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Mr Tin Discipline is an accurate AFOL – that’s Grownup Fan of Lego sooner than you suppose I’m being rude. One among his prime causes for having children was so he would legitimately play with LEGO as soon as extra. So, it wasn’t too troublesome persuading him we should always at all times hop all through the border from Oman for a carry on the LEGOLAND Dubai Lodge.
Me? I’m not such an unlimited LEGO fan. It in no way grabbed me as a child. Nevertheless, with a adjust to up hold booked on the QE2 resort nearer to Downtown Dubai, I was utterly happy to go alongside for the journey.
On this analysis of the LEGOLAND Dubai Lodge I’m going to share what the youngsters and AFOL in our family thought, plus the experience for non-AFOLs like me. On account of, let’s face it, LEGO followers are going to love staying correct inside the brick, I indicate thick, of it regardless.
Our hold at LEGOLAND Dubai Lodge
We booked our LEGOLAND Dubai Hold and Play deal in the middle of the Easter college holidays.
Included was our Journey fully-themed room (I’ll go into the room decisions in a bit), buffet breakfast day by day and entry to thought-about certainly one of three Dubai Parks and Resorts parks for each night of our hold.
We set off from Muscat super early, crossed the border with out lots faff (we’re Oman residents), skirted throughout the once more of city getting glimpses of the Burj Khalifa by the haze and arrived at Legoland Dubai in time for a late lunch.
As soon as we lived in Devon in South West England we in no way contemplated staying at LEGOLAND Windsor*, no matter it being in regards to the equivalent journey time as a result of it was for us proper right here inside the Heart East. We’ve modified!
Arriving at LEGOLAND Dubai made me need we’d made the difficulty earlier. Concurrently a non-AFOL.
Our women had been beside themselves after they seen the resort. We’ve in no way stayed anyplace pretty so ‘themed’.
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Themed rooms at LEGOLAND Dubai
There are 5 room concepts on the market: Journey, LEGO Buddies, Kingdom, NINJAGO and Pirate. They’re located on completely completely different flooring with hallways which could be embellished with the equivalent theme.
The LEGO Buddies and NINJAGO rooms are the costliest.
Customary themed rooms can sleep as a lot as 5 people. They’ve a King-sized mattress, bunk mattress and pull out mattress beneath the bunks.
Inside each theme you’ll enhance to a fully-themed room (with additional decorations) or a set which sleeps as a lot as eight people with a King-sized mattress, bunks and sofa mattress.
Our Journey fully-themed room
We decided to e e-book an Journey fully-themed room as a result of it reminded us of our 10 day tour of Egypt the sooner Easter. The worth distinction between this and a baseline Journey themed room was about £20 per night.
If the youngsters we excited as soon as we arrived on the resort, they’d been beside themselves as we took a journey on the disco elevate and used our wrist bands to unlock our room.
By the best way during which, the wrist bands are super useful. They meant we didn’t need to fret about leaving the room with out the vital factor.
LEGO theming
Concurrently a non-AFOL, I was impressed with our room. It appeared exactly desire it did inside the footage on the LEGOLAND Lodge web page.
The furnishings and fashions had been smart and there didn’t appear like lots placed on and tear. The bathroom is the one place there isn’t any LEGO decoration nonetheless each little factor else was brick-tastic from flooring to ceiling.
The women made quick work of the in-room treasure hunt, liberating their small LEGO models from the safe and setting about making them whereas we unpacked.
They then found the Duplo subject.
Family room format
The format of the LEGOLAND resort rooms is pretty distinctive inside the Heart East. Most motels that say their rooms accommodate households don’t provide eternal beds for the youngsters. Households of 4 or additional have to all pile into the King measurement, request or convey extra beds, or e e-book two rooms.
We principally uncover ourselves doing the latter as the ladies are correctly into their pre-teen years.
At this resort there are bunks for the youngsters with a further roll out mattress beneath to sleep as a lot as three children and a King measurement for the adults. These are separated by a short corridor off which you could possibly discover an open hanging home and the door to the rest room.
