How Busy Was Thorpe Park on Monday, 3 May 2021?
Thorpe Park was very busy on Monday, 3 May 2021. Across the day the average wait across all rides was 46 minutes, with the longest queue reaching 101 minutes for SAW - The Ride around 11:00. The full hour-by-hour breakdown for every ride is below.
Average wait in minutes per ride per hour (UK time), recorded on the day from the park's live wait-time system.
- Longest wait of the day: SAW - The Ride at 101 minutes (around 11:00).
- Average across all rides: 46 minutes.
- Quietest hour: 11:00 UK time.
| Ride | 11:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAW - The Ride | 101 | 101 | 101 | 101 | 101 | 101 | 101 | 101 | 101 | 101 |
| Nemesis Inferno | 83 | 83 | 83 | 83 | 83 | 83 | 83 | 83 | 83 | 83 |
| The Swarm | 77 | 77 | 77 | 77 | 77 | 77 | 77 | 77 | 77 | 77 |
| Stealth | 64 | 64 | 64 | 64 | 64 | 64 | 64 | 64 | 64 | 64 |
| Rush | 64 | 64 | 64 | 64 | 64 | 64 | 64 | 64 | 64 | 64 |
| Samurai | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 |
| Vortex | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 45 |
| Colossus | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 |
| Storm Surge | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 41 |
| Detonator | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 |
| Tidal Wave | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 |
| Quantum | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 |
| Depth Charge | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 |
| Zodiac | 23 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 23 |
| Flying Fish | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
| Mr Monkey's Banana Ride | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
Cells show the average standby wait during that hour. Blue = 20 min or under, orange = 21–60 min, navy = over 60 min.
What happened on Monday, 3 May 2021
Monday 3 May was a very busy day at Thorpe Park. Across every ride we recorded, the average standby wait came out at 46 minutes, about 134% above the 20-minute average across every day we have recorded.
That makes it a busier-than-usual Monday — other Mondays in the archive average 21 minutes. Against May as a whole, which averages 14 minutes, it was one of the heavier days of the month.
Queues stayed remarkably level all day rather than showing the usual lunchtime hump — there was no obviously good or bad hour to be walking around the park. The single longest queue we recorded was SAW - The Ride at 101 minutes, around 11:00.
The rides holding the longest queues were SAW - The Ride, Nemesis Inferno and The Swarm — SAW - The Ride averaged 101 minutes across the whole day. Seven rides averaged 45 minutes or more, which is the point at which a day starts to feel like queueing rather than riding. The spread between the busiest and quietest ride was 89 minutes, which is wide enough that where you chose to walk mattered more than when you arrived.
Days like this are the hardest to enjoy without preparation. Arriving before the gates open is close to essential, the middle of the day is best avoided on the headline coasters entirely, and if you were ever going to buy Fastrack, this is the kind of day it is actually worth it on. You can compare this with other dates in the full archive, work out which days of the year behave like this using the queue calendar, and read the underlying tactics in our guide to beating the queues and our analysis of whether Fastrack is worth it.
Based on readings taken every 2 minutes across 9 hours of operation, from 11:00 to 19:00, covering 16 rides. Figures are the wait times posted by the park, averaged per hour; a dash in the table means the ride reported no wait for that hour, usually because it was closed.