I hardly want checklist the explanation why a visit to Legoland Billund is so tempting with children. The unique Legoland, the Danish web site can usually be quieter than the Windsor park, you’ve acquired quirky motels to remain in and there are many different issues to do close to Legoland Billund with children.
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We visited earlier this yr as a part of per week’s press journey exploring Jutland – you may take a look at our full itinerary right here. And I shortly realised we might have spent lots longer in Billund alone.
So should you’re questioning what else there’s to do on a household vacation in Billund, I’ve discovered 9 issues to do with children close to Legoland, all lower than half an hour’s drive away.
Take a look at my full information to Denmark with children right here
The Lego Home
There’s loads of Lego to have a look at at Legoland Billund – the creations of Miniland for starters – however if you wish to get fingers on, you may’t miss the Lego Home.
We had half a day right here (plus lunch) and actually, it wasn’t sufficient. There are ideas and concepts of what to do alongside the way in which, plus employees to make sure everybody’s getting concerned, however loads of alternatives to get artistic with the bricks.
My daughter liked the interactive choices, like making Lego fish, scanning them and seeing them seem on a display screen, plus we even acquired to make a stop-motion Lego drama.
However there have been Lego creatures, Lego worlds so as to add to, Lego autos to make, Lego creations to marvel at, together with the world’s largest Lego sculpture… principally simply flooring and flooring of bricks to take pleasure in.
Plus you may document all of it through a wristband to relive among the highlights later. I feel I had as a lot enjoyable as my daughter!
The icing on the cake? Lunch at MiniChef, the place you utilize Lego bricks to order from the menu, watch a video of Lego minifigures making it, and have it served in a brick-style Bento field (helped alongside the way in which by a robotic).
And – naturally – there are bricks round to entertain you whilst you wait in your meals. The place else might you spend half an hour making an attempt to make the tallest Lego tower you may, have the following desk donate a pyramid to the constructing efforts and employees resolve to place it on show afterwards?
When you’ve acquired in contact together with your inside youngster, there’s additionally a museum on the historical past of Lego to study a bit extra in regards to the well-known bricks and a bag to remove…
Lalandia Billund
When you’re not staying at one of many Legoland motels, the vacation cottages of Lalandia Billund are probably the most fashionable locations to remain for households .
However whether or not you examine in or not, make time to go to Lalandia itself, house to considered one of Denmark’s largest waterparks within the Aquadome.
There’s a wave pool, slides galore, a lazy river plus a giant splash zone and child space for little ones.
Among the slides are for teenagers 120cm or over, and fairly just a few are just for two folks, so should you’re visiting solo with youthful children, it’s value figuring out you gained’t be capable to attempt all of them (equally, if you’d like an excuse to keep away from among the sooner ones, that is it!).
Take a look at my evaluate of Lalandia Billund right here.
Entry is free to Lalandia company, so should you do keep on web site, you may pop in for an hour or two day by day or should you’re visiting, there’s free parking for the primary hour.
The Aquadome is just one of many household actions at Lalandia although, all tucked away inside a reasonably nondescript constructing – step inside and it feels such as you’ve walked right into a moodlit piazza with various things to do round each nook.
The checklist consists of bowling, an indoor mini golf, Winter World with skating, toboggan slope and a climbing wall, an out of doors excessive ropes course, numerous completely different sports activities, an arcade plus delicate play and a few further actions for youthful children at Monky Tonky Playland.
Rather a lot have a separate cost whether or not you’re staying on web site or not. When you’re making a day go to, there are numerous eating places (all pretty pricy) and a grocery store.
Billund Minigolf
Whereas Lalandia has its personal little mini golf course, should you’re on the lookout for loopy golf, head to this little course between Lalandia and the Legoland Vacation village.
There are 18 holes in complete, together with some which I’m satisfied are not possible – however have been hilarious to aim.
It made for a really enjoyable afternoon, and it’s a little bit of a cut price by Danish requirements at round £5 for adults, £3.50 for teenagers. If no-one is manning the ticket sales space, there’s an honesty system to go away the cash and take the golf equipment.
You possibly can pay in each krone and Euros (and there’s a warning that you simply’ll be fined should you do get caught enjoying with out paying). The course is open from April to October.
Billund Skulpturpark
For a stroll with a distinction, head to Billund Sculpture Park, which begins not removed from the Lego Home or close to Lalandia (you may start at both finish).
Free to enter year-round, the path is round a mile lengthy with 22 sculptures alongside the trail (which can be appropriate for buggies). The plan is to maintain including extra sculptures till there are round 50 to see.
Every has a QR code subsequent to it, so you may study extra in regards to the art work, and children are allowed to climb and work together with them – or in the event that they’re not so within the sculpture, it’s nonetheless a stunning path to stroll alongside among the many timber.
