Tiana’s Bayou Adventure will open at Magic Kingdom next month. Disney World revealed the opening date over the weekend, finally answering a question many fans have been asking for months.
But even with the opening date set, other questions still lingered. How exactly would people be able to ride Tiana’s Bayou Adventure? Would it offer a standby queue or use a virtual queue? What about a Lightning Lane option?
Thankfully, Disney has answered all of those questions in its latest information drop. Tiana’s Bayou Adventure will go the route that many of Disney’s new attractions have gone before and use a virtual queue during its initial opening. By the sounds of it though, it will only be a temporary thing. According to Disney, it will offer a standby queue “soon after the attractions opening.”
How soon after, we still don’t know.
Virtual queues have become pretty standard at this point whenever a new attraction debuts at Disney World. The system started with Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance and has been used at one time or another for Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure, Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind and TRON Lightcycle Run. It’s still in place for those last two attractions.
For the Tiana’s Bayou Adventure virtual queue, the process will be the same it’s been for other attractions. You’ll need join the virtual queue using the My Disney Experience app. There will be two opportunities—one at 7 a.m. and one at 1 p.m.
If you’re trying for the 7 a.m. drop, you won’t need to be in Magic Kingdom to join the queue. However, for the best chance at snagging a boarding group, my tip is to be up and ready before 7—as in have the app open and the virtual queue page loaded. For the 1 p.m. drop, you’ll need to be in the park to join the virtual queue.
If you don’t want to do virtual queue (or are unlucky with it), there’s also the Disney Genie+ option, as Tiana’s Bayou Adventure will also have Lightning Lane access. Genie+ doesn’t have a set price. It ranges depending on when you go and which park you visit.
As of now, Disney hasn’t said whether TRON Lightcycle Run will drop its virtual queue once Tiana’s Bayou Adventure opens on June 28. But having another attraction back in operation should definitely spread crowds out a little more at the park.
Tiana’s Bayou Adventure officially opens on June 28. Are you excited to take a trip down the bayou?
