The LEGOLAND Windsor Resort is located in the charming Royal town of Windsor. The park is easily accessible by road and rail and can also be reached with ease if you're travelling from further abroad. LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Address:LEGOLAND Windsor ResortWinkfield RoadWindsorSL4 4AY LEGOLAND Windsor is on the B3022 Windsor/Ascot road just two miles from Windsor town centre. Please follow all brown signs on the local roads as this will get you to the Resort quicker. Dependent on your direction of travel, please use one of the following routes: M3 (Junction 3), M25 (Junction 13) or M4 (Junction 6).To avoid traffic congestion within Windsor town centre, we recommend guests who are driving to take a right at the LEGOLAND Windsor roundabout and follow signs for the M25, M3 and M4. Guests will need to purchase a parking ticket for £6. This can be obtained from the Ticket Booths or Guest Services at any time during your day. For Premium LEGOLAND Annual Pass Holders or Premium MERLIN Annual Pass Holders, car parking is included in the price of your ticket and therefore will not need to purchase a separate ticket.
Please note: Parking is not included in the price of a Standard MERLIN Annual Pass. London Heathrow airport is only 12 miles from LEGOLAND Windsor Resort via the M4. Trains from Gatwick Airport take around 2 hours to get to Windsor. Regular trains run direct to Clapham Junction or Farringdon.From Clapham Junction: Change for connections to Windsor & Eton Riverside. From Farringdon: Cross the London Underground to Paddington Station. Board a train to Slough then change for an onward connection to Windsor & Eton Central. Luton is only a 45 minute drive from LEGOLAND Windsor. The Airport shuttle will take you from Luton Airport to Luton Airport Parkway where it's possible to catch a train to Farringdon. Eurolines services operate from many European destinations to Reading or London Victoria (Night services are also available if you wish to travel at this time). Night and daytime Megabus services are available to London from some European cities such as Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Dublin.
Book in advance for very low fares. Within the UK: Windsor & Eton Central is the closest to Windsor town centre and your LEGOLAND shuttle. It is connected to Slough by rail. Windsor & Eton Riverside is a ten minute walk from Windsor & Eton Central and has many more mainline links including to Clapham Junction. Eurostar services run direct from Paris Gare du Nord, Lille, Calais Ville and Brussels Midi to London St. Pancras International.From St. Pancras it's possible to transfer across the London Underground and catch a train to Windsor & Eton Central via Slough from London Paddington.Please check times, routes and changes before travel.Following on from my advice about DisneyLand Paris , I thought I would do something relatively similar for Legoland Windsor. I’ve had the pleasure of going there so many times (probably well over 30 in total) over the past 15 years, and I still love going to that place. Having said that, the park seems to have got a lot busier in the recent years, which means that (unless you are careful) you may get disappointed with your visit.
This blog post is to try to help you get your best out of your day. Here is a link to a map LegoLand_Windsor_Teacher_Map (which was downloaded in 2014, but seems to be based on 2013, so it is slightly out of date when you read it) to help explain what I mean. Before you even start, be aware that there is SO MUCH to do in Legoland, you’ll never be able to do it all in 1 day. That’s actually a good thing – as I say I must have been there over 30 times and I still love it and get a thrill as I walk through the entrance gates! It’s a VERY long walk from the main park to the car park, so I would try to avoid having to do this during the day. Also, to set your expectations, be warned that you have to pay for their car-park. This is sneaky (in my view) but if you know in advance it cushions the blow. OK then, let’s start the day: If you get there too early, don’t worry. There’s enough open beforehand to kill 20 minutes, for example: shop, ice-cream, and (most usefully) a Miniland Star Wars exhibition.
As you walk through the ticket barriers, if you head straight ahead you’ll be blocked by a cliff (with a great view of the park, and also of London if it’s a nice day). There will be two queues into the park – one to the left, one to the right. If you’re really keen then you can get to the front of the queue (when they ‘release the rope’ and allow people into the park). However, it’s only really worth it if you are a quick family (e.g. no buggies etc.) so I’m going to assume that you are NOT that. I’ll therefore assume that there will be some people in front of you when the time comes. Try to go as quickly as possible (of course) but don’t rush/run or you’ll no doubt have a few accidents on the way. Don’t panic, all will be fine. Nevertheless, it’s a good idea to get into the park a.s.a.p. Here’s where you will have to start negotiating with your kids. They’ll want to stop and look at things (or slide down the slides, which are by the steps during the descent of the hill).
Tell them no – they can go on the slides on the way home! It’s up to you to decide what is your first ride, but here are a few rides that tend to have long queues: The boating school is quite sweet, but nothing amazing. The weird thing is that it gets HORRENDOUSLY long queues during the day, and it simply is not worth waiting 50 minutes in a queue for it. I tend to always go for this first, and if the queue is 15 minutes or less then go for it (you’ll not have the chance later). If you get there and it’s a long queue, then quickly dash to either the Driving or L-Drivers schools (depending on age) and get in those queues. After you’ve done your first 1 or 2 rides, my advice (as I said earlier) is that you should be just going on the very nearest ride to you that doesn’t have a bad queue … don’t waste time walking across the large park between each ride. All of the rides (from now on) will have reasonably large queues, but here are a few that I’d recommend in particular:
Here are a few that I personally think are disappointing (avoid unless you particularly think they will appeal): The Lighthouse show (26) is excellent for the adults – but seems to be less exciting for the kids, so I suggest you avoid it (at least for your first visit). In theory it’s a good place to sit and have lunch whilst watching the show, but in practice you have to get there VERY early (e.g. at least 15 or 20 minutes) before the show to bag your spot, and even then you might not get a great view. The show is spectacular, but the kids seem to prefer the rides. Is the park busy? Well here are a few rides which are pretty good but (for one reason or another) have shorter queues than they deserve (therefore recommended if it’s busy): Try to put off going to the following until later in the day (when the queues have really got bad) because obviously they have NO QUEUES (so leave them as emergency): Of course you can also just play in the FABULOUS parks:
Don’t do these parks too early (whilst ride queues are small) but also don’t leave this too late (they can get very busy on a busy day). By far the best two places to get ice-cream and doughnuts are: They have lots of good flavours of ice-cream in those two places – from my memory the caramel is best. However, the queues can get HORRENDOUS at peak times, so think ahead and choose ‘unpopular’ time to snack! My personal favourite activity is to RUSH to the discovery zone (55) where (effectively) there is a room with two ramps in it. You build cars and the kids race them down the hill. Sounds simple but (trust me) the kids ADORE this. The problem is that there are only limited numbers of wheels available, so get there quickly (as soon as you think it’ll rain) and bagsy your wheels before the other kids/parents do! The only problem is how to get your kids OUT of there. I’ve been in there almost an hour several times in the past. I do hope that these hints help someone out there – have fun!