Parc Asterix

Parc Asterix was a nice stopover for our trip to Italy. It´s the home of Asterix and Obelix, you know, the characters created by Goscinny en Uderzo. Unlike Disneyland Paris, the park opens only from April to October and has generally shorter opening hours. However, it is easily visited in one day, 30km north of Paris. From Holland it´s a 430 km drive. We slept in hotel Les Trois Hiboux, the theme hotel adjoining the parc. We arrived just before the high season...yeah, it was quiet. Service was good at the hotel, rooms were not overly big, but clean! The parc itself was swarmed with school classes. Very logical, as it was almost the end of the school year and all those kids needed some air obviously!

With six rollercoaster rides, we had a good afternoon! The sun let us down terribly, but that didn´t stop us from trying every rollercoaster in the parc.
We were ready for our next stop: Chateau Versailles.

Rides:
Tonnerre de Zeus, a wooden roller coaster, top-rated in Europe
Goudurix, a large steel multi-looping coaster
Oxygénarium, a large, twisting water slide with round dinghies
Transdémonium, a haunted mansion filled with special effects
la Trace du Hourra, a 900m bobsled, with cars that reach 80 km/h
la Galère, a swinging ship
Menhir express, a log flume ride with a 13m final drop
Grand splatch, a rapid river ride