10 Reasons To Consider An Annual Pass To Legoland Malaysia Theme Park

Located in Johor Bahru, the Legoland Malaysia theme park offers an epic combination of three theme parks packed into one awesome location.

Twice we purchased an annual pass for all our family members, and twice we enjoyed 2-3 months of very frequent visits while we were there! Both times we stayed in the Iskandar/Medini area, which is very much within walking distance of the Legoland hotel and theme park.

In this post, we’ll share our knowledge and tips about the Legoland Malaysia Resort. Read on to discover all the great reasons why you might want to consider getting an annual pass yourself.

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1. Legoland Malaysia Admission Ticket Prices

The first time we were in the region, it was almost 300 USD for three of us (two adults and one child) where the baby was ‘almost free’ (but more on that later!). We got the triple park passes for unlimited access to the theme park, sea life, and water park. 

At the time of giving this post an update, an annual pass (for all three parks) is probably cost-effective if you’re going to go three or more times. (The ‘baby’ was now four, so we paid for two adults/two children).

There are also options to get a single or double park pass, but those options have date restrictions. The date restrictions include most of December, which was when we were visiting (the first time around).

Because we based ourselves within walking distance each time, we made sure we got the most out of our passes. For example, we went six times in our first week there. And “No,” the kids didn’t get sick of it!

We loved our frequent visits to Legoland Malaysia theme park!

There’s so much to see it’s hard to get around even a small portion of it over the course of a day. If you are a single person or couple, or you have older kids, I’m sure you’ll get around a lot faster, however. This is one reason that we think the annual pass is such a great option.

With the annual passes, we could also just pop in for a couple of hours rather than tiring everyone out with a full day. Admittedly, we did still end up there for a couple of full days on occasion!

Visit the official website for up-to-date information on opening hours, the current price for children and adults, and information about staying at the Legoland Malaysia hotel.

2. Legoland Johor Bahru Rides

If your kid is 120cm and six years old, they’ll be able to ride all the rides at Legoland Malaysia theme park.

In 2019 our six-year-old could go on all the rides but one as long as she was with a big person. Most days, she just did all the things she can do herself because I wasn’t able to take her on the rides with the baby.

The park was very quiet most of the time, though, so she could often find a staff member to take her on a ride, which is pretty cool.

Kids between 105cm and 120cm can go on all but one of the rides (the log flume/Dino ride) with an adult. The Lego Ninjago ride seemed to be a popular ride while we were there.

[The minimum height requirement for most rides was 100 cm in 2019. However, it is 105 cm in 2023].

The Royal Joust is good for kids between four and 11 to go on their own (again and again?). In 2023 when we returned, there was a height restriction of 105 cm on the Royal Joust, however, so our four-year-old couldn’t go on it. All her other four-year-old friends were tall enough, though!

Little ones can go on the beetle bounce on their own. Big kids can also go on this one!

Most of the rides are fun but not overly exhilarating. Overall it’s very much a kids-centered theme park, although the photo below may suggest otherwise!

Legoland Malaysia theme park roller coasters and more!

There are three roller coasters. One is called The Dragon’s Apprentice and is a great option as a ‘first-time’ roller coaster. This was the first roller coaster that Ayla had ever ridden, and she loved it.

After a few more theme park visits, she got her courage levels up and tried the two big roller coasters. First, there’s the virtual reality roller Coaster. Kids under 120cm aren’t allowed to wear the VR headset, though, and neither is the adult who rides with them.

The other roller coaster is the dragon one, which was our personal fave. I liked it better than the VR Coaster, which made me feel a little sick (especially after three times in a row ?). The Dragon Coaster will take you on a little tunnel ride past some awesome Lego creations before you burst out into the sunlight.

It’s very rare that you’ll need to line up for a ride (except maybe on weekends or holidays). Often you can ride again and again if you so wish!

There are a couple of train rides. Strangely, kids are supposed to be one year old before going on the train with an adult. Personally, I think it’s much easier to take a young baby on the train than an active one-year-old!

3. Legoland amusement park shows

There are a few options for being entertained with a show at JB Legoland! We think these attractions add a huge amount of value to the annual passes, and they change regularly according to the season.

On the main stage (when you first enter the theme park), you can enjoy an opening or closing show. There are also various time slots when you can meet the Lego characters.

During the lead-up to Halloween, there were Halloween-specific activities, including the Witch Wicked show and a costume competition for the kids on Friday and Saturday nights. Ayla made her debut stage appearance as Tinkerbell!

