Now that we’re settled into the routine of fall, I’ve lastly have a little bit of time to sit down down and recap all our superior summer time adventures, together with our tremendous enjoyable journey to Legoland New York! Jane was hooked on the concept of going to Legoland after watching our favourite journey vloggers, the High Flight Household, evaluation their keep on the theme park and lodge (we’ve got watched that video greater than I ought to most likely admit!). After months of begging to go, we determined to make a final minute detour to take a look at the Lego-themed amusement park on our approach again from a household go to in close by New York. After I shared a reel of our enjoyable day on the park, I acquired TONS of messages from followers asking us for all the small print on what we did, the place we stayed, how lengthy you can spend there, and I’m hoping that this submit solutions all of these and extra!
What We Liked. The park is designed to be a giant loop and is split into completely different lands that align with Lego themes. we adopted the recommendation of our favourite YouTubers and began our day by shifting via Bricktopia. The Bricktopia Manufacturing unit tour was one of many first rides we went on and we beloved it – it was harking back to the Ratatouille trip in Disney the place you’re immersed within the trip expertise. The Ninjago was one other trip that felt like a Disney-ride, with an interactive sport that required you to be a ninja and struggle off villains (I acquired the excessive rating and am nonetheless bragging about it, no huge deal).
Within the Lego Fort world, we beloved the tower trip and stopped for a bit to have lunch in entrance of the massive citadel. We visited on a really heat summer time weekend, and the 2 indoor eating places had extraordinarily lengthy strains as a result of folks had been making an attempt to get out of the solar and into some shade and air-con. When you’re in search of a sooner chew, the citadel eatery was fairly customary family-friendly amusement park meals, and there was loads of shady seating underneath out of doors umbrellas. I waited for a desk and the meals, whereas my husband and Jane hopped on line for the tower-climbing trip to maximise our time.
As we continued on to Lego Metropolis we hit up a number of the most memorable rides/experiences of the day. We hopped into the 4D movie show to observe a brief lego film, and it was a welcome, air-conditioned break from the new solar. When you can time it accurately, it was an ideal mid-day pit-stop to beat the warmth. After that, Jane tried out the lego driving college, which was undoubtedly the spotlight of the day! Youngsters can drive round a mini metropolis, full with cease lights and highway indicators, and after they end they will get a “lego metropolis driver’s license” to take house. We had been very impressed together with her driving expertise, she took the rotaries like an actual Massachusetts driver, ha!
The Pirate land at Legoland NY is among the remaining areas of the park loop and among the best themed for my part! There was a very enjoyable boat trip that had water cannons on it, and you may wind up the water cannons to squirt and other people passing by on the surface. However don’t fear, pedestrians can get their revenge at comparable water cannons alongside the walkway and squirt again on the riders on the pirate ships!
We ended the day strolling via Miniland, which has tons of advanced shows of mini cities constructed out of Legos. This a part of the park is constructed right into a hill, so we slowly wound our approach via all the metropolis shows earlier than ending again on the entrance. There’s a huge Lego present store on the entrance of the park, which we popped into for a memento keychain on the best way house – in case your children are itching for a lego set at one of many different present outlets, it’s good that you would be able to hit this on the best way out and never have to hold it round all day!
By far Jane’s favourite a part of the entire expertise was the plethora of enormous scale lego sculptures that you can contact/sit-in/take footage with in every land. I feel I’ve 90 footage on my telephone as a result of she wished to take an image with each.single.one. And I’ll admit, they had been fairly cool! Additionally they helped break up a number of the strolling that we did across the park. 
What We Skipped. We did the vast majority of the park in someday, however we did skip a number of issues to prioritize what we actually wished to see. One of many huge issues we skipped was splash zone-water park space, primarily as a result of we didn’t pack a showering go well with and didn’t need to be soaking moist our trip house. When you wished to do that water space, it’s important to pre-reserve a timed slot on-line beforehand. It appeared *fairly* crowded on a scorching summer time day, and nobody in our household appeared bummed out about skipping it, however if you happen to had been staying in a single day on the property it could be enjoyable to do that mid-day after which take a break for some dry garments and lunch again on the lodge.
We additionally skipped staying over on the lodge. Our good mates went a number of weeks earlier than us and raved about how cool the themed rooms had been and the way enjoyable play space within the foyer was. The lodge charges had been very costly on the weekend we had been there (greater than we paid to remain for an evening in Disney World!) and since we had household close by we determined to skip out on an in a single day. When you’re coming from the Boston space, we left the park to go house round 3:30 within the afternoon and made it again house at an affordable hour. I additionally thought that for a median Lego fan like Jane, someday was a very good period of time to see the practically the complete park. 
A Few Legoland NY Suggestions. A number of issues we discovered from our day at Legoland New York! First, the park and resort is cashless and a number of the meals stands had been just about managed, which means you needed to order and pay via the Legoland App. There was no solution to order or pay on the Fort the place we ate lunch, and we had been savvy sufficient to shortly obtain the app and use the QR code to position our meals order and take a look at – however there have been undoubtedly households combating this! Having the app pre-downloaded can be actually useful, and we ended up utilizing it to navigate the park and discover meals and ice cream and bogs too.
The app additionally had wait instances listed for the rides, however we discovered that they weren’t completely correct (most often we waited approach lower than the listed instances, a number of instances we waited a bit extra). One other factor we weren’t completely ready for was the mini-figure buying and selling!
Our journey was impromptu and we didn’t carry any mini-figures with us, however there are buying and selling posts all through the park the place you possibly can swap your mini-figure for one more (and you may commerce with park workers which have that them on their identify badges!). It was a cute concept, and subsequent time we’ll come ready! And with that, my remaining be aware, we had a lot enjoyable that there’ll undoubtedly be a subsequent time for us at Legoland New York!
