I hardly want listing the explanation why a visit to Legoland Billund is so tempting with youngsters. The unique Legoland, the Danish website 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 youngsters.
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We visited earlier this yr as a part of per week’s press journey exploring Jutland – you’ll be able to take a look at our full itinerary right here. And I rapidly realised we may have spent so much longer in Billund alone.
So should you’re questioning what else there may be to do on a household vacation in Billund, I’ve discovered 9 issues to do with youngsters close to Legoland, all lower than half an hour’s drive away.
Take a look at my full information to Denmark with youngsters 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 palms on, you’ll be able to’t miss the Lego Home.
We had half a day right here (plus lunch) and truthfully, it wasn’t sufficient. There are ideas and concepts of what to do alongside the best way, plus workers to make sure everybody’s getting concerned, however loads of alternatives to get inventive with the bricks.
My daughter liked the interactive choices, like making Lego fish, scanning them and seeing them seem on a display screen, 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 automobiles to make, Lego creations to marvel at, together with the world’s largest Lego sculpture… principally simply flooring and flooring of bricks to take pleasure in.
Plus you’ll be able to document all of it through a wristband to relive among 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 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 best way by a robotic).
And – naturally – there are bricks round to entertain you when you wait in your meals. The place else may you spend half an hour making an attempt to make the tallest Lego tower you’ll be able to, have the subsequent desk donate a pyramid to the constructing efforts and workers determine to place it on show afterwards?
When you’ve obtained in contact along with your interior youngster, 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
When you’re not staying at one of many Legoland lodges, the vacation cottages of Lalandia Billund are one of the crucial in style locations to remain for households .
However whether or not you verify in or not, make time to go to Lalandia itself, residence to one among Denmark’s largest waterparks within the Aquadome.
There’s a wave pool, slides galore, a lazy river plus a giant splash zone and child space for little ones.
A few of the slides are for teenagers 120cm or over, and fairly just a few are just for two folks, so should you’re visiting solo with youthful youngsters, it’s price understanding you gained’t have the ability to strive all of them (equally, if you need an excuse to keep away from among the quicker ones, that is it!).
Take a look at my overview of Lalandia Billund right here.
Entry is free to Lalandia company, so should you do keep on website, you’ll be able to pop in for an hour or two every single day or should 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 listing contains 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 delicate play and a few additional actions for youthful youngsters at Monky Tonky Playland.
Rather a lot have a separate cost whether or not you’re staying on website or not. When 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, should you’re in search of 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 try.
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 teenagers. If no-one is manning the ticket sales space, there’s an honesty system to depart the cash and take the golf equipment.
You’ll be able to pay in each krone and Euros (and there’s a warning that you just’ll be fined should you do get caught enjoying 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’ll be able to start at both finish).
Free to enter year-round, the path is round a mile lengthy with 22 sculptures alongside the trail (which can 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’ll be able to be taught extra concerning the art work, 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 bushes.
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 via. This digital improve is certainly handier than the CDs given out after we visited, as we found our rent automobile didn’t have a CD participant – however even should you can’t get the audio information to work, it’s very enjoyable.
When you aren’t driving your self, there are safari buses when you arrive too for an additional payment. Both approach, the mix is nice with youngsters 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, info on eating places and retailers, 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 have fun the zoo’s fiftieth birthday, with a spacious enclosure together with swimming pools and bushes for the endangered species. The plan is so as to add extra bears to the group too.
Together with the animals – which vary from massive 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 – residence to 2 historic rune stones, which embody the primary recorded point out of Denmark, it’s a unbelievable technique to convey historical past to life.
That is the mannequin of what an interactive museum ought to be: on arrival my daughter was informed she may contact something… until it was marked in orange, through which case she had to the touch it to convey 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 discovered 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 in the course of the reign of Harald Bluetooth: when you’ve seen the data inside to place it in context, you’ll be able to head out and have a look at the carvings.
The stones (inside protecting glass instances) are subsequent to an outdated church and between two burial mounds – have a look down from the museum roof earlier than you discover with info on what to identify.
It’s price climbing no 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 teenagers very nicely, we found throughout our week in Jutland however a Dwelling Museum all the time goes down significantly nicely.
And the Museumsgarden Karensminde is designed to take you again in time to the 1700s and 1800s, to life on a standard Danish farm – and to affix in with the roles that might have wanted doing.
There are animals on website, together with pigs, sheep and chickens (youngsters may also help accumulate the eggs on the best way) in addition to goats, rabbits and guinea pigs. Or you’ll be able to make a journey round in a horse-drawn carriage.
There are many different possibilities to get palms 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 website 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 Fortress
This sixteenth century Renaissance citadel 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 Fortress is about on the shores of Engelsholm lake amongst parkland and forest, and when you can’t go inside (it’s now a college), you’ll be able to stroll across the grounds.
Get open air
Denmark is a good place to get lively with youngsters, and there are many strolling and bike trails to discover in and round Billund.
If you wish to stick near the city, you’ll be able to comply with the Firm City strolling path route, with 9 info boards telling the historical past of Billund’s growth 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 bushes, a mountain bike route and infinite area for teenagers to run and play.
For extra concepts of issues to do close to Legoland Billund with youngsters, each Vejle and Koldinghus citadel are shut sufficient to find on a day journey – take a look at my itinerary for per week in Jutland with youngsters.
*First printed 2019, final up to date 2024*
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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 listing. All opinions of what to incorporate, and choice to construct huge Lego towers, are my very own. Accommodates affiliate hyperlinks: any purchases you make are unaffected however I could obtain a small fee.
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