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Thorpe Park cheat sheet

worked out from 60 days of our own wait data21 rides

Arrive for 10:00 and ride Hyperia, Storm Surge and Nemesis Inferno first. Leave SAW - The Ride until after 5pm, when its queue drops to about 18 minutes. The park's queues peak around 12:00 at 30 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
Thursday
Busiest weekday
Tuesday
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. 10:0014mquietest
  2. 11:0028m
  3. 12:0030mpeak
  4. 13:0029m
  5. 14:0030m
  6. 15:0028m
  7. 16:0024m
  8. 17:0019m
  9. 18:0015m

Arrive for 10:00. Queues climb to their peak around 12:00 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. 1Hyperia ~57 min typical · up to 62 at peak · worst around 2pm57m
  2. 2Storm Surge ~40 min typical · up to 56 at peak · worst around 2pm40m
  3. 3Nemesis Inferno ~35 min typical · up to 50 at peak · worst around 1pm35m

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. 1SAW - The Ride~35 min typical · about 18 min after 5pm18m
  2. 2The Swarm~34 min typical · about 19 min after 5pm19m
  3. 3Ghost Train~27 min typical · about 13 min after 5pm13m
  4. 4Stealth~30 min typical · about 17 min after 5pm17m
  5. 5The Walking Dead©: The Ride~23 min typical · about 11 min after 5pm11m

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 minutesVortex5mDobble Tea Party6mMr Monkey's Banana Ride7mHigh Striker7mSingle-rider lineHyperiaSAW - The RideStealthSamuraiThe Walking Dead©: The Ride

Watch-outs

Rides that spend the most of the day not running

  1. 1Ghost Trainrunning 65% of the park's open hours65%
  2. 2Quantumrunning 70% of the park's open hours70%
  3. 3Samurairunning 81% of the park's open hours81%

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.