A Review Of Legoland Billund at Christmas (And Why Legoland Billund is Better Than Legoland Windsor)

I knew I wanted to write a post about Legoland Billund before we’d even visited.

Why? Because when we were planning our trip, I Googled to find information and pictures of Legoland Billund (particularly at Christmas) and it was slim pickings: there just wasn’t a lot of English speaking information available!

This is a real shame for me because if you’re a Lego fan (or raising mini Lego fans like me!) you’ll know that Billund is the HOME of Lego! It also has a reputation for being the best Legoland in the world (well deserved in our opinion, but you can read more about that later!) and is pretty easily accessible from the UK too!

So if you’re in the same position and are planning to visit the original Legoland in Billund (especially at Christmas time though a lot of this information is relevant for all times of the year) then here’s everything you need to know:

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How Much Did It Cost To Visit Legoland Billund?

We combined our trip to Legoland Billund with a trip to the Lego House in Billund. I would definitely recommend seeing both! We spent one day in each, but you could easily spend 2 days in Legoland (I think you only need one day in the Lego House). You can read my full review of the Lego House in Billund here.

We also visited for the Christmas season, and went into the park on a Friday when local children (and children in the UK for that matter) were in school. This meant 2 important things:

1. The park was DEAD. I mean so empty! Empty enough that we didn’t queue for a single ride, and the staff were asking us if we wanted to ride again on every ride because there was noone else waiting in the line. We found the staff really friendly and welcoming (actively encouraging the boys to have another ride)
   
2. We paid a discounted rate for our entry. Because of shorter opening hours and slightly reduced ride availability, you pay less to visit Legoland Billund at Christmas. We also booked when the tickets were first released and got an early bird discount. This means that we only spent the equivalent of £20 per person for our park entry! Worth noting though that these discounted tickets weren’t released until November, making it tricky to plan ahead.

👉Click here to check availability and book your Legoland Billund tickets
👉Note: The official website is the BEST and cheapest place to buy your tickets. It’s also worth looking at the official park packages if you want to stay on resort. These are good value, but we opted to stay off-site and save a little (we are budget travellers, after all!)

In terms of other costs, we flew from London Stansted to Billund with Ryanair. Because we visited in the quiet season our tickets were £14.99 per person each way when we booked. We stayed in the Billund Airport Hotel, which we would definitely recommend. This was also the cheapest hotel in the area, but it was right by the station and only a 15 minute walk to the Legoland Park. We booked this hotel via Booking.com and paid £99.09 for one night for a family of four.

Edit: All this information was true at the time of writing BUT Ryanair have now cancelled their route from London to Billund. You’ll now need to book (admittedly a bit pricier) British Airways flights on this route. Norwegian Air also flies from the UK to Billund seasonally.

🎄 Looking for Christmas ideas for kids? Check out our review of the Butlins Winter Wonderland here.

The Rides And Attractions At Legoland Billund

We were big fans of the rides and attractions at Legoland Billund: This is a Lego lovers park! The rides are themed around classic Lego themes, and related to historic sets which only adds to their appeal.

For example, the Pirates Boats ride allows you to sail inside the secret cave, where crocodiles, festive pirates and the secret treasure lie hidden in the darkness. A great ride in its own right! But everything is made out of Lego, and to those in the know, the ride is themed on the Lego classic pirates series from the 1990s.

How do I know this? Because this was Mike’s first (and favourite) Lego set when he was a kid, and i’ve never seen him happier!

As we sailed around he pointed out all his favourite features, and it was like watching him return to being a kid opening his first Lego pirate set at Christmas. I think that’s the magic of Lego!

Similarly if you loved the Lego Vikings then there is a whole area of the park themed around the Lego Vikings.

A play area themed on Benny’s space ship, for fans of the Lego Movie (This is part of a whole wider area of the park dedicated to the Lego Movie). It goes on and on – whatever aspect of the Lego world you love, you’ll find it here!

But it’s not all nostalgia! Some of the rides are new and modern and innovative. By FAR the boys favourite ride was the Ice Pilots School. This is effectively a mechanical robot arm that you use to design your own roller coaster ride.

Design your own plane ride using the touch screen. Head up, feet down or the other way round? You decide whether the ride is cool, super cool or mega cool. And the end result? Scarier than any roller coaster i’ve ever ridden!

Sadly it was shut when we visited, but the ride that I think looks best in the park is the Polar Explorers Ride. A great incentive to go back to Legoland Billund for a summer visit if you ask me!

The blurb says “Jump aboard a snowmobile and take your family on an amazing rollercoaster ride through the huge Polar Land – filled with wild LEGO® animals. Hold on to your hat and grab your goggles as you whiz over the icebergs. But beware: all of a sudden, you’re going to crash through the ice, take a unique five-metre “free fall”, and end up right in a den of polar bears. So climb aboard if you dare – this is going to be REALLY cool!”

One difference that is worth noting is that you pay to do the driving school ride here: this includes your driving licence, but it does mean that you get much longer on the ride. We booked a time slot, and the whole driving experience lasted around 30 minutes.

