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Typical wait ranges from 730,000+ historical samples, the model's best dip windows, and the alert thresholds Skip will pre-fill if you set this park as your home in the app.
Congo
Hyper-hybrid coaster · 206 ft · 91° drop
The park's defining headliner. Lines spike fast after opening and the only reliable sub-45 windows are right at rope drop and the last hour.
Within ±15 min on 80% of days 133 days tracked
Stanleyville
Dive coaster · 200 ft · vertical drop
Lumpy demand. Many guests ride it once and move on. Catch the drop when it's trending down between lunch and late afternoon.
Within ±10 min on 88% of days 132 days tracked
Cheetah Hunt / Serengeti Plain
Launch coaster · 60 mph · multiple launches
Popular with a wide age range so demand is broad all day. Alerts catch the between-rush windows before it spikes again.
Egypt
Spinning family coaster · indoor/outdoor
Family-friendly capacity reliever. Ride it during the mid-morning family push or any time the big coasters look long.
Wait times by hour
On a typical Friday, SheiKra has the longest line of Busch Gardens Tampa Bay's 4 featured rides, peaking around 15 minutes near 9pm. Across them, waits are lightest around 2pm (about 5 min on average) and heaviest around 9pm (about 11 min). The crowd forecast for Fri, Oct 23 is Moderate, 6 out of 10.
| Ride | 11am | 12pm | 1pm | 2pm | 3pm | 4pm | 5pm | 6pm | 7pm | 8pm | 9pm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron Gwazi | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| SheiKra | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15 |
| Cheetah Hunt | 15 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| Cobra's Curse | 10 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 15 | 15 |
Median posted wait in minutes by hour on Fridays, last 90 days.
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Of the 4 featured rides on this page, SheiKra. On a typical Friday, its median posted wait peaks around 15 minutes near 9pm.
Around 2pm. On a typical Friday, posted waits on Busch Gardens Tampa Bay's 4 featured rides average about 5 minutes then, against about 11 at 9pm.