Indoor entertainment at Legoland Malaysia theme park

The Lego City stage is a (beautifully air-conditioned) indoor stage with various showtimes throughout the day. One of the shows we watched was the Lego Friends show. There was plenty of fun singing and dancing. It even kept the baby entertained!

After the show, you can have a photo with the characters.

Sadly, the Lego friends seem to have moved on from Legoland JB in 2023. Although to be fair, a lot has been going on in these past few years! This year’s show was Ninjago.

There is also a 4-D (again air-conditioned!) movie theatre. Think wind, smoke, and water as the extra dimension. There are four or five movies you can watch there at various times during the day.

4. Lego Building at Lego Land Malaysia

Yep, as well as all the fun rides and shows, there are also plenty of opportunities to build Lego at Legoland!

In the lead-up to Halloween, there were a few Halloween Lego-building activities, so we made sure we did those while they were on offer. Ayla built a pumpkin, spider, and some Halloween candy. We also got to enjoy the Christmas-themed Lego building while we were there.

In 2023, we made Lego creations specific to the Hari Raya holiday.

At any time during the Legoland Malaysia theme park opening hours, you can head to ‘build and test’ where you’re given a set of wheels, and you can build your own vehicle. Then you can test it out on all sorts of tracks and race against others if you choose.

The Lego Academy at JB Legoland is also set up for sitting down and building Lego. You can use your imagination or copy one of the many examples around the room.

Both of these areas are air-conditioned and a great escape from the heat or rain.

There are also opportunities to build Lego while you’re waiting in line for rides. We never really waited in line, so didn’t try these stations out!

5. Malaysia Legoland Playgrounds

When the kids just want to play, or you’re tired of walking around, there are a few awesome playgrounds inside the Legoland Malaysia theme park where you can stop and chill for a while. Options like this offer a really nice balance with all the other park activities. 

6. Legoland theme park academy classes

The Lego Academy at Legoland in Johor Bahru had three different Lego classes on offer in 2019.

Kids aged 8+ could go to the Cosmobot or Dr. Heartbeat sessions. Kids aged about 6+ could also attend Dr. Heartbeat if they were with an adult who could show them how to use the computer. Luckily we went with friends who could help Ayla while I was trying to put Romy to sleep!

Kids aged 3-6 could attend the class called ‘Build Great Machines,’ where they learn about pulleys and how to make one.

The 3-6-year old session isn’t available in 2023. Interestingly, the other two sessions are still there (I thought they might have changed things up, but again, I guess there has been a lot going on these past few years!)

Just show up at the Legoland Academy in the morning to book your spot (free of charge) for an afternoon session.

7. Legoland Malaysia theme park driving and boating

Yep, the kids can even get their driver’s license at Legoland Malaysia theme park and attend boating school.

A paper license is included, or you can upgrade to a ‘real’ license for about $6.

There is a little kids driving area and a big kids (6-13 years) area. In 2019, Ayla went straight to the big kids’ area. Her first attempt to drive in this section was met with immense frustration! Sessions two and three were more relaxed. Still… I think I’ll leave the driving lessons to an instructor when she wants to learn to drive in real life ??

8. Legoland for babies and toddlers

Legoland is mostly set up for kids over 100cm (or 105cm in 2023) who can go on most rides with a grown-up. It’s free for under 3’s to enter the theme park, and there are still a few things for them to do.

There are two “rides” that you can take your kid on if they are one year old or older. These are the observation tower and the train ride.

I’m not quite sure about the reasoning behind this. In my opinion, it’s much trickier to take an active one-year-old on things like this, as opposed to a wee baby. Anyway, we managed to take Romy (who was still under one) on both of these.

When they asked how old she was, we said, “Nearly one,” and that seemed to pass. When we said “nine months… But look, very clever, she can walk”, that didn’t pass.

Confusion around ages in Malaysia!

Age can be a confusing thing over here because they often go by the calendar year.

Romy, who was turning one in January, was not one until the New Year (as you’d expect). But Ayla, who had just turned six, was considered as six all year since her birthday is in December!

One or two of the playgrounds are also great for babies, and they have a fab baby room available near the observation tower. All the bathrooms are also set up for nappy changing. You can even hire strollers for the day (although they are pretty expensive, in my opinion!)

Romy loved the live shows and danced her little heart out at them ?

9. Legoland Water Park

All of our Legoland Malaysia pointers have been about the theme park! There are actually two other parks on site, which we had access to as part of the annual triple park pass.

The theme park is the main one and the one that your ticket would be for if you got a single park pass. The triple park pass was our best option since a ‘theme park only’ pass has too many restrictions. Mainly these are date restrictions, and all of December is excluded.

