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Parc Asterix cheat sheet

worked out from 54 days of our own wait data37 rides

Arrive for 10:00 and ride Toutatis, Cétautomatix and Tonnerre 2 Zeus first. Leave Pégase Express until after 7pm, when its queue drops to about 15 minutes. The park's queues peak around 11:00 at 19 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
Tuesday
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. 10:0012m
  2. 11:0019mpeak
  3. 12:0018m
  4. 13:0015m
  5. 14:0015m
  6. 15:0017m
  7. 16:0016m
  8. 17:0015m
  9. 18:0013m
  10. 19:0010m
  11. 20:009m
  12. 21:008mquietest

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. 1Toutatis ~38 min typical · up to 47 at peak · busiest right at opening, so go straight there or leave it to the last hour38m
  2. 2Cétautomatix ~37 min typical · up to 44 at peak · busiest right at opening, so go straight there or leave it to the last hour37m
  3. 3Tonnerre 2 Zeus ~36 min typical · up to 47 at peak · busiest right at opening, so go straight there or leave it to the last hour36m

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. 1Pégase Express~34 min typical · about 15 min after 7pm15m
  2. 2Goudurix~31 min typical · about 13 min after 7pm13m
  3. 3La Trace du Hourra~30 min typical · about 12 min after 7pm12m
  4. 4OzIris~31 min typical · about 16 min after 6pm16m
  5. 5Discobélix~31 min typical · about 17 min after 7pm17m

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 Petits Drakkars5mEtamine5mLavomatix5mEnigmatix5mL'Escadrille des As5mLes Petites Chaises Volantes5mLe Petit Train5mLa Petite Tempête5m

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Goudurixrunning 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.

£16.99for two daysor £49.99 for a whole year. Paid once - it never renews.

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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.