Plan the cake around the clock, because at several of these venues the party room is a short slot rather than the whole booking. Island Rock in Plainview and The Gravity Vault in Westbury each give the group half an hour in it, Laser Bounce in Levittown gives forty-five minutes, and Active Kidz in Jericho keeps its rooms for the last thirty minutes of the party. Once Upon A Treetop in Plainview and Jump Town USA in Farmingdale go further and close the whole place to everyone else for your party. At Empire Adventure Park in Westbury and United Skates in Seaford, the cheapest party is a reserved table rather than a room.
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Laser Bounce Long Island
★ 4.2(1086)·Levittown, NY·1.8 mi
$499package
1 hour 45 minutesduration
✓private room included
from venue website, Sep 2026
Choose laser tag for the Basic party if you want an arena to yourselves. The other option, an hour of trampoline and Ballocity, runs in the shared play areas unless you pay to upgrade it to private play, even though the same page says every package includes private arenas. Parents join the private games free, and afterwards the kids take their game cards into the arcade, which stays open to everyone. Beyond a cake, no outside food is allowed.
The party moves every half hour. Your group has each attraction to itself for its slot while other parties may be using the rest of the building, and the room is yours only for the final thirty minutes. One parent found the pace rushed; another liked that nobody else shares your area during your segment. A 15% gratuity is added to the package price, and outside food stops at cake and desserts.
2 hours (1.5 hours climbing + 0.5 hours party room)
✓private room included
✓ Verified by phone · Sep 2026
Instructors run the climbing and the games, one to every five children, on a wall the Westbury gym keeps for kids' parties. The cheaper package covers the climbing, the room and a T-shirt for the birthday child, but no food: pizza, drinks and paper goods come with the dearer one, where the instructors also serve and clear up.
Don't expect a host at your child's elbow. Empire runs its parties as free play: apart from one private laser tag or dodgeball game, the children roam attractions that stay open to the public, and the host may not be with them the whole time. A guided host costs extra. One guardian per child comes free and other adults pay, and outside food is limited to cold sandwiches and salads, for a fee.
The two packages split by age and height. The cheaper one, for all ages, is built around the soft-play obstacle course or toddler town; laser tag and bumper cars come only in the other, which is for sevens and up who clear 48 inches. Either way the hosts guide the children from area to area. The cake is yours to bring or to order through Bounce!, and two party parents single out how organized it all was.
Party parents keep crediting the staff. One describes a team experienced enough to wrangle a group of fourteen, another says they went above and beyond for a son's party, with something on the walls for every comfort level, and a third calls it a great place for an eight-year-old. The gym says it now hosts parties for the children of people who celebrated their own sixth birthdays here in the late nineties.
Monsters and black light set this one apart: the Garden City course is glow-in-the-dark and dotted with playful monsters, and a round takes roughly half an hour to 45 minutes. The branch pitches its parties at every age, adults included. Staff set up, serve, entertain and clean up in the themed room, and one parent says all they brought was the cake, the goodie bags and a couple of balloons. It takes no walk-in or unscheduled parties, so book ahead.
Roller Skating RinkArcadeFamily Entertainment Center
United Skates of America Roller Skating Massapequa
★ 4.4(3276)·Seaford, NY·4.6 mi
$35.68/ person
2 hoursduration
from venue website, Sep 2026
Most parents who review a party here write about their host, often by name, and one describes a set schedule of eating, playing, then cake and pictures. The group gets reserved seating at a table. Each child guest may bring one non-skating adult free, while adults who skate pay admission and skate rental like anyone else, so count the grown-ups before you book.
Plan this one for a toddler or preschooler: the birthdays reviewers name here are second and fourth birthdays, and one guest with children of two and four ranks it among the best on the island for ages one to seven. Three party leaders run it. The venue is full-service and allows no outside theme items or balloons, and it recommends booking four to five months ahead.
Book a Wednesday for the price on the card: that tier is not offered in school breaks, the night before a holiday or through the summer, and on other days the packages cost more. Parents describe a party they barely had to run: one found the pizza-and-cake room decorated for them, another found the pizza already cut and plated, and several say they did nothing beyond showing up.