One of the other parks we got to enjoy was the water park. I thought we’d spend more time there than we did, but the theme park was easier when it was just me and the girls. Also, we were there during the rainy season, so it wasn’t as hot as we are used to (although still warm by NZ standards ?). We also met with a few thunderstorms while we were there, which resulted in waterpark closure.

Fun for the whole family at Legoland Malaysia water park

The waterpark is pretty awesome, with a lazy river where you can build your own Lego raft (although my attempts never ended up as functional rafts ?). There is a pool with slides for tiny kids and a very noisy water area with the joker soaker (massive bucket of water that tips over). There are also lots of slides for slightly bigger (and very big) kids.

There’s a wave pool and also some big slides where you can ride through darkness or go down with a few people on a tube. Kids over 107 cm can go on all the big slides. Ayla got brave in 2019 and tried most, except the ones in darkness and the ones where you go on your belly. In 2023 she was flying down all of them!

OUr 4-year-old wasn’t quite tall enough in 2023…

When we visited Legoland in 2019, we had a five-year-old who could go on all the water slides. Now we have a four-year-old who is two centimeters too small to go on any of the big or even medium-sized slides (and they are very strict!).

Note that kids need to be 102 cm to ride on the medium-sized slides alone and the gentler big slides with an adult. (Some slides still have a minimum requirement of 107 cm).

Romy has a wee friend the same age who is a few centimeters taller and can go on all of them. So it was a little frustrating for her, especially since she had recently been on big slides at waterparks in Goa, India, and Fethiye, Turkey! (Fewer rules there, lol).

A flawed system at the water park

Our only complaint is the flawed system in place for babies at the waterpark. You need to pay for babies to get into the waterpark each time. It kind of defeats having annual triple park passes for the rest of the family when you have to line up every time to get a single ticket for the baby. And you can’t even get it at the water park entrance. You have to go to the theme park entrance and line up there.

It’s hard to know the reasoning behind this because we were met with very passive responses to our questions. They give you two disposable swim nappies when you pay for a baby entry into the waterpark. Therefore we guessed they’d had some accidents and are making sure that all babies have nappies.

However, we have our own reusable swim nappy, and it wasn’t acceptable to show them this and get the baby on without a ticket. So we’re not sure the reasoning all stacks up. We would have been happy to pay an annual amount for the baby to enter with the rest of the family (without a separate daily ticket). At the time we visited, this wasn’t an option.

10. Legoland Malaysia Sea Life

The third park at Legoland Malaysia is Sea Life. You can choose to get a double Park pass which includes the theme park and sea life. You cannot get a double park pass to include the theme park and water park.

We would have opted out of getting the pass for sea life if we could have. Honestly, I usually try to think carefully about supporting any attractions that include wildlife.

Sometimes I wonder whether I’m being a bit mean or restricting Ayla’s education by opting out of these things. She has been to a couple of aquariums, a couple of wildlife reserves in NZ, a butterfly Park, and the KL bird park. She hasn’t been to a traditional zoo.

We would have visited an elephant sanctuary in the Chiang Mai region because I understand some of the best, most ethical ones are there. However, I didn’t have time to research thoroughly enough, so decided to leave it and maybe look into it next time.

There are many other ways to educate. I’m also aware that it’s not a black-and-white issue with factors such as loss of habitat in the wild (where many species can’t live anymore) and that many zoos, aquariums, and wildlife reserves do some great conservation work.

Conservation efforts by Legoland Malaysia Sea Life

We were happy to see that Sea Life Malaysia is working consciously and doing some great work. They re-homed two whales from an aquarium in China to the first whale reserve in Iceland.

They don’t have whales or dolphins in their aquariums. This is because they’re aware of the importance of sound waves etc., in the wild. They only have a few small sharks. None of their species are in danger of extinction in the wild. You can read this information on the plaques.

Are there other ways to do conservation work? Absolutely. It’s always important to ask questions and make conscious choices. Should fish even be in an aquarium at all? What do you think?

We loved our time at Legoland Malaysia theme park!

Overall, we’d highly recommend purchasing an annual pass for the Legoland Malaysia theme park. As we mentioned at the beginning, the ticket prices become cost-effective after only a few visits, and there is plenty of variety to entertain the kids on multiple visits.

PS. If you’re visiting Johor Bahru, you might also want to treat yourself to a visit to the Lotus Desaru Beach Resort & Spa, which is only around 100km from the Legoland theme park.

Alternatively, you can easily pop across the nearby border and check out these amazing things to do with kids in Singapore.

Visiting other parts of Malaysia? If so, check out these awesome things to do in Penang and the Cameron Highlands.

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