I hardly want record the 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 received quirky lodges 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 12 months as a part of per week’s press journey exploring Jutland – you possibly can take a look at our full itinerary right here. And I rapidly realised we may have spent quite a bit longer in Billund alone.
So in the event 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.
Try 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 arms on, you possibly can’t miss the Lego Home.
We had half a day right here (plus lunch) and truthfully, it wasn’t sufficient. There are strategies and concepts of what to do alongside the best way, 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, plus we even received 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 get pleasure from.
Plus you possibly can file all of it through a wristband to relive a few of the highlights later. I believe I had as a lot enjoyable as my daughter!
The icing on the cake? Lunch at MiniChef, the place you employ 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 best way by a robotic).
And – naturally – there are bricks round to entertain you when you wait on your meals. The place else may you spend half an hour making an attempt to make the tallest Lego tower you possibly can, have the following desk donate a pyramid to the constructing efforts and employees resolve to place it on show afterwards?
When you’ve received in contact along with your internal little one, there’s additionally a museum on the historical past of Lego to be taught a bit extra concerning the well-known bricks and a bag to remove…
Lalandia Billund
For those who’re not staying at one of many Legoland lodges, the vacation cottages of Lalandia Billund are one of the crucial widespread locations to remain for households .
However whether or not you verify in or not, make time to go to Lalandia itself, dwelling to certainly one of Denmark’s largest waterparks within the Aquadome.
There’s a wave pool, slides galore, a lazy river plus an enormous splash zone and child space for little ones.
A number of the slides are for youths 120cm or over, and fairly just a few are just for two folks, so in the event you’re visiting solo with youthful children, it’s value understanding you gained’t be capable of attempt all of them (equally, in order for you an excuse to keep away from a few of the quicker ones, that is it!).
Try my overview of Lalandia Billund right here.
Entry is free to Lalandia company, so in the event you do keep on web site, you possibly can pop in for an hour or two on daily basis or in the event you’re visiting, there’s free parking for the primary hour.
The Aquadome is simply 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 record consists of bowling, an indoor mini golf, Winter World with skating, toboggan slope and a climbing wall, an out of doors excessive ropes course, varied totally different sports activities, an arcade plus tender play and a few additional actions for youthful children at Monky Tonky Playland.
Lots have a separate cost whether or not you’re staying on web site or not. For those who’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, in the event you’re searching for loopy golf, head to this little course between Lalandia and the Legoland Vacation village.
There are 18 holes in whole, together with some which I’m satisfied are unimaginable – however have been hilarious to aim.
It made for a really enjoyable afternoon, and it’s a little bit of a discount by Danish requirements at round £5 for adults, £3.50 for youths. 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 just’ll be fined in the event you do get caught taking part in 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 possibly can start at both finish).
Free to enter year-round, the path is round a mile lengthy with 22 sculptures alongside the trail (which can also 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 possibly can be taught extra concerning the paintings, and youngsters 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 beautiful path to stroll alongside among the many timber.
Givskud Zoo
Round 20 minutes away from Billund itself is Givskud Zoo with 55 totally different species of animal to see, together with spectacled bears.
It’s a enjoyable mixture of safari park and with the ability to stroll round – there’s a free audio information to obtain with commentary as you drive by way of. This digital improve is certainly handier than the CDs given out once we visited, as we found our rent automobile didn’t have a CD participant – however even in the event you can’t get the audio information to work, it’s very enjoyable.
For those who aren’t driving your self, there are safari buses when you arrive too for an additional payment. Both means, 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 with the ability to see the animals shut up.
There’s additionally an app to obtain with particulars of actions, plus a map, data on eating places and outlets, and the safari bus schedule.
The spectacled bears from South America (the inspiration for Paddington) have been the latest additions once we visited, serving to have a good time 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 large 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 – dwelling to 2 historic rune stones, which embody the primary recorded point out of Denmark, it’s a unbelievable method to deliver historical past to life.
That is the mannequin of what an interactive museum must be: on arrival my daughter was informed she may contact something… until it was marked in orange, wherein case she had to the touch it to deliver 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 came upon just a little extra about on a regular basis Viking life – it’s not all plundering and pillaging.
Outdoors are the 2 runestones themselves, together with one made through the reign of Harald Bluetooth: when you’ve seen the data inside to place it in context, you possibly can head out and take a look at the carvings.
The stones (inside protecting glass circumstances) are subsequent to an outdated church and between two burial mounds – have a look down from the museum roof earlier than you discover with data on what to identify.
It’s value climbing not less than 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 youths very properly, we found throughout our week in Jutland however a Residing 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 conventional Danish farm – and to affix in with the roles that may have wanted doing.
There are animals on web site, together with pigs, sheep and chickens (children may help accumulate the eggs on the best way) in addition to goats, rabbits and guinea pigs. Or you possibly can make a journey round in a horse-drawn carriage.
There are many different probabilities to get arms 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 elucidate about their very own duties. Karensminde is round 20 minutes from Billund.
Engelsholm Citadel
This sixteenth century Renaissance fort was impressed by the chateau of Ancy-le-Franc in France, for just a little style of Burgundy in Jutland.
Constructed by Knud Brahe, brother of well-known astronomer Tycho Brahe, Engelsholm Citadel is about on the shores of Engelsholm lake amongst parkland and forest, and when you can’t go inside (it’s now a faculty), you possibly can stroll across the grounds.
Get open air
Denmark is a superb place to get lively 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 possibly can observe the Firm City strolling path route, with 9 data boards telling the historical past of Billund’s improvement from a village to the house of Lego.
There are numerous play areas alongside the best way, 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 youths to run and play.
For extra concepts of issues to do close to Legoland Billund with children, each Vejle and Koldinghus fort 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 a few of the locations on this record. All opinions of what to incorporate, and determination to construct huge Lego towers, are my very own. Accommodates affiliate hyperlinks: any purchases you make are unaffected however I’ll obtain a small fee.
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