Legoland Billund, the Lego Village - Denmark Tour

On the trip we set out on with an Interrail ticket, to spoil ourselves a little and get a day's dose of energy in between, we decided to go to the Lego Village, Legoland Billund! We're maybe among the rare people who come here without kids. We had soooo much fun on this getaway.

Legoland Billund Resort is the name of the huge complex that's been created, with its own hotel. Growing every year and 50 years old today, Legoland, the Lego Village, opened in 1968, is the first and original Lego park. From what we saw, people flock to this park at weekends. When we got back from the holiday we had a look: this park apparently gets more than 1 million visitors a year. It's next to the original Lego factory and next to Billund Airport, Denmark's second busiest airport.

I remember my mum used to buy these when I was little; even then they were so expensive that one Lego set was pure happiness in my childhood. Until I came here, I'd thought these toys were still very simple, and didn't think they had the kind of detailed sets they offer now. Now for the big day..

While researching where to go in Denmark, we eagerly decided to go to this one, since we were right on its doorstep: we were used to seeing its toys on the shelves before, but had never managed to go to the one in Istanbul. Denmark is where Lego was invented!

How to Get to Legoland, the Lego Village?

In a country like Denmark, where train travel is so widespread, I found it really strange that you can't get here by train. There's no train connection, but you can come either by air or by land.

As we mentioned above, when you land at Billund Airport, our Lego Village is right next to you; you can take a bus for this 1 km trip too. Turkish Airlines has direct flights every day. The flight takes about 3 hours 30 minutes.

Getting from Copenhagen to Vejle by train

As we mentioned in our post on places to visit around Denmark too, Vejle is the best transport base for the Lego Village. The nearest train station to Billund is in the town of Vejle. We stayed the Friday night in Vejle and set off for Billund early on Saturday morning. The location of where we stayed in Vejle was great; we're leaving the link for those who want to look.

For those coming from Copenhagen, Vejle takes about 2 hours, depending on the train you take. You can buy tickets from DSB, the Danish railway company, or from this site. If you buy tickets online you can get a discount, even if it's a small one. Tickets can be bought at most 2 months ahead. If you're planning a trip further than 2 months away, you can buy your ticket when there are 2 months left before your trip. Early tickets can be up to half price. Right now tickets are €56 per person.

Getting from Vejle to Legoland, the Lego Village, by bus

You can get from Vejle to Legoland on buses number 43 and 143. Here you can check bus times and fares. Bus 43 runs every 30 minutes, and bus 143 every 60 minutes.

In my research before going, I hadn't managed to buy the ticket online, but apparently you can. Watch out: on the bus you can only buy the ticket in cash and in Danish kroner. Legoland day was the 8th day of our trip, and up to that day we'd handled everything by credit card or in euros.

Bus 43 doesn't accept credit cards or euros. Since it insists on Danish kroner, you have no choice but to exchange money. But there's no exchange office or ATM. So you have to buy something at the 7-Eleven in the station, paying in euros, and then they give you the change in kroner.

The bus ticket costs around 62 DKK per person. For 2 people there and back we paid 248 DKK. Oh! That's the Nordics for you, everything costs a fortune!

How Much Is the Entrance Fee for Legoland, the Lego Village?

We're sorry to say that at this time (June 2018), when the euro-TL rate is 5.50, entry to Legoland is a crazy amount for us. But I'd made the plan months in advance and arranged everything according to it, and since we really wanted to see this place too, we loosened the purse strings! So, the entrance fee for children is 359 DKK, and for over-13s 379 DKK. But to avoid waiting in the ticket queue that day and to get the 40 DKK discount, we bought our tickets from the website. The benefits of paying online.

There are tickets with food included too, but we brought our own food and so absorbed the high prices inside. At the entrance they were even handing out scratch cards for Legoland's 50th year, and we won a Magnum ice cream. 25 DKK it was worth apparently, so not bad at all!

What's in Legoland, the Lego Village?

It consists of a park with 9 different themes, built on 45 decares of land. Along with the newly opened Flying Tiger, there was also a new hotel under construction. So you can't come here and leave after 2 hours. On our Scandinavia tour we gave Legoland one whole full day. And we're so glad we did. We had so much fun and laughed so much.

We were in the big crowd that went in when it opened at 10 in the morning, but believe us, we didn't wait in any queue. Families mostly had season passes. Or, like us, everyone scanned the barcode on their printed online tickets and went through. At the start it's worth taking the map of this huge area to plan a route and having a look. The queues for some activities can be very long. Then again, Legoland has solved this too, by writing the maximum waiting time at the start of each queue!

We watched a 4D Legoland film in a huge cinema hall. We came out laughing, with happy faces, and the fun began! We sped on the roller coasters, got soaked on Viking Splash, played laser in NinjaGo, tried to get out of the Ghost House, became pirates in Pirate Land, went to the pyramids in Egypt…

In Miniland we toured Denmark and its surroundings in Lego models. Then on the LegoTop we looked down on this whole colourful world from above! Spending this whole day with Lego models that took us back to our childhood was wonderful. It's worth remembering that every activity has age and usually height limits; they've included these in the brochure at the entrance.

Since it was Saturday, many Danish families had come by car, ready for a picnic and a whole day of fun. Almost every family had 3 children. Grandma and grandpa sometimes waited, and sometimes joined the fun too. But at exactly 12 o'clock almost all of them were eating.

Really sweet areas have been set up for guests to have picnics. People celebrating birthdays, whole families: watching them was a lot of fun too. By the way, of course you can also find lots of cafés and restaurants to eat at inside. Legoland runs most of them itself, and the prices aren't very different from outside.

We didn't make it, but let's not forget the Atlantis Aquarium, which we know kids will love. Finally, for those who want to buy Lego or a souvenir from here, there are many shops and an outlet store too.

All kinds of toys that will entertain everyone from 7 to 70 and make them happy..

Here's what we have left from our Legoland fun, in photos..

And so we've come to the end of our Legoland adventure. Now we're heading north. The next stop is Aarhus!