One of the better theme parks in Europe.

One of the better theme parks in Europe.
And certainly Very Different than Disneyland Paris.

This is a great theme park and very
easy to get to - you can drive from Calais (just a couple of hours, and the park is right on the motorway), or fly to CDG and get a 20 minute Uber trip from the airport.

The park itself can get busy, particularly as they often don't open during the week during off-peak periods, but they offer a Pass Rapidus fast pass for 25 euros which, although not free, is better value than a lot of competitor parks and gives you almost instant access onto the park's main coasters and two water rides. We visited 19th May and queues for most of the main rides were between 30-60 minutes. Operations were very good and staff were very efficient at keeping queues moving.

The park itself is immaculate, well presented and has some fantastic rides.

OzIris is an inverted roller coaster which is brilliantly themed. It's butter-smooth and has three trains which means the queue moves quickly. Goudurix is the park's other large coaster. It's very rough but tolerable if you brace yourself.





The theming at the park is 'very French' - it uses stories from the Asterix comics and combines them with themes international visitors will recognise such as ancient Egypt, Greece etc. The cartoony interpretation of these themes makes it really fun and unique - for example the comic-book-style hieroglyphics on OzIris. Nothing ever takes itself too seriously and it's really refreshing. Some of the theming really is brilliant and everything is well kept - Disney by contrast seemed a lot more run-down on our last visit (although it has improved since).

There seemed to be a lot of security around the park and there were a lot of smoking areas which people seemed to respect. I didn't see any bad behaviour or smoking in the queuelines.

You can tell the park isn't as geared-up for international visitors as Disney. Some staff don't know English, some rides will be in French and so will the shows. I don't mind this, but it's something to bear in mind.

Biggest complaint was food. It wasn't very good quality. It was the usual pizza and burgers type of thing, but compared to other parks it was a bit disappointing.

Parc Asterix is a great park and something different from Disney and Merlin