{"id":13244,"date":"2018-04-24T11:38:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T18:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=13244"},"modified":"2018-04-24T11:49:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T18:49:01","slug":"legoland-california-opens-second-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=13244","title":{"rendered":"Legoland California Opens Second Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6BSQA3JyXrY\" width=\"450\" height=\"275\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This week&nbsp;<strong>Legoland, California<\/strong> is hosting media receptions for the opening of the newest addition to the park &#8212; the&nbsp;<strong>Castle Hotel at Legoland<\/strong>. The official opening will be on Friday, April 27, 2018, but <strong>Merlin Entertainment&#8217;s<\/strong> isn&#8217;t wasting any time introducing Legoland&#8217;s latest attempt at keeping visitors on-property for the duration of their stays (so Merlin doesn&#8217;t lose any vacation dollars to locally owned Carlsbad businesses).<\/p>\n<p>The new hotel doubles Legoland&#8217;s onsite lodging bringing the park&#8217;s room total to 500. Just think, back in 2009 Legoland had to convince the Carlsbad City Council to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4791\"><strong>change a planning document<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; to get their first hotel approved. Guess, those changes are working out pretty well now.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The three-story, 250-room hotel immerses guests into a creative LEGO<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> world and every room is fully themed to create a castle fantasy.&nbsp; Guests can choose from three different room themes: Royal Princess, Knights and Dragons and Magic Wizard. Upon entering the LEGOLAND Castle Hotel, guests will first step into a Grand Hall where they are met by a LEGO wizard before taking a magical levitating lift (elevator) that will take them to one of three different floors to continue their adventure.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With a place like this to stay, and eat, and sleep, and shop, why would anyone want to leave? Exactly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&nbsp;Legoland, California is hosting media receptions for the opening of the newest addition to the park &#8212; the&nbsp;Castle Hotel at Legoland. The official opening will be on Friday, April 27, 2018, but Merlin Entertainment&#8217;s isn&#8217;t wasting any time introducing Legoland&#8217;s latest attempt at keeping visitors on-property for the duration of their stays (so Merlin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13244"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13251,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions\/13251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}