Book the parking with the park ticket. At Heide Park the gate price is higher, at PortAventura the parking is only sold together with tickets, and at Europa-Park the online ticket carries your number plate, so the barrier opens on its own. Two parks don't charge a car at all: Puy du Fou, and Gardaland's open-air lot. And at Phantasialand, the second car park takes cash only.
The spread is wide. Phantasialand charges €8. Parc Astérix has just gone to €25. That's the price of a family lunch for the same square of tarmac.
Prices come from the park's own pages or the car park operator's, checked on 13 October 2026. Two don't: Disneyland Paris prints no car price, and Parc Astérix's €25 is from press reports while its English page says €20. Where nobody prints a figure, the table says so.
Theme park parking compared: the table
| Park | Car, one day | How you pay | Campervans |
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| Europa-Park (Rust, DE) | €10 | Online, plate opens the barrier | €20 by day; overnight only if booked |
| Efteling (Kaatsheuvel, NL) | €15 | Online or at the park | Same €15; no overnight |
| Phantasialand (Brühl, DE) | €8 | P1 cash or debit card; P2 cash only | Not allowed on the lots |
| PortAventura (Salou, ES) | From €15 | Sold only together with tickets | Caravan park, 2 nights max, price not published |
| Gardaland (Lake Garda, IT) | Open-air lot free; covered from €7 | Online voucher or on site; Telepass | No overnight |
| Parc Astérix (FR) | €25 (English page still says €20) | At the barrier | Same rate as a car |
| Puy du Fou (FR) | Free | Lot H paid, amount not published | Free by day; €10 for 01:00–07:00 |
| Liseberg (Gothenburg, SE) | No park fee; city garage 32 kr/h | Parkering Göteborg machine or app | No spaces in the park's garage |
| Legoland Billund (DK) | 105 kr | Plate camera; pay at a kiosk within 48 hours | No overnight |
| Legoland Deutschland (Günzburg) | €12 | Online ticket | Separate lots, price not published |
| Disneyland Paris | €30 likely; Disney doesn't print it | Toll booth on the way in | €40 per extra day |
| Heide Park (Soltau, DE) | €14 online | Gate dearer, exceptions only | €20 a day |
Danish and Swedish prices are in kroner (DKK, SEK), as the operators print them.
Europa-Park: Buy the €10 Ticket Online and Let the Plate Open the Barrier
The visitor car park costs €10 a day. Buy it in the online shop, type in your number plate, and the barrier reads it. The plate can't be changed later, so don't buy it before you know which car you're taking. The reserved lot at the main entrance is €32, and motorbikes park free there.
Campervans over 5.50 m pay €20 by day to staff on the "Tagescamper" lot. Sleeping in a vehicle on the visitor lot isn't allowed; overnight stays must be booked. Hotel guests park free. There are 133 charging points, six of them 150 kW CCS. Paying direct through Badenova is €0.61/kWh, or €0.79 on a fast charger.
Strasbourg is the nearest of our cities; Strasbourg has its own low-emission zone if you sleep there.
Efteling: Pay €15 Either Way, and Don't Plan to Sleep in the Camper
Efteling charges €15 a day for any motorised vehicle, online or at the park. Campervans pay the same rate, and the page says plainly that overnight stays aren't allowed. Coaches park free. Guests of the Efteling hotels and holiday parks park free at their own accommodation. There are paid chargers, but bring your own cable. Efteling doesn't say which cards the gate takes, so I'd buy online and stop worrying.
Phantasialand: Bring Cash for the €8 and Leave the Caravan at Home
Phantasialand is the cheapest car park on the list at €8 a day, and the most old-fashioned. Lot P1 (Mystery) takes cash or a debit card at the terminals. Lot P2 (China) is cash only, on the way in. Campers and trailers aren't allowed on the lots at all. Hotel guests park free.
The Umweltzone question: Phantasialand is in Brühl, which isn't on North Rhine-Westphalia's list of low-emission zones. Cologne is, with 137 km² that need the green sticker. If you're sleeping in Cologne, buy the sticker; for a day at the park from the motorway, you don't need it.
