we went through the queue just to go through the queue I think at the
Orlando Informer stuff but we’ve never actually just waited in line here so I'm curious I
don't know how it typically does as far as versus the wait time so this will be news
to us alright so we just got off Kong and we came
over here to the Splash Zone watching people get drenched it's a hot day so we’ve said
that in every video I'm pretty sure that it's a hot day it’s just always hot but we're
just watching people enjoy getting wet but anyways how was the wait on Kong okay so it
was a 55 minute wait time and we waited right at 42 minutes so not bad so far it seems like
posted wait times are fairly accurate but on the high side which is kind of what I would
expect at least since we're done with that I figured we could go ride something a little
more thrilling let’s go get on the Carosousel okay we'll go get on Velocicoaster we're pretty
sure that we saw on the app it is a 90 minute wait but it seems to do okay in that category
so we're going to go jump on okay so we just got off the Velocicoaster it is just we’ve
said it in other videos it’s special it's a very intense ride but like we talked about
it is a People Eater like the line seems to move pretty quickly what was our time it was
an hour and 3 minutes which you’ve got to remember this with that ride you put your
stuff in a locker halfway through and then so you have to we have to ride the ride get
off the ride and get our stuff back out of the locker before we could stop that so you
could probably take I don’t know 4 or 5 minutes off of that what we probably should’ve
done is use Anna’s watch to time it but we just didn’t think about it so yeah 90
minute posted wait time and we ended up waiting what about an hour yeah I’d say right at
an hour previous experience was about the same that’s what we were sort of seeing
I think we got on it with a 75 minute wait yesterday and waited about 40 minutes so right
in there we’ve heard people say it’s half the posted wait time we haven’t experience
that but we got close with that 40 minute wait but not quite but we are excited to see
that the posted wait time for this ride tends to be a high estimate So we’ve ridden a
couple things over here in Islands of Adventure we thought that we would head over to Studios
and check out some of the wait times over there
alright so we are over here at Universal Studios and we are making our way back to Men In Black
because if we're going to wait for a ride it’s gonna be one where I can beat up on
Anna a little bit she wants redemption she wants a chance at the title she’s not gonna
get there but we're going to give her a shot but according to the to the ap the wait time
is right now 45 minutes we’ll see how it goes
Alright so we have made it back here to Men in Black we're going to jump on it does still
say a 45 minutes let’s get to it alright guys we just got off and then in Black not
sure when this video will come out but if you're following our Instagram which is The
Pugh Two you can see how that went and it went as expected Anna a bad gun I'm sure no
so usually when we ride Men in Black we have express pass and with that ride at you go
down like the opposite side so you’re shooting different targets so going through the standard
line I don't really know what targets to shoot at so I do not do very well it’s a little
bit different but anyway so that post 45 minutes when we got it line and it came in right at
34 minutes 34 34 and a half and that's not that bad I guess that means that every ride
today no the first ride Forbidden Journey was like 2 minutes over so almost every ride
was pretty accurate or overestimating their wait time alright guys so we just wanted to
do this video to give you guys an idea of how accurate these wait times are at Universal
because especially when the wait times are really long it can be a really big determining
factor in whether or not you actually ride an attraction yeah I feel like people get
scared off from sometimes even planning a trip because they’ll look at the app and
be like oh man everything's like 60 minutes or 45 minutes so if I've only got two days
I can't get anything done and that's just not the case that’s why we wanted to do
this video because we were pretty sure that most of the time the posted wait times were
going to be a slight overestimate and one of the interesting things that we saw today
with all the rides that we rode is that the ones that has the longer estimated wait times
seem to have the biggest difference between the posted time and the actual time so even
though the parts may be busy and you may see kind of like a big scary number it doesn't
necessarily mean that you're going to wait that entire time yeah I mean the parks are
very busy today and we haven't had to wait more than what we had one wait that was over
an hour but really it would have been under an hour if we could have just kept the phone
on us and stopped the clock it would have been just under an hour and if longest you're
going to wait is an hour for an attraction you can get a lot done without having express
pass yeah especially with that being the newest attraction at Universal alright guys that
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