We Visited The Lego House In Billund, Denmark (And Here’s Why Every Lego Fan Should Visit Too!)

Biggest boy recently turned 12, and for his birthday he asked if we could visit Billund instead of the usual party/presents. He’s a huge Lego fan, and has seen so many videos of the Lego House. It’s been his dream to visit since it first opened.

So that’s what we did!

I’m not a huge Lego nerd (I didn’t really play with Lego as a kid) but the 3 men in my life absolutely love it. And I will say that, with our mixed ages and interest in bricks, it was an incredible day out for everyone. Even I had a lot of fun!

Here’s what you need to know about visiting the Lego House in Billund.

What Is The Lego House In Billund?

The Lego House is often called the home of the brick: Because Billund is the home of the brick! This small city is where Lego was invented, and is still where the company calls home.

Because Lego is so ingrained in the heart of the people of Billund (and a huge majority of people living in the city work for Lego in one capacity as another) the Lego House serves so many purposes. It is a Lego Museum, a community centre, a playground for kids, and a Mecca for Lego fans from around the world!

When you arrive at the Lego House you find a vast, expansive space. This is a free-to-access community area with a cafe, plenty of seating, and a huge Lego store. There are also machines here where you can collect your wrist bands if you’ve prebooked access to the Lego House.

These wristbands are important. They’re interactive and you’ll scan them throughout the day when you complete activities, when you want to take a photo, or to save important information.

Anything you save onto your wristband (like your photos or the stop motion videos you create) can then be downloaded when you get home.

The play areas of the Lego House are organised into distinct zones. The red zone, yellow zone, green zone, and blue zone are each home to different types of interactive builds and play activities.

There are more than 25 million Lego bricks in the Lego House, so you certainly won’t be short of things to play with here! But it was so well organised that it didn’t ever feel overwhelming. The boys just wanted to get stuck in!

During our trip we started on the top level in the masterpiece gallery. Here are 3 giant dinosaurs, as well as works created by Lego fans from around the world. And you can take your photo and turn yourself into a piece of Lego art.

We then hit the play experiences. We got the chance to build a LEGO sea animal and release it in the aquarium, then we relaxed while building delicate Lego flowers.

One of the Christmas experienced was the chance to build a Lego character and bring it to life on a digital dance stage, giving it emotions as it boogied to Christmas tunes.

The green zone was our favourite. We got the chance to enter a stop motion studio and make a Lego movie, then we created our own mini figures and used them as the stars of our own magazine cover.

Honestly, there were too many fun experiences to list them all. We used lego robots to plant seeds to attract bees. We raced lego cars. And we spent hours in the free play zone attempting to build 3D snowmen.

In the basement of the Lego House there is also a unique museum dedicated to all things Lego. Not only can you read about the history of the brick, and see how Lego evolved, there’s also a library of every set ever created so you can relive your own Lego journey. When my husband saw his childhood pirate ship he was like a kid again!

It might sound like a drier experience than the obvious charms of a play zone, but don’t miss out on the museum. It was an unexpected highlight for all of us, and we spent more than an hour down here away from the play.

How Much Did It Cost To Visit The Lego House In Billund?

We DIY’ed this trip. That means we booked our flights, hotels, and entry tickets separately. We booked our tickets to the Lego House directly from their website and it was an easy, straightforward process.

Prices vary slightly depending on the time of year you choose to visit. Opening hours also change, with weekends having longer hours than weekdays.

Ticket prices are either 239/279/339 DKK. When we visited in December we paid 239 DKK each (£26.59 per person).

Visiting in the winter would be one of my top tips! Apparently in the summer the queues for the attractions are significant! We chatted to a guy on his second trip who hadn’t been able to do the stop motion activity last time because the queues were too long. My boys did this activity 3 times in a row without queuing once, because we visited in the dead of winter.

Eating At Mini Chef In Lego House Billund

When you’re booking your Lego House tickets, book a reservation to eat in the Mini Chef restaurant too. I promise you won’t regret it! This was such a fun experience where you use bricks to design your menu, then slide it into a machine where you can watch mini figure chefs prepare your food.

The food is then delivered by Lego robots, and it’s served in a giant Lego brick. It’s like every Lego fan’s dream come true!

The kids were in their element: This was big boys birthday meal and an absolute highlight for him.

From a parents perspective? The food was surprisingly good! You don’t expect much from restaurants with a gimmick, but we were pleasantly surprised by the high quality of the food. I’ve popped a photo of the menu below so you can see what kind of dishes were available. To build your menu, you choose a dish from each coloured brick section:

Practical Information

We spent two days in Billund. We arrived on the early Friday morning flight (from London Stansted with Ryanair) and landed around 8.30am. We then departed at 7pm on the Saturday night. This was plenty of time for us, as it meant we could spend one full day in Lego land and one full day in the Lego House.

We visited in December, and visiting in the winter saved us tonnes of money on the flights. They were £14.99 per person each way when we booked, but are consistently over £100 per person when the weather warms up. This also meant we could enjoy Legoland at Christmas: i’ll write a separate post about this.

We stayed in the Billund Airport Hotel rather than one of the official Legoland hotels to save money. This was a lovely hotel: clean, minimalist scandi style, and a great breakfast. They offer a luggage storage facility, so we left our bags here and just grabbed them on the way back to the airport. And they had jars of bricks for the kids to play with everywhere, which I thought was a really nice touch.

We booked this hotel via Booking.com and paid £99.09 for one night for a family of four.

The Airport Hotel was a 15 minute walk to Legoland (we did this on day 1) but the Lego House is a little further away, so we jumped in a taxi which cost around £10.

The Lego House In Billund According To My 12 Year Old

Who better to have the final word on the Lego House than my number one Lego fan! I asked him what he wanted to share, and he said:

“It is an amazing place. There are so many great things to do here. I liked the driving and bee planting robots, the car making was fun too but the stop motion was my favourite activity.”

“I also loved the restaurant, the food was good but the robots and building your own meal using Lego bricks was the best part. It was really enjoyable for all ages (my brother loved it too) and I would definitely recommend it.”

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