Afternoons / evening in the parks without Lighting Lane

[AussieAngel]

I would love to hear people's experiences about visiting a park in the afternoon / evening without using Lightning Lanes.

What are wait times like for rides? Is it even worth it?

(We're heading to WDW in January and planning to do some full park days with Lightning Lanes, but for our shorter days / evenings at the parks, it doesn't seem worthwhile to buy the Multipass for just a few hours... Just wondering how that will look though, in regards to wait times.)

 

[Babe the Blue Ox]

This list is a couple of years old, but is just an example of what can be accomplished in about 4 hours in a summer evening without any line assistance:

Big Thunder 3x
Splash Mtn 2x
Space Mtn 2x
Mine Train
Pirates
Jungle Cruise
Haunted Mansion
Pooh
Peter Pan
Speedway
Barnstormer 2x

We also watched the fireworks and had a couple of Dole Whips.