As part of our 4 day break to Disneyland Paris, we (2 adults) decided to also visit Parc Asterix. On our final day we were flying back to England from CDG at 10pm - this was perfect for Parc Asterix as you can catch a bus from the airport straight to the park. It was about a 10 minute bus ride - we bought our tickets at the station as they did a combined bus and park entrance for 35E.
Upon entering the park, the weather was glorious. It looked as if it would be another scorcher like the previous 3 days had been. We were so wrong - within an hour of being in the park the heavens opened with very heavy rain showers. You know the ones - the ones that feel like they will be heavy for 10 minutes then clear and the sun will come out. Again we were wrong - it rained like this all day long! This still didn't take away from the fun of the day though. OK so it wasn't ideal but it was still very enjoyable.
Its also worth mentioning we went to Parc Asterix on a Saturday. I think this greatly affected the number of people in the park. It was very busy (even compared to Disney). Also, as it was an off peak time of year Parc Asterix is only open on a Wednsday, Saturday and Sunday (to coincide with French schools).
After getting in the park we headed towards La Descente du Styx. This is a water rapids style ride. The "boat" holds up to 8 people and you get pretty wet. We queued for almost an hour for this (at the time it seemed crazy as the longest we'd queued for anything in Disney the previous two days was 20 minutes!). It was good fun though.
The Oxygénarium is another water ride - though somewhat different to any I had been on in the past. The thing you sit in is rather like those on the rapids - but its an inflatable one, is much bigger and VERY difficult to get in wearing a skirt!! The ride was good, though I don't remember getting at all wet (perhaps a good thing given the weather).
Another water ride is the Menhir Express. This takes the style of a log flume - and a very good log flume it is. By the time we got on this ride for another drenching we were already saturated through - I was really starting to worry about our passports to get us home that night in my bag!!
The final water ride (yes, usually there are four) is Le Grand Splatch. This is a short ride accumulating in a big drop (as the name suggests!). By the time we headed for this ride I was getting rather sick of water - but this was more to do with the weather, on a warm sunny day these rides would have been perfect.
Finally a non-water ride: The Goudurix is a large, steel tracked roller coaster. It is similar to Nemesis (Alton Towers), Incredible Hulk (Islands of Adventure), Kumba (Busch Gardens) and Nemesis Reloaded (Thorpe Park). The queue for this was approx. 25 minutes. As this is my favourite type of roller coaster, I unsurprisingly loved it. If the queue hadn't got longer as the day wore on I'd have liked to go on this again.
La Trace du Hourra was by far my favourite ride at Parc Asterix. It is very hard to describe as it is like no other ride I have been on or seen elsewhere. You sit in two's in a line of four - the 'track' is like a bobsleigh track so you coast down at 60km an hour. Given how difficult it is to describe, it may be best to go to the official Parc Asterix website to see a picture! I would love to go on this ride again - it was totally fantastic.
Finally, the Tonnerre De Zeus is the biggest wooden rollercoaster in the world. We left this until the end of the day and queued in the miserable rain for about 90 minutes. I would love to say it was worth it, but unfortunately I hadn't been on a wooden rollercoaster for a few years, and I'd forgotten how much I hated them! So after a 90 minute wait, I endured 90 seconds of hell. I can't believe the ride was only 90 seconds long - it felt more like 90 hours! I'm a big fan of rollercoasters but teh Tonnerre de Zeus left me screaming 'I want to get off' for the entire ride. My knees ended up bruised from the ricketty track. Unfortunately my boyfriend thought it was the best ride ever - and lucky me has to be the dutiful girlfriend and endure not one but two wooden rollercoasters at Busch Gardens (Florida) next year. I . Cannot. Wait.
There was also lots of family and kiddie rides but as we didn't have kids in tow we didn't try these out!
Overall, our day at Parc Asterix was brilliant and well worth the money. Yes the weather could have been better, and the queues shorter but life isn't always perfect!!
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