Legoland Day 2

Woke up at 8am next morning to prepare to go breakie and then slowly pack and check out since the park will only opens at 10am, we have some time to slowly eat.

The lift at the hotel was very cool. It will transform into a disco once the door closes. Complete with techno music and disco changing lights. The parents were very entertained by it unlike the kids.

This is the only place where we were told to put on our masks before entering and since we didnt bring ours down, they gave us disposable ones on the spot. Staff were very polite when requesting.

The buffet were quite child friendly. Having colourful plates/cutlery helps to make children feel more excited in using them to get their own food.

There were plenty of bread/danish to choose from for the kids. Japanese porridge and side dishes and western choices like eggs, ham ,sausage for adults.

I think this is made specially for kids since it's placed on much lower counter top and Dinos took their time to choose what they want from here.

There's also a stand at the juice counter where kids can choose andge their own drinks.

There's also a small playground right outside the restaurant and Dinos spent some time here while I went up to finish up packing. 

We left our luggage with the concierge while we go back to Legoland for another day of fun.

There's also a small Legoshop here that sells limited stuff and have limited opening time if you want do last minute shopping.

We were shocked to see the Saturday crowd as we stepped out of the hotel. Unlike the emptiness yesterday, it was crazily crowded. All the ticket counters were open unlike yesterday where only 1 or 2 is  in service. And we braced ourselves for the long queue time ahead.

Thankfully we covered half the park yesterday and had to concentrate on the other half today.

But the thing is this other half of the park is more interesting in my opinion. Haha.

We should have played from the most inner area out but I didnt do any homework at all. 

 We went straight for here after entering the park, this is considered located in the middle area and had 1 of the most interesting rides.

Because most of the people are still struck at the front part, the queue if relatively short as of now.

Dinos wanted to try the pirate ship and I had a phobia of it.

 But thinking that it should be a kiddy ride since the rides here are catered more to younger children, I decided to go up with them. 

Can still smile so happily during waiting.

Its later while on the ride that I know it turns 360 around!

As we were the 1st batch, I didn't get to watch how the ride moves and got on happily.

I think my face turned 2 shades whiter by the end of the ride and I shouted the loudest while on it.

My stomach was churning so badly that the breakfast was threatening to come out soon. 

Had to get some candies from dinos to munch on.

Next we went on this ride where we got on a boat that will travel around a stream of water and on it are water guns that you can use to shoot at the various lego build ups around the waterway or at other boats or at the outside park goers.

Similarly there are water guns placed outside for other park goers to shoot at the passing boats. 

Sun was shining so brightly that it was hot to be in outdoors. We ditched our outer wear here the whole time and was even sweating a bit even though the air was cooling.

Staff will do a simple wipe down everytime passengers disembarked but the seats will still be a bit wet from all the water shooting.

The best we could manage for a group shot.

Went into Ninjago area but none of the rides interest Dinos. Took photos and left for other areas.

They did play awhile at this interactive wall since there was no queue. 

This ride will required you to peddal your way up. I was sitting with SD and similar to me, he got freaked out when we got too high and will request me to make the ride come down. 

BD on the other hand can be heard requesting his dad to keep at the highest level througout the ride.

Dinos wanted to try roller coaster next and we mistakenly went to the kiddos' version - Dragon's Apprentice.

Mr Love and I was still wondering why the roller coaster here is so unexciting. The speed is slower, the slopes are milder and also it goes for 2 short rounds for each trip.

It's much later then we realised there's another more exciting one beside this ride.

The Dragon is the more exciting roller coaster but it is still within children's acceptance limit as Dinos both like the ride alot.

There's a gift shop outside the ride and Dinos spent sometime there checking and playing with the merchandise.

A kind Japanese man offered to help us take group photo when he saw us struggling to get a decent welfie.

We were hungry by the time we came out of the gift shop and went check out the restaurant here.

But there's nothing that caught Mr Love's eyes and also the price is on the high side here.

So we decided to move to the next area to check out what is available. 

If all else failed, we will walked back to the entrance because I've seen a fried chicken joint there and initally planned to take lunch there today.

But the walk out and later back again is gonna cost us some time.

Each set meal here costs 20 over SGD and we weren't even interested in getting rice for lunch today.

Legoland Hotel/ Dinner @Nagoya station

Went back to the hotel to put on our coats 1st before making our way to Nagoya station for dinner.

Staff had already placed our luggage back into our room.

