..to think Legoland is the 7th circle of hell

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We queued all day then had to queue for an hour to leave the car park

Went once, managed 4 rides in a day, never going again. I don’t mind queuing for rides, when the rides are good ones. I queued 2.5hrs for the slinky dog coaster in Disney in 30 degree heat, no problems. The rides in lego land are dire, we wandered around thinking we must be missing something, some big part of the park where they keep the good rides. Nope.

Had a good family visit to Legoland Windsor Hotel so received early entry to the Park.

Also stayed at Legoland Malaysia Hotel (close to Singapore) which had an amazing breakfast buffet (Indian, Malay & Western foods.) The best thing about Legoland Malaysia was the water park; brilliant in the heat.

We go to legoland twice a year generally. I have no idea who these people are that spent £150 plus on tickets. Surely by now everyone knows to get the BOGOF vouchers at the very least?!

We collect the tickets from the Times at TWO tickets for £12 and then use Tesco points for the rest. It comes to about £40 for 4 people. We then always pay the £10 in advance for priority parking as it is right by the exit.

We take a huge picnic and lots of snacks. The whole day costs us £50. Because we have paid so much the expectations are much lower but we always seem to get at least 10 rides in, using the app to go to short queues. The shows are free and he splash park is a good hour on its own.

We had a lovely two days there in the summer.

Two days worth of tickets for 4 cost me £30 (sun vouchers). Premier inn £30. Then travel and food (Tony Carvery BOGOF)...basically a whole weekend for 4 including 2 days park entry, hotel and food for £100ish.

We went on an inset day in June. Fairly busy but we saw the warnings on the threads here so lowered expectations. Got there before it opened, has SEN passes but hardly used them, took a picnic and downloaded the app for queue times. It was a good day out but I agree the rides were rubbish compared to proper theme parks. I’d only go again if we had a good deal and inset day lined up, we are fairly close. Paultons Park is further but the rides, outside Peppa Pig, are much better.

I completely understand if you travel there as a huge treat and spend all day queuing how shit it can be, but I live about 20 mins away and like it (although dd1 now prefers chessington) - we went a few times when we had Merlin passes but it doesn't matter if you don't do x because you can do it next time etc
I had the best day with dd2 on a random Thurs in mid Sept (she's below school age but over 1m) - literally staying on all the rides multiple times, so go off peak/dull days if you can.

I haven’t been for years but we always had a good time. In those days - not sure you still can - we used Tesco vouchers and upgraded to a yearly pass so never paid full price and we usually took food. Went on hot days and wetter days but this was mainly before the introduction of the fast pass thing so maybe that made a difference?

YABU

We all had the BEST day ever last summer at Legoland!! A fantastic day out !!

Oh no! We are going at Christmas but a weekend early on... are we in for carnage?!

I've been a few times. Always outside holidays (inset days) but this was the worst. I'm prepared for pricey and crap food ( picnic). It just seemed to me that the rides were understaffed and that was mainly why the queues were long. There were also quite a few things that were closed.

Hour long queue to leave the car park was the straw that broke the camels back.

Every time I say never again. This time I mean it.

DS & friend had a ball btw

I agree that Legoland is a special circle of hell
We went to Chessington World of Adventure yesterday (Friday) and there were hardly any queues at all. In fact we had to wait for Rameses Revenge as there weren't enough people for it to run (minimum 15, who knew)!!
In the last hour we did 7 rides including the big queue coasters as we could just walk up & get on