May 10, 2013

Johor Bahru - Unexpected Excitements @ Legoland

Legoland is the only checkpoint today. I gave up my free admission to Hong Kong Ocean Park (this birthday offer is for HK citizens only and is subject to terms and conditions) for this. Let's check out if the deal is worth.

















My friend has ride frenzy and planed to try every ride in the theme park while I tried to skip this kind of excitements. So my friend said the ticket is cheaper than mine.

















This pony only walk on track, no flying no running. My friend bet I could manage it. However, it's a pity that the staff replied it's only for kids.



















Observation Tower is for everybody, regardless of age. From the tower, it's clear that Legoland is the sole attraction around.

















After tried several rides, my friend suggested to watch 4D movie. A staff announced the theater experienced some technical problems after a 15-minute wait. When we walked out, we found out that the enter Legoland had blackout.

No ride? No worry. We could take photos of the bricks.




 




Thanks the balloon master for making this beautiful heart-shaped balloon as special birthday gift to me. Balloon art isn't an easy job as balloons are easy to break. He tried twice to get it done. Thanks again.






















Another 2 hours passed but there was no sign when the blackout would be ended. By the way, it's lunch time. The food pricing in Legoland is much reasonable than that in Universal Studio Singapore. Each set below is under RM10 (excludes drinks) and tasted good (rice is better in my opinion).


A staff informed us the park was going to close while we were hiding from the hot sun. We both felt so disappointed. Lots of unhappy customers were queueing up at services centre to figure out what do. Another staff mentioned it's the first time for the Legoland to have blackout since it's open (for 8 months) because the area was out of power. They would send us email to arrange another tickets for us. (we are still waiting for the email).

My friend said the staff is well trained because they were patient and sent a dragon mascot and balloon master were out to calm down the unhappy customers.

Legoland, would you offer us complimentary one night stay at Legoland Hotel together with admission tickets? Your customers would be impressed.

















On the other hand, transportation arrangement was damn bad. We bought a package and our travel agent in Singapore didn't receive any news about the blackout. So, we had to arrange our return transport. We waited for a bus travel between Legoland and JB Sentral. There was an empty one but the driver didn't allow anybody to get on. People were disappointed again. To escape from the hot and humid weather, my friend and me had no choice but took a taxi to the hotel. Hope Legoland will add transportation into their contingency menu though I don't wanna to experience any crisis again.

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