Jperiod
I am the rebel spy!
- Joined
- May 20, 2008
I seriously feel completely ridiculous asking this but I have no real life friends that would understand such a conundrum. Please help me decide!
Me and the 2 kids, DS12 and DD6, will be spending 4 weeks around carlsbad mid July-mid August. Two of those weeks will be at Grand Pacific Palisades across the street from Legoland. We have DLR APs and plan to drive up maybe once or twice a week. We'll hang out at a beach non-DLR days, but still have to drive to those as well.
I took DS12 to LL last when he was 8 and swore I wouldn't go back. But he LOVED it. We only went on 1 ride. All he wanted to do was play with legos. Even at 12, he still does legos and says he'd like to go back. We have a Lego Discovery Center here and he loves going, spending all day there.
DD6 hasn't been but she LOVES Lego friends and the discovery center here. She's the prime age and prefers mellow rides.
Costco has a $99 AP that includes the waterpark too. No parking or food discounts though. I could get a standard merlin AP for me at 199 and that includes parking, discounts, and admission to the discovery center here ($11 each time I go about 4 times a year). If I buy these this spring, I'd need to go to LL and activate them soon. We're going back to DLR in March and could swing by, but I'm not thrilled about a detour. I'm not sure if there will be any other cheap ticket or AP deals by summer.
We've never been to the waterpark there and that's a big appeal to me (my kids love those). Is there a separate entrance to it or do you have to walk all through the park? We've been to the sealife aquarium here and it's kinda lame. My kids would probably only run through it once. I've only gone to LL during the offseason, so I'm concerned about dealing with crowds.
Should I get us APs? Should I just get some of the BOGO tickets and just go 1 day? I don't think I'd even consider going if we were spending 2 weeks across the street and seeing it every day. I imagine my kids are gonna beg me to go at least once. But between DLR and the beach, I wonder if LL APs would be a waste and too much.
Me and the 2 kids, DS12 and DD6, will be spending 4 weeks around carlsbad mid July-mid August. Two of those weeks will be at Grand Pacific Palisades across the street from Legoland. We have DLR APs and plan to drive up maybe once or twice a week. We'll hang out at a beach non-DLR days, but still have to drive to those as well.
I took DS12 to LL last when he was 8 and swore I wouldn't go back. But he LOVED it. We only went on 1 ride. All he wanted to do was play with legos. Even at 12, he still does legos and says he'd like to go back. We have a Lego Discovery Center here and he loves going, spending all day there.
DD6 hasn't been but she LOVES Lego friends and the discovery center here. She's the prime age and prefers mellow rides.
Costco has a $99 AP that includes the waterpark too. No parking or food discounts though. I could get a standard merlin AP for me at 199 and that includes parking, discounts, and admission to the discovery center here ($11 each time I go about 4 times a year). If I buy these this spring, I'd need to go to LL and activate them soon. We're going back to DLR in March and could swing by, but I'm not thrilled about a detour. I'm not sure if there will be any other cheap ticket or AP deals by summer.
We've never been to the waterpark there and that's a big appeal to me (my kids love those). Is there a separate entrance to it or do you have to walk all through the park? We've been to the sealife aquarium here and it's kinda lame. My kids would probably only run through it once. I've only gone to LL during the offseason, so I'm concerned about dealing with crowds.
Should I get us APs? Should I just get some of the BOGO tickets and just go 1 day? I don't think I'd even consider going if we were spending 2 weeks across the street and seeing it every day. I imagine my kids are gonna beg me to go at least once. But between DLR and the beach, I wonder if LL APs would be a waste and too much.