DO NOT book your kids birthday party here!!! You will be greatly disappointed and most of all ripped off! the AC does NOT work, my guests and our kids were melting!!!
Booked in May for end of June party. The playground has 1 large play area with sectioned off party room area, and smaller playroom in the back. The main playground is well lit the party room area with tables is not, seemed too dark
When visiting in May they told us we could book smaller room in the back and the rest of the playground would be open to public and shared for $650, or book the entire facility for $850. We were expecting 55 parents and 35 kids so I opted for the full facility rental and was promised the following package:
FULL FACILITY RENTAL $850+tax
Host a birthday party when you book our full facility. We will close to the public and provide you with use of both playgrounds to host your party.
3 Hours of private use of our FULL FACILITY, Invitations, Set up/Clean up, 6 Pitchers of Juice, 2 Party sized pizza's, Birthday tableware for children, Themed balloon bouquet, Gift for birthday child, Play pass for birthday child
The only slot they had for Sunday was 4:45pm with two other parties there earlier and were told to come at 4:40pm to set up, just 5 mins before party start!!!
On Sunday, we get into the playground and its an absolute SAUNA!!! must have been at least 35 degrees in there hot, stuffy and sticky!!! Immediately I ask why the AC wasn't working, the staff didn't seem surprised and gave me a story how the AC unit is in the smaller playroom in the back and the party that was held before us had the door closed so the rest of the playground got hot. Of course I was immediately stressed out and sweating, guests were arriving already. She suggested we move all tables and food to the smaller room since it takes "overnight" for the large play area to cool down. She offered to bring out couple of fans. The whole story didn't make sense and the fact that she brought out the fans so quickly means that they had this problem all along not just that day as she said. (PS read the review from July 2011 when another lady said the AC wasn't working even then!!!)
There was only two of them working and they took their sweet time with everything, when they should have hurried to move all food and tables. Of course my guests start arriving with their kids most were under 4 years old and before I can even say hi, I see sweat beads on everyone's faces. How embarrassing! I spent the next 3 hours apologizing for the inconvenience of the AC not working and watching everyone break out in sweat, especially the kids with their hairs getting wet and sweaty!
Needless to say we spent 80% of the time in the small party room in the back, few kids would venture out into the large play area but come back 5 mins later all hot and sweaty.
thank god I brought cases of water, ginger ale, coke, juice boxes otherwise my guests wouldn't have anything to drink. The staff never offered the 6 pitchers of juice as per package, when I asked them about it at the and one of the girls just said: "oh I must have forgotten". Other items missing were the birthday balloon bouquet for main table decoration, gift for the birthday child and play pass for the birthday child. Not to mention the paper towels in the bathrooms were out and I had to go and ask them to refill.
They specifically asked me to tell all my guests no bare feet allowed only socks so I made sure everyone was wearing socks, after 3 hrs the soles of my white socks were BLACK!!! EWW!! when do they mop the floors!!!
To sum up for my $850+ tax all we got was 2 party size pizzas, unprofessional staff and one hot sweltering dirty floors sauna playground. I felt completely ripped off and embarrassed in front of my friends and families.
Before we left I was going to speak up and see if they can charge me for the smaller party room booking since we barely used anything else. Rosalie asked to settle the bill before took our stuff out as my guests were leaving, I couldn't even say good bye to them, that's when I explained that it wasn't fair to pay close to a $1000 when my guests and their kids were so uncomfortable and we didn't even get half of the items were were promised, it was their responsibility to keep the playground cool enough in summer hours and they completely blindsided me and provided no warning of this issue. I was very pleasant and not confrontational, she seemed surprised I was complaining at all. Of course I would pay for a portion but I refused to pay for the whole thing. She called the owner, whom I told the same thing, she then asked to speak to Rosalie and hung up. Rosalie then said owner offered $50 off, that's it!!!! After some more back and forth she would only bring down $100 I was so fed up and just wanted to leave! in the end I paid $850 tax in, oh and they charge 3% extra if using a credit card!!!!!
PEOPLE STAY AWAY FROM THIS PLACE!!!! BOOK ELSEWHERE!!! read more