Parents be aware !!!
Parents be aware !!!
We are a family of five with Gold Annual Passes. We drove from Temecula on Sunday the 18th with two other families to celebrate our daughter’s birthday. When we arrived around 3:30 PM we were told it was a Gold blackout day and were sent to the ticket window after already paying $40 for parking.
At the window we explained it was our daughter’s birthday, we only manage to visit the park twice a year, and the park was closing in roughly two and a half hours. The first employee said they could not help us and that we needed to pay for the upgrade. We then asked for a supervisor.
That’s when the other employee with glasses and green eyes came over. He told us directly that he couldn’t do anything, and that the only option was to pay $29 per person plus tax on top of our Gold Pass. Multiply that by five people, plus the $40 parking and gas from Temecula, and the numbers are absurd for a park we barely use.
For the record, we understand you have a published blackout calendar. That is not the issue. The issue is the complete lack of flexibility when a family shows up with two other families for a birthday celebration, has already paid for parking, and the park closes in two and a half hours. Instead of making around $150+ on the spot from a family that only visits twice a year, Legoland chose to make nothing, watch three families leave, and create a negative customer story that will spread. Maybe that number means nothing compared to your daily volume, but for us it mattered.
When I mentioned I am disabled, he added that the fast pass was “better than the handicap pass,” which demonstrated zero understanding of what disabled guests actually need. Disabled access is not about skipping lines; it is about being able to use the park within limited time and mobility. That part was ignored completely. We did not get his name because he was clearly in a hurry to end the conversation and move on.
For context: at 3:30 PM the park did not look crowded parking lot nowhere near full, no entrance lines, and very light foot traffic. The blackout and “too many people” excuse did not match what we saw. After this, both families who came w