By comparison, the driving school in Legoland Windsor is free of charge but the ride only lasts around 5 minutes, and if you want the drivers license at the end then this is an extra charge.

The traffic school in Legoland Billund is suitable for children aged between 6-13 and costs DKK 99 per person. There are seats all the way along the circular track, so while the kids drive the parents can get a well-deserved rest!

I can’t list all of the rides in Legoland Billund here (there are just too many of them!) but you can find a full list, as well as all the height restrictions, here on the official Legoland Billund website.

What Christmas Activities Were Available At Legoland Billund?

If you’re not visiting the park at Christmas then feel free to skip straight past this section. But we LOVED this park at Christmas: so much effort was made into making it a wonderfully magical experience.

Often theme parks (especially in the UK) will throw up a tree and a few lights and tick Christmas off their ‘to-do’ list. In Legoland Billund the Christmas event was a spectacle in its own right.

100s of Christmas trees (they lined every walkway) and a million twinkling lights decorated the park. As well as special focal point light displays, a huge Christmas tree made of Duplo Bricks, and specially constructed Christmas activities.

These included:

• A synthetic ice skating rink. This was free to enter, and hire of the skates and the mandatory safety helmets was free too!
• Traditional Danish Christmas market stalls surrounding the ice skating rink, selling authentic regional Christmas food and drink items. There were also market stalls in the main square selling food and handicrafts.
• Fire baskets where you could warm your hands or (if you came prepared) toast your own marshmallows.
• An indoor snowball fight arena. This was inside the Lego Castle, and there were foam snowballs everywhere, a soft-play style igloo, and snow ball cannons so the kids could have real snow ball fights.

• Tubing runs where the kids could take their giant tubes (rubber rings) down synthetic ice slides. This was the boys favourite of the Christmas activities.
• Lego Christmas decoration building activities. A Lego builder talked you through the building process, and at the end you had made a hanging Lego reindeer (The activity was free, but if you wanted to take the ornament you made home then you could buy it – these cost £5 each, but we only paid for the boys ones, putting ours back). Noone needs 4 Lego reindeers!
• You could meet both real Santa and Lego Santa. Real Santa spoke both English and Danish, and he took so much 1-on-1 time with the boys to ask about their Christmas plans and their preferred gifts (Lego, obviously!)
• Lego builts hidden everywhere, but particularly in Miniland where they’d gone all-out to add Christmas details to the builds.

That all of these activities were free of charge (unless otherwise stated) was mind-boggling to us. Mike kept trying to give people money! But they really added to the Christmas feel of the day. Legoland Billund Christmas is truly one of the greatest theme park Christmas experiences we’ve ever had: I really can’t emphasise enough just how magical it was.

Why We Preferred Legoland Billund To Legoland Windsor

We go to Legoland Windsor a lot: the boys are huge Lego fans, so it’s one of their favourite spots. And we do love it there, it’s a great theme park with so much to see and do. But Legoland Billund blows it out of the water!

Reason 1 is admittedly because Legoland Windsor is a victim of its own success. The crowds in Legoland Windsor are always busy. It doesn’t matter whether you visit on a weekend or a weekday, in the school holidays or in term time, the queues are always upwards of 1 hour for even the most workaday of rides. And we’re too tight to spend the £££ for express passes. So being able to walk onto any ride we like in Billund was such a novelty.

Reason 2 is that Legoland Windsor can also feel like a bit of a money grab. £8 for an ice cream? £5 each to get your kids a drink on a hot day? No one likes to feel ripped off, and we often do when in Legoland Windsor sadly. It wouldn’t be so bad if the quality was good, but it isn’t really.

By contrast, the snack and food prices were reasonable in Legoland Billund. I’m not going to say cheap (that would be a lie, it’s still a theme park) but we didn’t feel like we were being ripped off.

We also felt that the quality of the food was good and loved the Lego theming: The boys liked the novelty of the Lego chocolate blocks that we had to go back and buy more. (Twice).

And while Legoland Windsor charge an extra fee (even for accompanying adults) to meet Santa at Christmas, meeting the main man, plus all of the other amazing Christmas activities were completely free of charge in Billund Legoland.

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It was a gesture that created so much goodwill and left us feeling thrilled with our overall experience.

Of course we will go back to Legoland Windsor (over and over again). The convenience of its proximity, its beautiful Miniland, and the great rides all mean that it’s a perfect spot for Lego fans. You can read a review of one of our many Legoland Windsor experiences here.

But for our annual visit to see Santa next Christmas? There’s only one place for us, and it’s back to Legoland Billund!

Keep Making Your Christmas Plans

Not sure if Legoland Billund at Christmas is the right choice for your family? Don’t worry, we have reviewed other options too!

🎄 Read our Review of Butlin’s Christmas Winter Wonderland Break
🎅 Should you Visit Lapland UK This Christmas? An Honest Review!
🥐 Thinking of Visiting Disneyland Paris at Christmas? Read This First

Have you been to Legoland Billund? How did you think it compared to Legoland Windsor? Would you be tempted to visit Legoland Billund at Christmas? I’d love to hear your thoughts!

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