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Parc Asterix cheat sheet

worked out from 32 days of our own wait data42 rides

Arrive for 10:00 and ride La Forêt Sans Retour, Tonnerre 2 Zeus and Toutatis first. Leave Cétautomatix until after 7pm, when its queue drops to about 5 minutes. The park's queues peak around 11:00 at 20 minutes and are lowest around 10:00.

Before you go

When to go

The days and months this park's rides run quietest

Quietest weekday
Wednesday
Busiest weekday
Saturday
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. 10:0013mquietest
  2. 11:0020mpeak
  3. 12:0019m
  4. 13:0016m
  5. 14:0017m
  6. 15:0018m
  7. 16:0017m
  8. 17:0015m
  9. 18:0014m

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. 1La Forêt Sans Retour ~79 min typical79m
  2. 2Tonnerre 2 Zeus ~51 min typical · up to 63 at peak · worst around 11am51m
  3. 3Toutatis ~51 min typical · up to 60 at peak · worst around 11am51m

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. 1Cétautomatix~46 min typical · about 5 min after 7pm5m
  2. 2Pégase Express~47 min typical · about 11 min after 7pm11m
  3. 3Discobélix~35 min typical · about 5 min after 7pm5m
  4. 4Maison Hantée Les Enfers de Pompei~36 min typical · about 10 min after 7pm10m
  5. 5OzIris~46 min typical · about 23 min after 7pm23m

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 minutesLes Chaudrons5mL'Envol d'Ibis5mLes Petits Drakkars5mEtamine5mHydrolix5mLavomatix5mEnigmatix5mL'Escadrille des As5m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Goudurixrunning 7% of the park's open hours7%
  2. 2Romus et Rapidusrunning 7% of the park's open hours7%
  3. 3La Forêt Sans Retourrunning 9% of the park's open hours9%
  4. 4Les Espions de Césarrunning 74% of the park's open hours74%
  5. 5Maison Hantée Les Enfers de Pompeirunning 80% of the park's open hours80%

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.