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Best Theme Parks for a First Trip to Europe: Choosing Your First Park
Choose a theme park for your first European trip by weighing transport, total costs, seasonal availability, and attraction preferences—not rankings alone.
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Parc Astérix
Score7.6
🇫🇷FranceTheme parkEurope
Plailly, Oise, France
A French park based on the Asterix comics, with strong roller coasters.
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Low Wait TimesOpened
1989
Size
86 acres (35 ha)
Rides
40 attractions
Avg. visit
8 hours
Ticket range
$57–$79 USD
Parc Astérix overview
Parc Astérix at a glance
A French park based on the Asterix comics, with strong roller coasters.
Parc Astérix builds its lands from the Astérix comics — the Gaulish village, Roman city, ancient Greece and Egypt — and has quietly assembled one of France's strongest coaster collections. Toutatis, the 2023 launch coaster, is widely rated the best in the country; Goudurix, OzIris and the wooden Tonnerre 2 Zeus back it up.
Dolphin shows, sit-down Gallic banquets and a 30-minute transfer from Paris CDG make it a genuine alternative to Disneyland Paris.
Our editor's recommendation
Yes, if you already have a reason to be in the region. It ranks #19 of the 50 parks we score, at 7.6/10 with 40 rides and attractions and a typical visit of about 8 hours. Tickets run $57–$79 a day. The strongest reasons to go are its big-ticket thrill rides and short queues. The honest catch: tickets are expensive for what you get. Best time to visit: Summer.
Parc Astérix highlights
Rides & attractions at Parc Astérix
These are the top attractions at Parc Astérix — 10 rides and experiences hand-picked and verified by our editorial team, including 6 signature rides you shouldn't miss. Use the filter bar below to narrow the line-up by rider height, zone, category or thrill level.
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Menhir Express
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Plan your visit to Parc Astérix
- Operating hours
- Typically 10am-6pm, extended to 7pm or later in summer
- Seasonal closures
- Closed roughly January to late March, with a Halloween season and selected winter dates
- Queue-skip pass
- Filotomatix priority pass in standard and premium tiers. From about $30 USD.
- How long to stay
- Full day
- Multi-day tickets
- 2-day tickets available and bundled with the on-site hotels, which is common for visitors travelling from Paris.
- Season pass
- Annual or season pass from about $115 USD.
Parc Astérix map
Official park mapParc Astérix events & shows
Peur sur le Parc
Parc Asterix's Halloween season with themed decor, haunted houses and evening entertainment.
Parc Astérix in the news
Parc Astérix reviews & ratings
Amusement Park Ranker overall score
7.6
An aggregate of 3 public review platforms, each normalized to a 0–10 scale and weighted by review volume.
Parc Astérix wait times
- Typical day
13
- Crowd & wait score
6.8
Parc Astérix records & achievements
Second most-visited theme park in France
Parc Astérix trails only Disneyland Paris in French theme park attendance, drawing well over two million visitors a year.
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