Visit to LegoLand @Windsor

Yesterday we went to Legoland @ Windsor.

Here is my take on the attraction :- There are several creatures e.g. :- Lego people, dragons, dinosaurs, fairy tale characters, animals, etc made from Lego bricks. All these things look brilliant. Imagine you making a house out of Lego bricks- sometimes it becomes so frustrating and these people have created huge sculptures from these bricks simply fantastic.

The 3D / 4D shows in the Imagination Centre are very nice. We saw the Racers show and thoroughly enjoyed it. Don't want to compare , but we have visited Disneyland Paris last year and saw similar show Honey I shrunk the audience and it was just awesome. Abhishek called it 'Out of this world mum!' so it won't be fair to compare this show with Disney. It was good.

A ride called Fairy Tale Brook was a  gentle boat trip to see Little Red Riding Hood and all fairy tale favourites come to life through "LEGO MAGIC." This was lovely. Having done this last thing in the evening, we didn't have to waste our time in the queues.

Next to experience was the ups and downs of a hot air balloon ride. Seated in a LEGO themed gondola, guests pull on the "gas valve" cable to increase altitude, whilst the ride rotates at a constant speed. We waited for more than 45 mins for this and it was not at all worth the wait.

Having enjoyed the maze at Disneyland, we thought the next attraction called as Loki’s Labyrinth would be lovely but we were supposed to face disappointment here as it didn't take us even a minute before we found our way though to the destination and back.

We went on several rides we were three adults in our group so we would queue separately on different rides so we managed to save a little bit of time on each ride.

It was amazing to see nearly 40 million pieces been used to recreate scenes from the USA and Europe, all bustling with sounds, traffic, trains and boats.. in the Miniland.

If I have to explain our trip in short, we were there from 10.30 am to 8.30 pm and we spent almost 60% of our time in the queues. Some rides had waiting time of 70 mins and they turned out to be awful rides not worth the wait.

 

Word of caution: -

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  The attraction in itself is good but not worth the amount they charge for entry (£38 per Adult and £29 per child).
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  You end up spending more time in the queues than on the rides.
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  Most of the rides are not as exiting as you would want them after standing in the looonngg queue.
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  Some rides are available at additional charge.
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  There is hardly any healthy veg choices in the restaurants.
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  All rides close at the same time but as the Miniland is in open space, visit it in the end.

PS: This is entirely my view based on our experience.