The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

Hands down best ride at Hollywood Studios! When my family goes to Disney, we go on this ride at least three times in a row. The falling and rising sensation is irreplecable.

This ride is so much fun and the cast and crew do an amazing job of making the entire experience spooky. It will drop you about 5 – 6 times but after the initial drop, it is a blast.
They also take a video on this ride so be sure to scan your band to have access to the video.

We had a great time on this ride but I had Vertigo for the next two weeks :(
Will definitely be back!

Came in with a similar expectation of the LA Disneyland but had it even better at this location.
The whole theme of a haunted mansion is a great one and probably one of the most popular rides in both LA and Orlando locations.
The hotel building operates with 4 elevators each holding around 32 people. The line for the ride is usually around 30 minutes or more so fast pass is recommended especially during the afternoon. I really enjoy the Haunted Mansion decoration and the amount of work they put into constructing this ride because if there weren’t anyone lining up or attending the ride and it was at night… this Hotel could seem like a REALLY Haunted Hotel Building.
The ride it self pretty much goes into the twilight and you strike up and down the building in the elevator seated being able to see the outside park as you past the windows of the building. The only difference between this one is the variation of the hikes going up and the drops going down as well as the elevator entering the building deeper before dropping so. The story behind the whole thing is creepy and ones that will for give the kids a shiver!
The Disneyland workers on the ride do seem to have more energy and often play the role of a creepy Haunted Hotel operator while the workers here just talk in normal voices and simply direct you instructions rather than playing a character role.
Overall a great ride and one everyone should experience when visiting these Disney Parks!

One of my favorite rides at Disneyworld and Disneyland! The décor really depicts a true scary looking hotel with cobwebs, dusty furniture, dim lighting and creepy portraits.
Definitely a must do! Honestly I think it’s better than the Disneyland one! It’s a bit longer ride! And you really feel like you’re going into the twilight zone!!!
Make sure you book your FP+ or get there when the park opens because there will be long lines. Another best time to ride is during or right after Fantasmic.
Minus one star because the cast members weren’t doing their job. They were not in character. They just told people to go to their numbers, put their seat belts on. No acting whatsoever. The cast members at Disneyland do a way better job at this.

It has its Up and Downs
Overall: 4.5 Stars
The Tower of Terror (only built 21 years ago [July 22, 1994]) is one of the most well-​known and popular rides in all the Disney Parks. The ride itself is short (3 minutes or so), but you are immersed into world upon walking into the entrance. From the deteriorating railing and the overgrown brush on the outside to the cobwebs and dust covered lights and dead plants you are in the Hollywood Tower Hotel.
The characters/​staff follow the theme by being remarkably despondent. I get the feeling the employee training only consists of watching old videos of the Addams Family and focusing on the scenes with Lurch.
The ride itself is a nice experience, I felt a little disappointed because I expected more of an intense drop. That and I didn’t know where the camera was. I think riding the Tower of Terror at night can create a better experience because it will add to the dark and stormy night theme. Despite my minor disappointment it is still one of my favorite rides at Disney, because it is executed in such an epically marvelous manner.
Make a dash for this ride as soon as you enter the park! The wait time can exceed 1 hour at peak times, but usually fits anywhere between 45 minutes 1 hour. The majority of the wait time is listed at 13 minutes!
The sad part about the ride is the younger audience will unlikely understand all the Twilight Zone references, which is a tragedy! The Tower of Terror is nowhere near as old as its Twilight Zone Namesake, but it’s almost as iconic!
For those who don’t know Lurch or the Addams Family here is a 7 second clip of Lurch.

The wait is always an hour but we always fast pass + when we can, the interior is cool, the décor while waiting is eh boring.
The ride should last a lot longer then a few drops. I mean it’s great and all and fun but 3 or 4 drops is not enough to compensate for an hour wait.
STAY HERE IF YOU DAREEEEE

Great ride and one you have to experience when your here. Get the fast pass for it since it you have to wait more than 30 min it sucks… lol
The first time you get on the ride you don’t know what to expect and it’s very engaging and exhilarating. The only reason why it didn’t get 5 stars is because it was kinda a short ride. Second best ride behind Aerosmith rock n roller coaster!

