Party Jungle

About

Read this before you set off: you cannot turn up and pay for a visit. Since a policy change in the spring, entry needs a household membership, and more than a dozen reviewers describe reaching the counter — some from out of state, several having seen the park on a children's video channel — and being turned away with a child in tears. There is no day rate at all.

For families who join and live nearby, the accounts are warm and specific. The rides are unlimited: five carnival-style ones, with an elephant and a swing that get named again and again, alongside mini golf, a jungle gym and a roller slide. The arcade runs on real tokens and pays out real paper tickets, which several parents describe as the actual appeal — tactile in a way a card swipe is not. The walls and the rides were hand-painted by a husband-and-wife pair of artists, credited by name on the park's own site.

The membership has drawn sustained complaint. Four separate families, across several months, say the advertised monthly rate was sold to them with no mention of a three-month minimum, and that they found out only when they tried to cancel. Get the cancellation terms in writing before you hand over a card. It opens Friday to Sunday only, and a recent change of management has visibly lifted the cleaning.