Posted By Robin Hull on Sep 23, 2025 | 1 comment

Since budget carrier Ryanair decided to no longer fly the UK – Billund route, getting to the Home of the Brick has become a bit trickier and expensive! Especially when taking a day trip, as many AFOLs have done in the past. Without that London Stansted early morning out and late night return flight, the opportunity to spend half a day indulging in all things LEGO has not been an option for UK-based fans. The only direct flights are operated by British Airways (BA) and Norwegian.

BA currently departs London Heathrow at 13:35, arriving in Billund at 16:15, with the return flight at 19:10. This option gives you less than three hours of shopping. Of course, if you’re planning on staying overnight or even longer, the flight times are reasonable. But, you’ve then got to factor in the cost of overnight accommodation. Norwegian flies direct from London Gatwick. But, as with British Airways, there is no opportunity for a long day trip. Their service gives you less than an hour and arrives after much of Billund has closed for the evening. As with BA, longer stays are feasible.

If you are an adventurer, there’s also the rail option. Europe rewards the ambitious traveller with ample opportunities to travel from almost any station to almost any station throughout mainland Europe. Most routes will require multiple changes, but it is doable!

Our trip

Our journey to LEGO House was always going to be a side trip. We had initially planned to stay with our family, just north of Hannover, Germany, for two weeks. We had also considered taking a trip to Legoland Deutschland. Unfortunately, even utilising the Autobahn (A7), it’s still around a 7-hour journey (with stops) and 356 miles away

We can hear our American friends shouting, “Hey, I drive that far for a burger and groceries!”. Well, with a very lively 5-year-old… we didn’t think we’d survive! So plans were made. B&B accommodation was booked at Hannah’s in nearby Grindsted, and we awaited our trip. We spent 5 days with our family before setting off. Our hire car sat nav and our iPhones had told us that the journey time to Jutland was around 5 hours, via Hamburg, on autobahn A7, then route E45 once we crossed into Denmark.

We made good time, much of the autobahn north has extensive stretches with no upper speed limit. And our AVIS hire car happily transported us at a comfortable 150 kph (93 mph). Robin feels that he is a confident and experienced driver, having held a UK licence for over 30 years. But even he was shocked at being overtaken at those speeds.

All was well until about 30 miles south of Hamburg when we hit almost standstill traffic. We crawled for almost 90 minutes until three lanes converged into one. The reason. Two men are digging up a patch of the autobahn. It reminded us of the London orbital motorway, the dismal M25! Once we cleared the roadworks, we eventually hit more very slow-moving traffic at the Elbe Tunnel, which runs under Hamburg. By now, our 5-hour trip was looking more like 7 hours and maybe more?

Just after Hamburg, we stopped for fuel. Both for the car and us. E10 petrol is normally around 1.70 € per litre. On the autobahn, it can be well over 2.35 €. The three portions of pommes (chips) cost us a whopping 16 Euros! We carried on driving. The miles were disappearing fast as we headed closer towards Denmark. Crossing the border into Denmark is very easy. Cars and trucks pass without stopping, although there are facilities in place to do full passport and customs checks if required. Motorways have an upper limit of 130kph, and minor roads are a lot less.

As we drove up through Jutland, the scenery changed to a flatter landscape. And, after 7 hours, we were finally at our destination. The delightful Hannah’s B&B in Grindsted. The next town west of Billund.

LEGO House

There’s street parking in Billund itself, but this is usually restricted to a maximum of 2 hours. There is a free car park at Granvej 9, which is about a 15-minute walk away. Alternatively, there’s a multi-storey car park for visitors to LEGO House at Hovedgaden 24. The first hour is free. Then it’s 20DKK per hour thereafter. If you plan on staying all day, which we think most people would, then you are looking at about 160DKK or around £20. On this occasion, LEGO House were incredibly generous and covered the parking fee for our car.

