PHOTOS: What Do the Crowds Look Like During Labor Day Weekend in Disney World?

Labor Day weekend is here, Halloween is just around the corner, and the holiday season will be here before you know it! That means one thing: the potential for crowds…lots and lots of crowds!

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Recently, we’ve seen crowds and wait times reach VERY low levels in Disney World. Today, we’re taking a look at how Labor Day weekend has affected crowds at Disney World.

Magic Kingdom

This weekend, we’ve seen crowd levels increase in Magic Kingdom.

Main Street Crowds on Sunday

On Sunday morning, attractions like Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and Pirates of the Caribbean boasted wait times that were an hour or more (at one point, Seven Dwarfs Mine Train reached 80 minutes, well over last week’s average of 38 minutes).

Line at Seven Dwarfs Mine Train

Other busy attractions on Sunday morning included Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin with a 40 minute wait, Splash Mountain with a 45 minute wait, and Space Mountain with a 45-50 minute wait.

Line at Splash Mountain

Going into midday, six attractions were near or over an hour-long wait including Space Mountain, Astro Orbiter, Peter Pan’s Flight, Splash Mountain, Jungle Cruise, and Seven Dwarfs Mine Train!

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All of these wait times are nearly double last week’s averages and show that things were pretty busy today in Disney World.

On Labor Day itself (Monday), we saw more crowds again.

Labor Day Crowds

By Monday afternoon, Splash Mountain had a 50 minute wait, and Jungle Cruise was at 45 minutes. Other rides had lower wait times, such as Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at 20 minutes.

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad Line

Seven Dwarfs Mine Train had a lower wait time than Sunday as well, at 55 minutes.

Seven Dwarfs Mine Train

In general, Magic Kingdom is having a busier weekend than we’ve seen in a couple of weeks.

EPCOT

EPCOT continued this busy trend on Sunday with some big crowds in World Showcase. We saw some pretty long lines at several International Food and Wine Festival booths like Italy, China, and Mexico, which haven’t had long lines recently.

Booths like the Italy booth had unusually long lines!

Rides, on the other hand, were a bit less crowded. At midday, Frozen Ever After had a 55 minute wait time and Test Track had a 40 minute wait time.

Test Track’s line was nearly an hour long

Future World rides like Soarin’, Figment, and Spaceship Earth all had times of 20 minutes or under when we checked.

Soarin’ had a fairly short line

Toward the later afternoon on Sunday, ride wait times remained mostly under half an hour, with Test Track temporarily closed and Frozen Ever After still at 55 minutes.

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Generally, EPCOT was crowded in World Showcase, but less crowded in Future World on Sunday.

When Monday rolled around, we saw more lines in World Showcase, especially at the Food and Wine booths.

LONG line at the Japan Pavilion

The Mexico pavilion was pretty crowded as well, although the Gran Fiesta Tour ride inside only had a 15 minute wait.

Mexico Pavilion

Frozen Ever After had a LONG line in the morning, stretching back toward the China pavilion…

Frozen Ever After line

…but by Monday afternoon the wait time had dropped to 45 minutes. Like Sunday, the Future World rides had fairly low wait times on Monday, with Soarin’ and Test Track both at 30 minutes.

UK Pavilion crowds

Several EPCOT rides — like Spaceship Earth, Living With the Land, and The Seas With Nemo & Friends — had wait times of 10 minutes or less on Monday afternoon.

Disney’s Hollywood Studios

On Sunday morning, there were some big lines to get into Hollywood Studios! Looks like crowds are really starting to increase, likely due to Labor Day weekend.

Hollywood Studios lines on Sunday

Some lines were short at first, like Tower of Terror’s “13” minute walk-on wait time on Sunday morning! However, Tower of Terror’s line reached 60 minutes later in the day.

Tower of Terror line

There were some LONG lines at certain attractions in Hollywood Studios right off the bat on Sunday, with the highest two being Slinky Dog Dash at 70 minutes and Mickey’s Runaway Railway at 65 minutes!

Slinky Dog Dash!

Two of the other high wait times were the Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run at 60 minutes, and Toy Story Midway Mania at 55 minutes.

Millennium Falcon crowds

By midday Sunday, attractions like Runaway Railway, Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run, and Slinky Dog Dash were well over an hour and rising.

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On Monday, we saw more long lines at Hollywood Studios, though some were not as long as on Sunday.

Guests in Galaxy’s Edge

Tower of Terror had a 70-minute wait earlier in the afternoon…

Tower of Terror wait time

…but it dropped down to 25 minutes in the late afternoon. Other popular rides also dropped wait times later, like Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run with a 35-minute wait and Toy Story Mania with a 20-minute wait.

Slinky Dog Dash line

By 5PM on Monday, Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway was a 45-minute wait and Slinky Dog Dash was at 50 minutes. These are definitely longer than we saw last week, but not as bad as some of the wait times we saw earlier this weekend.

Disney’s Animal Kingdom

Disney’s Animal Kingdom saw a crowd increase this holiday weekend as well, especially on the bigger rides. We walked on to Flight of Passage last week, but on Monday morning the line for this ride was SUPER long.

Flight of Passage End of Line sign

Later on Monday, the Flight of Passage wait time was at 50 minutes.

Here come the Labor Day crowds!

Around the parks, we saw more crowds as well, although the ride wait times weren’t too high.

Crowds in Animal Kingdom

Expedition Everest was at a 10-minute wait time when we checked, and Kali River Rapids was at about 25 minutes in the afternoon.

Animal Kingdom Crowds

This Labor Day weekend has been a pretty busy one, especially compared to the VERY low crowds we’ve seen recently. There was a significant change in crowds this weekend, and we expect the upcoming holidays could bring in even bigger crowds. We’re always keeping up with the latest Disney news, so stay tuned for more!

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