We hadn't managed to get to one yet due to a combination of session times, their nursery hours and my work hours so when I saw that the newest addition to the local trampoline scene, Jumpareana Gateshead, had toddler sessions on during the school holidays I jumped (see what I did there!) at the chance to book.
I pre-booked on line which was fairly easy and I was quite impressed with the price too- at £5 per child including accompanying adult it is cheaper than some local softplays. Jumpareana also give you a health and safety waiver to sign at booking- It was rather epic and a bit scary to read but working in a field where I regularly have to risk asses things I can see why they do it!
I managed to find Jumparena quite easily, it is just behind the Metrocentre pretty close to Costco and there was ample free parking outside. On arrival we registered and brought some socks for £2 each This was the only real additional cost and they are yours to keep so we will use them again. My friend who I went with had socks from another trampoline park and that was fine too. We then watched a brief safety video which did mention danger of death quite a few times but was largely common sense- i.e don't dive head first in to a foam pit.
We then went through in to the main hall which was new, clean and well organised. There were also lockers (£1 refundable) where you could leave valuables. It consisted of several areas, a huge area of small trampoline beds joined together, an obstacle course, an area with balls and baskets and a trampoline floor, a gladiator style beam, and a trampoline that you could leap from on to a huge air pillow. Well the girls and their friend were in their element. They absolutely loved bouncing up and down and running from trampoline to to trampoline. They even loved the air pillow bit which surprised me as they tend to be quite cautious. It all seemed very safe and the marshals who were scattered around seemed capable and friendly. You have to be under 5 to go to the toddler sessions so there were no big kids leaping around either!
As an extra bonus, this week at Jumparena super heroes are visiting daily so Spiderman made a visit to our session bouncing around and playing with the kids! Now Emily loves Spiderman but is normally utterly petrified of people dressed up as characters and even she braved giving him a high five after an initial few minutes of awestruck shyness so I think it was a nice touch.
There is a cafe on site where we went for a drink and a snack afterwards and watched the bigger children in the next session. There wasn't a huge amount of choice but it was clean, reasonably priced and did coffee, cake and kids smoothies so we were happy. I have to say that having watched the next session which was an open jump I'm very glad we went to the toddler one as it was somewhat higher octane but it still looked like great fun for bigger kids.
I apologise for my lack of photos on this post. This was due to the practicalities of jumping without losing my phone! There are lots of brilliant non blurry pictures on the Jumparena website.
I think it is fair to say that we had a fab morning at Jumparena and will definitely be visiting again!
http://www.jumparena.co.uk/
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