Theme Park Wait Times / Kings Island / Tidal Wave Bay

Tidal Wave Bay Wait Times

42" minimum height · Kings Island

Tidal Wave Bay is not operating today.

Live ride status for Tidal Wave Bay. Kings Island publishes open and closed status for Tidal Wave Bay but does not post a wait time for it, so there is no wait history to chart here.

Currently closed · opens today 6pm

Park hours today: 6pm–11pm

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Best time to ride Tidal Wave Bay

Kings Island publishes open and closed status for Tidal Wave Bay but does not post a wait time for it, so there is no measured wait to chart. Printing a zero here would report an absence of data as a walk-on, so we do not. Live ride status is above.

Tidal Wave Bay wait time FAQ

▾What is the wait for Tidal Wave Bay right now?

Kings Island does not post a wait time for Tidal Wave Bay, so Thoosie can show whether it is open but not how long the line is. A zero here would mean no data, not a walk-on, so we do not print one.

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Reliability, measured

How often this ride was actually running, not how long the line was.

95.1%
of operating hours available
17
separate outages recorded
35h
out of service

Across 705 hours that Kings Island was open, Tidal Wave Bay was running 95.1% of the time, with 17 separate interruptions. That ranks #21 for availability out of 70 tracked rides at Kings Island, where the typical ride runs 97.84% of operating hours.

Measured 2026-05-23 to 2026-09-30 from ride status polled about every minute. Scheduled refurbishment is recorded separately and is not counted as an outage. How we measure

Ride status polled about every minute. No wait time is posted for this ride, so no wait figures are published here · How we measure

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