Summary

George Hotz presents a detailed speedrun guide for completing every ride at Hong Kong Disneyland in half a day. The strategy centers on buying the Early Park Entry Pass, sprinting to high-demand rides before crowds form, and exploiting the staggered opening times of different park sections. The guide emphasizes being faster than other guests at every rope drop and transition point, treating ride capacity as a scarce resource to be optimized. By following this precise routing, Hotz claims you can finish all rides by 1:30 PM without ever waiting more than 5-10 minutes. The post applies a hacker's optimization mindset to the mundane problem of theme park logistics.

Key Insight

Theme park efficiency is a solvable optimization problem where preparation and raw speed let you consume a full day's worth of rides in under four hours.

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  Most people go to Disneyland and spend way more time waiting in line than riding rides.

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  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.

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  This guide assumes you are more athletic and motivated than 99% of Disney guests.

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  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.

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  At rope 2 the cast member will tell you not to run, but this will break down in 5 seconds and everyone will run.

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  Showing up with this clear plan, you'll be able to overtake everyone else who got early entry.

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  You are out of Disney by 1:30 pm, never having waited more than 5-10 minutes for a ride.

Tone

instructional, competitive, irreverent