Like the great philosopher Meredith Brooks once said, it's a little bit of everything all rolled…read moreinto one. I don't know where to start. I suppose with the biggest reason we came here last month: Halloween! Vellingeblomman does seasonal decor inside and out, and for spooky month, this includes a (free) haunted house! A really good one too. Okay, so it's been awhile since I've been to a proper haunted house. But I did jump and scream SO that's a success.
My other favorite part was the soup buffet, which believe it or not is one of two buffets they had available (in different parts of the compound) on the day I visited. (The other buffet was for waffles and dessert. Wow.) For $12 they offered all you can eat soups, breads, cheeses, salads, coffee, tea, hot cocoa, and honestly a lot more things I am forgetting right now. And everything was delicious, most of it being vegetarian friendly. Yummy! For a couple dollars (I am doing everything by what it cost me in murica dollars) I was also able to try a local wheat beer, which came with a frosted glass. I think the buffet offerings change based on the day, so look at the menu online before you come if that matters to you.
So what is Vellingeblomman besides a place to get scared and then have a lot of soup with friends? It is a massive home goods and plant store, and to be honest, a bit of a maze! A very fun maze! (If you've been to IKEA before, it won't be too much for you.) With a couple aquariums in it. Like huge tanks full of fish (lorge koi!) and aquatic plants. They also sell aquarium supplies.
There's an outdoor walking garden for the kids that has dinosaurs made out of plants. You can sit outside to have your buffet stuff or a picnic lunch if you brought that instead. They had a room full of Moomins! More Moomins than I could ever know what to do with. This would be the place to go gift shopping! There will be large sections of seasonal decorations and goodies. We saw that they were readying the Christmas section, but it wasn't available yet. Plenty of costumes and decorations for spoopy time were up though, and crammed full of families.
It can be a very busy place and is very kid friendly. Our friend left her kids at home to come for a day out with us though haha. I am probably missing several of the cool things I did here out of this review, but I tend to go on too long if I'm not careful. If you're ever in the area, this is a pretty cool free thing to come and do (of course shopping and food costs but wandering around for the experience is priceless). It's about a half hour outside of Lund, which is the area of Sweden I am most familiar with. Parking and seating were not an issue as there were plenty of both even with how busy it was. Clearly they are prepared for this. I loved spending half my day here!
