Nice park but ridiculous rain policy. We had a few extra days as part of our Disney trip and some friends of ours recommended Legoland. We went on a Monday in late August and the park wasn't busy at all, which was nice as we essentially walked on most rides and attractions.
If your kids like Legos, they'll like this park, so long as they're no older than maybe The rides and attractions were great for this target age group and parents can ride most of them too, although they'll have more fun experiencing them through their kids. The one portion of the park that most anyone will enjoy, and really the highlight of the day for me, was the "Miniland" portion. Here you'll find dozens of very detailed models made of legos, of various styles, ranging from the New York Skyline, to Vegas, to Kennedy Space Center, and even a Star Wars area featuring scenes from the movie as well as life-sized character models.
Legoland has continued to maintain these beautiful gardens, and they're really worth your time. Now to the rain policy: Our day was going great up until about 3pm, when we tried going on a ride and were told it was "closed because bad weather was coming". We were really surprised, as it was sunny, just a few fluffy clouds in the sky, and nothing even showed up on my phone's weather app radar screen.
So we went to an indoor ride - the foam-ball-factory sort of thing, and within 5 minutes they shut that ride down too. It soon became apparent that they were going to shut down virtually the entire park.
Thankfully we hadn't yet seen the Miniland and we went over to that section I understand you don't want to run some rides in rain or especially lightning because of safety reasons, but why not take Disney's lead? Disney does seem to know how to run a theme park you might say Of course Disney also doesn't shut down indoor rides like the Legoland did.
Since the park closed at 6pm the day we were there, we weren't able to experience any more rides from about until closing. That's a pretty big chunk of an already short day. Note that if you go, you might be able to get discount coupons from your local Lego store. Bottom line: Don't bother going if it's going to rain a significant part of the day. Otherwise this is a great little park and I love how they've taken care of the old Cypress Gardens legacy.
If any Legoland folks read this: Yes I know there's a disclaimer when you walk in that there are no rainchecks. However the average person wouldn't expect you to close virtually the whole park down 90 minutes before a single raindrop fell. You really need to change this policy or you're going to affect your attendance. Amy J. We apologize that you had a less than excellent experience with some aspects of your trip. TravelTrio34 Atlanta, GA contributions. For the best experience, come with a strategy.
We learned later that the park had such unexpected crowds on our first day there that they closed the gates in the early afternoon. Having been to - and loved - Legoland California earlier this year, we had an idea of what to expect, and the Florida version didn't disappoint: It was clean and inviting, with beautiful grounds, friendly staff and plenty of Lego whimsy at every turn.
However, you need a plan of action in order for your visit to run smoothly; otherwise it can get tiresome and frustrating fast. You can usually get significant discounts or free kids' admission.
Although Legoland didn't officially open until a. There were no lines at the parking booths, the ticket windows or the turnstiles. Best of all, the attendants began to let guests in about , so we enjoyed an hour or so of very sparse crowds.
It's only about - feet from the regular parking area. On our second day there, we were so early that the parking attendant directed us to a preferred spot despite our having paid for a regular one. Get a jump on the crowds and do them right away. Then you can explore Miniland, see a show, build racecars in the Imagination area, let kids play in the funhouses, or brave the lines for any rides you didn't make it to earlier.
My only real complaint about Legoland Florida is that food service can be very slow and disorganized, and they could use two or three more dining venues to accommodate everyone. Combat this problem as best you can by eating rather early like ish for lunch. The all-you-can-eat pizza and pasta restaurant is insanely popular, so be prepared to fight the crowds at peak times. Ditto for the much-vaunted Granny's Apple Fries. I got some for a snack around and there were 3 people ahead of me.
I passed by the building a few hours later, and the line stretched far past the railings. They're tasty, but not worth a minute wait. Most staffers have minifigures attached to their nametags, and they are obligated to trade if a child asks.
