As part of a larger European trip we spent 2 park days at LEGOLAND Billund and 2 nights at a LEGOLAND resort property. Billund, Denmark is where LEGO was invented and headquartered, so this is the “home” of LEGO. It was a great trip at what we felt was an extremely reasonable price. Even though we don’t speak a word of Danish we had zero issues communicating and fully experiencing the park. The park is adjacent to the airport, so transportation is very easy. The accommodations were also well themed, convenient and available at many price points to fit any budget. LEGOLAND Billund is a great theme park in general and simply amazing if you are at all a fan of LEGO.

This review will be somewhat chronological, so I’ll start with transportation to the park. We visited Billund, Denmark after a stop in London. We were actually able to get flights from London to Billund for just $19 one way! The Billund airport is literally next door to the park, but the park entrance is on the opposite side from the terminal. Therefore, you wouldn’t want to walk as you’re looking at 1-2 miles around the perimeter of the airport. A cab is a possibility, the cheapest and easiest option is the public bus that picks up right outside the terminal. It’s literally one stop and a couple of dollars and you’re dropped off right in front of LEGOLAND!

We arrived around dinner time with the plan to check into our room, get some dinner and visit the park the next morning. We stayed in a Wild West Cabin at the LEGOLAND Holiday Village. LEGOLAND Holiday Village is a resort area across the street and parking lot from LEGOLAND that consists of a hotel, rental cabins, restaurant, shopping and campsites. The LEGOLAND Holiday Village is an easy 5-10 minute walk from the park, but part of the LEGOLAND Hotel is actually incorporated into the edge of the park with some rooms having views into the park. It is actually on both sides of a street with a sky bridge connecting them. The LEGOLAND Castle Hotel is across the street and another great option.

We paid about $800 total for 2 nights in a cabin and 2 days at the park for 3 people, not too bad in our opinion. A day at the park is about $50, so a good chunk of the total (~$500) was two nights in the cabin. The cabin was nice though with two very small bedrooms, bathroom and a common area living room and kitchen. Note that the beds in the cabin do not come with sheets (must be a Danish thing where it’s more like camping and you bring your own?), but you can add a set for $15 that they’ll give you in a package on check-in. There’s also a ton to do at the LEGOLAND Holiday Village from playgrounds to video games to mini golf.

The first night we ate at the buffet restaurant at the LEGOLAND Hotel. It was a nice quality buffet with dozens of choices, but not excessively large. There were many traditional Danish dishes, carved meats and fish. There was also soup, cheeses, bread and vegetables. Kids will also be happy in that there is a mini buffet for them with chicken nuggets, pasta and even LEGO-shaped French fries! The buffet wasn’t cheap at $35 for adults and $18 for kids, but for unlimited good quality food it’s not bad for a theme park. The resort restaurants also had Nintendo Switch play areas for the kids should they be done faster than the parents.

The wait staff will offer you beverage choices including soda, beer and wine. They were absolutely great and it was our first exposure to minifigure trading! On their name tag each staff member will have a minifigure and just like pin trading at other properties you can trade with them! We saw our waitress had a super awesome one and we commented on it and she asked if we wanted to trade. As it was our first day, and we hadn’t bought any LEGOS yet, we had nothing to trade, but she then just gave it to our 8 year old son. He was thrilled! The wait staff were also quite playful often carrying foam swords, making funny comments or being entertaining in other ways.

LEGOLAND has also become more of a resort area with LEGO House a short walk away and Lalandia Aquadome indoor water park literally across the street. You can add a day at LEGO House as part of your LEGOLAND package, but Lalandia is not owned by LEGO, so there are no combo options there, but they do seem to happily coexist. There’s also WOW Park, a new nature theme park filled with giant slides and ropes courses (also not owned by LEGO) that is just 6 minutes by cab, so there’s the potential of a 3-5 day stay in Billund to see it all. You can easily base out of a LEGOLAND Resort the whole time too.

The next day we got breakfast at a coffee shop located just across the street from the LEGOLAND entrance. They had everything from fresh breads, warm sandwiches, great coffee and other danishes (a funny pun when you’re in Denmark). The park then opened at 10am and before you can line up in from of the gates. There were some staff “clowns” that did work the area and then at 10am sharp there is some music, a countdown and then the metal grating rises to allow guests inside. The gates are all automated where you just scan a code from your phone or printed ticket to gain admission. When you walk through the gates one of the first things you’ll see is a giant LEGO dinosaur!

In the slow season the park is only open from 10am to 6pm, but crowds are low in the off season and we still did tons each day. Two days at the park essentially let us experience 100% of the rides, shows and attractions perfectly including multiple rides on a few of our favorites. It also left time for shopping, nice meals, character meets and looking at lots of LEGO structures without feeling rushed in the least. It is also important to know that the rides close an hour before park close, so you can leave things like shopping or exploring Miniland for this time slot and use this operating hours quirk to your advantage. Also, if you buy yourself a t-shit be aware that in Europe clothing is not often preshrunk. The large t-shirts we got looked gigantic, but when we got them home and washed them everything was fine.

