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New Mon 7 Jul 14 11:17 
 Directions - Legoland Windsor - ....
We'll be visiting in the next couple of weeks. Staying near Marlow.
I'm planning on using the A330; Drift Road and approach from the south on the B3022.

Question: How do I get to the A330 ?
1. Join the queue on A404(M) then on to the A308(M) ?
2. Is it quicker down through Cookham and Maidenhead?
3. Bisham into Maidenhead ?

Or, is it none of the above and it doesn't matter which way you go it'll be gridlock.

Aiming to get to Legoland for around 9:30 each day.

I know the area reasonably well, used to stay in Cookham when visiting the UK HQ of a company I previously worked for on Bath Road in Slough.
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New Mon 7 Jul 14 11:51 
 Directions - Legoland Windsor - Manatee
A404, A308 to Braywick roundabout, follow the A330 until it becomes the A3022, carry on though Winkfield, turn left at roundabout, Legoland about a mile on the left.

You can use Drift Road if you like but it doesn't make much difference and IIRC it has road humps on it.

goo.gl/maps/poj9q
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New Mon 7 Jul 14 12:27 
 Directions - Legoland Windsor - ....
Thanks for the warning.
Road humps and Volvo R-design suspension do not make for happy passengers.
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New Mon 7 Jul 14 13:23 
 Directions - Legoland Windsor - Alanovich
I don't see any speed humps on Drift Rd looking at streetview. Are you sure, Manatee? That was my teenage drag strip. Well, so far as it was possible to drag a 17-yr old Escort MK1 1100. Pushing was more common.
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New Mon 7 Jul 14 13:48 
 Directions - Legoland Windsor - Manatee
No I'm not absolutely certain at all about the speed bumps - it's a while since I was there but I had a recollection of them at the Winkfield end.

I used to visit Winkfield, usually via Wycombe, quite regularly and I tended to trundle down the A330 from Braywick because it's hard to go wrong! (If I came the other way via Windsor I'd pass Legoland and then turn right at the roundabout.)

For a while there were some roadworks or other obstacle at the Braywick end of the A330, and I used Drift Road - A308/Fifield Road/Drift Road - and there were definitely some bumps on that route somewhere. I could be remembering these, on Fifield road.

goo.gl/maps/KJaPJ

"The Drift" certainly looks as if it has racetrack potential. ISTR there was an interesting looking big house visible along there as well.
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New Mon 7 Jul 14 14:08 
 Directions - Legoland Windsor - Alanovich
Yes, I think that's offices now. Billy Connolly used to live at the Cranbourne end, Gruntfuttock Hall.

I used to tear along thre in my girlfriend's mother's Alfasud 1.5Ti. That was a bit more satisfying than my Escort.

There was also a boozer down there called, I think, The Cider House. Was often full of bikers - leathery hell's angels sorts. I was driving down there one day and noticed what Runfer would probably call a stromash proceeding in the car park. As I passed, one of them got thumped so hard he was knocked in to the road in front of me. Good job I knew cadence braking even as a 17/18 year old.
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New Mon 7 Jul 14 14:40 
 Directions - Legoland Windsor - WillDeBeest
Just remember not to let any speedbumps upset the wheelbarrow full of money you'll need to pay the entrance fee. Oh, and one Wednesday soon Beestling Minor's year 6 class will be there. Just so's you know.
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New Mon 7 Jul 14 14:58 
 Directions - Legoland Windsor - ....
The entrance fees have been taken care of. We'll be there on Thursday & Friday so no WDB jnr. to watch out for.
I think the hotel restaurant may be of more concern for the finances. We'll not get out without dropping a three figure sum for two adults and two children from what I can see online and I'm not talking 3 courses the latest celebrity chef has sweated over.
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New Mon 7 Jul 14 21:14 
 Directions - Legoland Windsor - swiss tony
Staying at Marlow?
Maybe we could have a C4P meet... some nice pubs in Marlow.
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New Tue 8 Jul 14 09:27 
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Wow ! st, you know how to kill a thread, haha.
I haven't seen this much tumbleweed since the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
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New Tue 8 Jul 14 09:32 
 Directions - Legoland Windsor - commerdriver
>> some nice pubs in Marlow.
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we wouldn't want to encourage those rough people from Reading and places like that into our nice pubs, would we? :-)
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New Tue 8 Jul 14 09:44 
 Directions - Legoland Windsor - Alanovich
It's OK, cd. We don't want the straw hatted stripey blazered yahoos in our boozers either.

;-)
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New Tue 8 Jul 14 10:28 
 Directions - Legoland Windsor - WillDeBeest
They only visit, you know, Vić. And anyway, that was last week; they've all gone now.
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