Wherever you park, you can’t fail to see the LEGO House as it’s built right in the centre of Billund! The building does indeed look like a pile of 21 white 2×4 LEGO bricks stacked together to form The “Home of the Brick”. As you arrive outside, there are soft, colourful steps to sit or play on. And these steps also take you to several of the open terraces. You will also see 3 giant LEGO bricks by the main entrance. Despite signage telling you not to, many visitors climb on the bricks for a photo opportunity

There are several revolving doors which, once negotiated, take visitors into the enormous LEGO Square. Here you’ll find the LEGO Shop, the Brickacinno coffee shop, lockers, toilets and, of course, the ticket machines and information desk. There are always lots of light blue-shirted staff members to ask for help and, oh boy, are they helpful!

At the time of our visit, a new attraction, The LEGO Masters Academy, was receiving its finishing touches. Stay tuned to BricksFanz for all the news about this new addition to LEGO House.

If you have mobility issues, there are doors with special access for wheelchair users. In fact, the entirety of LEGO House is accessible. There are lifts which take you to all floors. If you wish to access the top brick, check with a member of staff, as they will need to help you use the wheelchair stairlift.

Tickets

LEGO House highly recommend that you book your tickets in advance. In the holiday periods, visitor numbers are very high. Once you select your date, you will need to select your time of arrival. Please remember, you will not be able to access the paid-for areas until your selected time. We witnessed several visitors being told that they would have to wait. This can be frustrating if you’ve travelled with children. Late Arrival tickets are usually available on the day, and these reduced-price tickets allow visitors access for the last 3-4 hours each day.

Once you collect your wristband, which not only gains you access to the various paid-for zones, it also acts as your personal memory recorder. By placing the wristband against one of the many devices around the building, you can capture a personalised memory of the activity you’ve just completed, such as making a minifigure or designing a mosaic!

Mini Chef

As previously mentioned. We highly recommend booking Mini Chef at the same time as booking your tickets. If you just want a snack, Brickaccino offers a delicious range of light bites and drinks! And, don’t forget, once you enter the paid-for zones in the LEGO House, you can come and go as you please. There are plenty of places to eat and drink just moments from the fun!

The Zones

LEGO House is all about creativity. Having fun and indulging in your passion for all things LEGO.

We started our visit by taking the stairs that surround the impressive Tree of Creativity. A life-like, almost 16 metre tall tree built from over 6 million LEGO bricks. As you start your journey, you’ll see “carved” into the trunk several references to the founder of LEGO, his son, grandson and great-grandson. Then, as you climb, you’ll see the lush branches are stacked full of iconic LEGO themes and builds. At the very top of the tree, you’ll see that the tree is actually a building site and that it is constantly evolving and developing and that your journey hasn’t ended, it’s just begun!

We went straight to the Masterpiece Gallery, where, each year, talented LEGO fan designers are invited to display their creations! The builds will both delight and inspire. What has been created using the humble LEGO brick is breathtaking! Also in the Masterpiece Gallery are the three huge dinosaurs. Each of the three beasts was created from System, DUPLO or Technic bricks and elements. And, they too evolve with the passage of time. From laying eggs to hatching baby dinos. They are so cute!

From the Masterpiece Gallery, you can decide to visit any of the zones in any order you choose.

The Red Zone contains a giant waterfall of LEGO bricks. And here you can unleash your creativity with the endless amounts of LEGO bricks for you to build with.

The Green Zone is where you can shoot a movie using LEGO bricks and Minifigures. You can also build any number of unique Minifigures and create your very own digital magazine cover. There are quite literally tens of thousands of Minifigure parts scattered in huge tubs from which you can build your hero!

The Yellow Zone continues the creativity. Here, you can build a unique fish or sea animal and release it into the digital aquarium and watch it come to life. Build a flower or a whole bunch and create your own LEGO character and watch it boogie on a digital dance stage!

The Blue Zone is where you can build a car and race it against friends or family on one of the test tracks. For budding coders, there’s a place to code your own beekeeping robot and collect honey. Or you can simply unleash your creativity!

The History Collection found in the basement will blow your mind. Not only does it contain many of the sets you had as a child, it also has a fabulous Fabuland display too! And, if you can’t find that set you always wanted, you can search the digital archive.

