Smiley Ocean Themed Adventure Park

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Reviewers keep reporting the same unlikely thing: entire days. Five hours, six hours, one parent writing that they practically had to carry a child out. That comes down to how many separate rooms sit under this roof — a jungle gym of tubes and slides with a trampoline basketball court, ball pits, rock climbing, an obstacle course, an interactive rice pit, a wall-and-floor game room, a building-block room, and a redemption arcade running on swipe cards rather than tickets. The playground is oriented to children from nine months to ten years; a separate virtual reality room is for nine and up, and it is the only part that will hold an older sibling.

Two things are worth planning around. The rooms shut in a staggered sequence rather than all together, with the rice pit, block room and interactive games closing half an hour before the doors and the jungle gym and arcade a quarter of an hour before, so arriving late buys a noticeably smaller venue than the one advertised. And reviewers divide on upkeep: most call it clean, one calls the toys filthy, and several note equipment beginning to wear. The arcade is charged on top of admission and is widely described as expensive.