In themed and completely themed rooms the rest room as a walk-in bathe, sink and toilet. There are baths inside the family suites.
Meals on the LEGOLAND Lodge
The buffet breakfast inside the resort’s Bricks Family Restaurant was included in our Hold and Play bundle deal. The meals on provide was really good with a ramification of chilly and heat worldwide dishes and, to the ladies’ delight, doughnuts and frozen yoghurt.
We found top-of-the-line time to succeed in was at 8am. The LEGOLAND park doesn’t open until 10am and Motiongate is even later at 11am, so we had been consuming correctly sooner than the push.
We moreover ate lunch inside the Bricks Family Restaurant on two days. That’s al a carte and, to be honest, a bit expensive for pretty elementary meals. Nevertheless we’ve found that’s the case with most areas inside the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) worldwide areas.
Kids meals value higher than £10 and grownup meals had been between £12 and £20 each.
We made the error of pondering the meals inside the resort could be cheaper than the LEGOLAND theme park nonetheless after wanting the prices in every areas we’d have saved money inside the park.
One different place to eat inside the resort is the Skyline Lounge. I believed that is maybe on the roof similar to the determine suggests, however it’s actually on the opposite side of reception to the precept restaurant. Skyline serves the equivalent menu as a result of the restaurant.
The excellence is that this looks like a additional grown up home with a bar, extreme tables with bar stools, sofa seating and fewer ‘in your face’ LEGO theming. It’s mild support for non-AFOLs. Although I’d have been far more obsessed with it if it had been a roof bar.
There’s a contented hour (buy two chosen drinks and get one free) day by day from 12pm to 2pm and 6pm to 8pm.
Alternate choices to consuming on the resort
For those who want to uncover numerous and even cheaper areas to eat we advise taking a short stroll or taxi journey to Dubai Outlet Village the place you could possibly discover consuming locations along with discounted designer producers. We acquired pizza and easy drinks at Papa Murphy’s for about £30 for the 4 of us.
Riverland can be merely exterior the resort grounds. This big leisure home with buildings impressed by Nineteen Fifties North America and seventeenth Century France has consuming locations, bars and small sights lining a manmade river.
I say small, nonetheless you could possibly discover the world’s largest camel sculpture and the world’s largest outdoor inflatable assault course proper right here.
It’s all very Dubai!
We went to Riverland for dinner one night time and, whereas the prices had been moreover very Dubai, the meals was good. We ate at The Keg which is modelled on a standard Irish pub with picket panelling and a tiled bar.
There have been numerous completely different decisions, nonetheless this one pulled us in on account of we’re missing Sundays down the pub inside the UK.
The theme parks
We had three parks included in our three night Hold and Play deal: LEGOLAND Dubai, the LEGOLAND Water Park and Motiongate.
After I used to be wanting Dubai Parks and Resorts on Google Maps I hadn’t realised pretty how shut the LEGOLAND Lodge was to all of these.
I was nonetheless none-the-wiser as soon as we arrived as we didn’t see lots driving in path of the resort and our room was coping with the elaborately embellished frontage. So it was a bit little bit of a shock as soon as we walked out the once more entrance, handed the pool and there they’d been.
It takes decrease than two minutes to depart the resort grounds and stroll to the doorway of every LEGOLAND Dubai and the water park.
Motiongate is a bit extra away nonetheless nonetheless solely a ten minute stroll.
LEGOLAND Dubai
We decided to start out out our theme park tour with LEGOLAND understanding that our women had been on the prime end of its goal market. Our method was to work as a lot because the enjoyable rides at Motiongate the subsequent day.
We’d not been to a LEGOLAND park sooner than so can’t consider them, nonetheless in case you’re a day by day who hasn’t been to Dubai however, it has 40 rides compared with LEGOLAND Windsor’s 55. Apparently the positioning can be lots smaller, which is certainly a bonus in Dubai as you want to minimise the amount of strolling you do inside the heat.
