A nice park for younger children, given the mix of the rides and what smaller children can go on. However, compared with other amusement parks, the park has numerous failings.

There is next to no shade in the park, meaning that on a sunny day you are excessively exposed to the sun. Sun block cream only does so much - why they cannot add more trees like other parks do is beyond me. They could especially arrange for more shade protection in their long and slow queues.

Queues are enormous here. We came on presumably a quiet weekday at the end of April. This is owing perhaps to too many people in the park, or the fact that each ride has a very slow and torturous turn-around. I've never seen a park operate so slowly.

Queue times are fictionally determined, and were inaccurate compared to other parks I've visited. A 20 minute queue is going to be 40 minutes. A 40 minute queue is probably going to be more like an hour and a half.

Fortunately some rides have some excellent turn-around, such as the "LEGO NINJAGO The Ride" or the "Temple X-pedition" to make up for all these queue problems.

The rides break down an awful lot. For the two days we were in the park, we had to abandon queues several times due to to technical problems. Given the length of the queue times, this really stings.

They clearly sell too many express passes, as there are often times where the queues never move forwards for more than 15 minutes because of a backlog of wealthy people taking priority. They don't seem to mix regular visits with express pass visitors, so it really is a pay-to-play system - the more you pay, the better access to the park you get. If you don't pay for the express passes, expect most of your time to be consumed with queuing. This leads to a painful experience unless you're rich.

Staff are a mixed bag. It feels like the majority of them are here to suck the fun out of the park. While there are some stand-out staff members who are smiling and happy, the majority seem to thoroughly hate their job. Some of them are downright rude, including one that randomly told me I'm too fat for a woman and I need to lose weight. Wonderful.

Food choices are good in the park, with mixed prices from moderate to outrageous, but it would be possible to picnic in the park if you wanted to. There is however little seating available, and quite a lot of the seating is again totally exposed to direct sunlight.

The kids enjoyed the park, but struggled with the queues which in some cases were more than an hour. In two full days, it was not possible to see everything, so you either need to buy express passes or you need to stay for more than two days.

How LEGO signed off on this park is beyond me, and honestly it's made me change my mind about the brand. That element of fun and exploration that the LEGO brand has promised for decades has been chewed up and spat out as an amusement park.

What a disappointment.