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Disneyland Paris cheat sheet

worked out from 60 days of our own wait data38 rides

Arrive for 10:00 and ride Frozen Ever After, Peter Pan's Flight and Big Thunder Mountain first. Leave Ratatouille : L’Aventure Totalement Toquée de Rémy​ until after 7pm, when its queue drops to about 14 minutes. The park's queues peak around 12:00 at 32 minutes and are lowest around 21:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Thursday
Busiest weekday
Saturday
Quietest month
November
Busiest month
September

Each ride's own quietest and busiest day, tallied and weighted by how long its queue runs. For a dated answer use the crowd calendar, which scores every day of the year.

The shape of the day

Average queue across the park, hour by hour

  1. 10:0025m
  2. 11:0031m
  3. 12:0032mpeak
  4. 13:0029m
  5. 14:0029m
  6. 15:0028m
  7. 16:0028m
  8. 17:0024m
  9. 18:0025m
  10. 19:0023m
  11. 20:0019m
  12. 21:0014mquietest

Arrive for 10:00. Queues climb to their peak around 12:00 and fall back through the afternoon; the last hour or two is the quietest the headliners get all day.

Ride these first

The headliners: longest queues, worst by late morning

  1. 1Frozen Ever After ~63 min typical · up to 84 at peak · busiest right at opening, so go straight there or leave it to the last hour63m
  2. 2Peter Pan's Flight ~58 min typical · up to 69 at peak · busiest right at opening, so go straight there or leave it to the last hour58m
  3. 3Big Thunder Mountain ~54 min typical · up to 61 at peak · busiest right at opening, so go straight there or leave it to the last hour54m

Straight to these from the gate, in this order. Every minute before the park fills is worth three later.

Leave these until later

Rides whose queues collapse late in the day

  1. 1Ratatouille : L’Aventure Totalement Toquée de Rémy​~54 min typical · about 14 min after 7pm14m
  2. 2Spider-Man W.E.B. Adventure~47 min typical · about 10 min after 7pm10m
  3. 3RC Racer~41 min typical · about 11 min after 7pm11m
  4. 4The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror~44 min typical · about 15 min after 7pm15m
  5. 5Toy Soldiers Parachute Drop~44 min typical · about 15 min after 7pm15m

Save them for the last two hours, when the coach parties have gone and the queue is a fraction of the afternoon's.

Fill the gaps with

Walk-ons at any hour, and the single-rider lines

Usually under 10 minutesMain Street Vehicles5mLes Mystères du Nautilus5mLa Cabane des Robinson5mAlice's Curious Labyrinth5mMad Hatter's Tea Cups7mLe Pays des Contes de Fées, presented by Vittel7mStar Tours: The Adventures Continue*9m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Disneyland Railroad Discoveryland Stationrunning 0% of the park's open hours0%
  2. 2Disneyland Railroad Fantasyland Stationrunning 60% of the park's open hours60%
  3. 3Disneyland Railroad Main Street Stationrunning 60% of the park's open hours60%
  4. 4Thunder Mesa Riverboat Landingrunning 61% of the park's open hours61%
  5. 5Buzz Lightyear Laser Blastrunning 62% of the park's open hours62%

If one of these is the reason you came, ride it the first time you see it running rather than saving it. The full picture is on the reliability page.

On the day

Your day-of sheet

The same park, for one date: the forecast, the hours, and your ride order

Plus members get this sheet for a date: the crowd forecast for the day, its published hours, a ride order worked out against that day's wait curve, and a printable version to take in.

PlusThe day-of sheet is part of Plus

Here, that is a ride order for your date, the forecast and the hours, printable.

  • Your rides, in order

    Sequenced against the wait curve, so the headliners land in their quiet windows.

  • quiet till 111pm · 66m

    Your date, hour by hour

    How the wait climbs on the day you picked, and the window it stays low.

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Everything above is each ride's own recorded queue over recent weeks, sampled every few minutes through the park's opening hours - not an opinion. A ride with too little history is left out.