The next day we were all excited to go to Legoland!

I wrote this blog a bit differently for people wanting to go to there.

 

Legoland was built in 1968 so this year they are celebrating being open 50 years. I had read a few blogs on how to do it best. I wanted to do it quickly with the least amount of walking and waiting in queues! We downloaded their app which had wait times and a map and a bunch of other stuff.

We arrived early, got a good park, pre paid our parking while there was no queue, and went to buy tickets.

We had been very blessed in Slovenia, our Airbnb hosts had let us in on a local hint. There was 50% off vouchers on the back of some cereal boxes that expired on the 30th of June. When we showed our excitement about that on the last morning we were they actually went out and purchased us a box with the voucher on it. So so kind and generous of them, their €3 saved us $160 NZD!! So I proudly handed over my cereal cut out voucher and was stoked to see the price on my receipt.

We lined up for the gates. I explained to our kids that people may run, but WE were NOT running. The gates opened and we were 3rd in! There was no running by anyone either. Lovely. Just as you walk in on the right is a place you can get an armband for your kid. You write the kids name and your phone number on it incase they get lost. We had the ‘if you get lost’ chat and came up with a place.

Then it was into my plan and I’m happy to tell you, my plan was awesome and worked really well!!

We went straight to the back of the park, and onto the popular rides first. We started with Ninjargo and worked our way along the back, around the right hand side to the front. We got in at 10am, by 2pm we’d done ⅔ of the park. The left side of the park is mostly the Lego hotel but there are a few things to visit, so we did these in the early afternoon. Then we went and did our favourite rides again, by now they had wait times but the wait time is clearly shown as you enter the line. We enjoyed the Lego Canoe and the Eagle Roller Coaster the most and went on them several times.

C was tall enough for all rides as he’s over 120cm. R is about 113cm so missed out on 3 rides (over the whole park!) Once we had done all the rides THEN we went to find mini land to have a look. They had done a great job of Copenhagen City, it is open for an hour after the rides close for the day. Then we visited the Lego shop, but if you go, don’t expect a bargain! Then if you’re like us, you’ll be leaving the park as the shut the gates behind you!

 

A day well done ✔️

 

Practical tips :

There are toilets everywhere!

There is a baby centre that looked amazing when I glanced in, my kids are too big so we didn’t use it.

Food is so expensive and many reviews I read talked of it being average so take your own. Lots and lots and lots of picnic tables with shade over them.

On the note of shade, apart from the picnic tables there isn’t a lot.

Take water! I read somewhere there’s drinking fountains all over the park, there isn’t, so I (along with a bunch of other Mums) refilled our drink bottles at a tap I found by the candy shop in the back left of the park.

They’re not kidding when they say you’ll get wet on a couple of rides. Take a spare tshirt or cope with being wet, the drying machines are useless (and cost extra). It was 28 degrees the day we went so having a wet singlet actually wasn’t that bad!

Don’t forget to reapply sunblock!