Legoland Castle Hotel

The Legoland Castle Hotel is a child-friendly hotel that is ideal if you’re travelling with young children who want to visit Legoland. However, it is very expensive and a long way from the centre of Windsor and is certainly not suitable for adults without children.

This Lego-themed hotel really plays up the castle theme, but it is nothing like any castle you’ve ever visited primarily because the hotel is themed around what children think a castle represents. For children, castles apparently are all about wizards, dragons, owls, knights and princesses whereas in the real world you may find a princess in a castle if you’re lucky but certainly no wizards or dragons. The themed decor covers everything from bed linen and wall coverings to specially made furnishings and lots of Lego models. In fact, there are 657 Lego models (made up of over two million Lego bricks) located throughout the hotel including inside the guest rooms where you can find Lego cats and Lego owls. In the public areas of the hotel you can find larger Lego models including a knight on horseback outside the main entrance, a wizard in the reception area and a dragon and Lego stained-glass windows in the restaurant.

There are two different types of themed rooms at the hotel: knight-themed rooms and wizard-themed rooms. It can feel like staying in a children’s playground and, like the adjacent Legoland Resort Hotel, the room designs are really hideous, but kids will love it.

The hotel’s 61 guest rooms are mostly suites large enough to accommodate families with space for a double bed for the parents plus another area for up to three children with a single bed and a bunk bed and an en suite bathroom in between. In-room amenities include a desk (which is an ideal surface for building Lego models), a television (with access to a dedicated Lego channel), a Playstation, a sofa, tea and coffee making facilities and Lego-branded toiletries in the bathroom.

With all the Lego bricks in the room, be very careful if you need to get up late at night to walk barefoot to the bathroom.

The hotel caters well to disabled guests with wheelchair-accessible rooms on all levels.

The Tournament Tavern and Grill Restaurant are the hotel’s two in-house restaurants. The food is basic when compared to restaurants in other hotels in the same price range but the hotel is not trying to compete with the Ritz and it is focused solely on making kids happy and it does a great job at that.

Guests also have access to the Bricks restaurant and Skyline Bar in the Legoland Resort Hotel next door.

Other hotel facilities include a swimming pool, a gym (for adults) and lots of children’s activities.

The hotel is expensive, but room rates include breakfast, parking, Wi-Fi wireless internet access and entry to Legoland for the whole family on both the day you check in and the day you check out so you get two days entry to Legoland with a one night stay at the hotel.

If you’re travelling with children they would probably prefer this to Windsor’s other castle and while you may be paying off your credit card for the next few months to pay for your night here, it will be a knight to remember for your children.

The hotel is 4 km (2½ miles) from Windsor town centre, which is a 10-minute drive or a 15-minute bus trip. The hotel is very handy to Legoland; although it is a 10-minute walk to the main entrance of the theme park, there is a special park entrance where resort guests can walk straight from the hotel right into the park.

Courtney Buses route 600 runs a shuttle service between the Theatre Royal in Windsor and the Legoland main entrance, with a stop at the Legoland Resort Hotel (next door to the Legoland Castle Hotel), on weekends, bank holidays and every day on school holidays.

The hotel is a six-minute walk to the Legoland staff entrance, which has a bus stop where Greenline bus routes 702 and 703 run every half hour throughout the week. Both Greenline services connect Legoland with central Windsor and Slough and also go to Ascot, Bracknell and Langley. Route 702 also goes to Reading and Victoria Coach Station in central London and route 703 continues to Heathrow Airport Terminal 5. Between the two bus routes, Greenline provides a half-hourly service from Windsor and Slough to Legoland.