jkstewart1800
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I took my 2 and 5 year olds to legoland in the middle of November. They are still talking about our day at legoland so if you ask them it was fantastic. However, I think their maketing materials should be more clear that EACH child under 48" really needs to have an adult with them. Most rides require the under 48" crowd to have an adult with them to ride, but I assumed I could ride with both kids at one time. The cars are so small that 2 is the max capicity and with few exceptions I approached strangers that had more adults than kids in their party or bigger kids that could ride alone and asked if they would ride with one of my kids.
It would have never dawned on me that this would be an issue with the amount of marking they do to SAHM's with preschoolers. Most of the SAHM's I know have more than one kid. Even a family with 3 kids under 6 could have a really hard time with the requirements.
I also agree the food offerings were limited. We packed a lunch because I had read about cross contamination issues and my son has life-threatening nut allergies.
I am considering a return trip, so it couldn't have been too bad. But we would not even be considering it with out a discount or during the summer. I can't imagine how HOT this park will be in the summer.
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We are heading there this week sometime (waiting for the crowds to lighten up). We picked this place because we will have two 5YO and one 3YO with us that just love to go on rides. I don't find WDW has many offerings for that age group. Will we find that there?
Any discounts to be used? We did get the buy one adult get kid free ticket. Just curious if anything else it out there.
mousesavers has the links for two kids free with adult ticket purchase promos that are going on. One is buy Pepsi - can't remember what the other one is.
However, I think their maketing materials should be more clear that EACH child under 48" really needs to have an adult with them. Most rides require the under 48" crowd to have an adult with them to ride, but I assumed I could ride with both kids at one time. The cars are so small that 2 is the max capicity and with few exceptions I approached strangers that had more adults than kids in their party or bigger kids that could ride alone and asked if they would ride with one of my kids.
It would have never dawned on me that this would be an issue with the amount of marking they do to SAHM's with preschoolers. Most of the SAHM's I know have more than one kid. Even a family with 3 kids under 6 could have a really hard time with the requirements.
I also agree the food offerings were limited. We packed a lunch because I had read about cross contamination issues and my son has life-threatening nut allergies.
We are heading there this week sometime (waiting for the crowds to lighten up). We picked this place because we will have two 5YO and one 3YO with us that just love to go on rides. I don't find WDW has many offerings for that age group. Will we find that there?
Any discounts to be used? We did get the buy one adult get kid free ticket. Just curious if anything else it out there.
We are heading there this week sometime (waiting for the crowds to lighten up). We picked this place because we will have two 5YO and one 3YO with us that just love to go on rides. I don't find WDW has many offerings for that age group. Will we find that there?
Any discounts to be used? We did get the buy one adult get kid free ticket. Just curious if anything else it out there.
We are heading down in September and DS is really looking forward to Legoland. My kids are older (11 and 12) but do not enjoy thrill rides AT ALL. Soarin' is about as thrilling as they get at WDW. :lol: At any rate, I've read the ride descriptions and I think a lot of them will be enjoyable for us and we won't have to worry about height requirements.
My question is, how much time should we plan to spend? I had originally planned to do only one day but now I'm considering two since I've read so much about long lines. We were going to just take a day to drive to Winter Haven but if we do 2 park days I'm considering going there first, doing a half day on our arrival day and then a full day the following day. Then we'd head to Orlando after leaving the park on the 2nd day.
Does a day and half seem sufficient or should we plan for two full days? I'm hoping for lower crowds in September.
We are heading down in September and DS is really looking forward to Legoland. My kids are older (11 and 12) but do not enjoy thrill rides AT ALL. Soarin' is about as thrilling as they get at WDW. :lol: At any rate, I've read the ride descriptions and I think a lot of them will be enjoyable for us and we won't have to worry about height requirements.
My question is, how much time should we plan to spend? I had originally planned to do only one day but now I'm considering two since I've read so much about long lines. We were going to just take a day to drive to Winter Haven but if we do 2 park days I'm considering going there first, doing a half day on our arrival day and then a full day the following day. Then we'd head to Orlando after leaving the park on the 2nd day.
Does a day and half seem sufficient or should we plan for two full days? I'm hoping for lower crowds in September.
I think a day and a half is perfect. When we went in October, it wasn't crowded at all, but many of the rides are "slow loaders" so even with a short line, it takes a while to get on each ride. We arrived at 10:00 when the park opened and left around 4 (it closed at 5 that day) and we feel like there were a few things we didn't see.
Not sure how it applies to promotinal tickets, but you can add an extra day for $15. There aren't a whole lot of hotel choices in Winter Haven - looks like the best ones might be in Lake Wales about 5 min away. We're going to stay at the Holiday Inn Express in Lake Wales...I'll be glad to report back when we return
A day an a half worked for us. I think the park would be lovely when it's not crowded, raining and properly staffed.