I went to the Lego ‘town’ in Europe with huge new attraction, tropical waterpark and no-queue theme park

IT’S 5pm on a Saturday evening – so of course I’m playing Lego with five other adults.

And we’re actually having fun as we build our imaginary creatures.

Experience the wonder of Lego House, Billund[/caption]

The Tree of Creativity[/caption]

Build your own Lego figures[/caption]

On a neighbouring table at Lego House in Billund, Denmark, sits my six-year-old son, who has decided that the bricks must be greener the further away he gets from me.

The room is practically silent, as grown-ups and children work side by side, contentedly tired after a whole day out at the Danish attraction.

Lego House shows visitors everything, from the history of the bricks and how they are made to the best way to build a racing car.

This month sees the introduction of the new Masters Academy — inspired by the global TV phenomenon Lego Masters — where visitors can learn to build like the pros in a studio environment.

Before we visited, I wondered if a whole day of Lego might be a bit boring, but I could not have been more wrong.

You are inspired to play at every turn, using your own imagination, and everywhere I looked, I could see grown-ups engaging with their inner child.

I stood for 25 minutes next to a 40-something Italian as we both built our best Lego flowers.

There was a 60-something German cheering as my Lego car made it through the hoop on the race track.

And a Danish mum passed me the mini Lego microphone I needed as we perfected our minifigures for a magazine cover photoshoot.

Of course, my son had a whale of a time, too.

He was transfixed by the Lego factory machinery that shows bricks being made in real-time.

And he adored making our own Lego short film as well as the zone where you build your own dancing creature that comes to life on a disco screen.

At lunchtime at the Mini Chef restaurant, we had to build our food order out of bricks. It was then delivered by two Lego robots.

Billund is the Danish town built from Lego.

In the local gastro pub, the flowers on the tables are made of it.

And a Lego statue greets you at airport baggage reclaim.

In fairness, Lego is the reason most of the two million visitors to the small outpost come each year.

Carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen launched Lego in the 1940s from his small business in the town, and many of the global company’s offices are still there.

But there are plenty of other act- ivities to turn the trip into a week-long break.

The tiny town, which has fewer than 8,000 residents, is a dream for a family trip because of how accessible everything is.

Downtown is ten minutes from the airport and almost everything you might want to visit is walkable from there.

There is also a free shuttle that takes you to all of Billund’s attractions, as well as the airport and several of the hotels.

Hit the road at the driving school[/caption]

A fearsome Lego dragon[/caption]

We used this to get to Wow Park (tickets from £26.50), a huge treetop adventure in woodland spanning the size of 40 football pitches.

Activities included bouncy treetop nets with giant inflatable balls, underground tunnels through the hillside, a terrifying 20-metre freefall slide and giant swings.

Lalandia, a holiday park around ten minutes walk from Legoland, is home to huge waterpark Aquadome.

Action-packed

The resort also features an indoor zipline, bowling alley, skating rink, soft play area, arcade, climbing wall and mini golf.

As non-guests, it costs £39 for the waterpark, which is on the steep side, but there is more than enough to do, with several hair-raising slides as well as some younger child-friendly ones, a lazy river, wave pool, large splash park, jacuzzis, sauna and cave lagoon.

We didn’t stay at Lalandia though, basing ourselves instead at the Legoland Hotel on the edge of the original Legoland theme park.

And from the moment we entered the lobby, there was something to interest my son at every turn.

As well as a huge troughs of bricks, there was a table where kids could expand on creations made by other guests, a wall of 1,000-plus mini-figures, a Lego shop and a tech zone with a TV playing Lego TV shows, alongside a bank of Playstation consoles.

There were yet more bricks inside our spacious, pirate-themed hotel room.

Guests also get early access to Legoland theme park, so can be front of the queue for big rides such as the interactive 3D Ninjago.

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

You have to book in for a slot, then your child gets half an hour to drive around, which felt very relaxed compared to the lengthy queues in England.

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

And it was so easy to take our suitcase from the hotel lobby two minutes’ walk away and hop on a free shuttle bus to the airport.

And that sums up Billund really — action-packed and mind-blowingly easy.

Find me a more perfect six words for a long weekend break with kids.