Now you no longer just visit fantasyland, you live in it. LEGOLAND California has two hotels right outside the Carlsbad theme park entrance—each with their own colorful themes, restaurants, pools, and playful features—from a disco elevator to a slide right in the lobby.
Both properties are designed with traveling families in mind. The hotels’ junior-suite-style rooms—emblazoned with colorful walls and LEGO models as art—have separate sleeping areas for grown-ups and kids. The kids’ quarters have bunk beds, their own TV, and a LEGO brick box for impromptu building. Both lobbies feature giant mosh pits full of plastic bricks, so kids can build away while grown-ups check in. Plus, all hotel guests enjoy both complimentary breakfast buffets and early entry into the park (up to an hour, depending on the season). Just choose your hotel based on the theme and get ready for fun.
Staying at the LEGOLAND Hotel
The original, 250-room LEGOLAND Hotel offers five room themes: pirates, adventurers, LEGO friends, Ninjago warriors, and DUPLO. Each room type offers various configurations—rooms or suites furnished with a combination of queen beds plus bunk beds or trundles—and all come with LEGO building areas; the DUPLO rooms feature extra-large bricks for the littlest LEGO fans.
The hotel’s public spaces, meanwhile, feature larger-than-life LEGO sculptures made with more than 3 million bricks. Industrial-strength glue holds the sculptures together, so go ahead and touch.
Head into the Bricks Family Restaurant for its breakfast buffet or dinner (lots of pasta, salads, steak, and kids’ meals) and its neighboring Skyline Bar; check out the mini cityscape that has Spider-Man scaling a building and a wizard reading a book by a rooftop pool. Outside, there’s a real pool, too, with soft LEGO bricks that can be used to build in the water. Don’t miss the hotel’s disco-themed elevator, which is nearly a ride in itself.
Staying at the LEGOLAND Castle Hotel
The LEGOLAND Castle Hotel offers 250 rooms in three kingdom-oriented themes: wizards, knights, and princesses, with LEGO art ranging from owls to cats to fire-breathing dragons, and tiny star lights embedded in the ceiling over the kids’ bunk beds. The Castle’s lobby offers its own diversions, from the slide that runs parallel to a flight of stairs, a Knock Knock Door that tells jokes, and a small “dungeon” ready for photo ops.
Its courtyard area has its own pool, a LEGO-stocked playground, and a big screen TV set on a small lawn, playing LEGO movies daily. You can also eat and relax at the seasonal Castle Pool Bar & Grille.
Inside, the hotel’s Dragon’s Den restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner—think burgers, flatbreads and pasta—and offers both a parent-friendly bar and live entertainment (jesters who take requests when you spin the wheel on the wall). Note that the breakfast buffet here is exactly the same as the one at the LEGOLAND Hotel.
Booking Your Stay
Check out LEGOLAND California’s vacation packages page when booking your trip: Choose from the latest deals that offer, say, discounts on park admission, lower hotel rates, or a combination of both.
With either hotel, remind your kids to pack their LEGO Minifigures, which they can trade with staffers at the hotels or in the park.