Frozen Ever After vs. Remy's Ratatouille: Which Line First?

Frozen Ever After averages 46.9 minutes and Remy's Ratatouille Adventure averages 42.8 — the third- and fourth-longest lines at EPCOT, and the only two that long anywhere in World Showcase. Ride both at the wrong hour and they cost 112.5 minutes between them (59.2 + 53.3). Ride both at the right hour and they cost 38.9 (21.5 + 17.4). That is a 73.6-minute gap on two rides, decided entirely by what time you walk up.

The useful part is that they do not go bad at the same time. Frozen Ever After's worst hour is 1pm. Remy's is 4pm. They are three hours apart, which means a World Showcase afternoon can avoid both — but only if you know which way round to do them.

The two rides, side by side

Attraction	Pavilion	Avg wait (min)	Peak hourly avg	Best hour	Worst hour
Frozen Ever After	Norway	46.9	86	10pm (21.5)	1pm (59.2)
Remy's Ratatouille Adventure	France	42.8	89	10pm (17.4)	4pm (53.3)

Frozen Ever After carries the longer average by 4.1 minutes. Remy's carries the higher ceiling: its busiest hourly average reaches 89 minutes against Frozen's 86.

Proportionally, Remy's swings harder. It runs 206% above its own floor at its worst hour (53.3 ÷ 17.4 = 3.06), against Frozen Ever After's 175% (59.2 ÷ 21.5 = 2.75). Neither is a ride you can treat casually, but Remy's punishes a bad hour more.

Where they sit at EPCOT

Attraction	Zone	Avg wait (min)
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind	World Discovery	72.2
Test Track	World Discovery	60.3
Frozen Ever After	Norway	46.9
Remy's Ratatouille Adventure	France	42.8
Meet Anna and Elsa at Royal Sommerhus	Norway	33.7
Soarin' Around the World	World Nature	22.2
Mission: SPACE	World Discovery	15.7
Spaceship Earth	World Celebration	12.1

The two World Discovery headliners are longer than both of these. But Guardians and Test Track are at the front of the park, and most plans take them first. Frozen Ever After and Remy's are what is left when you reach World Showcase — and they dominate it. Add their two averages together and you get 89.7 minutes (46.9 + 42.8), against 55.9 for every other tracked World Showcase line combined: Royal Sommerhus at 33.7, Canada Far and Wide in Circle-Vision 360 at 15, and Gran Fiesta Tour at 7.2.

The order that works

Both rides share the same best hour: 10pm, the final hour EPCOT is open, which is also the park's own cheapest hour at 18.4 minutes.

Hour	Park-wide avg wait (min)
8am	25.3
9am	23.6
10am	26
11am	28.8
12pm	28
1pm	27.7
2pm	26.8
3pm	27
4pm	26.8
5pm	25.7
6pm	26.8
7pm	26.6
8pm	24.2
9pm	22.4
10pm	18.4

EPCOT's curve is unusually flat — 11am, the worst hour, is only 57% above 10pm, the best — so the park itself gives you very little steer. These two rides do. Three rules follow from the numbers above:

1. If you are staying to close, save both for the last hour. 10pm is each ride's individual floor: 21.5 for Frozen Ever After, 17.4 for Remy's. Nothing else in your day is worth 73.6 minutes.
2. If you are not staying to close, do Remy's first and Frozen second. Remy's goes bad later (4pm) and goes bad harder (206%), so it is the one that has to happen before mid-afternoon. Frozen Ever After's worst hour, 1pm, is over sooner.
3. Never do them back to back across the 1pm hour. Frozen Ever After at 1pm averages 59.2 minutes on its own. Add a walk to France and whatever Remy's is doing, and a single lunchtime pairing can take more than two hours of your park day.

The Norway complication

Norway has a second long line, and it runs on the opposite schedule to the ride next to it. Meet Anna and Elsa at Royal Sommerhus averages 33.7 minutes, with its worst hour at 9am (54.6) and its best at 4pm (25.3).

So in one pavilion:

• Frozen Ever After is at its worst at 1pm and its best at 10pm.
• Royal Sommerhus is at its worst at 9am and its best at 4pm.

A 4pm stop in Norway is the cheapest hour of the day for the meet-and-greet — and 4pm is Remy's worst hour, so it is a good hour to be in Norway rather than France. Conversely, the rope-drop instinct to clear Norway first is wrong for the meet: 54.6 minutes at 9am is the highest reading that line produces all day, and more than double its 4pm figure.

Frequently asked questions

Which one has the longer line overall? Frozen Ever After, at 46.9 minutes against 42.8. The gap is 4.1 minutes, so in practice they are close enough that the hour matters more than the ride.

Which one should I use a paid line-skip on, if only one? Remy's Ratatouille Adventure. It has the higher ceiling (89 minutes against 86) and the steeper swing, so a bad hour there costs more.

Is 10pm really better than rope drop for these? For these two, yes. Neither lists a morning hour as its floor, and EPCOT's 8am park-wide figure of 25.3 minutes is higher than its 9am figure of 23.6 — this park does not reward rope drop the way the others do.

Can I do both plus Guardians and Test Track in one day? Yes, but not all four in the same window. Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind is also cheapest at 10pm (50.4), so it competes with these two for the last hour. Test Track does not: its floor is 8am at 40.9 minutes. Take Test Track at open, and keep the closing hour for Guardians plus one of these two.

The bottom line

These are the two rides that decide whether a World Showcase day feels relaxed or feels like queuing. They share a floor at 10pm and they peak three hours apart, so the plan is simple: both at close if you can stay, Remy's before mid-afternoon if you cannot, and nothing involving Frozen Ever After at 1pm.

For the rest of the park, see the EPCOT touring plan and the EPCOT evening plan, which explains why closing time wins here. For the two longer lines at the front of the park, see Test Track wait times and the Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind data. For everything outside World Showcase, see the World Celebration, Nature and Discovery guide.

Check live and typical waits any time on the EPCOT wait times page.

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