My son got a few really cool ones in exchange for some of his duplicates. It's a beautiful, tranquil respite from all the noise and foot traffic. The lines should be much, much shorter. Don't let sticker shock ruin your visit. Just go with it and enjoy your day. We are pleased to hear that you enjoyed your two days at the park and we hope to welcome you back again soon.
Big and Tall at Legoland, Florida. I looked online for information that would indicate whether we would fit in the legoland rides, but I didn't find much. My husband is 6'7" lbs and I am 5'11" lbs.. We are both evenly proportioned. I know we should lose weight. That's not what I'm here to talk about. I'm going to list which rides we did and did not fit on.. First, ALL of our encounters with staff were encouraging and helpful.
They did their best to get us on every ride. I was able to get the bar to click on everything. My husband was unable to ride any of the roller coasters. Flying School: My husband had to push really hard on the top bar on Flying School. I had to shift my top a bit..
If I were bustier, that one would have been a no go. My hubby was unable to get his head under the over the shoulder bar to even try to pull it down to fit. Project X: This one was very tight. I was riding the rides with a 5 year old.
So, I was able to use some of her foot space to have enough room for my legs to go to the side. I would not have fit with an adult. The lap bar is an L rather than a U, so that made sharing space easier.
My husband was almost able to ride this one. They worked and worked, but they were unable to get it to click.
If he were lighter or shorter, it would have worked with him in a car by himself. This one was the closest to working. Coastersaurus: This one uses individual between the legs m lap bars and shared seat belts. My husband could not get his legs under the bar to try to click it.
If you are tall, try the front most cars. The attendant said the front ones were roomier. I didn't notice much of a difference between cars. We rode this one 8 times in 7 different cars from the front to the back. The attendant had to push hard when I was in the first car.
The others were no problem to get one click. The trick for me on this one was to lean back an push with my feet to sort of get the bar under my belly. I had less trouble getting it to click in the middle cars. The only one I needed help with was the first car.
So if you need more belly room, I suggest the middle bars. Also, because of the M shape of the lap bar, riding with a significantly smaller guest may present a problem because their lap bar must come down and that makes sharing space more difficult.
That being said, I was with a 5 year old and we made it work. Though her bar did dig into my hip which was uncomfortable but not painful. Just keep that in mind if you are wide in the hips.
The Dragon: This one has a lb weight limit per car. My daughter and I barely made the cut! My husband exceeded the weight limit, so he didn't try to fit. This one uses a U lap belt and M knee guard. I easily fit in this one. But I did have to cross my feet to let my legs have room to pull down the knee bar.
I attached a picture of this one. There is no way my husband would fit in this one! Skinny tall people would probably be okay up to 6'3" or so depending on where they carry their height My dad has knee issues and he could not have done this ride. Shorter people with wide hips and a belly stand a better chance getting this ride to click. So you may need to ride in a car by yourself. But the seat had the most hip room of any of the roller coasters.
Also, I easily got a click on the lap bar with no hard pressing or maneuvering. This one is comparable to Mine Train at Disney World. Ninjago and Lost Kingdom Adventures are slow moving shooting rides and were an easy fit for all of us. Safari Trek was an easy fit for all of us. Aquazone Wave Racers were an easy fit for all of us. You do not get wet on this ride. Also, you stand throughout it.
We did not do the Chi ride. We fit on all of the kiddie rides we tried. But some things are meant for kids only. For example, the Ford Driving School has child age ranges posted. The Royal Joust is also kid specific. We did not go to the water park. It is a long winding walk just to get to the water park entrance! Check it out on the online legoland map. It is FAR! Parking: We arrived at the parking line at the first day and the second.
Both days the park opened at Stick to the right most lanes if you arrive early. They start off with only the left toll booth open at about 45 minutes before the park opens.
They gradually open each toll booth from left to right. Each time they open a booth, the cars break off into the new lane and the right lane moves fast. We managed to get through and park before people who were stuck in the left lane. We were able to ride Coastersaurus 7 times in a row with no wait at Saturday. Safari Trek also had no wait in the morning So be there when they open.. There are playgrounds and a ball pit within the park.
