What an awesome day we had at Safari West yesterday!! It has been a bucket list item for our family…read morefor quite some time and we were thrilled when the stars aligned to make it happen! We took our kids, ages 8 and 6, and they LOVED it! Our tour guide, Nicole, was awesome! She has been at Safari West for 4 years and really knows the animals, their behaviors and all the fun facts (along with some great jokes!). The jeep tour was about 2 hours, but it is engaging the whole time. We were lucky and got to see several brand new babies of multiple species!! We were all able to take turns sitting on top of the jeep, but sitting on the inside was great as well. After a short break, we did the walking tour which was the perfect ending. Also, we highly recommend the lunch buffet (which must be booked 48 hrs prior to arrival). We were all pleasantly surprised with how great the food was, plus it was kid approved as well! During our break, enjoyed some snacks from Delilah's - the dole whip was a favorite! Thank you Safari West for the awesome memories.

We booked our tour about a month ahead and chose our date, but the weather had other plans and it…read moreended up raining. Even so, we decided to go. Our tour guide, Megan, was wonderful, friendly, engaging, and great at making the experience enjoyable despite the weather. My little one was beyond excited and kept calling it "going on an adventure," which made it even more special. That said, there weren't as many animals out to see, probably because of the rain, since some were hiding inside. The stop and go process to open and close the gates along the way was also a bit annoying and felt like it slowed things down at times. Toward the end of our tour, the rain picked up from a light shower to a heavy downpour, but we were able to finish in time. Seeing how happy my little one was made it all worth it. She sat up top with her dad and had an amazing time. ***One thing to keep in mind is that there is no cell service at the location, so plan accordingly. We didn't stay overnight, so I can't speak to the Wi-Fi situation, but if you need connectivity, you'll have to drive back into the city.*** P.S. Avoid going on rainy days!

Epicenter is exactly what you want it to be - a place kids can have the best time ever, and a place…read moreadults don't hate to be at. They have a good array of arcade games - we are partial to Jurassic Park though it always has a line, skee ball, basketball, the frogger clone game, the harpoon game - as well as things like trampolines (extra cost), the playground (a ball spill thingy, slides, 3 levels, a zip line, etc - also extra cost. We enjoy bowling during football games so we can watch and bowl and get boneless wings from victory house (and sometimes Bloody Marys). I've also come to watch friends play soccer at their different indoor courts. Only downside - it feels a bit like a germ fest. Lots of hand sanitizer and now I feel like I need to take some elderberry.

This review is specifically for the Charlie's Candy Shop escape room…read more We came a few months ago in a group of six. I think the Finding Bigfoot escape room wasn't even open yet. The Charlie's Candy Shop escape room was created with AI, and we genuinely felt that was a mistake. This wasn't our first escape room, but we were completely lost. So many of the instructions were confusing and didn't make any sense. All the clues were super vague. One of the instructions was incorrect ( that's why we couldn't complete the task ), and our room host told us about it after our time had ended. We also got the exact same hint twice, from the button and the paper. Overall, the room felt cheaply made, and some of the components were broken. The host also told us that the percentage of people/groups completing the room without hints from the host is zero, which, in our opinion, is odd. So I guess the room is too hard, but mostly because not much of it makes sense. We think, the clues should be more helpful and clearer than what we experienced in Charlie's Candy Shop escape room. We still have hopes for the Finding Bigfoot escape room ( assuming it wasn't created with AI ). P.S. Our host was nice and friendly. He even let us glance at the soon-to-be-open Finding Bigfoot escape room, which we really appreciated. +1 star for the host.

Great yoga class with Shannon today! She is the best teacher in Sonoma County and I love the room…read morewhere she teaches at Session.

This place has been accused of being hard to deal with their subscriptions, and that has absolutely…read morebeen proven true. They will take your money and have extremely predatory contracts Upon signing up for the trial membership, we were excited to try it out. Essentially you pay for a two week membership, it was cool, but my wife and I weren't certain on things and decided to put the membership on hold. When we told them this, the employee never actually processed the "pause" on our end so I was charged. Obviously I was frustrated, but they then decided to refund me after fighting pretty hard for it, I'm assuming solely because they wanted my business back. Fast forward to a month later, In the trial agreement, and per the employees, if you put the membership on pause it will remain like that until you decide to change it. Literally says in the terms that it can stay paused for at MINIMUM 1 month. Not maximum, and their employees verified this. At no point does it say anything about reactivating my membership, yet they choose to do exactly that and charge me $180 with no explanation. Upon reaching out to the business, they took multiple days to respond to our emails, and since we were planning to cancel, they would not be refunding our money. Essentially saying "we'll keep your money now even though we had no right to charge you, because this time we won't get anymore from you" It's really disheartening to see a local business, claiming to be intertwined with the community only to find predatory practices to rip them off. At first I could see this as a form of miscommunication, but after ignoring us, then responding with a no, THEN following up with a double down on a no because it's "too late for us to process" when you took days to respond is disgusting. This business sucks, and I wanted to love it.

What a beautiful park with things to do for everyone! Play structure with lots of variety for young…read moreand big kids, train, carousel and horse rides! Felt like we didn't have enough time with all the things to do and will be back. If making a trip with kids to Sonoma make this a stop for sure!

This is a great park for families. There is a nice play area that has many different activities for…read moreall ages. They have po ore rides, a train ride and a carousel. That also rent out paddle boats and canoes. There are many hiking trails that hook up with a spring lake and Andel park so you can walk as far as you want. It's a great place for birthday parties as well. Many tables. Parking is rough sometimes on a busy weekend.

