Play City

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Bring a three-year-old and a nine-year-old and both will find their own floor here, which is not true of most rooms this size. The under-fives get a proper zone rather than a fenced-off corner, and the structures are built tall enough that an adult can follow a child inside without crawling — a small design decision parents keep mentioning, and the reason this reads as somewhere you can settle in for an afternoon rather than an hour.

The catch is that adults pay to come in, which is unusual around here and which one visitor raised directly, naming cheaper rooms further west as the reason they would not be back. If you expect to return at all, the monthly membership covers a parent's entry and a regular reckons it pays for itself inside two visits. It is properly air conditioned with guest wifi, which matters more than it sounds in this valley — this is the room families pick when it is a hundred degrees outside. Weekends run more than three times busier than weekdays and Saturday afternoon is the peak, so a weekday morning is effectively a different venue. Grip socks are required and are the one thing worth bringing from home.