it was a perfect place for my daughters second birthday! she was very nice and helpful and very…read moreunderstandin! the kids loved it and there was a perfect space for her younger sister who's 7 months old to roam!

From the owner: Playsynthesis is a children’s activity center located in Bloomington, Illinois. Our indoor play…read morespace is ideal for families with young children, with toys and equipment best suited for kids 8 years old and younger, though we do not have an official age limit. We’re always open to collaboration and love finding new ways to work together! For example, we’ve partnered with a local mom for birthday events, provided space for playdates, hosted a weekly moms’ meet-up with a family agency, offered parenting workshops, and taught music therapy classes at our facility.

This place is extremely understaffed and the few people that do work here seem completely…read moremiserable. Also the rides aren't even fun including the adult rides, which also seem to not have been safety checked in a long time. Another thing is the time of the rides is extremely short on top of them being expensive, it takes longer to load the ride then the ride actually lasts. Just terrible!

Pretty cool place for families to eat and have a little fun…read more Carnival rides and mini golf. Video games including a pinball machine. Pizza is delicious. Sweet sauce. Table Service is just so so. Seems like the waitresses have to walk a mile to get to the kitchen or simply refill a drink. Has a nice outdoor patio as well.

Adorable little shopping location for the kiddos! The staff help me pick out a gift for the kid I…read moream babysitting. Shoutout to employees for going above and beyond!

Review Visit: November 10th, 2012…read more Where a kid can be a kid and where an adult can also be a kid. If you are wondering, I don't have any explanation why 3 adults visited a museum that is geared towards kids besides that we are all kids at heart and like to have silly fun. With that in mind, Erin, Matt, and I checked out the Children's Discovery Museum. I'm not sure exactly how we ended up wanting to explore the Children's Discovery Museum but I am glad we did. None of us have kids so it was a bit weird that 3 grown adults were walking about this museum and playing with the stuff as if we were kids, but we were never told to not play with the stuff as well. We did avoid the stuff that our adult size might break or render unusable. Overall, I don't have much to say about this place since it's been so long and I can't remember all the activities and interactive things they had. I will say that if you have kid(s), they will love this place. If you have kids and are a kid at heart, you AND your kid(s) will have a blast here.

Best poll in town! Hands down!!! Not as busy as Fairview. Smaller so that you can have room to…read moremove. Trust me, its just better.

It's a super fun pool but it isn't perfectly cleaned. Leaves in water, hair at the bottom of the…read morepool, sticks, twigs. It's super fun to go down slides and swim but it isn't super clean. Fairview is definitely cleaner, but also overcrowded. It depends on what you care more about.

Talk about a smaller zoo punching above its weight! We loved our time here, even if it was…read moreunplanned and last minute. We were anxious to head up to the beaches in Michigan, but some very intense Canadian wildfire smoke had the air quality so bad we decided to stay back as long as we could.. should we commit a full day to the Children's Museum? Nah. Go for a walk? Too hot and unfamiliar. What about this fun zoo? Score! It's extremely walkable here, shady in most parts, and very fair prices. Side note, they do zoo reciprocity and as Friends of the Zoo members in KC we got half price entrance. The animals are so close here! It's amazing. Right when we walked out it's like, 'that's the closest I've ever been to a flamingo!" and on it went like that. I enjoyed chatting with an honorary zoo keeper, who I assume was a high schooler. He told me it was his first day, and he was eager to teach me about wallabies and the like. Very cool program where kids get training and hands on experience with animals, customer service, etc. The highlight for me was hard to nail down to one, so we'll go in order: Anteater! What a cool, weird, unique animal. Not sure I'd ever seen one and loved it. And, the obvious choice.. a freaking snow leopard! I've read a book about the elusive snow leopard, aptly titled, "The Snow Leopard." It gave me such an appreciation for these insanely beautiful cats, and to see one here, in Normal IL on a random weekday in July blew my mind. I read more about it and a zoologist at this zoo was very successful with helping breed and support these cats, so it's a good story and not one who was just snatched out of a mountain in Nepal someday. Again, a nice pivot for us and I loved this zoo.

Good place to explore with children in Bloomington. It turns out to be a bigger place than it…read morelooks. Miller Park Zoo is the highlight of this big public park and one of the best things about the city as well. Bad thing is there's an admission price. This is worth it for looking around once, and you can also get a membership if planning to come more times. Even though it's kind of small, it feels there's a lot inside and you can be here awhile. It's got an interesting history. The beginnings of the zoo started when a circus lion cub was found on this site around 1900, and the city named him Big Jim. After he died in 1912, funds were raised to open the Koetthoefer Animal Building. The zoo began lots more expansion in 1960 with the building that became the Tropical Rainforest Exhibit, and pools were built for sea lions and otters. A lot of animals have come and gone. There's currently flamingos at the entrance, monkeys, the Koetthoefer Animal Building has gibbons, langurs, and snow leopards, giant anteaters, lots of birds including bald eagles, the ZooLab has frogs and insects, several tortoises and there's wolves. It's about $9 admission for adults. They have a program called Junior Zoo Keeper that students can start in 5th grade, and they volunteer to learn and train. Good experience. This is an opportunity for local students. Have to say it's a good zoo for the city. It's located in the middle of the park. This is particularly a good one for young children, but it's open for everyone, so it's also okay for adults or whoever.

