Lego at Christmas

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Has anyone done Legoland at a Christmas and their Santa experience? Is it worth it?

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We did it last year. The set up is similar to Chessington - check in and then an elf will take you to one of many little huts with a friendly Father Christmas to speak to. There's an automatic camera set up for you to capture your time with him. The queue area was boring (I think Chessington was better). The gift wasn't really worth it - a slightly young box of lego which would have been £8 ish I think. The photo was terrible and we didn't buy it.

However, saying that, the interaction with FC was lovely and he did put some effort in. The elf was really good at setting the scene and interacting with our child. We also had fun seeing the Xmas parade and doing some of the rides (think the water ones were closed).

For little ones, it feels as if you are lead through some snowy trees, on winding paths, to a little log cabin where father christmas is waiting just for you. For adults you notice the multiple routes and may see over the tops of the trees (if you are very tall).

HTH

Thanks for replying.

Chessington is a massive drive for us. We were looking at either Legoland or Warwick castle. I think we're swaying towards Legoland but it's expensive if it's shit.

Kids are 9,7,3 so this might be our last year of Santa for the oldest one and first year of remembering it for the youngest one.

The rides are good - some are shut but the main ones (ninjango, sky lion etc) are still open. The only thing I wasn't so keen on out of the whole experience was the generic lego set. The photo wasn't good, but that was due to the child and not the experience, and they did offer to retake (but the attention span had run out at that point).

If Chessington is further away then it probably isn't worth it! They do a soft toy as the present. I'm debating between the two at the moment.

We did lego land twice and I am not a fan of lego land theme park itself but I thought it was fun for Xmas!

I liked the way they decorated the park, my dc where happy with the lego, they had some ginger bread making thing?