Voyage to the Crystal Grotto Reliability & Wait Patterns

Shanghai Disneyland · Based on 22888 wait-time samples

Data updated October 12, 2026 · refreshed weekly from the last 180 days

0.64
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Highly volatile — wait times swing a lot over the course of a day.
10m
Typical (p50) wait
30m
Busy (p90) wait
50m
Worst-case (p99)
60m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

15m
Weekday average
13m
Weekend average
0.88×
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.

21
Recorded breakdowns
74m
Typical (median) outage
3h 14m
Longest outage (2026-08-01)
1.6
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-076m
2026-10-0635m
2026-08-3055m
2026-08-277m
2026-08-201h 3m
2026-08-198m
2026-08-141h 14m
2026-08-1448m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 16 different days in this window.

Downtime by hour

Share of running time the ride was down for an unplanned breakdown, by hour of the day (park-local time). Scheduled closures and refurbishments are not counted.

0
0%
1
0%
3
0%
5
0%
8
2%
9
1%
10
0%
11
1%
12
2%
13
3%
14
4%
15
4%
16
4%
17
3%
18
3%
19
3%
20
6%
21
3%
22
0%
23
0%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon 5 12 21 18 9 14 15 15 12 13 17 24 20 7 –
Tue 5 16 27 22 8 16 19 17 13 16 20 25 21 10 –
Wed 5 12 22 16 8 10 13 11 9 11 13 19 18 8 –
Thu 5 11 23 16 10 12 16 14 10 12 14 22 17 9 –
Fri 5 13 24 18 10 16 16 14 14 13 18 24 19 10 –
Sat 5 10 20 13 8 10 13 10 11 12 14 20 17 9 –
Sun 5 10 24 18 8 10 13 12 10 12 12 17 16 7 –

Weather effect on waits

How the wait changed in each kind of weather, compared with this ride at the same hour on the same weekday within three weeks. Only differences marked “clear signal” are larger than day-to-day noise.

-0m
Clear · 193 ride-hours · within noise
0m
Cloudy · 396 ride-hours · within noise
-1m
Light Rain · 42 ride-hours · within noise

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