“Parking is expansive, though it seems you can pay to get closer if you'd like.” “We love the way they restored cypress gardens and the lego add-ons to make it their own!” “We have a pretty brave 6 yr old boy and a cautious 9 yr old girl both of whom love Legos and this was a perfect family adventure.” Show more review highlights Is the food reasonably good to eat? The food is actually moderately priced for an amusement park The quality is fast food decent… 1 person found this helpful View 8 more answers Don’t see your question? TRAVELCalifornia Bucket List: Strange vibrations near Joshua Tree, monarch butterflies, startling urban archaeology and a new adventure each day Legoland's second U.S. hotel blasts off at the Florida theme park Legoland opened its second U.S. hotel last week at Legoland Florida Resort. In a grand kickoff, the plastic brick empire blasted thousands of Lego mini-figures from cannons atop the party-colored resort hotel in Winter Haven, Fla., midway between Tampa and Orlando.Legoland opened its first U.S. hotel in 2013 at Legoland California Resort in Carlsbad.
The new hotel has 152 rooms and offers new features. The Florida property adds a new themed room decor designed to appeal to girls. It's based on Lego Friends Andrea, Emma, Mia, Olivia and Stephanie. It also has the pirate, adventure and kingdom rooms too.The hotel also will offer kids and their families a chance to take a Master Model Builder Workshop in the hotel every day. Guests can work alongside professional model makers on Lego projects. Each room sleeps up to five people with a king-sized bed for parents and a separate area where kids sleep in bunk beds and sofa beds. VIP suites sleep up to nine people.Every room comes with Lego models and a scavenger hunt kids can complete to unlock an in-room treasure chest. Stays at the Legoland Hotel come with free daily breakfast, access to Lego play areas, entertainment and other extras. Room prices start at $219 a night plus tax.The hotel joins the largest Legoland theme park in the franchise. It covers 150 acres of rides, attractions, a botanical garden and a Legoland Water Park.
I admit that it’s hard to compete with Disney and Universal when it comes to valuable vacation time for families in central Florida, but — seriously — if you have kids anywhere in the 3-7 range who even remotely like LEGO, this place can’t be beat. But I’m here today to talk about the hotel, not the park. I’ll grant that LEGOLAND might not scream “multiday destination,” but if you’re there in the summer, you could easily spend a full day in the park and another full day at the water park (we just did exactly that). Suddenly, having a LEGO-themed hotel right there, “130 kid-sized steps” from the entrance, makes a heckuva lot of sense. Let’s get the specs out of the way first. It’s a 5-story, 152-room hotel that is completely themed around LEGO. There are more than 2 million LEGO bricks, which make up more than 2,000 LEGO models, throughout the hotel: in the lobby, restaurant, bar, pool, hallways, and each and every guest room. Perks of staying at the hotel?
Guest rooms are designed and decorated around four different themes: Pirates, Adventure, Kingdom, and Friends. Hotel guests have access to exclusive, daily Master Model Builder Workshop sessions–conducted by an actual LEGO master model builder. There is a workshop inside the hotel, making this the first LEGOLAND hotel with such a facility. A (delicious) full buffet breakfast is included with every stay. (In the cutthroat world of central Florida theme park hotels, this is huge.) Hotel guests have early morning access to the park. There are nightly LEGO building competitions.Once the doors close, music plays, lights flash, and a disco ball spins. You can’t help but dance and be happy. Ready to take a tour? Walk in the lobby, and you’re immediately overwhelmed by LEGO. As parents check in, they can marvel at the wall of minifigures, which is made with more than 5,000 of the little guys. And while you’re swiping the plastic and signing paperwork, the kids can play in a LEGO pit, build their own creations, and display them on the wall for everyone to see.
You may never get the kids out of the lobby, actually. Connected to the lobby is a castle play area and various other LEGO and LEGO Duplo play areas. There’s also Skyline Lounge (with your choice of kid and adult beverages), the master model builder workshop, and Bricks Restaurant. Let’s take a ride on the disco elevators and head on upstairs to the rooms. There isn’t an inch of this building that isn’t draped in LEGO theming. It’s pretty remarkable, actually. Each room has a minimum of 8 LEGO models–in the bedroom, on the wall, and in the bathroom. Every room also includes a treasure chest that kids can unlock (with LEGO goodies inside they can keep!) after they complete a treasure hunt. I’m not sure what treasures will regularly be inside, but when we were there, it included a couple Mixels sets, copies of the LEGO Club magazine, stickers, and an activity book. Your choices for room theming, as I mentioned, include Pirates: The Master Model Builder Workshops are actually a pretty amazing perk of staying at the hotel.