Bounce Around Indoor Play Center Review

I guess I had high expectations but I was really disappointed in Bounce Around, located in Clifton Park, NY.  They had 7 inflatables (bouncy bounces) of different varieties – slides, a toddler farm area, character themes, etc.  Then they had a number of arcade games which took tokens and gave prizes or tickets redeemable for prizes.

We found the staff to be less than friendly – I wondered if any of them even liked kids.  The price was pretty steep - $8.75 for 2 hours of play time

Many of the arcade games were broken and a number of them broke when we tried to play them.  We have visited a number of these types of establishments so I guess you could say we are experienced arcade goers.  Many of the prize games at Bounce Around had very cheap prizes or very difficult to win prizes.  For example there is a dinosaur game made by ICE that you drop the dino to pick up candy or toys that spin around.  All other places have it so chock full of toys and candy that it’s pretty easy to win every time and it takes 1 token.  Here it takes 2 and they are large lollipops that are very difficult to grab with the dinosaur.  Almost all the games took two or more tokens.  Equally disappointing were the redeemable prizes.  They had no candy and the smallest thing was 5 tickets for an army guy or a tiny neon nylon rope ring .  A small bouncy ball was 30 tickets.  This is usually like 5 or 10 tickets other places we have been

As far as the bouncing is concerned the kids (4 and 2) did have fun with it but we found it pretty dangerous as a lot of the sections of the inflatables were not within view of the parents and parents are not allowed on any inflatable.  So if a 12 year old is stomping on your 2 year old’s head in the slide stairway – no one would know until it was too late.  I didn’t find the staff manning the inflatables to be of much help either as they were texting or looking around generally glumly.

I think they had 3 or 4 birthday parties going on at the same time, which is a lot for a place so small.  It really seemed like the owners were generally interested in ripping off kids and I’m really not into supporting that.

Perhaps I was expecting too much as we were planning to go to TreePaad (cheaper and better) but they were closed for a private party.  Needless to say I don’t plan to go to Bounce Around again.