I treat German Sundays and public holidays as the full days, and arrive before opening, not at it.
Parc Astérix: Budget €25, Not the €20 on the English Page
The English "Getting to the park" page still says €20 a day. Journal du Geek reported on 5 October 2026 that the French page now shows €25, from the start of the Halloween season, and that cars, campervans and motorbikes pay the same. The barrier charges what the French page says, so I budget €25.
Parc Astérix is off the A1 between exits 7 and 8, about 35 km north of Paris. That is well outside the Greater Paris low-emission zone, which stops at the A86 ring; you only meet it if you sleep in the city.
Puy du Fou: Park Free, Pay Only to Sleep in the Camper
Puy du Fou is the only big park here that charges a car nothing. All the car parks are free except lot H, which charges one flat rate at the entrance; the amount isn't published. The campervan area, about 800 m from the park, is free for the first 12 hours, then paid by bank card only. The English page puts the night (01:00–07:00) at €10. Hotel guests park at their hotel.
Gardaland: Take the Free Open-Air Lot, and Never Enter Covered Parking 1
Gardaland's support page says the open-air parking is currently free; only covered parking is charged, from €7. If you buy covered parking online, the voucher works only in Covered Parking 2. Drive into Covered Parking 1 by mistake and the machine asks for a new payment at that day's rate, with no refund. Telepass lists the car park among its partners, so a Telepass box pays automatically on the way out. Motorhomes can't stay after closing time.
If you base yourself in Verona, its ZTL cameras are the bigger risk than any car park.
PortAventura: Add Parking When You Buy the Tickets
PortAventura sells parking from €15 per car per day, and only together with tickets, not separately. The gate price isn't published. There are chargers in both the general and preferred car parks. The caravan park is sold as a package with tickets for everyone on board, two nights at most; the nightly price isn't printed.
Liseberg: Pay the City's Garage by the Hour
Liseberg has no car park fee of its own. It sends you to Parkering Göteborg's Liseberg Södra: 1,170 spaces at 32 kr an hour from 08:00 to 22:00. Ten hours, 08:00 to 18:00, is 320 kr. There are no motorhome spaces. The city points motorhomes to lots such as Valhalla idrottsplats, capped at 240 kr a day.
Gothenburg's low-emission zone only covers heavy vehicles. The congestion tax is the real cost: up to 60 kr a day on weekdays, nothing at weekends or in July. Foreign cars are billed through EPASS24.
Legoland Billund and Günzburg: Pay Before You Drive Out
At Legoland Billund cameras read your plate. Pay 105 kr a day at a kiosk before leaving, or within 48 hours. Priority parking is 249 kr; Hotel LEGOLAND's own parking is 200 kr for up to 36 hours. Overnight stays in the park's car parks aren't allowed.
Legoland Deutschland charges €12 for over 4,000 spaces. Motorhomes have separate lots. There are two 22 kW Type 2 chargers, and you can't reserve them.
Disneyland Paris and Tivoli: The Two That Need Their Own Plan
Disneyland Paris charges a flat daily rate at the toll booths and doesn't print the car figure; three independent sources put it at €30. Our Disneyland Paris parking guide covers it in full.
Tivoli in Copenhagen has no car park at all. Axel Towers, opposite the gate, is 600 kr for 24 hours. The Tivoli Hotel garage behind the station caps at 295 kr, ten minutes on foot. That's my pick.
Heide Park and Walibi Holland: Book Online
Heide Park is €14 online for a car and €20 for a motorhome. The gate price is higher and sold only in exceptional cases. Walibi Holland is €12.50 online and doesn't print a gate price.
Check the Road In, Not Just the Car Park
Most of these parks sit off motorways that charge. French autoroutes, Spanish and Italian tolls, and a Swiss vignette if you cut through to Europa-Park all add to the day. Our tolls and vignettes guide has the per-country rules.
What I actually do
I buy the parking in the same basket as the tickets, with the plate typed in. I carry €10 in cash for Phantasialand, and I check the French page, not the English one, before Parc Astérix. At Puy du Fou and Gardaland I don't buy anything at all.
Every price on this page was checked on the park's or the operator's own site on 13 October 2026.