When would you open presents?
My oldest is turning three his month and we booked an overnight stay at LEGOLAND Windsor staying in a pirate theme room . We are a short 40 minute drive away. The plan is to wake up on his birthday, have breakfast at home and head to LEGOLAND first thing . The rides opens at 10:00 but ideally we would like to be much earlier as we can drop our bags off at the hotel reception and get early entry into the park .
My question is : presents in the morning before we leave or in the evening at the hotel ?
From seeing him open presents at Christmas, he will open them at lightening speed . However, he is a good sleeper and can easily sleep in until 8am so that will be a rushed morning if he does sleep in ( 50/50 if he will. Otherwise he will be up for 7am) . I wouldn’t want to wake him up early as he will need all the sleep but I guess I could .
My other concern with opening presents in the morning is we will need to head off asap
to Legoland so the poor boy won’t get much opportunity to play with them . I thought we could bring a few with us for in the hotel after though . If we open them in the evening then we will need to bring all the presents with us which isn’t that big of a deal. It’s a jam packed day though and to fit that in between the park, the splash pad, our dinner booked , the excitement of a themed hotels etc will be a bit rushed .
So what would you do ?