Anyone been to Legoland recently - Cheap Merlin Pass?

don9999

In particular, if you have been to Legoland recently, I'm wondering if they are offering any special deals when leaving the site.

I recall in past visits (several years ago), you could purchase a Merlin pass when leaving site, with the price of your entrance fee deducted.

Am planning to go to Legoland shortly, and am also hoping to buy Merlin passes. Am wondering if there is a cheap way of doing this.

For example, I could just pay for a Family of 6 Merlin Pass, costing 6 x £112.80 = £676.80 (I don't have Tesco or Nectar points, so can't consider buying it through those schemes).

But......an alternative, is for me to buy 6 tickets to Legoland, using the 2for1 offers that are around at the moment. So 6 tickets would be 3 x £41.40 = £124.20.
THEN........'if' they allow me to buy a Merlin Annual Pass when leaving the park, but part-exchange the current entrance tickets, it would cost me an additional 6 x £112.80 - 6 x £41.40 = £428.40 (on top of the £124.20 I'd already paid).

So, overall I would have saved £124.40 off the full price of £676.80

Is a bit convoluted, but in 'theory' it works. But there are quite a few 'ifs and buts' along the way.

• Do they allow you to buy the Merlin Pass at the park, and use the entrance ticket as a part-exchange?
• Would they allow 6 full-price tickets to be part-exhanged, even though I had only paid half price for them?

Hmmm....any thoughts?

Cheers,
Don

mum26

Hi i'm not sure if you can buy a family of 6 pass, we had to buy 2x family of 4 ones for our family of 8 not that it makes a difference price wise (we managed to get "corporate rate" and it was £600 for the 8 of us but that was for last years standard passes which had different t&c's), might be worth phoning them up and asking for options. I'm pretty sure they do the redeem your entrance offer but I doubt they would redeem "free" entrys for the full price.

The merlin annual pass facebook page is quite helpful so might be worth a look.

susancs

When we went a few years ago and got a 2 for 1 entry, they refunded the entry price to discount the annual pass, so one pass was discounted and the other one was charged full price, as we had not paid for the second free ticket on the 2 for 1 offer. So in your case where you got 3 tickets for £41.40 and 3 free tickets on the 2for 1 offer, you could get 3 annual passes with £41.40 taken off the cost and would get no discount on the other 3 passes.

don9999

OK thanks. So it seems my 'idea' won't work. Indeed it would work out MORE expensive, since I think there is a 10% discount on Merlin prices if bought online eather than on-site.

Worth a thought though :-)