Go there when the ride waits get long. They have no waits to play. Our little girl was happy in the ball pit for over an hour while we sat in the shade and rested! Nicholas M. Thank you for writing such an informative review! I'm very happy to hear that your family enjoyed the visit and that our ride attendants were so helpful during your trip to the park. You have posted a lot of fantastic information for any future guests to read through to help with their visits, which is fantastic!
We hope to see you again Nick Head of Product Excellence. Legoland visits are better is you plan your activities ahead. What age should the children go? Four and a half was a good age for a first visit. The important factor in deciding when to go to Legoland is the height of the child. At forty inches, a child can do most of the rides with the exception of the roller coasters. There are rides that are appropriate for two year olds and toddler but not that many.
Where to stay? Our daughter and her family stayed at the Legoland Hotel. It has special themed rooms Pirates, Adventure, Friends and activities for the children. You can walk right into the park and have a early entrance time of AM instead of AM for the regular admissions.
Getting into the park early is really important since it means you do not have to wait in line for the first rides. As her parents we were able to go in with them as well.
Legoland Hotel is expensive. The lobby is noisy and full of children playing with legos plus scheduled activities. We stayed at a Holliday Inn which was three miles from the park at a much lower price.
There is also a Hampton Inn across the parking lot from the Holliday Inn which looked good as well. Website: Definitely check out the legoland.
It tells you all you need about rides, attractions and shows. Scroll down to the bottom of the website for specific topics. The family guide is a chart to the height requirements of the different rides. Ticket Packages? There are all sorts of packages so check the internet.
The cheapest one day tickets were from the AAA. The cheapest two day tickets were from the legoland. We got 2 day tickets plus legoland money which could be used as cash in the park.
These may vary according to season. How much time to allow? We took a day and a half which was plenty. You could do most of the rides in one day. It depends on how long the lines are. How to plan your day? It is really important to plan a schedule of the rides that you want to go on. That depends on the height of the children and their interests.
Legoland tells you to go in early - as soon as the gates open and start at the back of park and work forward. The lines are shortest in the morning. We found that after lunch, they were longer than the children wanted to wait.
There are however lego play tables at each ride so the parents can wait and the kids can play until their turn to get on the ride. You need to be really strict in the morning and go directly to the rides you want first as the lines are the shortest in the early morning. Do not get distracted by games, playgrounds, stores or Miniland. There is plenty of time for that later in the day when the lines are longer. Each one has rides and attractions. There is the unbelievable Miniland where there are miniature cities, scenes from Star Wars movies and a NASA space rocket that takes off.
Put off viewing this until the last thing in the day. If you start here you will not get to any of the rides. Almost every major ride has a store attached that you have to walk through to get out of the ride. The most popular rides are the roller coasters so if you want to go on them, go early.
I have attached the schedule the we try to followed. Then they have to pump the fire hydrants for the kids to get water to put out the fire. There are beginner-reading books and lego sets for Lego City in the store.
Ninjaygo World. The outside activities of a climbing wall, a reflex wall like wack-a-moles , a build a lego mountain were all age appropriate. The new Ninja ride had remarkable graphics but the boys found it loud and scary.
One of them said that it like being in the middle of a video where everyone is killing each other. Lego technic. The boys loved the technicycle where you climb into a car which goes up in the air and makes a circle and you pedal while riding. It goes around and up and down whether you pedal or not. Aquazone was too fast and scary.
The liked Safari ride you get into a car and go around a track and see lego animals - elephants, giraffes, etc.. Royal Joust, each child rides on a lego horse which goes on a track through a forest. Lost Kingdom you get into a car and go into an Indiana Jones type of building and see mummies and other things which you shoot with a laser gun.