The ride is great. No surprise there. It’s definitely top 5 of all the rides Disney has to offer, however this is about the service. We used a speed pass which made the wait minimal, however after our ride we were informed that because of one of the riders doing an obscene gesture, we could not view or purchase our picture. So, they offered to let us ride again, no waiting. Crazy enough, another idiot on our ride did and obscene gesture and we could not purchase the picture. So they again offered us a chance to ride, no wait, and the third time was the charm. They also gifted us extra pictures in our package for the «inconvenience» of the multiple rides. Listen, I have never felt so lucky. However, the desire to take care of us as well as the other two couples who we shared the experiences with was priceless. Exceptional

This is BEYOND anything, my favorite ride Disney has –ever– done. I enjoy it so so much!
Based on the Hollywood Biltmore hotel in Los Angeles (I’ve stayed there) The attention to detail is AMAZING. It really is almost like being back in the lobby once more.
Once you go through the Rod Serling: Twilight Zone introduction and are led into the boiler room, again, you see the attention to detail. Then the Elevator Host seats you. Hold on, you’re in for the ride of your life as once more, a bit of introduction is given. You don’t know if this is a one drop or a 5 drop ride. I was lucky enough to be sat next to a family of six who had never ridden TOT before. Their reaction to it was priceless. The young girl kept saying how much she was sweating. One was go-​pro-​ing the whole thing, and the young lad at my side kept looking at me with such JOY on his face. Yes, this is my favorite ride.
I’ve done it here in Orlando and in Anahiem, I’m sorry California Adventure. You lack. Your ride misses so many marks. Yes, the drop is fun, but the story. you miss it. Try again.

A MUST DO!
This ride is truly one of Disney’s most memorable rides!
Hollywood Studios is where you are one with the rides, in the movies!
The Twilight Zone’s Tower of Terror is no different! The queue line has the nice tune of old music as you wait outside the old hotel. You enter through the lobby and once inside Rod Sterling’s (amazing) voice explains to you that you are about to enter the twilight zone. (This is normally when I start to feel the butterflies start and the sweaty palms)
You are then directed into the basement to use the service elevator. Once inside the ride, you literally «enter» the twilight zone and when you’re least expecting it… You shoot up, feel your stomach in your throat, and then drop.
The amazing part is it is totally random! You could fall only three times or NINE times! Yikes!
As an avid roller coaster rider, I’m only slightly ashamed to admit this ride makes me so nervous that my legs shake.
It’s that good. Love it!!!

My second favorite ride at the World only after Haunted Mansion! The theming is amazing and very well done. You actually feel like you are a part of the story, visiting the old abandoned hotel that is haunted and getting on the same elevator as the story is centered around. Every time I go on this ride, I find some new detail that I have not seen before.
I find the length of the ride just right, especially with the randomized drops. The ride is never the same!

The Tower of Terror is possibly the greatest invention of the Disney Imagineers, and perhaps any engineer in a theme park. And I’ve been to a LOT of theme parks, and I’ve seen a LOT of rides.
–There’s a perfect theme. The setting looks amazing. It looks exactly like an abandoned hotel from the classic days of Hollywood.
–It’s well connected with the Twilight Zone series. Each Imagineer that worked on this project was required to watch each episode of the Twilight Zone twice.
–It’s suspenseful, but it’s not too scary. There aren’t cheap parlor tricks like stupid crap popping out at you just to scare you. The main reason that it’s suspenseful is that you know what’s coming, but you don’t know exactly when it’s coming. If you have rode the ride before, you know when it’s coming, but…
–The technology of the ride is pretty remarkable. Ride the ride, and you’ll know what I mean. Even the introduction video from the library where they show the introduction video is perfectly done.
–They spared no expense in making it incredibly authentic and making sure that it felt perfectly. (Example: The ride’s building is 199′ tall, not 200. If it was 200′ tall, the imagineers would have to put a flashing red light on top of the tower, and thought that it would take away from the effect of the building.)
I like this version slightly better than the one on the West Coast at California Adventure. This version is slightly longer, and your elevator moves between two shafts. It’s also condensed a bit more than the one in California.
I’d tell more, but I don’t want to ruin it for those who haven’t been on it yet. But, in the opinion of this Disney nut, it might be the best attraction that Disney has ever created.

