Visiting Legoland Windsor with young children
‘Maybe we can make new friends there!’
When I reacted in shock to the number of cars driving into Legoland Windsor at 9.50 yesterday–10 minutes before opening–four-year-old Big Girl managed to look at the positives and figured it was fabulous there would be so many children to meet.
She didn’t share my concerns about queuing times, and was in no hurry to get on ride before queues got longer. With a bit of encouragement, however, I managed to get one-year-old Baby Boy and Big Girl down to Duplo Valley, where there were several rides without minimum height restrictions.
All three of us could go on Fairy Tale Brook. a boat ride that takes little explorers passed fairytale-themed giant Lego displays. This was a winner with both Baby Boy and Big Girl, resulting in us going on it twice and buying a photo magnet as a souvenir. In the same area, there’s also a little Duplo train that the three of us could go on, and the water play area in Duplo Valley is fantastic on hot days.
Older children will love Drench Towers, a water play area with slides, while even toddlers can have fun in the colourful Safari Splash, where there are giant-sized Duplo animals with interactive sprinklers and fountains.
The water felt a tad cold even for a hot day though, which was useful for me since I then managed to get everyone dried and dressed in time for the Lego Friends show.
The show, which had Big Girl shouting and cheering in delight, was a highlight of the day, and I think I was the only one of us who was a bit disappointed the friends were lip-syncing instead of singing live.
After the show, we were excited to meet all five Lego Friends, and in general, I was surprised at how short queues there were for meet-and-greet sessions. In addition to meeting Lego Friends twice, Big Girl met a pirate Lego character in the Lego Character Spot where there appeared to be new Lego characters to meet throughout the day.
This area is next to Miniland, which features Lego models of London, Scotland and more. I remember being really impressed when seeing the large cities built in Lego when visiting Legoland in Denmark as a child, and I now felt Big Girl was old enough to appreciate seeing the model cities too.
Miniland was also a nice attraction to visit when queuing times were simply too long for Baby Boy. We had wanted to do the Coastguard HQ boat ride, but when we got there after lunchtime the queuing time had reached 45 minutes, and we also ended up queueing for around that time for Balloon School.
When leaving the park after five and a half hours of fun, we hadn’t seen the action-packed pirate show, nor the fairytale puppet shows in the Duplo Theatre, and there were still a number of rides without height restrictions that we could have gone on. If we’d brought Daddy T, Big Girl would also have loved to go on the Fire Academy ride, which looked like a super cool way to get the family working together and having a laugh.
We’ll be back, Legoland!
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