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Count the guest list before choosing a venue for a party in and around Sugar Grove. Slick City and Kids Empire in North Aurora, Funway in Batavia, Aurora Skate Center, and Fox Valley Ice Arena in Geneva all price per head, so every extra guest adds to the bill. Mega Fun Park and FunFlatables in Aurora and Ultimate Ninjas in Naperville sell a package for a set number of children instead, and charge for each extra child. Only some of them give you a room of your own: Mega Fun Park and Ultimate Ninjas include one, while Slick City, Kids Empire and Funway seat parties at tables. At the rinks, the birthday group skates in a public session alongside everyone else.
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Mega Fun Park LLC
★ 4.3(135)·Aurora, IL·4.1 mi
$399package
2 hoursduration
✓private room included
✓ Verified by phone · Sep 2026
The adults get somewhere to go here: several reviewers mention the adults' lounge and its bar. Expect gaps on the floor, though, because reviews keep reporting attractions closed or games out of order on the day, at parties as well as on ordinary visits. The from-price package brings plates, balloons and a water dispenser but no food; pizza arrives with the next tier up.
Hosts carry the party reviews here: parents name theirs again and again for refilling drinks and checking in on the group, one while keeping up with fourteen children. The party gets a reserved table rather than a room. Everyone needs the park's own grip socks, charged per person on top of the package, and the cheapest tier carries no pizza.
Guests can arrive early, take a break and keep playing after the cake, because every package includes all-day play even though the table is held for a set time. Your group's base is a table close to the play structures rather than a room. Party reviews single out the hosts by name, and a cake is allowed only with a booked package.
Space off the floor is tight in a rink that dates from 1955, and the venue says so itself, which is why only the parents who book the party come in free; every other grown-up pays session admission, plus skate hire if they skate. The party takes a designated table during a public session, with a host, and an 18% gratuity is added to every party.
Funway lets you build the party from its activity list, indoors (bowling, skating, laser tag) and out (go-karts, bumper boats, batting cages). Check the age floors against your guest list first: laser tag starts at six, the go-karts at seven and the bumper boats at eight, each with a height minimum as well. The party's base is a table rather than a room, food is extra, and a cake comes in only with a booking made ahead.
Booking here takes two calls rather than one. The rink's package covers skating in a public session, skate hire and goodie bags; a space to eat and celebrate is reserved separately with the bar and grill inside the arena, and several reviewers rate its food. Public skate times vary, so check the schedule before setting the date, and ask for skate tutors if small first-timers are coming.
No reviews to speak of, so this rests on what the venue publishes. The party is not a private hire: your group bounces in the inflatable arena alongside open play, and the booking reserves a celebration area with picnic tables, assigned to your time slot. Saturday parties cost more and run shorter than weekday ones, outside food is allowed, and every child under eighteen in the building counts toward the headcount.
Pitched squarely at two- to six-year-olds, with bounce houses, ride-on toys and a dress-up corner rather than anything an older child would want. The equipment is visibly worn and several reviewers say so — flat batteries, grubby costumes — while others think it fine for the money. The from-price booking is the semi-private one, so you get a reserved area rather than the place to yourselves.
A party here means taking the building, and the figure attached is a minimum spend rather than a package, so what you actually pay tracks how many drivers you bring and for how long. It is best for an older child who genuinely wants to drive, and the reviews bear that out: they come overwhelmingly from adult enthusiasts discussing GT3 cars and rig builds rather than from parents.
The guest list stops at twenty children, though adults come free and do not count toward it. Parents who have held parties here keep mentioning what they did not have to do: the hosts set the room up and cleared it afterwards, and one family was even handed a cart to load the car. The obstacle course comes first and the room second, so the cake ends the party.