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Bobbejaanland cheat sheet

worked out from 54 days of our own wait data11 rides

Arrive for 10:00 and ride Naga Bay, Revolution and Dreamcatcher first. Leave Terra Magma until after 6pm, when its queue drops to about 5 minutes. The park's queues peak around 14:00 at 24 minutes and are lowest around 18:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Thursday
Busiest weekday
Sunday
Quietest month
June
Busiest month
October

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. 10:0015m
  2. 11:0023m
  3. 12:0023m
  4. 13:0023m
  5. 14:0024mpeak
  6. 15:0023m
  7. 16:0020m
  8. 17:0016m
  9. 18:0012mquietest

Arrive for 10:00. Queues climb to their peak around 14:00 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. 1Naga Bay ~26 min typical · up to 32 at peak · worst around 9am26m
  2. 2Revolution ~25 min typical · up to 33 at peak · worst around 12pm25m
  3. 3Dreamcatcher ~24 min typical · up to 36 at peak · worst around 11am24m

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. 1Terra Magma~20 min typical · about 5 min after 6pm5m
  2. 2Typhoon~20 min typical · about 5 min after 6pm5m
  3. 3Wild Water Slide~18 min typical · about 5 min after 6pm5m
  4. 4Speedy Bob~18 min typical · about 5 min after 6pm5m
  5. 5Bob Express~17 min typical · about 6 min after 6pm6m

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

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Dreamcatcherrunning 35% of the park's open hours35%
  2. 2El Riorunning 76% of the park's open hours76%

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.