We were assigned to 5th level because I've opted for the adventure theme room. Not that we have much choice though as other theme were either sold out or price higher. 

Upon entering, there's a partition where a bunk bed is located. There is a small light at the sides of the bed for children to use at night. 

Dinos didn't on it during bedtime though as it was too bright, I dimmed the hallway lights and it was just nice for them to fall asleep. 

They also placed a air purifier here.

There's a treasure box here where you need to solve a puzzle to unlock the number lock to get the prized inside. I didn't managed to unlock though. But the cleaning staff took it out and placed it with our lost items and passed to us when we went back to retrieve. Thankfully or not, SD left his camera behind and I went back prior to leaving Nagoya and got the freebies. 

A tv for the children but we didnt use it since Dinos played with their toys for a while and turn in for the night. 

Adullt's room. A queen bed.

Initally my mummy had wanted to join us on this trip and I tried checking if a roll out bed can be added at the bunk bed side but nope, it's  not possible.

So if the occupants are more than 4, you will have to book 2 rooms.

Hallway joining the 2 partitions. 

There's an open closet beside this cabinet where we can hang our clothes and as like all other Japan hotels, there isn't much space for you to open up your luggage. This room is however bigger than average already where I can keep 1 luggage open by the side of the window.

I kept  1 of the luggage open right by the end of the wall in this photo.

There's also a TV here for the adults and most of the channel is in Japanese. The table is useful though for our nightly snacks. Haha

Toilet is small but well equipped.

I realised most Japanese hotels/ airbnb  have bathtub. Dinos are so excited to see 1 but were disappointed when we didn't allowed them to soak long because of the cold weather.

Another thing they were impressed with is the toilet bowl of Japan when they realised the seats are heated and it feels great to sit on it during this cold weather. We 

Took the train back to Nagoya station where we walked around to search for this fried chicken wings joint(Yamachan) that I was planning  to get our dinner from.

I've read that this is 1 of the more famous fried chicken in Nagoya and thought that Mr Love would love to give it a try.

It's not far from the entrance of the Aonami line at Nagoya station, but it can be easily missed as it was located at 2nd floor of a building.

When we got there,  the restuarant is already full and had a long waiting list and we did not make any reservations.

We were told that waiting time is up to 90min and Mr Love did  not want to order take away back to our accomodation as the chicken might turned soggy already from the long ride back.

Well, better luck next time though.

Walked back to Nagoya station to try find other options because we were all famished. Friday crowd was crazy and every other restuarant had a long queue. 

There were bento shops in the station but we had no where to sit and eat. Eating while walking/standing is frown upon  in Japan and we did not dare to risk it. 

Dunno what striked me but I randomly took a stairs down in the middle of the station to explore if there's anything to offer and chanced upon a ramen street. 

On top of it, it's pretty empty too. Jackpot! I was so relieve to see a few shops inside that we can sit down to eat. 

And this is the 1st shop that greeted us when we entered the street. 

Just an hour ago, Mr Love was just asking if I intended to have Ippudo in Japan because he had remembered me gushing about how delicious it is when I 1st had it 18years ago when I visited Japan.

I know this is just a very normal  ramen but when I 1st had this, we queued for 45min out in the cold and when I took the 1st sip of the soup, I was blown away  by how tasty it is.

When  they 1st opened up a branch in SG, I excitedly brought Mr Love to try only to be disappoint by the taste haha.

Price list. Costs  half of what it is in SG.

The shop is catered more to couple or single diners, having a board in between the seats or counter top  for privacy. It took a while for them to arrange seats for us at the counter.

Ordered 3 of the same. White ramen.

Frankly speaking, I cannot remembered the taste already but this sure tastes good. Not sure if it is because we were all cold and hungry already.

Even Mr Love and Dinos enjoyed it and are devouring it in record speed.

All the Japan entries we been too are quite child friendly. i.e. they all readily provide children's utensils upon seated.

The irony is, we have never met any Japanese children having their meal in any of the eateries we have been to.

Ordered a side dish to share and  it was yummy!

The total bill came up to be below  JPY4000 and we were satisfied with the meal and price.

We then went up to the bento shop to buy their chicken wings for supper and also brought snacks and drinks from the convenience store before going back.

  1thing to note is that there isnt any convenience store around Legoland, not as far as we can see though since we didn't  venture  far from the hotel too.

