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Gardaland cheat sheet

worked out from 59 days of our own wait data32 rides

Arrive for 10:00 and ride Blue Tornado, Dragon Rush and Jumanji - The Adventure first. Leave Volaplano until after 5pm, when its queue drops to about 7 minutes. The park's queues peak around 11:00 at 13 minutes and are lowest around 22:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Tuesday
Busiest weekday
Saturday
Quietest month
October
Busiest month
November

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. 10:008m
  2. 11:0013mpeak
  3. 12:0013m
  4. 13:0011m
  5. 14:0010m
  6. 15:0011m
  7. 16:0010m
  8. 17:0011m
  9. 18:0012m
  10. 19:0011m
  11. 20:009m
  12. 21:008m
  13. 22:007mquietest

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. 1Blue Tornado ~31 min typical · up to 43 at peak · busiest right at opening, so go straight there or leave it to the last hour31m
  2. 2Dragon Rush ~28 min typical · up to 42 at peak · worst around 3pm28m
  3. 3Jumanji - The Adventure ~27 min typical · up to 35 at peak · worst around 3pm27m

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. 1Volaplano~14 min typical · about 7 min after 5pm7m

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 minutesTransgardaland Express5mL'Albero di Prezzemolo5mPeppa Pig Land - La Mongolfiera di Peppa Pig5mPeppa Pig Land - L'isola dei Pirati5mPeppa Pig Land - Il Trenino di Nonno Pig5mGiostra Cavalli5mFunny Express5mFlying Island5m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Dragon Rushrunning 68% of the park's open hours68%
  2. 2Ortobruco Tourrunning 73% of the park's open hours73%
  3. 3Monorotaiarunning 73% of the park's open hours73%
  4. 4Jumanji - The Adventurerunning 82% of the park's open hours82%
  5. 5Colorado Boatrunning 83% of the park's open hours83%

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.