Gardaland Park, Castelnuovo del Garda

A great theme park to spend a day with your family or friends, cool rollercoasters and decorations. We had a lot of fun! However, there’s another side to this amusement - extremely long queues everywhere! From the rides to the toilets and restaurants. There are even lines to buy a “skip-line” ticket and then another line to skip the line. By the way, the fast passes are way too expensive. We spent all day at the park - from 11:00 to 20:00, and we managed to take 5 rides. Some attractions had 140 min waiting time. Can you force a kid to wait for 2+ hours just for 60 seconds of fun? On top of that we didn’t physically manage to see the whole area of the park because we spent most of our time waiting. This seems ridiculous to me. I know that this is a popular place in Italy and now there’s a high season, but out of respect to the guests, the management should rethink the strategy. Maybe you should set a limit to a number of visitors per day with online bookings in advance, and okay, even increase the ticket prices, but let your guests truly enjoy the experience. Overall, I can recommend visiting the park if you’re patient enough and can afford coming during the week OR paying 100€ per person.

We visited on Wednesday and it was supposed to be not crowded but it was really crowded and many attractions were closed. Not enough staff, also the map at the entrance was out so we had to find another map booth after 2 hours walking inside, they need more signs on the floor it will be easier to reach the attractions, line of every ride was more than 60 minutes, and the closing time at 6 pm so we managed to do only three rides, I recommend buying fast pass as this is the only way to enjoy the day and make more rides and escape the horrible waiting time. But overall I think it's nice to visit, we visited Disney land many times and Gardaland brings some vibes of it. You can buy tickets online and no need to print it.