I hardly want checklist the the reason why a visit to Legoland Billund is so tempting with children. The unique Legoland, the Danish web site can typically be quieter than the Windsor park, you’ve obtained 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 may try our full itinerary right here. And I shortly realised we may have spent loads longer in Billund alone.
So when you’re questioning what else there may be 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 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 strategies and concepts of what to do alongside the way in which, plus workers 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 obtained 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… mainly simply flooring and flooring of bricks to get pleasure from.
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 may 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 workers resolve to place it on show afterwards?
When you’ve obtained in contact along with your interior little one, there’s additionally a museum on the historical past of Lego to study a bit extra concerning the well-known bricks and a bag to remove…
Lalandia Billund
Should you’re not staying at one of many Legoland lodges, the vacation cottages of Lalandia Billund are probably the most widespread locations to remain for households .
However whether or not you examine in or not, make time to go to Lalandia itself, house to one in every 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 few of the slides are for youths 120cm or over, and fairly just a few are just for two folks, so when you’re visiting solo with youthful children, it’s price understanding you received’t be capable to attempt all of them (equally, if you need an excuse to keep away from among the sooner ones, that is it!).
Try my evaluate of Lalandia Billund right here.
Entry is free to Lalandia company, so when you do keep on web site, you may pop in for an hour or two on daily basis or when you’re visiting, there’s free parking for the primary hour.
The Aquadome is barely 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 outside excessive ropes course, numerous totally different sports activities, an arcade plus mushy play and a few further actions for youthful children at Monky Tonky Playland.
Lots have a separate cost whether or not you’re staying on web site or not. Should 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, when you’re in search of 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 unattainable – however have been hilarious to try.
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 youths. If no-one is manning the ticket sales space, there’s an honesty system to depart the cash and take the golf equipment.
You may pay in each krone and Euros (and there’s a warning that you simply’ll be fined when 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 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 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 may study 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. This digital improve is unquestionably handier than the CDs given out after we visited, as we found our rent automobile didn’t have a CD participant – however even when you can’t get the audio information to work, it’s very enjoyable.
Should you aren’t driving your self, there are safari buses when you arrive too for an additional charge. 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 most recent additions after we visited, serving to rejoice 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 – house to 2 historical rune stones, which embody the primary recorded point out of Denmark, it’s a unbelievable strategy to carry historical past to life.
That is the mannequin of what an interactive museum ought to be: on arrival my daughter was advised she may contact something… except it was marked in orange, wherein 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 more likely to end off your enemy quickest and discovered somewhat 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 in the course of the reign of Harald Bluetooth: when you’ve seen the knowledge inside to place it in context, you may 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 price 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 nicely, we found throughout our week in Jutland however a Dwelling Museum all the time goes down notably nicely.
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 might have wanted doing.
There are animals on web site, together with pigs, sheep and chickens (children may also help accumulate 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 probabilities to get fingers on as nicely, 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 somewhat style of Burgundy in Jutland.
Constructed by Knud Brahe, brother of well-known astronomer Tycho Brahe, Engelsholm Citadel is ready 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 outside
Denmark is a good 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 observe the Firm City strolling path route, with 9 data boards telling the historical past of Billund’s growth 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 infinite area 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 – try 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 large Lego towers, are my very own. Incorporates affiliate hyperlinks: any purchases you make are unaffected however I’ll obtain a small fee.
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