How often does Venetian Gondolas break down?

Over the last 90 days we recorded 258 real breakdown episodes for Venetian Gondolas — about 20.1 per week, spread across 89 different days. These are observed status changes from live park data, not estimates.

How long is Venetian Gondolas usually down when it breaks down?

The median recorded outage for Venetian Gondolas lasted 105 minutes (average 98 minutes). The longest outage we observed in the last 90 days lasted 546 minutes, on 2026-09-21.

Venetian Gondolas Reliability & Wait Patterns

Tokyo DisneySea · Based on 6031 wait-time samples

Data updated October 26, 2026 · refreshed weekly from the last 180 days

0.68

Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)

Highly volatile — wait times swing a lot over the course of a day.

Typical (p50) wait

40m

Busy (p90) wait

50m

Worst-case (p99)

60m

Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

17m

Weekday average

18m

Weekend average

1.06×

Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

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

258

Recorded breakdowns

105m

Typical (median) outage

9h 6m

Longest outage (2026-09-21)

20.1

Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

Date	Down for
2026-10-27	5m
2026-10-27	3h 25m
2026-10-27	2h 55m
2026-10-27	1h 49m
2026-10-26	32m
2026-10-26	2h 13m
2026-10-26	16m
2026-10-26	27m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 89 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.

6
0%

7
0%

8
0%

9
2%

10
59%

11
89%

12
19%

13
75%

14
95%

15
65%

16
70%

17
45%

18
72%

19
80%

20
55%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	–	13	14	–	9	8	–	31	–	33	–	–	–	–	–
Tue	–	10	–	–	9	8	–	19	21	23	22	–	–	–	–
Wed	–	13	–	–	5	6	–	23	14	18	20	–	–	–	–
Thu	–	13	–	–	11	–	–	23	29	28	16	–	–	–	–
Fri	–	12	–	–	8	–	–	23	28	31	–	–	15	–	–
Sat	–	18	–	–	10	–	–	19	21	26	24	–	–	–	–
Sun	–	19	–	–	16	–	–	14	21	24	16	–	–	–	–

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.

Cloudy · 190 ride-hours · within noise

-0m

Clear · 43 ride-hours · within noise

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Fri	–	12	–	–	8	–	–	23	28	31	–	–	15	–	–
Sat	–	18	–	–	10	–	–	19	21	26	24	–	–	–	–
Sun	–	19	–	–	16	–	–	14	21	24	16	–	–	–	–