The did not want to try Beetle Bounce where you go up 15 feet in a car and then free fall - too scary. We ended up in Miniland and the boys loved seeing all of the exhibits especially Star Wars and the NASA space ship taking off into the air. The World of Chima was closed. We did not go to Duplex Valley for toddlers. We did not go to Heartlake City for the live show. The boys did not want to go on the Carousal which looked great. We did not go to the Imagination Zone to build with legos.
We did not go on the Island in the Sky ride as it was too high for the boys. Pirate Water Ski show was entertaining. It you sit in the first five rows you are likely to get wet. If you really want to get soaked, then sit behind the water cannons in the first row.
You get to use the cannons to soak the actors and they in return use a shield to deflect the water back on the kids using the cannon. Legoland has developed another stream of revenue. Buy the cheapest ones you can find to trade. The employees wear badges with mini-figures attached.
You can trade your mini-figure for any mini-figure that the employee is wearing. There is even a mini-figure store where you can buy and trade mini-figures. Games and shopping. There are carnival type games everywhere - you pay for so many tosses and throw a ball to get a stuffed animal. There are one or two places where there is a sign that a child throws until they get a prize - look for those.
For your sanity, limit the number of games that the kids can play and tell them that up-front. There are shops everywhere. The biggest one is near the entrance.
There is a discount shop behind the carousal which opens after 1 PM called the Sunshine Sweets….. My suggestion is that you limit the shopping to the very end. Although they have a service where they will deliver the packages to the front of the park for you to pick up when you leave.
Food choices - There were few choices this early in the year as some of the restaurants are still closed. The lines were very long we needed all of us: two to get the food, one to hold a table, and one to walk the boys while we were waiting. We ate hamburgers and ice cream. You can bring food into the park so I recommend bringing in lots of snacks and drinks. Water - getting wet. We did not go to any of the sprinkler parks as it was too cool.
Website recommends bring crocs and towels and change of clothes if kids are going to sprinkler areas. So these are my suggestions. Legoland is a great place to visit and so much more manageable than Disney. Adults watch the kids on the rides more than participating with them. Epsato DC 1 contribution. A horrible experience all the way through. She went with me for her 7th birthday. From the beginning, the experience was unpleasant.
Thing is, they charge as much as other parks, but provide poor service, rude employees, broken rides, unsanitary eating conditions, weather weary displays of legos that looked haggard, questionable safety concerns and Legos for sale at prices higher than MSRP. I contacted several employees throughout the day about the horrible experience we were having, and all I was offered were insincere "I'm sorry's" from clueless employees.
NONE of the rides were working when we arrived. They also claim that this is "because we hold the safety of our guests in high regard. If this was the case, why did I see employees in the Lego food court who worked the registers handling food with their bare hands? If our safety's a concern, why were the "prize" plush toys left to the elements when the skill games were closed? Exposure to water would create mold inside their plush toys. The employees were quick to close attractions for "safety," yet the employees just stood there inside allegedly "closed" attractions.
Can they really claim a safety issue? Even after the rides opened, none of them worked properly. For example, "Cragger's Swamp," a water ride in their new Chima section, claimed that by hitting targets with water cannons that they'd activate animatronic characters.
NONE of the targets worked. While the sign at the entrance stated that only three rides were closed, it simply was not true. Most of them didn't seem to know where anything was. They'd use words like "awesome" for pretty much everything, even though nothing was actually "awesome. Adults aren't allowed on the horses, and Bobbi was pretty rude about letting people know about that rude.
As for the Legos themselves? The signs boast of the hours spent assembling the mini cities and toys throughout the park. Seriously, they looked awful. My daughter went on all of four rides, which speaks to another issue. The few rides they did have, they were all understaffed, and the wait times were insane. Compared to Disney and all the Six Flags parks I've been to, the ride experience was subpar at best.
The shows? What shows? Finally, I can't give a review without noting how overpriced the Lego toys in their shops were. No park exclusives to speak of. One store offered "discount" products, which were sold at other stores throughout the park at higher prices. I sent written complaints to Lego about this miserable experience, and all they responded with were canned replies and insincere apologies.
