Hi all,
This wkend, Evan, Jon and I have done an "indoor playground" adventure, hitting all the major playspots... or most of them. We did Port Discovery Friday night ($2/person family fun night the 3rd Fri of every month), Playseum on Sat ($5/person), Great Kids Village in Downtown SS yesterday (currently $6 per child as a grand opening special), and are headed to GKV in Columbia today.
PD was packed, but we still had fun... esp. in the water room.
Playseum is a fave as it has the "pet store" with real animals (mostly bunnies) that Evan loves to hold.
GKV in SS is 3500 sq ft, open, light, airy... but got crowded quickly. We liked it and will likely go back as it has enough space to actually run around which most of the others do not.
Looking fwd to GKV in Columbia as it is 24,000(!) square feet and hopefully means lots more to do and see and enjoy.
SOO... we are heading there at 11am today (they are opening early today) for fun and lunch and then back in the nhood for hopefully some time in the park in the late afternoon. (Evan will likely nap from 2-3p today).
If you are interested, join us. Cost for the GKV is a bit more than its new counterpart in SS, but still reasonable. Check out www.greatkidsvillage.com for directions.
Ciao.
Shawn and Evan (202 415 4016 cell)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Update on GKV Columbia: We were there about 2 hours. It is very big -- all one level, high ceilings, very open, lots of different "rooms" although you can see across the entire space over the 3-4 ft walls.
ReplyDeleteCost was $20 for the 3 of us: $10 for Evan, $5 for each of us. I am glad that GKV bought it from Playwise as it REALLY needs a facelift. Carpeting, decor and some of the toys have likely not been replaced since PW first opened. The new owners are slowly but surely sprucing it up, but it will take a while if they continue to do it piecemeal. Two rooms in the far corner have been repainted, or painted by someone as they are large murals of space and a nature preserve. Very well done!
Evan enjoyed the REAL firetruck the best. He went back to that a lot. And he/we loved that he could run around the maze-like rooms. I wish these indoor play grounds actually had playgrd eqpmt... bigger slides (even like what you would find at McD's Playland. But, that's one for the suggestion box.
Will we go back? Sure, but maybe in a couple of months when some more work is done. Maybe a rainy spring wkend day...
The closer SS GKV is great for the money ($6 promo), and Playseum is engaging. IL&P is still a fave as it is cozier, but heck, I love having so many to choose from... esp. GKV as an option for a Sunday when all the others are closed.
Ciao.