LEGOLAND Florida Resort is one of currently nine LEGOLANDS in the theme park chain operated by Merlin Entertainment (not LEGO!). The next LEGOLAND park is set to open in New York in 2019. The LEGOLAND we went to for three days is located in Winter Haven, FL and it opened in 2011. It has more than 50 rides (including roller coasters), shows, restaurants, and shops. It even has a water park and a botanical garden.
Beetle Bounce
Power Towers
Power Towers
Land of Adventure: Safari Trek
Meeting Emmet, “Everything is AWESOME!”
We bought an annual pass because that made the most sense for us. If you want to know the math of that decision, click here. The park is spread out over 145 acres and is split into different lands. To name a few: MiniLand, the Model Village, the World of Chima, Wild Woods, Knight’s Kingdom, Imagination Zone (sign up for Lego Mindstorms to power lego robots!), Pirate’s Cove, the Water Park, and Cypress Gardens (where you can see an enormous Banyan tree that was planted in 1939.
Imagination Zone: Build & Test
Imagination Zone: Build & Test
Imagination Zone: Build a fish
Imagination Zone: Build & Test
Imagination Zone: Build & Test
Lego Star Wars
LEGOLAND is for lego lovers. It is geared for kids aged 2 to 12. Is it Disney? No. LEGOLAND is not Disney, and it doesn’t try to be. Think of LEGOLAND like a great big fair where everything is made out of lego that’s been hit with “The Cragle.” It’s a little crazy, to be
LEGOLAND offers something for everyone from kids (my three kids are ages 6 to 11) to adults.
Miniland Florida: shipwreck
Miniland New York
Miniland Florida: Kennedy Space Center
Miniland: Star Wars
Lego Batman
Heartlake City
The World of Chima
Lego City: Ford Driving School
Some of our favourite things to do: command a lego robot with programming in Mindstorms (Imagination Zone), watch Brick Beard’s Pirate (water ski) show, take in a view of the entire park from Islands in the Sky ride, and take a breather in Cypress Gardens.
Imagination Zone: Mindstorms
Pirate Cove: Brick Beard’s Show
Pirate Cove: Brick Beard’s Show
Pirate Cove: Brick Beard’s Show (after show photos)
Want to know why we bought 5 annual passes? Here’s why:
A 1-day pass costs $93 a day. That same 1 day pass drops to $73 a day if you book your tickets online two or more days in advance. But! If you buy a 2-day ticket two or more days in advance, your tickets are $93 total for the two days (or $113 if you don’t buy two days in advance—so buy your tickets online before you go). $93 means each day costs $46.50. A two-day pass is a no-brainer, especially since it takes 2 days to comfortably do everything in the park. We bought an annual pass. Here’s why: There are three levels of annual passes: Awesome, Awesomer, and Awesomest. As a family of five, 4 of us bought the Awesome pass. That costs $99 if you are a Floridian or $129 if you are non-Floridian and that gives unlimited access to LEGOLAND, including the waterpark (which is a separate charge of about $20 a day), and a bunch of other unlimited admissions to other Florida attractions, like the Sea Life Aquarium in Orlando and Madame Tussauds Orlando. Since we were visiting LEGOLAND before the waterparks opened in March and since we thought we might make it back before year’s end, paying just $36 more than a one-day pass gets us as many days as we like. One of us bought the Awesomer pass at $149 because that pass comes with free parking. Parking costs $17 a day at the gate (or $15 if you buy in advance online). That means that if we go for 3 days, which we are going to because we bought annual passes, we will save $45 right there in parking, which takes the cost of the Awesomer pass from $149 to $104 and less than that for every day you show up and save $15 in parking. So, $150 + ($129 x 4) = $665. That works out to $13 more per ticket than we would have paid if our family of five had marched up to LEGOLAND and bought five 2-day passes + waterpark + parking for both days. Done.
A full day at LEGOLAND, leaving with long shadows…
LEGOLAND was so much fun! There were lego characters everywhere. They were so cool! Most were bad guys and superheroes like Batman, Darth Vader, Darth Maul, Superman, and lots more. At LEGOLAND my family and I went to a Brick Beard’s Pirate Show. We saw water ski acrobatics and we saw a water ski pyramid where everybody stood on each others’ shoulders—it was really cool! Oh, and we got to see a lego shark. It was ginormous with big teeth. My sister and I signed up for a lego robotics class too. We programmed Bluetooth robot rovers made out of lego to move around using direction commands. We used a ruler and a protractor to measure the distance and angles to gather the little boulders. After we collected the rocks we manoeuvred the rovers up a ramp and grabbed another smaller robot. We also built lego cars and raced them down ramps—I won twice with my weird looking triangular-shaped car. 🙂 My favourite part of the park was probably the Power Towers Ride, We sat in chairs and pulled ourselves to the top of a tower and then let go to drop back down again. We raced each other up and down a bunch of times. It was so much fun! 🙂
can i go thare it looks fun nest year take me becuse at scool it is boring TAKE ME i like the when you what to eat the lago isecrem i like batman
let me go nest year eive ashleymark what to go
Thank you @ashleymark for responding to our Florida blog. Miss you be back soon.
Hey Grey. Mitchell loved the pictures of Legoland!!! He said it looked soooo cool! He also says hi!!! Hope the weather was good!
LEGOLAND was fun, but I miss you, Mitchell! Home on Monday. 🙂
Sounds good Grey. Have lots of fun!!! Can’t wait to hear about it! Miss you too!
it looks fun
Dear Grey;
It looks like you had fun in Legoland. You must be having more fun than US! How high did the rollercoaster go?
It would be nice to visit the gardens.
We have been having fun, too. We went skating and then we had hot chocolate. We had a party on Valentine’s Day – we have your valentine’s waiting for you. We got a lot of snow! We made some big snow balls to build a fort. We played on the big snow hills. We even rolled down the hills.
I did have so much fun, but I missed you guys. I wish I hadn’t missed the Valentines Party!
Hi Evie It’s olivia it looks like you are having so much fun. I miss you so much. I would love going to Lego land. What was your funiest thing you made?. Where are you now? I like all the pictures especially the one with the Lego ice cream your so funny.
Hi Olivia I am in Pennsylvania heading home. I will be back today… see you soon. Thanks for liking my ice cream photo!
email me your skype account address and we can talk in person miss you
I don’t have wifi in the car! And we are travelling home 🙂
Hi Evie sounds like your having fun! Can’t wait to see you at school! Tell Grey I say hi and have fun! Evie your missing out really fun stuff we are doing! You missed basketball sign ups! Lego land looked really fun! Can you tell me where lego land it’s in florida .
Hi Dustin,
LEGOLAND is in Winter Haven, in the middle of Florida. Thanks for telling me about basketball signups! I’ll sign up today. Where do we sign up?
Drive safe you guys!!!! See you next week Grey!
Hi Everyone
Hi Everyone
have a nice trip home
I will. I’m home. 🙂
Ok when you get home tell me you’re skype
what is youre skype a cont send me it
I don’t have skype, actually. Do you have facetime?
lego land looks really great!!