What's the longest physical queue you have been in?

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Obviously queue related.

I think it has to be a theme park ride. And only an hour.

I know people queue for other things, camp out over night in a queue...so what was yours? And was it worth it? Which I guess it was as you spent so long queuing

Probably about half an hour to see Grease in 1978. 😂 I hate queueing.

Waiting to see U2 in the 90s. About 3 hours.

6 hours to go through the boarded from Cambodia to Thailand it was hot, there was no shade and I was nearly our of money so had to be so careful buying water etc, no tap pay 10 years ago

The Next queue, when it used to be worth it, many many years ago. I get there about an hour before opening and just wait it out. Yes, it was Boxing Day morning!!

A new Harry Potter ride at Universal Orlando. Queued for about an hour before the park actually opened, then about 2 hours after before getting on the ride.

Dd queued for about 3-4 hours for her first covid vaccine, along with thousands of other older teens when there was a first drop in venue in our city. Some queued linger.

4.5 hours at the Eiffel Tower, with 40+ Cubs and Beavers.
They only had one ticket booth open. As we approached they opened all four of them and the queue shot down in a few minutes!

The queue for the Queen (still queuing and been queuing for 8.5 hours). But otherwise, 2 hours for a border crossing in Asia. I hate queuing but the Queen’s Queue isn’t that bad!

Over 2 hours in 39 degree heat.
Several times for several rides at the parks in Florida.
No to me, it wasn’t worth it, my kids on the other hand thought that it was.

The only one I can remember is waiting for a bus for over two hours in the snow. That was pretty shit.

Friends of mine were telling me about the time they spent queuing in Florida for queues.

I could not imagine queuing so long for such a short ride!

1.5 hrs for Saw at Thorpe park.

That seemed ridiculous to me and I was a good decade younger than I am now.

I wouldn't do it again either

I queued to seeing the Rolling Stones in 1998. We had standing room tickets and started queuing at 1:00pm. I remember getting into the stadium around 5:00pm. I had a university exam at 9am the following morning and was revising whilst waiting. We heard the Stones rehearsing which lifted everyone’s spirits. The Stones finally arrived on stage at 9pm after Sheryl Crow support act. They were worth the wait.

About 5 hours to get tickets validated to get into Strictly Come Dancing. But you could take chairs, so it wasn't like a moving queue. Definitely worth it, and great atmosphere in the queue.

Passport queue in Liverpool for about 3 hours around 20 years ago due to an unexpected Business trip when my passport had been sent for renewal.
Got to the front to be told they had posted it the day before and it was probably at home waiting for me. Phoned DH auntie who had a key and she went and checked - it was there!

5 hours for a pram!
Post non alcoholic night out queued at a department store(3am) for a nursery sale. Took it home at 8 am still in my Going Out Gear!

Wimbledon. Earliest I have arrived is 3am - so a 6.5 hour wait for entry at 9.30am, with play starting at 11am. But I am a lightweight, because hundreds of people camp out overnight in The Queue (always capital letters!) and some of them go for a whole week.
It is an institution in itself, and I love it - go every year. So many of the things mentioned about the queue for HM The Queen are familiar to us Wimbledon regulars - the wristbands, the lovely stewards, the new friendships, the loo breaks.....!

A few hours to get into a festival I think.

I did think we would have to queue to get through Dover this year.
We arrived early at the port.....and was straight through

I think once I was waiting to ride the Big One at Blackpool.
I think we were there for nearly 3 hours. Never again

I hate queues.

I got stuck in a stationary queue on the M1 for several hours once. There was a lorry spectacularly on fire at a junction and they'd had to close the whole motorway in both directions.

About 4.5hrs to get through passport control at JFK airport in New York, there was nowhere to sit, nowhere to buy a drink or go to the loo.

The system was a shambles, hardly any staff and the limited info anyone gave us kept changing.

By the time we got to our hotel it’d taken us longer from landing than the flight had taken us.

Collecting something from IKEA during lockdown. 5 and a half hours standing outside.

And 8 hours on the A30 in Cornwall once. I don't know which one was worse, at least I got to sit down in the car I guess.

About 2 hours for the first covid vaccine. Our big local centre did walk-ins for school staff in May 2021 but two collegues and I just happened to go on the same day they announced uni students could get walk-ins too.

2+ hours, at Sainsbury's during COVID.

I think rides at Disney/Universal were similar.

Also the Wimbledon Queue. Arrived midday Sunday and put up the tent. Then went for a walk in the village (a few years ago. it's now forbidden to leave your tent for more than half an hour) Bought a pizza and are it sitting outside the tent, chatted to our neighbours and watched the sun go down whilst drinking Pimms.
Got 7 hours sleep before packing up the tent and forming the people queue. Chatting to others in the queue, waving at the TV cameras, looking for the best fancy dress outfit (man dressed as a strawberry!) Stewards all very friendly, video screens showing previous games, general air of excitement.
That's the way to queue!