Two adults, two kids age just turned 9 and 11.
Went on Sunday. Never been before so can’t compare crowds. It seemed quiet to me, wouldn’t really even call it ‘crowds’.
I wondered if it being Father’s Day and World Cup would make a difference to numbers, but then how do I quantify that? 
there were men there.
Kellogg’s Free Adult Entry vouchers
were accepted fine. I’d wondered if we had to enter as two lone parents with a kid each to validate the ‘one Free Adult Entry but nope.
Entry Price and Parking
Entry is £52 child or adult, and £6 parking. Don’t bother with £12 priority parking, the furthest car park (we were in) was only a 3 minute walk away anyway. We arrived about half 11I think (traffic, tardiness!) and the car parks were mostly full except a couple of the furthest ones).
Legoland TV advert is not the Windsor resort!
It shows a Disney-style grand entrance and attractions. That’s the Florida one I think. It’s a montage of worldwide Legoland resorts. The UK resort is a bit like Gullivers Land in Milton Keynes but in nicer landscaped surrounds .
Site Cleanliness
Reviews complain it looks dated and dirty. But consider everything’s outside to the mercy of the weather.
The model village bit has some grubby Lego builds but then they’re outdoors with UV fade and acid rain, and Heathrow jet pollution flying low every few minutes. They obviously have a maintenance rota as most builds are spotless, and it really doesn’t lessen the awe factor. This area, called Miniland, was our family’s favourite of the whole park. There was virtually no litter anywhere, the place was quite spotless, no overflowing bins, (and plenty of them too).
Smokers
areas only 2 on the whole site, and you will be told off if staff find you puffing outside of them.
Pushchair Hire
giant robust single or double pushchairs hired on site that seemed to be handy for bundling picnics, kids, etc about. I even saw older kids in them, must have been at least 6. It’s a huge site, but the map is easy to navigate as attractions are clearly laid out in 5 or 6 main areas. Your legs and back will ache at the end though. It’s flat apart from a climb down at the entrance.
Queues for rides
We calculated if you wanted to do every ride, it’s impossible in a 9.30am-6pm day. You’d need two days.
That’s because the rides we saw were helpfully digitally advising on boards by each one, 55 minutes (log flume), 35 minutes (big dragon roller coaster), the Pirate Ship and small dragon rollercoaster around 5pm were only 10 minute queues, and the pirate boat in Ninjago Land was a relatively short queue at peak time too.
If you want to do rides, you must expect to queue for absolutely ages as with most big theme parks. The digital boards are not accurate, our big dragon rollercoaster said 35 minutes but we were queuing for at least 50.
At 15minutes before all rides shut, we dashed into the whitewater rapids ride which is the first ride as you enter the park so it was on our way out, and only minutes.
How wet are the rides
If you’re from Yorkshire, Wales, Cumbria or Cornwall you can skip this bit because you have rain for blood anyway so don’t care 
. For everyone else, you won’t need to buy a £4.50 —bin liner— plastic poncho from the vend machines onsite, because you’ll barely get a sprinkle. Your mascara won’t run and your hair won’t frizz, put it that way. It’s a negligible soak.
Closed Rides
The Hill Train is shut and the land train tracks look overgrown so they’re not planning on opening that this summer season looks like 
. Earlier reviews have complained the trains aren’t open so far this summer season too. Spiny Spider is open.
QBot Tickets are up to £80 extra per person
In a static queue of antsy, bored, regular riders, there was maybe around 5 Qbotters that I saw in their own queue.
They do jump the queue, so maybe the extra £20-£80 per person is worth it if you can afford it. If it means seeing more of the attractions more quickly, I think I’d buy it (if I could afford it). Read the small print on this link to the different types of QBot ticket.
QBot Ticket Types
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There were plenty of kiosks at regular spaces none of them with more than a couple of people in front. Costa Coffee usual shop price, not motorway services price.
The main restaurant area is called Heartlake City that was well served with restaurants.
Ice Cream is around £3.50-£4 a dollop, but keep the attitude you aren’t here for value-for-money treats.
Giftshop Prices
Ninjago Land, the main gift shop, and the little fairground style kiosks dotted about all had a broad range of prices from pocket money £2 to jawdroppers. The mid range prices actually seemed very reasonable and I’m a former lone parent so highly —tight— budget conscious.
Age Range Suitable Attractions
There is an outstanding adventure playground park right in the middle in a forested area with high fences if you need to give your eagle eyes a break whilst your kids play.
They are strict on the height restrictions and I saw kids being measured on every ride we went on.
I saw mostly kids under teenage here. But some of the rides like the log flume, whitewater rapids, teenagers would like. They are not big thrill rides though. There’s plenty of little sedate bimble about boat rides.
Staff
Found all staff from shops to cleaners polite and genuinely helpful. They were also dotted around the site quite visibly. As were satellite tv promoters, not what you want to stop and consider buying on a family day trip so a bit bizarre!
Hotels
No idea. The Resort Hotel on the way in had it’s own car park but that hotel was a fair way from the actual park.
The Castle Hotel is right in the middle of the site. Doesn’t seem to have its own car park.
I wouldn’t pay £700 a night. Read the small print. It is £691 a night for a family of four. That includes park entry cost, so it makes it a £400 a night hotel...but you get two days use of the park.
Overall, I had no great expectations despite the misleading TV advert, and expected a Lego model village on a grand scale with some rides, and I got that satisfactorily.
It’s overpriced obviously as all theme parks are, you can’t fight that regardless of your principles on the matter.
For the people who complain in reviews, maybe they just had an awful day with screaming babies and fraught and couldn’t find a decent priced snack anywhere, I don’t know. But you don’t review a theme park for it’s value for money, you review it for the entertainment and ease of amenities available, and Legoland Windsor didn’t disappoint on those factors for us.