Skip the trip and save yourself the money. It's horrible. This year, we decided to change it up a bit and we went to SeaWorld and LegoLand.
Seaworld was great of course, a little crowded, but well worth it. LegoLand however is a different story. We went here with our 3 kids: 9, 11, and They say if the day starts off bad, then it will end bad Well this was one of those times.
We lodged in Orlando Fl, right in the center of all of the other parks. We did not know however, that LegoLand was about an hour away without traffic. We left early in the morning thinking we would arrive a little before the park opened. We arrived about 30 minutes after the park opened.
The ticket line was outrageously long, and unlike SeaWorld and most of the other parks, there was only 1 self- service kiosk, which was very slow and froze half way through the ticketing process After we finally made got our tickets, we began our day into the park.
I will admit that LegoLand does have a lot of great scenery made out of Lego's, but that's where it stops. This park is strictly geared towards 12 and under, and 12 years old MAX There was not many rides offered, and the ones that were there were extremely slow and geared towards maybe 5 or 6 year olds.
There is nothing for teenagers, and nothing for adults, so it is not really geared towards the WHOLE family. Now eating is a whole different catastophy There is hardly ANY places to eat in this park. It allows passengers to design their own tubes using oversized Lego blocks and then float down the lazy river in them. Note: Admission to the water park requires an extra fee, and visitors cannot purchase water park-only tickets. The outdoor steel roller coaster includes some indoor dark ride sequences.
Riders need to be 40 inches tall. Other roller coasters include the wooden Coastersaurus and the inverted Flying School. In , Legoland modified its Project X coaster with a virtual reality overlay. Passengers wear VR goggles and experience a Lego-themed race via the computer-animated visuals. There will be interactive rides, themed play areas, and live shows. Legoland is promising that the park will include a muddy puddles water play area.
It will be geared to the six-and-under set. At a planned four-and-half acres, it will be considerably smaller than Legoland Florida and will likely be something that would take about a few hours to experience.
Instead of glamorous gals and buff boys, swashbuckling pirates in Lego gear hang on to tow ropes and ply the waters of Lake Eloise. The show also features Calico Jade, a female pirate. As with Universal and Disney, you can stay where you play at Legoland Florida.
There are three options. The Legoland Hotel is adjacent to the park, and Legoland Beach Retreat which offers a lower price point is a few blocks away but connected via frequent shuttle buses. In , the resort opened Legoland Pirate Island Hotel. All of the hotels feature the kid-centric and whimsical look, feel, and focus of the park. Each of the hotels offers bountiful breakfasts as part of the room rates as well as plenty of complimentary activities.
They also provide their guests exclusive early access to the park. The food at Legoland is a step above a typical amusement park.
In addition to pizza, burgers, chicken fingers, and the usual suspects, some more interesting and slightly healthier, perhaps options include paninis, a pasta buffet, and a grilled chicken salad.
One of the park's signature treats can be found at Granny's Apple Fries. It serves—you guessed it—fried apple pieces. They are served with cinnamon, sugar, and whipped cream. A version with ice cream is also available. If you are coming to the park with little ones, many of the rides and attractions may be a bit too advanced for them to partake, but Legoland has you covered.
The Duplo Valley is specifically designed for younger visitors. For toddlers, there is is a train and driveable tractor rides, while for children under age two, the Tot Spot area has slides, a playhouse, and blocks. New parents will especially appreciate the Baby Care Center with a changing and nursing area, plus the option for warming baby bottles. There are plenty of other things to do at the park that may not hit the top of your list but are still worth a look.
The Imagination Zone, which is located indoors, has lots of hands-on activities with Legos. The park also has some great interactive, passenger-operated attractions, including the Kid Power Towers, the Technicycle, and the Rescue Academy. Actively scan device characteristics for identification.
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