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Legoland, here i come!!

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We're off to Legoland on Saturday, as a birthday treat for both Abi and OH. Never been before and we are all really excited.

 

Has anyone else been? Can you give us any tips regarding best rides, queues etc?

 

I'll be in a wheelchair all day so hopefully we may be able to jump some queues, cheeky i know, but wheelchair users go in a different entrance at some rides.

 

Its the shops i'm really looking forward to.

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I've not been as my little boy is a bit too small. One of my friends has a family season ticket, says it is great for kids and goes whenever she can.

 

Have a lovely time and I hope the weathers reasonable. A little bit of rain can be a good thing at a theme park as it shortens the queues

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We've been quite a few times and it's still a firm favourite with the kids, we were there just a few weeks ago... we did the Viking ride first, as we couldn't do it on our previous visit as the queue was over 2 hrs... I guess it depends what people like, but really the viking ride isn't worth queuing for... if there is more than a 10 or 15 mins wait, I wouldn't bother going on it again.

I'm not sure if they still do an exit pass, but they do a 'queue-bot', that you can pay extra for, and it queues for you, so basically you get allocated a time to go to your chosen ride, and can then go on at that time without having to queue, but it's quite expensive... you can also only book a time for one ride at a time, so have to wait to have been on the ride, to book the next one...

As you said, as a wheelchair user, you might be able to jump some of the queues... I don't know if it's fair or not, but if you can do it, why not do it... you'll get more out of your day and will be able to do more rides...

Have a great time...

My favourite is the dragon ride... (I'm not into big wild ride, the dragon ride is the most adrenaline I can take, anything wilder makes me feel travel sick for days)...

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As you said, as a wheelchair user, you might be able to jump some of the queues... I don't know if it's fair or not, but if you can do it, why not do it... you'll get more out of your day and will be able to do more rides...

Have a great time...

 

When I went to Disney paris,just a couple of months after it had opened,we queued for HOURS for one ride & were really thrilled to be in the first batch to go on next,meaning we would get the front seats.

But they let Sacha Distel (*sp) & his family queue jump the whole lot & they got those seats ahead of us :twisted:

I was so mad that he would use his fame in that way.

 

No objection to wheelchair users going first,just smarmy singers :roll::lol:

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We had a fab time when we went last year, so much so that Ethan wants to go back again. We found this site really useful http://www.uglw.co.uk/ especially the tip about getting there avoiding Windsor town centre. The first day we went from the hotel- at Heathrow- we got a bit lost on the directions & ended up in Windsor, but we followed the directions backwards on the way back to the hotel & they were very accurate. It was a really quick & traffic-free way to get there. The next morning we knew exactly where we were going & thus avoided the nasty traffic queues in the town centre, which WERE mega.

 

you will love it, & it is very wheelchair /trike friendly, if a bit hilly :lol:

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Being in a wheelchair usually means fast track to the front which is great if you are with someone in a chair :lol:

 

Have a great day :wink:

 

I ahve never been but someone I used to work with is a gardener there and he says it is a lovely park if you have children (which he did) :lol:

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Hope you enjoy yourselves - we haven't been for a couple of years but it is good fun. We are due to go sometime soon as we owe our youngest a trip there for his birthday which was at the end of March :oops:

 

I'm fairly certain too that you get a 'special' pass from the customer service desk - they certainly have a system for not having to queue when you have a good reason.

 

I'll keep my fingers crossed the weather is good for you too - I drove past today and there were still lots of cars going in but it has been a bit monsoon like I'm afraid :roll:

 

Lisa P

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Please don't mention Legoland, I still have nightmares :wink:

 

Loved the place, thought it was great, just hated the little monsters I took with me. DS and DD were going through their 'we hate each other no matter what - even if it spoils a lovely day out' phase on the last trip :roll::wink::lol: vowed never to return :wink:

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When Son was little we had season tickets. He loved it up to the age of about 10. Some rides are very popular and the queues get a bit long. They need to learn from the experts at Disney (and others) that you can offload and load up at the same time! Lovely grounds though, and the LegoWorld (minatures of towns and cities) is really clever

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My DS would be so jealous of you - He is always asking to go back to Legoland, especially as he is a Lego fanatic. We were really lucky to get heavily discounted tickets last year for a special Brownie and Rainbow only day last year. It was the weekend after Legoland closed to the public for the year and so it was virtually empty compared to a normal day. We had a fantastic time. The children particularly loved the Lego world model and the train-thingy ride in the sky.

 

Have a lovely time.

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It was a fantastic day!

 

The night before we went on the website, worked out which rides were our priorities and where they were. We were then able to head straight for those first, before the queues got too long.

 

Actually, we needn't have worried. Because i was in my wheelchair, we entered all rides through the exit and skipped all the queues :wink: The accessibility of Legoland is brilliant, you can tell that facilities for disabled guests wasn't just an afterthought.

 

Miniland was fab, we all agreed that we'd love to have some of it in our back garden.

 

The weather was glorious, in fact it got a bit too hot!

 

We all had a great day, thanks for all the useful tips and links :D

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