Legoland Windsor's new carbon neutral Woodland Village features cabins set around playgrounds, and could be described as "an ultra-nice Center Parcs". My children spent weeks excitedly planning our trip to Legoland - peppering conversation with dreams of rollercoasters, refillable slushies and arguments about who would build the fastest racing car. So why then, as we finally explored Miniland on a warm sunny day, did they beg to be somewhere else? "I want to go back to our Lego house," was the request of my five-year-old, who had just had his "best night ever" sleeping in a plastic brick cabin straight out of a storybook.
We'd been the lucky guests of Legoland's new Woodland village , days after it opened in late May. The £35million resort is composed of 130 lodges and 20 glamping barrels all leading off a meandering path set around a fenced off lake looping to and from central Clubhouse. Each cabin is designed to look as if it were made of Lego, with the carbon neutral resort proudly boasting a back to nature theme.
While the wildlife is in the main plastic - it is built from thousands of tiny bricks after all - it is undeniably charming, and as we walked to our cabin the air rang out with cries of delight as my kids ran ahead to find each new design, from brightly coloured ladybirds on a plastic log, to a charming family of badgers. Despite the dozens of cabins, the resort feels smaller thanks to their arrangement in small horseshoe shaped groups around multiple individual.
