Lego House opens Academy of Masters: how they teach to build like a pro.

According to The Sun: It's Saturday evening, the fifth, and I'm playing Lego with five other adults.

We're having a great time creating our imaginary creatures.

At the next table in Lego House in Billund, Denmark, sits my six-year-old son. He decided that the bricks should be greener the further away he is from me.

The room is quiet, adults and children are working side by side, pleasantly tired after a whole day spent at the Danish attraction.

Lego House offers visitors everything from the history of the bricks to the best methods for building racing cars.

New Learning Opportunities

This month, a new Master Academy has been launched – inspired by the global television phenomenon Lego Masters – where visitors can learn to build like professionals in a studio environment.

Before the visit, I doubted whether a whole day of Lego could be boring, but I was wrong.

You become inspired to play at every turn, using your own imagination. Everywhere I saw adults discovering their inner children.

I stood for 25 minutes next to an Italian trying to build the best Lego flowers.

A 60-year-old German cheered me on when my Lego car passed through the hoop on the racetrack.

A Danish mother handed me a mini Lego microphone essential for enhancing our minifigures for a photo shoot.

Of course, my son had a huge amount of fun as well.

He was thrilled with the machines at the Lego factory that showed how bricks are made in real-time.

He loved creating a short Lego film, as well as in the area where you can build your own dancing creature that comes alive on the disco screen.

At lunch in the Mini Chef restaurant, we had to assemble our order from bricks. Later, two Lego robots delivered our food.

Billund is a Danish town built from Lego.

In the local gastropub, the flowers on the tables are made of this material.

And upon returning luggage at the airport, you are greeted by a Lego statue.

Lego is the reason most of the two million visitors come here each year.

Lego creator Ole Kirk Christiansen started his business in the 1940s in Billund, and many offices of the global company are still located here.

Alternatives for Active Recreation

But there are many other activities to turn the trip into a week-long vacation.

This small town, with less than 8000 residents, is ideal for a family trip due to its convenience.

The town center is just ten minutes from the airport, and most attractions are accessible on foot.

A free shuttle is also offered, providing transfers to all attractions in Billund, as well as to the airport and several hotels.

We took the shuttle to Wow Park (tickets from £26.50), a massive adventure park the size of 40 football fields.

Among the attractions were inflatable balls in a bouncy net in the trees, underground tunnels through hills, a terrifying 20-meter drop, and large swings.

Lalandia, a resort about a ten-minute walk from Legoland, has a large water park Aquadome.

Active Rest at Lalandia

The resort also offers an indoor zip line, bowling, an ice rink, a soft play area, arcade, climbing wall, and mini-golf.

For non-guests, entry to the water park is £39, and while it is a bit pricey, there are plenty of attractions – with several impressive slides and areas suitable for small children, a lazy river, wave pool, large splash park, jacuzzi, sauna, and cave lagoon.

We didn't stay at Lalandia but settled in the Legoland hotel located at the edge of the original amusement park.

From the moment we entered the lobby, there was plenty to entertain my son at every step.

Besides huge tubs of bricks, there was a table where kids could continue projects started by other visitors, a wall with over 1000 minifigures, a Lego shop, and a technical area with a TV showing Lego shows, as well as a PlayStation console.

In our spacious pirate-themed room, there were also plenty of bricks.

Guests have early access to the Legoland amusement park, so they can avoid lines for popular attractions, such as the interactive 3D Ninjago.

As a big fan of the Legoland Windsor driving school attraction, I was impressed by the Danish version.

You need to pre-book a spot, and then your child gets 30 minutes to drive, which was very relaxing compared to the long lines in England.

At the end of our day in the amusement park, we had a flight back to London.

It was very convenient to grab our suitcase from the hotel lobby, which is just a two-minute walk away, and take the free bus to the airport.

Billund embodies an eventful and extremely convenient place for family vacations, which only reaffirms the town's reputation as a popular tourist destination.