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Legoland Windsor Hotel stay and tips

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HelpMeHiveMind · 12/01/2022 10:07

Just that really- any tips from those who have done it for how to make the most of a stay at the resort? Want to make it really special for DCs!

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Fivemoreminutes1 · 12/01/2022 16:33

Which one? Or have you not decided yet?

HelpMeHiveMind · 12/01/2022 16:44

The main resort Hotel at Windsor

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nothingcomestonothing · 12/01/2022 16:52

Haven't been since before covid so I don't know what's different now. But based on pre covid I'd say:

Book your times for the pool, breakfast and dinner asap, you used to be able to do so before arriving.

Ask for the free pop badges with every kids meal, they never seem to offer them unless you ask and my DC loved them. Any staff member would swap their pop badge with DC if they ask (might not be allowed now), also at one point shop staff had lego figures on their name badges and would swap those too so we'd take spare figures with us for that. Buy the bottomless drinks on park and put the pop badges on the lanyards.

Have a look at the rides with DC beforehand and find out which are their essentials, as you will not do all or even most in a day. Check where they are in relation to each other so you don't walk miles more than you need to.Without a qbot you might only do 4 or 5. If you can, get a qbot, book it in advance and you can collect from the shop in the hotel instead of on the park. Look up beforehand if there are rides which you can't qbot (there used to be, the boats and another popular one), do those first thing, before the queues are crazy. Often there will be a qbot queue, if so join and ask the staff member to bleep your reservation off while you queue, so you can get your next reservation on there counting down asap.

If you buy stuff in the shops you can have it delivered to the hotel instead of carrying it round with you.

Queues for food and drink on park are long and slow, so don't wait til DC are starving.

We used to do 3 or 4 days ( when it was buy one get one free) so it didn't get stressful trying to do everyone's wish list. We'd have one or two days with a qbot and make the most of it, then the other days play on the parks, water area etc and just do a few rides.

Its not exactly a relaxing break for adults, but the DC loved it!

Pippinlily · 12/01/2022 22:33

Experience from the Castle Hotel in Covid:
Keep checking re booking your pool slot on the website. We booked by chance a few weeks before when it came to mind to look into it. We didn’t have much choice of slots & if we had left it until the email advising/linking to book came through, I don’t think we would have got a slot.
Same re restaurants for evening & breakfast (saw an upset family who hadn’t realised they needed to book breakfast in advance (as price included), & there was no availability until after 10.30am)

Qbot is now ‘reserve & ride’ and done through phones: you don’t pick anything up. If you’re there in school hols or weekend I think you will need it.

It was our first visit to Legoland & we were keen to make the most of it. Our kids loved it & tbh were most excited about the hotel. I would almost plan to spend more ‘downtime’ at the hotel. That’s the bit they still talk about (& we’ll return to the park, but hotel was probably a one-off for us). So I’d make the most of it.

Plan to go to one of the ‘big’ rides that are close to the hotels in the morning after hotel stay: deep sea adventure or haunted house monster party etc.
the main park entrance is at the opposite end, so these rides will be the quietest you’ll see them at that point.

ffscovid · 12/01/2022 22:45

TBH I didn't enjoy the hotels enough to warrant the price. Having done a full day at the park (which was needed so that we could do all the rides), the kids (6 & 8) were too knackered to really enjoy the hotel / pool etc. There was no way I'd have wanted to leave the park early just to go swimming either.
The next time we went, we just stayed at a Premier Inn and it was a much better experience all round as I didn't feel like I was having to compromise on time in the park so that we could make the most of the hotel facilities that we'd spent a fortune on.

livingthegoodlife · 18/01/2022 16:15

We loved our trip.

You must book your dining & swimming slots asap. We went last summer so sort of covid rules. We went swimming at 8.30 ish when the park wasn't open, then shower & ready to head in park.

We enjoyed both the breakfast & evening meal at the Bricks restaurant in the hotel. It exceeded our expectations & we had a nice bottle of red wine!

Don't forget to do the quiz in the room, there is a Lego prize (& lanyards for collecting pop badges so do this before a day at the park).

Definitely collect the free pop badges & swap with staff.

Head to Flight of the Sky Lion first thing, you are close to it in the hotel. We walked straight on and rest of day was 90 mins plus wait.

Have an amazing time, we had the best time.

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