Most people go to Disneyland and spend way more time waiting in line than riding rides. HK Disneyland is simpler than many of the other Disney parks, but proper pathing is key for avoiding lines. Done correctly, you should be able to ride every ride in half a day. This guide assumes you are more athletic and motivated than 99% of Disney guests.


First off, buy the Early Park Entry Pass, it gets you in at 9:30 instead of 10:30. You won’t have to pay for anything else if you do this, and you make up for it in savings by not buying lunch at Disney.

Arriving way before 9:30 isn’t that important, 9:15 is more than fine. There’s a long single file line where they check your Early Park Pass, but this is cleared long before 9:30. From 9:20-9:30, you are waiting in an 8 wide queue for park entry. This queue clears in 3 minutes. You are in the park by 9:33.

Now comes the first important run of the day. Remember, Disney only has a fixed capacity for rides, and it’s your job to make sure you are consuming as much of that capacity as possible. Run to the back of the park for Frozen Ever After, it’s about a third of a mile. Showing up with this clear plan, you’ll be able to overtake everyone else who got early entry. Your goal is to be on the first boat of the day.

Now things can be a bit more relaxed while you mop up the other 4 early attractions without lines, Wandering Oaken’s Sliding Sleighs (it’s like a 30 second ride, you’d be so mad if you had waited), Winnie the Pooh, Dumbo, and if you want, you even have time for Cinderella Carousel.


Adventureland opens at 10:30. There will be a cast member blocking your way until then, but since you are in the park early and you are coming in the Fantasyland entrance, you’ll have time to make it to Jungle Cruise before all the normal entry guests. Just make sure you move faster than the cohort you are with standing at the rope and you’ll be on the first boat.

At 11:00, you need to be at the rope waiting to get into the area with Big Grizzy Mountain, eastern entrance. By this point, the park is open and there will be a big crowd waiting for this rope. There are two ropes, and you can gain a lot of time from rope 1 to rope 2 when everyone hasn’t figure out they need to run yet. At rope 2 the cast member will tell you not to run, but this will break down in 5 seconds and everyone will run. Sprint to Big Grizzly Mountain Runaway Mine Cars, if you followed this guide, you should be on the first ride train.

Some guides will tell you Mystic Manor is the way to go here. They are wrong. While Manor is a better ride, people diffuse into the park. Your goal is not to have a different ride order from others. In your ideal world everyone has the same order as you, you are just early.

After the roller coaster, there still should be almost no wait on Mystic Manor. The writers of this guide apologize if you have to wait a loading room there, but don’t worry you are crushing it.


It’s 11:40 and you have already completed most of the good rides in the park. Clean up Toy Story Land in this order, Toy Soldier Parachute Drop, RC Racer, and Slinky Dog Spin. You are enough ahead of the crowd still that Parachute Drop shouldn’t have a line yet, but if it does, skip it and return later. It’s a low capacity ride.

Now check the wait times in the app. Tomorrowland is a good place to go when everyone else is having lunch. In fact, the only line there during lunch is usually for lunch. Go in order of wait time, prioritizing Iron Man Experience, Ant-Man Nano Battle, and Orbitron.

Clean up with Mad Hatter Tea Cups and It’s a Small World. Nobody rides tea cups, and small world is high capacity, so there won’t be waits here.

You are out of Disney by 1:30 pm, never having waited more than 5-10 minutes for a ride. Enjoy a nice lunch at the mall in Tsing Yi on the way back to the city.