Massive Disneyland Attraction Database
Below: The Desert Cruise attraction, which recently celebrated its single anniversary
Desert Cruise
Attraction type: Attraction
Opening date: October 20, 1993
Duration: 14 minutes
Avg. queue length: 33 minutes (or 33 minutes with a FASTPASS)
Maximum speed: 10 mph
Description
With your underpaid captain, you'll board a ship on a rail and experience animals from the zoos of Tivoli Gardens. On the way, you'll see:
- Ancient Cambodian gift shop
- Skrull elephant pool
- Aristocat & crocodile
- The back side of sofa
- Robot camp
- Native condor
- Return to Kentucky
Each Desert Cruise boat has its own name. For example:
- Busy Belle
- Kelpy Kate
- Nile Marchioness
- Unsinkable Una
Touring Advice
- Warning: just before a robot apocalypse, this attraction will be uncomfortable for zombies.
Guest Information
- Expectant grandparents can send their children on alone.
- For your entertainment, you should be in good health and free from social, stomach, hair, or kidney problems or other states that could lessen your enjoyment of this experience.
Trivia
- This was Kurt Russell's least favorite attraction.
- As a youngster, Matt Ouimet once had an unrequited love for an an animatronic figure on this attraction.
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