Legoland Japan Day 1

We decided to splurge a bit more on this trip and went to book a night with Legoland Japan hotel which will gives us 2 days pass into the park and Nagoya Sea life for 2 adults and 2 children. Price on website for Friday entry (off peak) is JPY 4,800 for adults and JPY 3,500 for child. A peak ticket for Saturday would cost JPY 6,400 fot adult and JPY 4,100 for child which works out to be JPY 37,600 so essentially the room is around SGD 200++ which is quite reasonable and besides it comes with breakfast which is what Mr Love likes. 

                                                          We were surprised how empty it is on a Friday and there was literally no queue at all at every ride.

The day was pretty hot and sunny though and we had to go back to the hotel to drop our coats because it got too hot and we got tired of holding and walking around with it.

                                                                                                            Big ass dinosaur at the entrance

1st ride we took is the carousel. For some reason, Dinos still love taking this ride even though they are 7. I thought they might outgrow this ride by this age but i was wrong haha. And they loved choosing the character to ride on too.

                                                                                                                          BD on a motor bike

                                                                                                         SD on a tiger, I presumed

There are quite a lot of Lego installations around the park and Dinos wanted to take photo with each and every one of them.

 A very big ass one

This is quite a intersting one, at least to me cause there's music coming out of it and we are not able to figure out where it came from.

There's a Ninjago show here which I thought Dinos would be happy to watch . But when they learnt that it will be in Japanese, tey didn't want to go for the show already. Tried explaining to them that we can just watch the moves and figures but they still don't want. Oh well.

BD saw this ride in Adventure area and made a beeline for it. It's the only ride that we need queue, cause each ride can take 10 pax only and only 1 side of the ride is in operation. 

It's called the S.Q.U.I.D Surfer where a  boat will have 2 pax standing on it while it go around in circles. There are water sprays located at the perimeter of this ride and other park goers can spray water at the riders. You will confirm get wet for this ride even no 1 sprays from outside because while spinning ,water will get into the boat too.

Dinos enjoyed it so much that we took a 2nd time.

It was pretty sunny by the time we exit the ride and Mr Love suggest to go back to the hotel to deposit our coats instead of carrying them around.

We passed by Miniland and spent quite some time admiring the mini figurines but didn't take any photos cause I thought we will get a chance to come back later or tomorrow but we didn't as was too caught up with the other rides. 

The displays here are all the major Japan landmarks unlike the Malaysian version which features world famous buildings.

Upon re-entry to the park, we decided to go on Observation tower to see the whole park. We were pretty amazed to realise the park is so big and there are quite a few other areas that we have not explored. I was still quite skeptical on how are we going to spend 2 days here but right now , I think a 2 days ticket is really necessary. 

We also want a picture with this muscial fountain.

Dinos always like to go on this kind of spinning rides but I really cannot take this kind of rides. So usually Papa has to take them solo on this kind of ride. 

I always stand outside the  ride to help take photos of them on the ride. 

Next ride we went to is the Cat Cloud Busters. We were all given gloves to wear and is seated 2 by 2. We  were to pull ourseleves up by a rope to race to the top. I sat with SD and he was quite afraid of the height. So I usually pulled up to half way and then lowered down so as not to scare him.

We then went to this submarine adventure which we dunno what is inside but I'm curious to check it out.

It turns out to be an interesting ride.

We get to ride in a submaine capsule to explore the underwater.

A capsule is able to take in 8 pax I think  but since there is not much of a crowd,  we had a capsule to ourselves.

There are marine fishes and also some Lego installations on the ocean floor and Dinos were excited to be taking a "submarine".

There's also a mini aquarium after disembarking from the ride and Dinos spent sometime admiring the small fishes.

Dinos went up this ride - Bettle Bounced by themselves while we stood outside and watch.

Height was  5m above ground and thankfully Dinos were not too afraid and enjoyed the ride alot.

We then went to Lost Kingdom adventure where we took a ride through the ancient ruins with a laser gun in hand to earn points through shooting the villans.

The ride was very fun but  we did not managed to take any photos as it was very dark inside. 

There's a playpit outside the ride and Dinos got memerised by it and started playing happily.

There's  also a playground named Pharaoh's Revenge and Dinos again spent sometime playing there again.

By the time we moved  out from here, it's already 4pm and while we walked around to see what else to play, we realised quite alot of rides are closed for the day. It's then we realised the park is closing soon and not  the stated time of 6pm.

Since we are getting worn out from not sleeping well from the flight, we decided to go check in and then go in search of dinner at Nagoya Station.