Splashing good fun at the new LEGOLAND Water Park!
We were lucky enough to score invites to the media preview of LEGOLAND Water Park in Malaysia last weekend.
Boasting more than 20 unique water-based rides and over 70 LEGO models, it is the largest LEGOLAND Water Park in the work and the first in Asia. It has big enough to have its own entrance separate from the main LEGOLAND theme park (otherwise known as the 'dry' park).
Sean has been bugging us to bring him back to Legoland since our visit last year so it was perfect timing.
It was scorching hot when we arrived at 11am. Sean and Ryan were besides themselves with excitement to see all the colourful structures and being welcomed by a walking Lego brick at the entrance!
As soon as we put on kid-sized life jackets for the boys, we dived right into the huge LEGO Wave Pool. The waves were quite mild here but we had to keep a close eye on Ry because he kept getting swept away/knocked over by the waves.
Enticed by the colourful swirling tubes and slides, Foops and Sean set off to try the bigger rides. There were rides where you could sit in a inflatable raft that could fit the whole family, slide 240 feet down in an enclosed tube or race down on body mats! I was quite impressed by how orderly and well-run everything was. The queues were long but they moved very quickly.
Alas, Sean narrowly missed the minimum height requirement of 1.02m for most of the big rides (Brick Blaster, Splash 'N' Swirl, Wave Ride, Tidal Tube, Red Rush, Splash Out, Twin Chasers, LEGO Slide Racers). Thankfully, he wasn't too upset about it!
On the other hand, I was quite sore I couldn't do any of the rides with my big belly - they looked like crazy fun!
In the end, we spent most of our time at the family-friendly Joker Soaker. I thought the interactive play structure reminded me of a much bigger and better version of Sentosa's Port of Lost Wonder. It was too bad I couldn't take a lot of pics here - there was water spraying everywhere and I feared for my camera!
Both boys had lots of fun here - they were happy just playing with the many water-spraying gizmos, waiting for the huge bucket to fill up with 350 gallons of water and tip over (this was mad fun), going up and down the small slides or simply wading in the refreshingly cool water.
Ry clung on to one of us most of the time chattering from the cold but we knew he was enjoying himself coz he kept nudging us to go this way and that and didn't want to leave.
Nearby, there was also a DUPLO Splash Safari with toddler-friendly slides and interactive larger-than-life DUPLO creatures and the Imagination Station where you could build Lego structures, spin them or spray water jets on them to test their robustness.
Later, we also tried out Build-A-Raft where we sat on a one or two-seater floats and floated leisurely down a river. The cool thing about this ride was you could grab as many Lego foam bricks as you can from the water and customise your own 'raft'!
I wasn't quite sure how I was going to fit into the float with a basketball belly and Ryan but the friendly LEGOLAND folks said 'no problem' and smoothly managed to wedge me into one of the floats. I just couldn't move much with Ry perched comfortably on me. HAHA!
We had a late lunch at Brick Bay Cafe. We were quite grumpy about having to queue for an impossibly long time under the hot midday sun. That's the only gripe we have of our entire visit so that's really something I hope they will improve on.
It was way past both the boys' naptime by then - they both dropped off to sleep soon after they finished their lunch.
It started pouring so we decided to call it a day. Wish we could have played for longer but at least, we got a good couple hours of fun!
We are already planning a return visit when the LEGOLAND Hotel opens in early 2014! Hopefully Sean would have grown up to the requisite 1.02m for most of the rides by then ;)
LEGOLAND Water Park opens to the public today (21 October 2013)! More details at their website. Definitely worth a full day visit for the family so go check it out!
Boasting more than 20 unique water-based rides and over 70 LEGO models, it is the largest LEGOLAND Water Park in the work and the first in Asia. It has big enough to have its own entrance separate from the main LEGOLAND theme park (otherwise known as the 'dry' park).
Sean has been bugging us to bring him back to Legoland since our visit last year so it was perfect timing.
It was scorching hot when we arrived at 11am. Sean and Ryan were besides themselves with excitement to see all the colourful structures and being welcomed by a walking Lego brick at the entrance!
As soon as we put on kid-sized life jackets for the boys, we dived right into the huge LEGO Wave Pool. The waves were quite mild here but we had to keep a close eye on Ry because he kept getting swept away/knocked over by the waves.
Enticed by the colourful swirling tubes and slides, Foops and Sean set off to try the bigger rides. There were rides where you could sit in a inflatable raft that could fit the whole family, slide 240 feet down in an enclosed tube or race down on body mats! I was quite impressed by how orderly and well-run everything was. The queues were long but they moved very quickly.
Alas, Sean narrowly missed the minimum height requirement of 1.02m for most of the big rides (Brick Blaster, Splash 'N' Swirl, Wave Ride, Tidal Tube, Red Rush, Splash Out, Twin Chasers, LEGO Slide Racers). Thankfully, he wasn't too upset about it!
On the other hand, I was quite sore I couldn't do any of the rides with my big belly - they looked like crazy fun!
In the end, we spent most of our time at the family-friendly Joker Soaker. I thought the interactive play structure reminded me of a much bigger and better version of Sentosa's Port of Lost Wonder. It was too bad I couldn't take a lot of pics here - there was water spraying everywhere and I feared for my camera!
Both boys had lots of fun here - they were happy just playing with the many water-spraying gizmos, waiting for the huge bucket to fill up with 350 gallons of water and tip over (this was mad fun), going up and down the small slides or simply wading in the refreshingly cool water.
Ry clung on to one of us most of the time chattering from the cold but we knew he was enjoying himself coz he kept nudging us to go this way and that and didn't want to leave.
Nearby, there was also a DUPLO Splash Safari with toddler-friendly slides and interactive larger-than-life DUPLO creatures and the Imagination Station where you could build Lego structures, spin them or spray water jets on them to test their robustness.
Later, we also tried out Build-A-Raft where we sat on a one or two-seater floats and floated leisurely down a river. The cool thing about this ride was you could grab as many Lego foam bricks as you can from the water and customise your own 'raft'!
I wasn't quite sure how I was going to fit into the float with a basketball belly and Ryan but the friendly LEGOLAND folks said 'no problem' and smoothly managed to wedge me into one of the floats. I just couldn't move much with Ry perched comfortably on me. HAHA!
We had a late lunch at Brick Bay Cafe. We were quite grumpy about having to queue for an impossibly long time under the hot midday sun. That's the only gripe we have of our entire visit so that's really something I hope they will improve on.
It was way past both the boys' naptime by then - they both dropped off to sleep soon after they finished their lunch.
It started pouring so we decided to call it a day. Wish we could have played for longer but at least, we got a good couple hours of fun!
We are already planning a return visit when the LEGOLAND Hotel opens in early 2014! Hopefully Sean would have grown up to the requisite 1.02m for most of the rides by then ;)
LEGOLAND Water Park opens to the public today (21 October 2013)! More details at their website. Definitely worth a full day visit for the family so go check it out!