Some of the Outside Spaces are available to non-ticket holders. But there are also a number of other spaces only open to those with tickets. If the excitement of the LEGO House gets too much, then these unique play areas are great places to let off steam or to simply take in the views of Billund, the nearby LEGO Campus or even the rollercoaster at Legoland.

After a long day of being creative, the Six Bricks Experience greets you as you leave the paid-for zones. On your way out, you’ll pass by one of the big iconic green LEGO-making machines. Here, you’ll get to print out your very own, personalised, credit-card-style plastic card. Each card is unique as it will contain your name and the date of your visit, and an image of one of the 915,103,765 combinations you can build with just 6 2×4 LEGO bricks. You’ll also be allowed to take away a paper-based bag of six, 2×4 red bricks. These bricks were just made by the green moulding machine. For younger visitors, they can take a bag of six red 2×4 DUPLO bricks.

The LEGO Shop, which is found in LEGO Square, isn’t the biggest LEGO store in the world. But it does contain a ton of the currently available sets. There’s also the usual “Build a Minifigure” station. A wonderful PAB wall, a Minifigure factory and a mosaic maker.

There’s also a collection of unique items such as keychains, T-shirts and books. And, not forgetting the “only available at LEGO House sets”. These include the Wooden Duck, the architecture set of LEGO House and this year’s Tribute to LEGO Fabuland, as well as the scaled-up Pirate Minifigure. And, if you are very lucky, you might even find a LEGO set signed by its designer!

The LEGO House is the most incredible and unique place to visit. If, like us, you are a fan of everything LEGO, you will not be disappointed. Just remember to book your tickets in advance, especially if you’re planning on visiting on a busy day or during the school holidays.

Should you do a road trip?

Would we recommend taking a road trip? Well, like the European rail network, driving anywhere in Europe is easy and unrestricted by borders. Petrol or Gas prices vary from country to country, and if you’re in an electric vehicle, there are plenty of places to charge your battery. And, just as with driving in North America, it’s the distances involved which could deter you from undertaking a mammoth journey.

Those of us based in the UK are not generally used to driving for hour after hour. Most of the big cities can be reached in just a few hours. But on the roads in both Germany and Denmark, you will see cars from all over the continent. Our German son-in-law thinks nothing of driving over longer distances and for many hours. He will often drive to Frankfurt and back just for a quick meeting. A round trip of almost 500 miles!

So, we think it’s doable, especially if you share the driving. But you should plan your trip. Aim to drive no more than 8 hours and share the wheel if you can. Be prepared to pay higher prices at the pump on the “motorway” networks and in Denmark itself. Take food with you, especially anything that gives flagging energy levels a boost! And have water or other drinks in the vehicle! And if you are travelling with young ones, make sure to bring stuff to keep them entertained.

A word about FLOH

Not too long ago, there used to be a thrift shop in Billund. It was kind of an insider’s secret, but then it later became quite well-known within the AFOL community. Loplet on Kløverveg, just three minutes from LEGO House, was a goldmine of old, rare and newish LEGO. A lot of LEGO employees sold their treasures through the shop, which, in turn, took a small commission for their cancer charity in doing so. It was where we discovered our beloved Fabuland!

A few years ago, the owners of Loplet decided to move on and look for another venture to manage. Two other charity shops in Billund, the Blue Cross and Mission Afrika, continue to operate. But, they do not hold the same levels of treasure.

But, if you find yourself in nearby Grindsted, then we suggest you visit FLOH at Nørre Torv 7. They have a really good selection of old and newish LEGO. Everything from vintage LEGO sets to test bricks, Modulex, to rare items. The latter can be found in a locked glass cabinet by the register

We’d like to thank LEGO House for inviting us to visit them and to Adam for making it happen! Our tickets were gifted to us by LEGO House. All thoughts and comments are our own.

Editor note – Thanks to Robin for providing his thoughts on LEGO House. Access to LEGO House was provided for free by the attraction. See more of Robin’s trip around LEGO House here and follow more of Robin’s LEGO adventures here.