Visiting Billund, Denmark with kids
If you’re looking for a child friendly, super budget friendly city break then I can’t recommend Billund enough! It’s the home of LEGO and even in winter there’s enough to do and it’s not somewhere you need to worry about the weather as such.
We flew with Ryanair for £140 total, return, for 4 of us hand luggage only. We then walked from the airport to the town as it’s so close, there’s a free shuttle bus that runs in the summer. Such a quick & easy trip!
It’s worth going for @legohouse alone. LEGO House is somewhere we’ve wanted to visit for a while now and it blew all of our minds! It’s full of interactive hands-on exhibits for all ages.
My top tips for visiting Billund
In LEGOHOUSE we loved racing cars we’d built, creating fish that then swim in a virtual ocean and making our own mini figures. It’s very interactive where you scan your wrist bands at each camera point to make your creations come to life. There’s enough for younger ones to enjoy with the DUPLO filled swimming pools and whole duplo train tracks to build as well as for older children who can code moving robots. We spent a whole day here and went back for the rooftop play areas.
Make sure to book Mini Chef, the restaurant in Lego house, This was the coolest restaurant that we’ve ever been to with our children. You each get given a bag of LEGO to place your order with from which you build your bricks in different combinations to choose from the menu then submit it into a computer. There’s Lego to play with and books to read whilst you wait and then you get notified when your meal is ready to travel from the kitchen along to the LEGO robots who will receive your order so you can go to pick up your box from them. The only waiters you see are if you order drinks or need anything extra! We were surprised by just how good the quality of food was, it was all so delicious, healthy and organic which you wouldn’t necessarily expect from a novelty kind of place but this is Denmark and they are the kings and queens of gastronomy. The kids meals come with a bonus bag of chef Lego to take home with you. Our children are still talking about it now! You don’t need tickets for Lego house to visit but I’d definitely book a table in advance though as it’s popular.
The playgrounds are epic, don’t miss the LEGO house rooftop park which you can enter for free.
It was our first time in a Scandinavian country and I just loved the bakeries, the cinnamon social slices, the rye bread, the smoked fish, seeing children out on bikes in all weathers, I was even just swooning over the supermarket interior sections and we got amazing properly waterproof danish vintage coats from the kids from a charity shop.
The town is small and not exactly beautiful design wise. It’s cool to see the LEGO university and the nature walks are nice, it’s got two big supermarkets and enough restaurants but it’s not a big city.
We went at the end of November for a Lego promotion so not everything else attraction wise was open - unfortunately Legoland opened a couple of days for the christmas period a couple of days after we left. I’d definitely go back to visit the original @legolandbillund & other attractions like @wowparkdk in the Spring or Summer sometime.
We stayed at the @legolandbillund hotel which was perfect for kids with lots of Lego to play with everywhere, play areas and had a really decent breakfast buffet. Our children loved that even the rooms had big boxes of LEGO to play with and the hotel has daily treasure hunts where you can win prizes and they often just give out free mini bags of LEGO too. Great for a couple of nights. It’s a nice walk from here along a river with sculptures into town.
Look up @lalandia which looks like a Center Parcs type place and the aqua park there looks amazing, it’s Denmark’s biggest water park.
It’s all so geared up for play and children. The streets have slides and play trails running the whole way along, even the airport had an impressive playroom and free buggies to save tired parents.
- * we originally visited for an AD LEGOhouse Build to Give initiative but paid for most of the trip and it was not in exchange for any other content like this.
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