Givskud Zoo
Round 20 minutes away from Billund itself is Givskud Zoo with 55 completely different species of animal to see, together with spectacled bears.
It’s a enjoyable mixture of safari park and having the ability to stroll round – there’s a free audio information to obtain with commentary as you drive by means of. This digital improve is certainly handier than the CDs given out once we visited, as we found our rent automotive didn’t have a CD participant – however even should you can’t get the audio information to work, it’s very enjoyable.
When you aren’t driving your self, there are safari buses when you arrive too for an additional price. Both method, the mixture is nice with children as there are many factors to cease and stretch your legs on the strolling safari part, in addition to having the ability to see the animals shut up.
There’s additionally an app to obtain with particulars of actions, plus a map, info on eating places and retailers, and the safari bus schedule.
The spectacled bears from South America (the inspiration for Paddington) have been the most recent additions once we visited, serving to have fun the zoo’s fiftieth birthday, with a spacious enclosure together with swimming pools and timber for the endangered species. The plan is so as to add extra bears to the group too.
Together with the animals – which vary from massive cats and wolves to guinea pigs – there are some themed areas with greater than 50 life-size dinosaurs towering over us in Dinosaur World.
Kongernes Jelling
Lower than half-hour from Billund, the free museum at Kongernes Jelling is unmissable – house to 2 historical rune stones, which embody the primary recorded point out of Denmark, it’s a unbelievable technique to carry historical past to life.
That is the mannequin of what an interactive museum must be: on arrival my daughter was advised she might contact something… except it was marked in orange, during which case she had to the touch it to carry the exhibit to life.
We walked a digital path to Valhalla, discovered about Norse mythology, found which Viking weapon was prone to end off your enemy quickest and discovered a bit of extra about on a regular basis Viking life – it’s not all plundering and pillaging.
Exterior are the 2 runestones themselves, together with one made throughout the reign of Harald Bluetooth: when you’ve seen the knowledge inside to place it in context, you may head out and have a look at the carvings.
The stones (inside protecting glass circumstances) are subsequent to an previous church and between two burial mounds – have a look down from the museum roof earlier than you discover with info on what to identify.
It’s value climbing a minimum of one of many mounds for the views, which embody curving strains of white flagstones marking the define of the place a ship was as soon as buried.
Karensminde
Denmark does museums for teenagers very properly, we found throughout our week in Jutland however a Dwelling Museum at all times goes down significantly properly.
And the Museumsgarden Karensminde is designed to take you again in time to the 1700s and 1800s, to life on a standard Danish farm – and to affix in with the roles that might have wanted doing.
There are animals on web site, together with pigs, sheep and chickens (children can assist acquire the eggs on the way in which) in addition to goats, rabbits and guinea pigs. Or you may make a journey round in a horse-drawn carriage.
There are many different possibilities to get fingers on as properly, together with enjoyable crafts like making potato prints and portray eggs, watching toys being made within the wooden workshop and making soup or jam within the kitchen.
Volunteers are additionally on web site to share tales of the historical past of the farm, the individuals who would have lived there and to clarify about their very own duties. Karensminde is round 20 minutes from Billund.
Engelsholm Fortress
This sixteenth century Renaissance fortress was impressed by the chateau of Ancy-le-Franc in France, for a bit of style of Burgundy in Jutland.
Constructed by Knud Brahe, brother of well-known astronomer Tycho Brahe, Engelsholm Fortress is about on the shores of Engelsholm lake amongst parkland and forest, and whilst you can’t go inside (it’s now a college), you may stroll across the grounds.
Get outdoor
Denmark is a superb place to get energetic with children, and there are many strolling and bike trails to discover in and round Billund.
If you wish to stick near the city, you may comply with the Firm City strolling path route, with 9 info boards telling the historical past of Billund’s improvement from a village to the house of Lego.
There are numerous play areas alongside the way in which, and a few brightly colored stones to mark the route. It additionally takes you thru the Sculpture Park.
For correct countryside, head to the Gyttegaard Plantation and Grene Sande, on the outskirts of Billund. Alongside the sand drifts, there’s heathery moorland and timber, a mountain bike route and countless house for teenagers to run and play.
For extra concepts of issues to do close to Legoland Billund with children, each Vejle and Koldinghus fortress are shut sufficient to find on a day journey – take a look at my itinerary for per week in Jutland with children.
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Disclosure: I visited Jutland on a press journey with the Denmark Vacationer Board, together with free entry to among the locations on this checklist. All opinions of what to incorporate, and choice to construct huge Lego towers, are my very own. Comprises affiliate hyperlinks: any purchases you make are unaffected however I’ll obtain a small fee.
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