With regard to the rides and attractions, there are a healthy number that are standards across nearly every LEGOLAND park, LEGOLAND Billund has several unique rides. Each park has unique attributes such as their Miniland area and the various LEGOLAND parks are by no means carbon copies of each other, but there are certain rides that are either identical or highly similar across many parks. These rides aren’t bad by any means, most are excellent, you just may have ridden something similar if you’ve visited another LEGOLAND before. Examples would include NINJAGO The Ride, Unikitty’s Disco Drop, Driving School, Emmet’s Flying Adventure, LEGO Safari, the Ferrari build experience and several more that have only tweaked names or slightly tweaked theming or scenes.

With regard to unique more major attractions, LEGOLAND Billund does have the Polar X-plorer coaster along with the LEGO Canoe flume ride (which doesn’t get you very wet by the way) and Ghost — The Haunted House. The Polar X-plorer roller coaster is especially interesting with its incorporation of drop track. Ghost is highly unique in that it is essentially a LEGO walk-through haunted house with an indoor dark drop tower experience in the basement. We also loved Lloyd’s Laser Maze where you go through a “Mission Impossible” style laser maze. You can select varying difficulties and crawl under and jump over beams trying to complete the course in under 60 seconds with the least mistakes.

Speaking of ghosts, we were there during the Halloween season with the Halloween Monster Party. During this time there are special decorations, characters and shows, the 4D theater plays The Great Monster Chase 4D film and you can participate in “Brick or Treat” around the park. Brick or Treat is a great bargain as for $20 you get to visit six booths where you’ll have fun interactions with different characters and then receive a treat at the end. The treats range from candy to soda to a great LEGO set!

One of the highlights of our time in the park for our 8 year old son was Traffic School where kids can drive cars around a course themed to a small town. There are working traffic signals, traffic circles, a car wash and a recharging station. The park employees also drive police cars helping enforce the rules and help out the kids. Driving School is just as entertaining for adults to watch as it is for the kids to participate in as we laughed hysterically as the kids tried to navigate the rules of the road. The know the kids are likely from multiple countries and they even put a flag on the front of the cars. Traffic School is a slight upcharge attraction that usually requires a reservation, but if you go in the morning you should be able to get a time slot that day. It’s about $10 and your child will get a printed “license” for the event. Traffic School (or Driving School as it is sometimes referred to elsewhere) is not unique to LEGOLAND Billund and can be found at most every LEGOLAND park. However, if you have a young child that’s 6-13 years old that’s never done it you should really check it out.

The food options in the park are good, but nothing we found was life changing. There are burgers, LEGO-shaped fries, pizza and other standard theme park food. The best meal we found was at a cantina near near the center of the park that had good Mexican food. In fairness, many of the restaurants were closed due to it being the slow season, so there are probably more options during summer. The park also offers refillable cups with Coca-Cola Freestyle are only about $20 and a great deal, especially on a multi-day stay. As mentioned previously though, the food in the hotel restaurants is quite good.

The staff at LEGOLAND Billund was universally excellent. All of them spoke perfect English making our experience very easy. They were also friendly and great at their jobs. The ride operations were fast and efficient and the characters had funny jokes. We especially enjoyed our time with the master builder where you could buy the parts for a figure and either build it on your own from instructions or go into a classroom setting to learn from a master builder. For Halloween these were on theme from a ghost to a cat. The minifigure trading was also fun and the staff seemed sincerely curious about us.

The thing that will stick with you at LEGOLAND Billund are the little touches of excellence and theme. It could be the LEGO beehive in a flower garden. If you have kids you’ll love that there are LEGO play areas incorporated into many queues where the kids can build while the adults wait in line. If you love minifigures you have to see the wall of thousands behind the check-in desk at the LEGOLAND Hotel. You could be enjoying lunch and hear a marching band playing throughout the park. Perhaps after a day in the park you’re walking around LEGOLAND Holiday Village near the NINJAGO cabins and you come across an outdoor LEGO display tucked near the edge of the woods. Things like this are EVERYWHERE at LEGOLAND Billund.

If you’re an American considering a trip to LEGOLAND Billund don’t hesitate, especially if you’re already in Europe and can get a cheap flight to Billund. You won’t experience any language barriers and it’s quite affordable by theme park standards compared to places like Disney or Universal. There is also a fair amount of “Americana” here to make you feel right at home with LEGO recreations of Mount Rushmore, the US Capital and other USA landmarks to be found in the park. You don’t need to be a LEGO fan to enjoy LEGOLAND, but if you are this is indeed the ultimate LEGO playground. The staff is great, the park is immaculate and the attention to detail is superb. Billund Denmark is the home of LEGO and it’s a place every LEGO fan should see and every theme park fan can enjoy.