This year on spring break, my family had the pleasure of
visiting the LEGOLAND Florida Resort. We
had rented a house in Kissimmee, so it was about a 40 minute drive for us to
the park. We found LEGOLAND a little
more reasonably priced versus other Orlando area theme parks. Tickets at the gate are $89 for adults and
$82 for kids ages 3-12. They offer
online discounts, but my insider tip is, if you plan on visiting, plan on
subscribing to the LEGO Club Magazine.
There are coupons in there for buy an adult admission, get one free
child’s admission. We were able to get 2
free child’s admissions with these coupons (yes they let me use two). We only purchased one day admission tickets
and only visited the theme park, not the water park.
From my experience, I really think the park is geared for
kids 10 and under. To be honest, my 10
year old was a bit bored with park. He
has ridden much larger rides, so there was not a whole lot of rides to
entertain him. He did enjoy The Dragon,
Merlin’s Challenge, Lost Kingdom Adventure, Mia’s Riding Adventure, and The
Quest for CHI. He went on the Ford
Driving School, but that was way too slow for him (he is used to Go-Carts).
My 3 year old and 7 year old enjoyed the park a bit more. They were able to ride the rides in the DUPLO
area as well as other areas of the park.
The highlight was The Grand Carousel since it has two stories, however
we never made it up to the second story since it was limited on the number of
horses on that level.
We did walk the entire park, but were not able to get on as
many rides we wanted to near the back of the park. The other coasters all had a 90 minute wait
and two were broken down when we were there.
The other line queues seemed to move well with less than a 30 minute
wait.
Another favorite part of the park was MINILAND USA. This was the section that had mini cities
built from LEGOS. We were able to see
NYC, San Francisco, Washington D.C. and more.
The details were amazing and it was a nice break to walk through this
area and view all of the creations.
Finally, I must say the food prices were very
reasonable. When we ate lunch, we were
able to get a kids cheeseburger meal which included fries, fruit pouch and
drink for only $6 each! They also had
the ability to buy refillable frozen slushy drinks which are always a hit with
my kids.
We definitely enjoyed our visit and I took a lot of photos
at the park. I definitely recommend this
park if you have kids 10 and under. I do
hesitate on bringing older kids, because there is not a lot for them to do or
ride on that would keep their attention.
I’m not sure if we would go again since my boys are 7 and 10 now. The next opportunity we may have, they are
just going to be too old for it. I am certainly
glad we went this time though!
