Voyage to the Crystal Grotto Reliability & Wait Patterns

Shanghai Disneyland · Based on 28719 wait-time samples

0.80
Volatility Index (coefficient of variation)
Moderately volatile — expect meaningful hourly swings.
10m
Typical (p50) wait
30m
Busy (p90) wait
50m
Worst-case (p99)
75m
All-time max

Weekend vs Weekday

13m
Weekday average
14m
Weekend average
1.06×
Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Voyage to the Crystal Grotto flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

32
Recorded breakdowns
74m
Typical (median) outage
4h 29m
Longest outage (2026-07-18)
2.5
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-08-3055m
2026-08-277m
2026-08-201h 3m
2026-08-198m
2026-08-141h 14m
2026-08-1448m
2026-08-0544m
2026-08-041h 14m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 23 different days in this window.

Downtime by hour

Rate of DOWN/CLOSED status per hour of the day (ET).

0
5%
1
3%
2
3%
3
1%
4
0%
5
0%
6
0%
7
6%
8
24%
9
51%
10
85%
11
88%
12
89%
13
89%
14
89%
15
89%
16
89%
17
90%
18
93%
19
88%
20
22%
21
3%
22
3%
23
3%

Best & worst hours by day of week

Average standby wait (minutes). Green = lowest of day, red = highest.

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon 18 15 13 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 11 7 5 5 8
Tue 16 10 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 8 6 5 8 12
Wed 25 9 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 7 6 9 10
Thu 15 11 10 10 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 7 5 9 12
Fri 22 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 9 7 8 15 19
Sat 23 15 13 12 12 12 12 13 12 11 9 7 6 9 11
Sun 16 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 9 9 6 5 9 12

Weather effect on waits

Average wait (minutes) in different weather conditions:

16m
Clear
13m
Cloudy
10m
Drizzle
13m
Partly Cloudy
11m
Rain

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Voyage to the Crystal Grotto go up the most when these rides are DOWN:

Siren's Revenge
+17m (110%)
Jet Packs
+-5m (-32%)

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