Legoland Windsor!

Recently we went to Surrey for a family birthday party, so we figured we may as well combine a trip to Legoland Windsor too. We did what most do and changed clubcard vouchers into tickets for both Lucien and I, Alice is free as she is under 3.

Another reason for doing the trip to Legoland was to see how Alice would be at a theme park, it also introduced her to the concept of queuing, albeit the queues were minuscule compared to summer or a weekend. The longest queue we had was 15 minutes and she coped pretty well.

Alice excited on her way to Legoland

Legoland Hotel

I'm guessing I was more excited when we first walked through the gates

The view from the top part of the park

 We ended up going to the 'Lego Friends' area, after riding 'Laser Raiders' twice, Alice loved posing with all the figures.. (I cant remember which character was which though, please forgive me)

Alice found a friend

Thought I would join in and have a selfie with Mia

Alice found a Lego Scrappy

After the 'Friends' area we walked around the lake and past the hotel at the bottom of the park, we then found the 'Atlantis' submarine ride.

 I was apprehensive about it at first as I suffer with claustrophobia and was worried about being shut inside a small dark submarine, it was absolutely fine and bigger than I was expecting, it was dark but you get distracted by the fish and sharks swimming around the submarine.

Alice watching the fish, sharks and rays.

Lucien and Alice outside the ride

We rode 'Atlantis' twice, there was no queue, the only wait we had was the walking around the queue system. After 'Atlantis' we made our way to 'Duplo Valley' and 'Fairy Tale Brook', Alice absolutely loved this ride, which we also did twice due to no queues.

Waving at everyone

With Daddy the second time round

The next ride was the Duplo train, Alice was a bit too short to be able to ride by herself so Lucien and I had to go on it too...

We also rode 'Balloon School' which Alice was also very excited to do, that was until she actually got up high on it and then she started shouting "Careful! careful Mummy! careful Daddy!". When we got off she then started to shout at everybody that got on the ride to be careful too. Needless to say, we only did this ride once.

We then went to ride the 'Heartlake City Express', Alice had been seeing this train go around at various locations and kept expressing how much she wanted to go on it. It was something that had a huge potential,but for me, it was a bit disappointing. It could have done with more Lego figures and just generally more to see. Alice seemed to enjoy it though.

Alice and I (Lucien was stood next to Alice) went on the carousel after the train, she was having fun until her bum slipped slightly and she then wanted off.

The ride we waited longest for was 'Coastguard HQ' which was a 15 minutes queue, however Alice did amazingly well waiting, she was watching the boats coming and going. We all really enjoyed this ride and made the most of the freedom of powering the boat ourselves by going slower than others so we took longer. Alice had a go at steering the boat, and ended up steering us towards another boat, so Lucien took over again.

Overall, our trip to Legoland was brilliant. Alice loved every minute of it. We were both impressed with Alice, she walked the entire way around the park, said "Thank you" to the ride attendants when leaving each and every ride and was having fun interacting with everyone. I'm going to say that it was a very successful trip and we are now looking forward to visiting Legoland Florida next year!

As well as this blog, there is a video here, Alice's Adventures in Legoland.

Laura