Legoland, Florida

One of our Rally days was a group trip to Legoland! The Rally got an incredible home school deal which enabled us all to go for the price of one regular day admission basically.

Photo courtesy of the Fulltime Families Group

 I'm going to let the pictures tell the story themselves...

Entering the park for the first time

I love all the Lego displays everywhere.
This one was outside the main retail store.

The carousel was our first ride

Sierra with all her "Lego Friends"

Riding Merlin's Challenge

Riding Merlin's Challenge

We met Shrek and ate the best burgers and fry's according to Sierra

Watching the Dragon
to decide to ride or not...both girls decided not.

I love all the Lego figures all around

Learning to cast Magic spells

Oh oh she got caught casting spells!

The Royal Joust.. Aaylas favourite ride

I liked that each station had little play areas set up
for kids to play while the parents waiting in line.
This is genius as far as I am concerned!

 We of course ran into a few Fulltime Families during our day.

Kimberley Travaglino... the super woman
of the Fulltime Families group

Sierra loved the Wolf outside of
the Forestman's Hideout Playground

 Besides the playground this ball gunnery area was Sierras favourite...but I can't remember what it was called.

 The Safari Trek was a short little ride but the jungle animals were so fun to see.

 Break time for a treat at Firehouse Ice Cream and it was yummy!

 We then went to the flying and driving school but my girls have no patience to wait in lines so they gave up. Off to AquaZone...



As I write this and look at the map we appear to have missed a whole corner of the park??? Oops! We took one last look around all the mini cities.

We even got to see the shuttle blast off.

 Both girls decided Project X was the "big" ride they wanted to try... happy face here in line but they both freaked out on the ride and our day came to an end...time to leave as they did not want to go on anything after that.

One last goodbye as we head out of the park.

 Mini figure trading! We almost forgot! You can bring in mini figures to trade here or even with workers who have a mini figure on their name tags.

Sierra with her new figures she traded

Wall of figures for trade

Aayla making a trade

With her new figures

One last pose as we leave the park

Overall we had a good day and you can't beat the pricing we got with the Rally. Since we missed part of the park we felt it was a bit small...now I know why. The water park was also closed on the day we visited. I also think we did a lot of running around and back tracking as we had never been here before and didn't do any research before we went so we did a lot more walking back and forth to find things the girls wanted to do.

Both girls were too timid to go on a lot of the rides so they weren't overly in love with this park but I think if they ever decide they like thrill rides then they would like the park better...or if the water park was open I am positive their love of the park would have risen a few notches...maybe by the next time we go?

Have you ever visited Legoland Florida? What was your families experience here?

REVIEW Lazydays RV Resort, Seffner, Florida

When we attended the Fulltime Families Rally, it was hosted at Lazydays Rv Resort in Seffner, Florida (6130 Lazy Days Blvd, Seffner, Florida, 33584) A very nice RV park but a bit pricey for our liking. However we received Rally rates which made it way more affordable.

Value 2.5/5
The Rally rate was $37.99 plus tax for a total of $42.55 a night.To us this is on the expensive side. We prefer to camp for free (or close to free... not just to be cheap but usually our free camping spots are amazing). Florida however makes that difficult and the average rate here seems to be between $40-$50 a night. One note to consider is with your paid site here you get two breakfast and two lunch tickets. Currently the non Rally rate for Feb is $48.99 plus tax and the weekend of the Rally was the State fair so it normally would have been $60.99 plus tax a night...and that I find very expensive.

Site Quality 4/5
We were in site 273 in "Rally alley". It was a paved site, very level with full hook ups. The sites weren't huge but they had a fair amount of room on each lot. There was room for your awning to be out and still have space between the next site. Ours had a small tree by the road.

Facility Fun 4.5/5
This resort had quite a lot to offer. There was a large playground, open field space to play with a gazebo. There were tennis courts, basketball nets, a heated pool and hot tub. There was also a free trolley ride that took you over to your free breakfast and lunches over at the RV dealership. Aayla in particular thought this Trolley ride was lots of fun. Especially when they let her ring the trolley bell.

Natural Surroundings 2/5
Although there were a few trees around the resort and grass around the pads I wouldn't say it had a very natural setting. It was very well manicured and taken care of though.There were no trails or pathways to walk besides the roadways.

Bathrooms 4.5/5
The bathrooms I went in were very clean and maintained.

Staff 4/5
In person the staff were very friendly and helpful. Over the phone I did have a few instances where the person on the phone had no idea what they were talking about. I had to call in about three times to figure out my space and my rally rate. In doing so when I showed up to the resort I actually had two reservations. One with a rally rate and one without. Better to have two then none I guess. The front desk staff was very helpful in figuring out the situation and extending my rally rate for the days we were staying before the rally started since I was only booked in three days for the rally but we were staying five. It was all worked out in the end. Lazydays rally manager was fantastic as well. He worked his butt off to make everyone happy as there were a couple rally's happening at the same time.

Location 4/5
To be honest we were so busy at the rally that we didn't explore much at all nearby. I do know it was close enough to Tampa to explore and there is so much there available to do.

Overall 4/5
Even though this parks normal rate is pricey for us, the rally rate made it more affordable. It was a great place for a rally, very clean, lots to keep the kids busy, the cul de sac was a great place which we took over so the kids could basically run and play. There is free wifi here. However our site had bad reception from inside the trailer. I had to walk out to the roadway and could get service there. I would come back here again for another rally but I would not come back to pay regular rates. The breakfast and lunch tickets were wonderful (and the food was good). Do take note that you get two per site per day per breakfast/lunch meal so if you have kids then you will need to buy their meals or do as we did and save them up to go together on a couple days instead of everyday. There is on site laundry and a small doggy playground for those of you with pets.

Resort Map

Our site 273

Playground and gazebo beside the tennis courts and grass yard

The covered pool area. Hot tub is to the left in the corner.

The rally building with tables and group campfire outside

The Trolley to take you to the RV store and your free meals

The site sizes did not take into account your trucks so there
were quite a few trucks parked up and down the roadways
 to make it a bit tight at times. Occasionally people would have
to move a truck to get into their sites but everyone was awesome!