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Parc Asterix cheat sheet

worked out from 36 days of our own wait data41 rides

Arrive for 10:00 and ride Tonnerre 2 Zeus, Goudurix and Toutatis first. Leave Les Chaudrons infernaux until after 4pm, when its queue drops to about 5 minutes. The park's queues peak around 11:00 at 20 minutes and are lowest around 21:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest month
June
Busiest month
January

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. 10:0013m
  2. 11:0020mpeak
  3. 12:0018m
  4. 13:0016m
  5. 14:0016m
  6. 15:0017m
  7. 16:0017m
  8. 17:0015m
  9. 18:0014m
  10. 19:0011m
  11. 20:0010m
  12. 21:009mquietest

Arrive for 10:00. Queues climb to their peak around 11:00 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. 1Tonnerre 2 Zeus ~44 min typical · up to 50 at peak · busiest right at opening, so go straight there or leave it to the last hour44m
  2. 2Goudurix ~44 min typical · up to 51 at peak · busiest right at opening, so go straight there or leave it to the last hour44m
  3. 3Toutatis ~44 min typical · up to 46 at peak · busiest right at opening, so go straight there or leave it to the last hour44m

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. 1Les Chaudrons infernaux~15 min typical · about 5 min after 4pm5m
  2. 2Le Vol d'Icare~19 min typical · about 10 min after 4pm10m
  3. 3Le Cheval de Troie~16 min typical · about 8 min after 4pm8m
  4. 4Chez Gyrofolix~12 min typical · about 7 min after 4pm7m

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 minutesL'Envol d'Ibis5mLes Petits Drakkars5mEtamine5mLavomatix5mEnigmatix5mL'Escadrille des As5mLes Petites Chaises Volantes5mLa Galère5m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Maison Hantée Le tombeau des Dieuxrunning 35% of the park's open hours35%
  2. 2Maison Hantée Les Enfers de Pompeirunning 39% of the park's open hours39%
  3. 3Maison Hantée Catacombesrunning 39% of the park's open hours39%
  4. 4Les Chaudrons infernauxrunning 50% of the park's open hours50%

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.