It was the first time we’d been to a theme park the place we knew the youngsters can be able to go on all the rides. Truly some had been a bit too tame for them. This combined with the non-existent queues meant we solely spent three hours wandering by the park’s six zones.
Our favourite rides had been The Dragon, Submarine Journey, Rescue Academy and the Misplaced Kingdom Journey. These had been a bit additional thrilling for older children.
We moreover frolicked wanting on the large fashions in MINILAND and making race vehicles inside the Assemble & Check out experience.
If we had youthful children I’m optimistic we’d have spent additional time inside the diversified indoor and outdoor play areas, and on a number of of the lower key rides.
Nonetheless, solely spending half the day proper right here meant we had a great deal of time to go to LEGOLAND Water Park inside the afternoon.
Tip: buy a number of the souvenir drinks bottles on the park entrance. These could be utilized for bottomless refills spherical LEGOLAND Dubai and the Water Park on the day you purchase them.
They value 79 AED (about £17.25) each or 69 AED (about £15.05) as soon as you buy two or additional. We shared two between us and bought higher than our money’s worth of juices and easy drinks. You need the liquids inside the heat!
LEGOLAND Water Park Dubai
We had a wonderful afternoon proper right here, spending two and a half hours utilizing flumes, tubes and rafts.
There’s moreover a wave pool, a lazy river full with bricks and the smart Joker Soaker water playground. Along with 20 water sights there’s numerous photo voltaic loungers in and out of the shade.
For me, as a non-AFOL this was rather more pleasurable than the theme park.
Motiongate
The next day we moved onto the largest Hollywood themed park inside the Heart East with rides and sights primarily based totally on movement footage by the DreamWorks Animation, Columbia Footage and Lionsgate studios.
We’s seen a number of of the rollercoasters from the Legoland Water Park the day sooner than, which gave us a heads up about how completely completely different they’d be.
Normal, we had a wonderful day at Motiongate. It was well-worth saving a complete day for it. There have been a substantial amount of the huge thrill rides that we craved after LEGOLAND and the film set staging was smart.
There have been moreover only a few queues no matter it being a weekend inside the Easter holidays.
Along with the rollercoasters and motion simulators for older children and adults there have been a great deal of pleasurable points to do for youthful children.
The Smurfs Village has a lower key rollercoaster, play zones and displays and there are delicate sights with characters little ones will recognise inside the Dreamworks Animation Zone.
A number of of our favourite rides had been inside the Lionsgate and Columbia Footage areas. We haven’t launched the youngsters to motion pictures similar to the Hunger Video video games or Zombieland however nonetheless that didn’t stop them having enjoyable with these extreme adrenaline rides.
We spent seven hours doing 17,000 steps throughout the Motiongate and acquired right here once more to the Legoland resort exhausted.
How do these Dubai theme parks consider to Yas Island in Abu Dhabi?
We visited Yas Island ultimate yr so had been evaluating it with Dubai as we went. Have been LEGOLAND Dubai, the water park and Motiongate just about nearly as good as Warner Bros Studios, Yas Water Park and Ferrari World on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi?
No.
The Dubai Parks are a bit older so – typically for this space – they don’t have an important, quickest or most extreme tech rides.
At Motiongate a few of the rides and cafes had been shut and I noticed some transferring parts inside the tour-type rides had been broken.
A large bonus was that meals and drinks was cheaper in Dubai than inside the Yas parks.
We’d positively have in mind going to Motiongate as soon as extra if we had been once more in Dubai, whereas we’d not problem with LEGOLAND. Nevertheless quite a lot of that is to do with the age of our kids.
Actions on the resort
Our early breakfast routine meant we, I indicate the youngsters and AFOL, acquired to play with LEGO inside the resort lobby. For those who occur to’ve stayed at a LEGOLAND Lodge elsewhere you’ll be acquainted with the LEGO pit inside the lobby house the place you’ll go freestyle alongside along with your creations.
