Crazy Kingdom

As it is my sons birthday in two days and we weren't having a party for him, which seems to be the "in" thing these days, (and the modern way to compete with other parents!) we let him chose where he wanted to go.

He chose crazy kingdom at Anfield plain, so we off we set at 11am, 30 mins behind our "schedule" for the day, due to said child "not being able to walk in jeans" and due to us being "the nastiest parents ever" for making him get out of bed in order to go out for HIS birthday...., he's turning 8 not 13!

Once we were there we paid in, prices range, As mine are both over 5 they are  £4.10 each for 2 hours play, Then we went to find seats, there are some comfy leather seats which seem to always be free whenever we go in so we sat there, and there are also newspapers on hand to read, After around 30 mins of sitting on the comfy seats I realised why they are always free, the bowling alley is directly above, so if you feel you need more noise than lots of children running round and screaming, these seats are THE place to be!

The children went to play in the play area, which is quite a decent size if you compare it to places like Brewsters, and as well as the usual indoor ball pit/slide combo has things like, a climbing wall, football cage, Netball nets, mini trampolines and of course the extra money making machines that are impossible to win on!

While I endured the noise of the roof caving in and screaming banshees, I remembered that old phrase "a cup of tea solves everything", because no matter what the situation, someone's upset, someone's fallen over, or been knocked over or dies, everyone ALWAYS offers you a cup of tea!#

So after a quick glance at the menu, off I went to the "cafe" at the front, and ordered my £1.10 cup of tea and a pakcet of 20p Space raiders, (random combination but at the time I felt it worked), and was charged £1.45....?, I wasn't in the mood to argue over 15p so just left it at that, and I have a feeling a saw a sign mentioning that the menu was changing or being updated so it's worth being aware of this if you visit in the near future.

After tasting my tea I realised I must of recently become a tea connoisseur, cos it was horrible!
On a previous occassion we ordered our offspring some food which arrived cold and even though they will usually eat most things put in front of them, they refused to risk it.

There always seems to be a party on and this occassion was no exception, but just playing on their own without any friends from school the children lasted around an hour playing before coming over and asking for money to play on the machines, (I lasted about 30 mins before having a tantrum over tea.)

Overall it's quite a good play area for school age children, with plenty to do for the 2 hours you pay for and the children have requested to go back so it can't be that bad, but I would avoid the food, and most importantly the tea.