So thankful for Trey helping and assisting my daughter today. We're visiting from out of town…read moreduring Spring Break. My 8 year old daughter did a day pass. This was her first time trying at a real climbing gym. We arrived at 10 AM on a Tuesday. No one was in the gym except Trey who checked us in, helped put on the gear, and assisted us for a good while. He helped us w the belays and was supportive and taught climbing moves. My daughter LOVED it and we went back after lunch for another 2 hours. Thank you so much Trey! Also big shout out to Jasper for the fun assist this afternoon. You both made her experience one to remember. We'll be looking for a climbing gym close to home! Thanks for a great day

My son wanted to have his 8th Birthday party at a climbing gym. Session was way to expensive so…read morechecked out Vertex. Other than some some technical issues with booking the party I really can't speak highly enough of our experience. What an incredible value, to have 2 of our own belay's was amazing. They were so nice, patient and helpful. I generally try to get names to give a personal thank you but I forgot to write them down! But thank you Vertex team for an amazing experience! This will not be our last birthday here!

Great roller rink for open skate. Well-maintained, smooth wood surface, clear, safe, and easily…read moreaccessible entry/exit points, and a spacious floor to skate. Rented quad & inline skates that were in good shape, no damaged eyelets nor frazzled laces. Clean facilities and well-managed music/atmosphere. DJ was great with the music and games. Fun way to spend a Saturday!

Great place to take the kids, not bad price even if you have to rent skates…read more The staff is friendly and safety is at the top of the list when they are doing games on the roller rink floor. I am glad this place is still around and I can take my kids here as I did when I was a kid

I'm still surprised that after a little more than an hour, I was able to pop a balloon, let alone…read moreeven come close to hitting the targets! On a recent Saturday morning, my wife and I joined a small group of others in an archery class at Backroom Archery-Turra's. We entered through the retail shop, where that was filled with all kinds of archery paraphernalia that I had no idea about, and we were escorted through a back door to a big room-- the range. Our husband and wife team provided safety information and then handed out bows. They worked step by step to help us learn body positions with the bow that would help us become successful archers. Then we practiced launching some 8 arrows down towards the targets. Many of our arrows missed their target-- some sliding down the floor and others striking the thick padded blanket at the end of the room. After each volley (?) of arrows, they would go over another new technique to refine our posture, and each time our accuracy improved. By the end of our class, they had us pin a balloon to the target. I'm still impressed that I was able to pop the balloon two separate times (when the range was clear, we would all walk down the range and collect our arrows and get set for the next round). It was a fun way to spend the morning and for me, quite satisfying. I now have a lot of respect for those Olympic archers-- and Katniss Everdeen. My only suggestion is to wear long sleeves if it's a cool morning. The range room is a big space with a concrete floor and was a little cool. I've recommended the experience to friends and look forward to returning someday-- will be a great activity on a rainy day.

Highly recommend taking archery lessons here with theresa! She was amazing for the beginners group…read moreclass. We had an amazing time and Theresa made it so easy to understand. We will be back to buy our first bows from Theresa.

Checking out, dog parks here in Santa Rosa and down the street. There's a Dutch bros coffee! I got…read moretwo for one with this trip/outing!! My puppies really liked the big open grassy areas of the dog park and although we don't let them off leash since their huskies, and they would run into everyone's yard to explore, They had a fun time within the dog park itself and liked running and digging around the roots of the tree. Lol there were two other dogs they could play with there at the same time as us but I really like how this park is in the middle of a neighborhood, and then even had a great playground for kids along with four or five different workout equipment pieces around the whole park so if you were running, you could clock your mileage on the ground with markers as well as doing each of the five different Workout equipment pieces. The only downfall I would say is that the water fountain is outside of the gates of the dog park so it seems like giving dogs was an afterthought while they're running around, but it was easy to access and get the dogs water after they were running around. When we come to Santa Rosa again, we will definitely check out this dog park. I will definitely get another coffee carburetor with coconut milk! Hee.

Beautiful park to have a outing and for kids to play and bring a lunch or have a BBQ large group or…read morea couple

Hands down, the best gym in town…read more. Always clean, machines are always available and the other members are cool and respectful.. I enjoy working out here...

Frankly, my experience was just terrible. The Yelp profile, website and signs at the gym all state…read morethe gym sells day passes. I from out of town so a day pass was all I could use or need. I went to the gym in the early afternoon and told an employee that I would like to buy a day pass. He simply told me he was too busy and didn't want to sell me one. Seriously!! I asked him how much a day pass usually cost. He said $20. I said "can't I just give you $20 so I can work out?" He said no because he would still have to enter my information into their system and he said he didn't want to do that. I didn't argue but just left. Thought to myself that if you don't want to sell day passes don't advertise that you sell them. That result in a waste of my time even going there. Not a customer friendly experience!

Such a wonderful experience! The guides were so attentive and funny, which really helped keep any…read morenerves at ease. The views were beautiful, and everything felt well-paced from start to finish. The whole experience lasted about 2.5 hours and included 7 zip lines, which was such a fun adventure. The location can be a bit tricky to find, so I'd recommend giving yourself extra time and arriving at least 30 minutes before your scheduled tour, as they suggest.

We stayed in the treehouses and had two Zipline adventures. The staff was amazing. From start to…read morefinish every one of our were met. The zipline guides were so friendly and knowledgeable. I brought my 10-year-old granddaughter for her birthday and they treated her careful consideration of her age and her inexperience. They made her feel comfortable and fun for her. I can't say enough about the Treehouse~I was like a 4 star hotel . Absolutely everything you needed to be comfortable and safe. They were beautiful and safe in a pristine situated in a redwood grove . The meals were over the top, deliciously prepared with fresh and quality ingredients. We celebrated my granddaughter's 10th birthday and had the best time from start to finish. I highly recommend a trip to Sonoma Canopy ~ a beautiful adventure I won't forget!