We moreover spent quite a lot of time proper right here on the end of our days. I’m uncertain who beloved that the majority.
On the Dubai resort there’s moreover an enormous fort play physique inside the lobby and rooms the place you’ll e e-book a inventive workshop for you and your little ones.
The lively leisure workers had been moreover on the go inside the afternoon and evenings, having fun with video video games with anyone who nonetheless had vitality after a full on day on the parks. They seen us inside the Skyline Bar one night time and roped inside the women for a sport of charades whereas Mr Tin Discipline and I beloved a beer.
All this provides the resort additional of a resort actually really feel, so even in case you aren’t going to the parks you already know the youngsters will possible be entertained.
The pool at LEGOLAND Dubai Lodge
The pool is small and shallow with a roped off toddler house and big LEGO bricks you’ll play with inside the water. There’s moreover a splash park with water jets.
There are a few cabanas and a restricted number of photo voltaic loungers which you will seize on a first-come-first-served basis. There’s moreover a small bar selling drinks and snacks.
For those who occur to return to this resort to relax by the pool I really feel you’d be upset. It was busy and discovering someplace to sit was troublesome. Nevertheless with the LEGOLAND Water Park solely a short stroll away they don’t really need to advertise this house.
Tip: in case you might be in your answer to the water park the resort pool is the place you resolve up your towels. In every other case you’ll need to lease one on the water park.
How prolonged do it is important to maintain at LEGOLAND Dubai Lodge?
We initially booked 4 nights pondering that we’d desire a full day at each of the theme parks and the LEGOLAND Waterpark.
Nonetheless, after speaking to buddies who had already been, they persuaded us that we’d do the LEGOLAND theme park and waterpark in sometime.
And our experience was this was merely doable.
There have been just a few queues for any of the sights although it was Europe’s Easter college holidays. Nonetheless, the reality that Eid was moreover creating meant that quite a lot of locals had been travelling. So I don’t know if Dubai Parks and Resorts are on a regular basis as quiet as they’d been for us.
Anyway, we had been very glad we modified our reserving to three nights. It’s going to have been troublesome to entertain our 11 and eight-year-olds in LEGOLAND for longer than three hours, so a go to to the water park inside the afternoon made for a pleasurable day.
We might have favored the second full day for Motiongate, which had rather more for our women to do.
If in case you will have youthful children you then definately could have to take points at a slower tempo. Three nights could be splendid for doing two of the Dubai Parks and Resorts theme parks, nonetheless for 3 parks you could want so as to add a night.
The place is LEGOLAND Lodge in Dubai?
LEGOLAND Dubai Parks and Resorts is a 45 minute drive alongside the coast south west from Dubai Worldwide Airport, so that you’re pretty a distance from Dubai’s principal sights similar to the Burj Khalifa.
For those who want to see this and Downtown Dubai we’d recommend relocating. We did exactly this and stayed on the QE2 Lodge for the second half of our Dubai metropolis break.
Summing up our LEGOLAND Dubai Lodge analysis
For non-AFOLs, overlook about all the LEGO stuff, it’s a good family resort. The rooms are genuinely designed for households and supplies home for every adults and children to relax after busy days.
The leisure workers had been really enthusiastic and we really rated the breakfast buffet. The al a carte prices had been a bit lots, nonetheless as I mentioned earlier you could possibly have completely different decisions shut by.
By means of the position, the resort is the correct place to stay for the theme parks – you can’t get any nearer which takes all the faff out of the beginning of the day and getting once more to the resort when you’re all understanding of steam.
The combined resort and theme park provides are good value in case you plan to do a few park. And with entry to Motiongate included inside the provides you don’t have to overload on LEGO all the time.
For LEGO followers, the theming is admittedly spectacular and makes this a further specific place to trip.
So, you don’t ought to be a LEGO fanatic to stay on the LEGOLAND Dubai Lodge. Nevertheless in case you do have a fan in your family members you’ll make their yr by reserving.
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