Legoland Billund

Legoland Billund in Denmark. The perfect place for family fun. We had wanted to visit it for a long time, and finally our dream came true.

A visit to Legoland was one of our must-see stops on our summer road trip to Denmark.

Fun fact: Legoland Billund opened on 7 June 1968, right next to the Lego factory. It is the first Legoland in the world, and its models inspired the other Legoland parks.

Tickets

Tickets to Legoland are quite expensive, especially on Polish wages. However, there are  some ways to get a discount. There are two types of discounts available:

• The first is - buy tickets in advance online. The earlier you make reservations, the lower the price you'll get. At the entry show your printed ticket and skip the queue.

• The second is to use a coupon. In German supermarkets you can regularly find printed coupons. Where did we get them if we live in Poland? For a few zlotys we can buy them at the Allegro marketplace.

We took advantage of the offer “child free with an adult”. It works on the principle that for every adult who buys a full-price ticket, one child enters free. Kids under 3 have free admission. In our case, as a family of 5 with small kids we needed two coupons.

However, the inconvenience of this approach was that we needed to buy tickets at the box office. When we arrived, we saw something we didn't expect: a huge queue. It took an hour to get our tickets. If we had known that before arriving, we could have planned a different way to avoid standing in the queue.

High season

It is widely known that visiting amusement parks in high season is very popular. A lot of people want to have fun there. We were on our holidays so we had no option to go at another time. Billund resort was crowded and we should be prepared for that. We expected that it would be full of people. To avoid weekend crowds we planned our visit for a Monday. However, even on Monday there were still a lot of visitors. It was especially noticeable at the most interesting attractions.

Queues are an indispensable part of the park. An interesting solution was that at the entrance to each attraction, the estimated wait time was shown. It is based on the current number of people in the queue and the capacity of the ride. Estimates ranged from a few minutes up to 45 minutes. We didn't stand in the longest queues.

It is worth mentioning that the culture of the people standing in line was very impressive. We did not see any attempts to push into the queue or any tricks to bypass the line. Everyone waited in the designated area with a smile on their face. No one had a problem with disabled people being let through first. There were even situations when the park staff needed to stop a whole attraction to help someone access it. This is something we have never encountered in Poland.

Legoland’s attractions

The number of attractions in the park is huge. There are open-air and indoor attractions. Some attractions are view only. Examples are the miniature park and themed exhibitions. We can walk around and watch but we can’t touch them.

Other attractions are more interactive - you can participate in them. Examples are boat rides or tracks with carts.

Some attractions are age-restricted. Those attractions are intended for older children who meet the minimum height requirement. Height checks are done by comparing kids to Lego bricks. Smart way!

Some attractions are accessible only during the summer. Pools for example.

In buildings we can find mostly exhibitions. At the time of our visit, there was the Lego underwater world.

Restaurants

In the park there are numerous restaurants and buffets. Prices reflect the fact that this is the only place to eat a meal in the park. So it's best to prepare and bring your own lunch. As we observed visitors we saw that this is a common tactic, even for the Danes. We can find a lot of benches and some places with tables where you can sit and eat your own food.

What we saw:

• Miniature park with a few cities built of Lego blocks. Some exhibits were created with tens of thousands of small Lego bricks. The Miniature Park is electrified, with moving elements like windmills, self-driving cars, boats, trains, drawbridges, cranes. Kids had a chance to activate some parts by pushing control buttons. The Miniature Park showed us the world around us in miniature. Everything is created with Lego bricks. Only the plants are real - we can see miniature trees and shrubs. The whole area is maintained in perfect condition. It was a pleasure to admire.

• Kids' trains - of all kinds: from the elevated train in Duplo Land, through the train going around the whole park, to the water rides.

• Water attractions. A few great water attractions, such as boat rides along a set course.  During the tour we were surrounded by a world made of Lego.
• Lookout tower - a round elevator rising over the entire park. You can see all the attractions within the park from there.
• Lego underwater world. Indoor exhibition with aquariums, fish (including shark), and everything made of Lego (submarines, divers). You can also pick up a real crab. Our girls had the chance to do it.

• rides, merry-go-rounds - fast, slow, and thrilling. Everything you need for a dose of adrenaline

• a haunted castle that created a spooky atmosphere

• roller coasters - fast, slow, and some also wet

All around - everything of course was built with Lego blocks.

Overall rating

Definitely worth it. Although this is an expensive attraction - for children it is an unforgettable experience.

Have a look at our video from a visit to Legoland Billund: