Legoland Windsor & packages

[disneylandkids]

I don't usually go for packages from places like WDW or DL, but in my planning for DLP, the hotel package included park admission, and it worked out well. I'm hoping that the same thing will run true for Legoland.

I went to the Legoland Windsor website, and was quoted for two packages of two nights and two days park admission (we only really need one day). To find a hotel for 2 adults/3 children is tricky.

One quote was for the Hilton St. Anne's Manor: a family room, including breakfast, park tickets, and VAT for 363 pounds. The other was for Runnymede Hotel and Spa for 400 pounds with the same things included.

I did the math. Single day park admission for the five of us will be 134 pounds. As a gauge, our hotel apartment in London is costing 150 pounds per night, so based on that, this doesn't seem that far out of line. (I'm trying *very* hard to not translate any of this into USD right now because of sticker shock!!)

I was trying to think of how this could be done on a piecemeal basis so I looked at both hotel's direct websites and found no family rooms available.

The Hilton looks *wonderful* but the Runnymede has a higher star rating and is closer to Heathrow (we have to factor returning a car and an 11 am flight).

Thoughts?

 

[mark&sue]

some of the hotels do not do family rooms for 4 but only 3. Perhaps you could e:mail the hotel direct and ask them. You may able to find a cheaper hotel like holiday inn, quality inn, Innkeepers lodge and crowne plazza all of which are in windsor and can be booked direct on their websites.

After doing the disney parks we found leggoland a bit to young for our daughter when she was 6. If your children are older have you thought of Chessington World of adventures or thorpe park which are not too far from heathrow. Good luck and let us know how you get on.


Susan

 

[disneylandkids]

some of the hotels do not do family rooms for 4 but only 3. Perhaps you could e:mail the hotel direct and ask them. You may able to find a cheaper hotel like holiday inn, quality inn, Innkeepers lodge and crowne plazza all of which are in windsor and can be booked direct on their websites.

After doing the disney parks we found leggoland a bit to young for our daughter when she was 6. If your children are older have you thought of Chessington World of adventures or thorpe park which are not too far from heathrow. Good luck and let us know how you get on.


Susan

Thanks for the suggestion about the hotels.

We have been to Legoland in California quite a few times, and we found that our oldest child wasn't interested in the place by the time he became a teen. Our other children are 10 and 11, and my 11-year-old son is a Legomaniac! I think we'd be fine with it, knowing that it's not on the same level as a Disney park (we go to Disneyland much more frequently than Legoland). But we are keen to see how different the Legoland in the UK is from the one in California.

I have thought about Chessington, but we are also spending a couple of days at Disneyland Paris. We have two weeks for our trip, and already, it's bursting at the seams with plans!!