My grandson is in a class as a "Iron Ninja in training." He is 6 years old. This place is amazing…read more The coaches are fantastic. They really give these kids a work out. These kids ENJOY it is what's best of all! Great exercise and fun doing it. My grandson I like to call "A fart in a skillet" because he is everywhere all at once! He can out jump, run, climb...you name it!! This kid has enough energy for everyone. These coaches can actually handle this type of energy and love it!! My hats are off to them!!

Justin was amazing! Got us all checked in for the party we reserved. Let the boys get started and…read morelet us finish up. He could see they were getting antsy. He was attentive and took care of us really well. Lillie was our personal party assistant. I was pretty needy and kept asking for things. She did nothing but smile and was more than happy to make sure we were taken care of as well. She came and checked in with us before she clocked out for the night to make sure we didn't need anything else before she left. We will definitely be back and I truly hope they're there!

our daughter tried the Urban Ski. she has severed skied before. Jason did a great job giving her…read moreinstructions and building confidence.

The laser tag was fun and the staff was great!…read more I took a few coworkers here after work one evening to have some fun and the laser tag did not disappoint. They were very flexible in letting us choose how we wanted to play (free-for-all or teams) and seemed invested in making sure we were having a good time.

Got my grandson a monthly membership to this big indoor activity park. A one day pass for…read moreeverything is like $36. A monthly membership is $18. The membership includes discounts and unlimited amount of time at the facility. This place is great for the very active child. It gets them out of the house and off the tablet. Great time for the family.

I had 5 bored teenagers on a really cold snowy Saturday January 10, about 4 weeks ago and they…read morewanted to go to Urban Air to play. I had never been there before , so I agreed and took the kids to Urban Air, Normal, Illinois. We arrived approximately 11 am an hour after the park opened. There was a sign on the door that the zip line was not in operation that day so that was a disappointment. Didn't realize that we needed to get the releases all done beforehand so took us a while to check-in and get all the releases we needed. While I was waiting on some info I was speaking to the person at the counter and asking which package they recommended for my teenagers? She basically read the menu to me without recommending or explaining anything. Decided not to get platinum but everyone purchased the next step down for $28 each. 4 of the 5 kids needed the special socks at $5 each. I didn't know it until later but for $33 discounted socks are included in premium pkg. While checking out, I started to notice most of the players running about were shorties, approx age 4-6? Needless to say, my teenagers stood out! We headed into the park and the kids quickly found out that all the "good" activities were Premium and not available to them. They tried everything available and within an hour were sitting with me in a booth playing on their phones. I offered to bump up everyone to Premium but no one wanted to stay as they were hungry and wanted to leave. Decided not to eat at Urban Air as I had already checked out the ladies room and other areas of the park. The ladies room was already a mess after being open an hour with only one barely functioning sink. The working sink only had one working handle that took some work to figure out how to actually shut off the water. The door to the lady's room was disgusting with fingerprints over 5 ft high and obviously not cleaned recently. Tables in the snack area had not been wiped. Very disappointed at our experience at Urban Air, I stopped a person in the blue management t-shirt and asked to speak with a manager. She wasn't able to assist and I asked a manager to speak with me and pointed to where we were sitting. Kids went to play while I waited 30 minutes. No one came over so we left to get lunch elsewhere. I feel that I shouldn't have let the kids pick the location or maybe done more research before we set out but overall, this park was a disappointment for anyone over 5 years old. My advice would be Urban Air great for little kids but find something else for teens. As far as the park itself goes, dirty, dingy and in need of some important repairs. Management communication terrible/ nonexistent. I would not recommend Urban Air, Normal, Illinois. P.S. Sorry this review was not done promptly but when you sign up to play at Urban Air, you agree to communication and every time I get another Urban Air email, I am disappointed all over again. I couldn't just unsubscribe without commenting on our terrible experience.

Best rock climbing gym ever outdoor bouldering ever Isaiah deserves a raise same with Wilson and…read moreOlivia!!! Highly recommend!

I decided to stop by this climbing gym while traveling from Chicago to St. Louis because of the…read morepositive reviews here on Yelp. When I read that I would be able to climb inside a silo, that really got me excited. However, when I finally got there, my initial excitement quickly diminished. First of all, I didn't like the idea of being charged for taking a belay test. Also, the locker room/bathroom was rather small for changing. Although the outdoor bouldering space sounded appealing, you are required to either bring your own crash pad or rent one from the gym. The route markers were also quite small. If you think you would enjoy top-roping inside a silo, then you will be quite satisfied with this place.

I went to this son of a place..... my babies were so sad to see they were closed at 7:20 PM when…read moretheir website and door specifically said 8 PM this place is an absolute scam and their customer service was HORRIBLE my little babies were so astonished to see they were closed.

If I can spare even one of my brothers or sister from the embarrassment I experienced at this…read moreestablishment; mission accomplished. Don't spend your hard earned money at a place that doesn't want you there.We drove over an hour to try out somewhere new. From the second we entered the door there was an unfriendly air about the way even the kid at the reception desk acted towards us. My son of eight sensed it and said he didn't like the place. I'm not sure if this was the owner; but after telling her thank you and have a very good evening; a situation came up where this woman called me; a grandfather with a graying beard;'boy'; like it was 1950.Not 'sir' or 'mister'; but "boy" with a touch too much of southern twang.Even my son was taken aback. At almost 50 I have never been spoken to in that manner. It was utterly demeaning. The fact that she felt that was appropriate proves that business doesn't deserve my patronage. Don't go here if you expect to be treated humanely.