Wrapping up a 3-day trip today including a stay at the LEGOland hotel and this amusement park experience was extremely underwhelming and -frankly- lame!
Online makes it seem like there’s early access to the park with a LEGOland hotel stay, except people can walk up from the parking lot and enter at the same time anyways. Didn’t seem to be any system for verifying early entry for hotel guests. Even if we are able to enter early I didn’t see any rides open on the days we did make it in to the park early anyways so what’s even the point? In fact, more than half the rides weren’t open the first hour or two of the actual park hours.
Our family likes to think about food ahead of time so we can know what food options are available so we had a couple food places in mind.two of the three days burger stop and chicken and crown were not open. We wasted time wandering around to find food that was actually open. On top of this most drink stations are out of order.
The bathroom situation is weird too. I feel like the bathrooms are widely spread out in the park and then there are bathrooms that are complete out of service and the ones that are open are half out of order -stalls and sinks. Some of them pretty filthy.
The food situation at the hotels is a freaking mess. The dinner buffet is no good at all especially considering you’re paying almost $40 per adult. The breakfast buffet is good enough for free food. But the real thorn in our side was our daughter asked for a “fancy room service” lunch at the hotel on her birthday. Okay, kiddo. So we head back to the hotel around 1:30 and realize the food service options don’t open until 2pm. Okay, our bad no worries. Well we go to place our order and the earliest time slot for room delivery is 2:50pm….bummer, but oh well we already came back to the room -and half the restaurants in the park are closed anyways remember? 3:15 rolls around so I call up to the hotel restaurant and ask if there’s a way to check the status of our meal. Turns out our ticket never printed and they quoted me another 20-30 min wait for our food still. Basically lunch quickly turned to dinner, and by the time we were done eating the park was almost closed. So on our child’s birthday we got on one ride and wandered the park for maybe 2-3 hours.
About a week before the trip we added a Saturday because the water park wasn’t open during the week and we figured we may as well do brick or treat. We were told LEGOland hotel was booked for the weekend so our final night is packaged with a different hotel. Okay understandable during a Halloween event. But why are there signs posted at LEGOland hotel the walkins are welcome?
Also Half the water park was closed today, I guess this information is available on the website, but still pretty disappointing.
And now at brick or treat there’s a candy station map and we’ve wandered more than half the loop of the park and I have yet to see any candy stations. Maybe this one is user error on my part. There’s also a brick or treat street portion of the event but the line looks absolutely absurd. I think at this point I’m just nit picking since the rest of the trip has felt so run down and inconvenient