Shorter than I remember it. I’ve been to the Tower of Terror ride in Disneyland and remember it being scarier and longer. This is probably the only ride I was actually nervous/​scared to ride at Disney World, since I’m not a huge fan of heights. It ultimately ended up being short and not as scary as I remembered it being. You do go up and down and drop a few times and it’s probably one of the more «intense» rides at Disney World, so I wouldn’t recommend it for those who aren’t fans of high intensity rides. It’s probably not good for little kids (under 7 years of age) either.
My fiancé and I used a fast pass for the ride and I think it’s absolutely necessary to do so on crowded days! We visited during Labor Day weekend so I’m very glad we got a fast pass — we waited for 5 minutes to get on the ride, but the Stand By line was at least 45+ minutes. Eep.

One of two best rides in the Hollywood studios for teens and older. I have to ride on this every time when we visit here. I dragged my son when he eas 6 yrs old now 4 years late, he still remembered the scary ride and refused to go on to this with me. :) mom got to ride along so got on pretty quickly as a single rider with the fast pass.
You will hear this ride multiple times before you get there, the tram driver, the greeters etc. The way they described it «you got dropped, then dropped again, then dropped again.» so it is not a only power tower kind of ride but with an awesome twist with the story line and change of scene between total darkness and open view.
I loved the most is you only have the seat belt cross the waist with no harness on the upper body and and nothing to hold on. So during the speey dropping, my whole body was floating/​dropping in the mid-​air. super cool.
You have to try it. Totally worth the fast pass.

Sidney’s technology is second to none. Amazing experience! Not going to spoil it for others!

A very fun and popular ride. I like that WDW hasn’t updated the back story about the ride and kep the original Twilight Zone connection. I do wish it was a longer ride, but that would lead to a longer wait and so I’ll be happy with the length of the ride for now. It’s definitely worth a fast pass and it is a repeat ride for me at WDW.
As with all Disney rides, you exit into a gift shop where the Mouse does his best to relieve you of some money and they did get me after this ride. I like the merchandise more for this ride than for some of the other rides at WDW. A few pins and a t-​shirt later, I walked out a happy customer.
Enjoy the ride and feel like a kid again! haha

I LOVE the Twilight Zone. Despite being a show that aired about 60 years ago, its stories are timeless and Rod Serling is still probably the greatest TV host in history.
It brings me great pleasure, then, that its timelessness has lead to one of my favorite rides of all time (and maybe one of the most underrated of all time!)
I love both the Tower here and at California Adventure, but there are things about this tower that sets it apart in a few ways. Namely, it’s the theming. As opposed to the California version which is right off a main walkway, this Tower sits up on a hill, looming creepily over the park. When you enter, you walk off a smaller path and through the now ruined gardens of the Hollywood Tower Hotel. Nice big band from the 1940’s plays, which gives the whole thing a real setting, as well as an underlying creepiness.
The hotel lobby is equally abandoned, with cobwebs over a lot of things. Another thing I love? Creepy abandoned places. This fits that theme very well.
The loading area is in the boiler room of the hotel, where the lights are dim and flickering, upping that sense of dread. The cast members, dressed as bellhops, have a lot of fun with the guests, especially the nervous ones. One of my favorite things they do is hide behind the wall when the next elevator arrives, then suddenly peer out at the waiting riders.
I won’t say much about the ride itself as not to spoil the experience-​but there is one section in particular not featured in the CA version where your ride vehicle goes out of the elevator shaft and across a wild, very Twilight Zone-​y room that just kicks up the theme another notch.
If you love good theming, great attention to detail, and a thrilling ride… you can’t go wrong with this!

This is a must do! It is a fantastic ride… my favorite of all the Disney parks! Journey into an old haunted hotel through the twilight zone. Then enjoy multiple free falls overlooking Disney! Trust me, it’s worth the wait!!! Don’t be chicken!!!

I’ve been wanting to go on this ride for years as I’ve never been to the one in Disneyland California adventure so I was pretty excited. They were having technical difficulties so the wait was very long! Plus, it being really hot didn’t help.
After about 90 minutes we finally got on the ride and it wasn’t what I expected. You actually are seated and you don’t fall once, but about 5 times. It continues to go up and down and up and down a few times before it finally ends. Lets just say I didn’t feel all that great when it was over.
Still, it was a fun experience, but I seriously would have to think very hard if I wanted to go on this ride again.