Legoland Hotel

We finally got the opportunity to truly surprise the boys! We packed, woke up in the middle of the night, hopped in the car, drove 7 hours all without them knowing where to! They even got to unwrap clues every hour of the trip (when they were awake) and still didn't figure it out

but we were Legoland bound! The military tickets are buy a discounted day and get a day free so it worked out pretty well to go down and spend a full day at the park, then a 2nd day doing the park in the morning and their water park in the afternoon. We also got a great military deal at the unique and amazing Legoland Hotel (aka little boy paradise)!

While they were a little disappointed the the hotel walls were not actually made of Legos, I can tell you that the hotel has thought of EVERYTHING! Huge, intricate and beautiful Lego figures everywhere you turn. Details everywhere that focus on kids (built in toddler toilet seats, stepstools for the sink, even child sized peep holes in the door) My favorite detail was the pint sized buffet line at the restaurant- for both the complimentary breakfast and the dinner buffets there was a shorter buffet line just for kids that had all kid favorites, while the taller lines offered more adult offerings. The kids ate some things from the "adult" lines and Geoff and I enjoyed the heck out of things from the "kid" line but it was amazing just to give them a plate and let them go at it! They felt so independent!

Pictured here are one of the dozens of lego pits that the kids could play in and build with while parents were doing the boring stuff like checking in or waiting in line for tables...

While the first floor is just general Lego and Lego Movie fun, each of the 3 floors of rooms are themed to the extreme! First floor was "kingdom" where Knights Jesters Kings and Queens abound. The second floor was "pirate" and the third floor (our floor) was "adventure"; an Indiana Jones goes to ancient Egypt feel!

We were hooked at first activity when the boys had to go on a scavenger hunt throughout the hotel to collect clues that would tell them the combination to the treasure chest in our room. When they got it open they found packs of mini figures for each of them to keep along with a massive box of legos for them to create with in the room. 

Add to all of this the fact that the kids had their very own side room with bunk beds and a TV that only got kids channels- it was indeed a kids paradise!