Monkey Island

We were visiting from out of town but the rain ruined our outdoor plans so we found Monkey Island online and gave it a try. I’m giving this three stars, but my daughter would probably have given it 5. It’s HUGE with a lot of bouncy houses and one large climbing structure w/​tunnels, platforms and slides. It’s a bit dingy, the bouncy houses look very worn, a bit torn and faded. Dusty on the tops. The bouncers aren’t attended by staff while kids are playing so it’s all self regulated and some get overcrowded with shoving kids. I was anxious my active 4 year old would get injured by a larger child, but she was just fine. I didn’t see any kids getting hurt, which is shocking. The kids all were having a blast. Adults are not allowed on the bouncers, like they are at others we’ve visited which made me a little uncomfortable as it was harder to keep my daughter safe. We had fries from their concession stand which were good.
It was a good place for a rainy day. I’ve been to many indoor playgrounds, we’re fans. This one was just a bit more run down than others. I’d probably try a different indoor playground before returning here, although I would return. My daughter loved it. The price was good too.

My kids love this place. They can be there for many hours at a time.

Searching for new places to take the children and came across this place. Drove over 30 min to get here than had to wait another 30 to find parking. The place is big but it’s filled with inflatables. Defiantly wasn’t worth the drive or the wait. The place could be a lot cleaner and have more staff. Nothing fancy or unique.

Let me say from a kid’s perspective, this place is probablly the best place ever! We were here for a birthday party and my son had a blast with this buddies running around and playing on all the inflatables and climbing structures.
This place is huge. HUGE! The main room houses 6 large bouncy houses, a toddler play area and a huge jungle-​gym/​climbing structure. Then there are two adjacent rooms – one with more bouncy houses and arcade games and the other was more of a sporty themed room.
There are two party rooms, tons of picnic tables and smaller table seating and a snack bar surrounding the main play area. So basically ALL the kids have the run of the place while you’re there. For the Saturday afternoon we were there, both party rooms were filled, there were smaller parties held at the picnic tables and tons of folks dropping in for an afternoon with their kids. There were probably 200 kids running around. Screaming. Yelling. Jumping. Crying.
And from my perspective, this place is gross. (I should preface this by saying that none of the following behavior was from any of guests from the party) I saw two women start to fight, saw a couple not so subtley groping each other, a woman yelling at someone who accidentally walked in front of them when they were trying to take a picture. A woman loudly complaining to her friends about the child’s dead beat dad. Monkey Island? Maybe Lord of the Flies.
The inflatables were dingy and one wasn’t very stable – saw a kid get stuck between the safety netting and the egde of the floor. One of the moms had to help him out. I only saw one staff member overseeing one inflatable – with no other staff people watching the other structures. There seems to be no security at all – sorry with a place so large with so many kids, you have to have some kind of security. The parking lot is tight and riddled with pot-​holes.
The party room assigned to us was nice though. But maybe part of that was that the birthday boy’s mom decorated all the tables. The pizza MI provided was good too.
Maybe this place is better on a non-​party days or earlier in the day. Though I don’t know if I can handle another afternoon with the crazy adult behavior.

I’ve been taking my kids to monkey island for years and although it’s always been a bit run down (and dusty) have thought it’s worth the money. However, today I’m very disappointed. I came with my 2 kids and paid full price and only ½ of the inflatables were blown up. Furthermore, one of the large inflatable was half wet. I complained and they stated that since it was slower during the week they wouldn’t blow them up until 3:30 or so (3.5 hours after opening). I would be OK with only half the place opened if they charged me ½. I will not be coming back.

GREAT PLACE! We can spend hours here with food as well and a good environment to have fun! They use the space very well having a lot of different jumpy houses and slides that are blown up which allows it to be very crowded but it never feels like it is with how many jumping houses their are. The climbing house is amazing, the kids would happily spend the whole time in it. They love being able to crawl around and explore each level and it is completely see through due to netting I am able to see them the whole time no matter where they are crawling around at.
The bathroom is at first interesting but I think that was due to the public rather than the staff there as it was very busy that day. The pizza and food they serve is quite delicious and provides a great way to burn some extra energy when it’s too miserable to be outside!

2.5−3 stars. It’s a no-​frills place probably best suited for 4 – 11 year olds. I attended a bday party this weekend. The party was early so it was not too packed and we had no issues w parking. As we left around 2pm, the lot was full and it started getting too crowed for comfort. It’s a sad pattern I’m see more and more of at kid amusement places. You almost have to go in as soon as a place opens to avoid the crowds and chaos.

Turns out they do have an (unadvertised?) monthly membership for $ 45 (1 child & 1 adult)! Additional family members can be added for $ 15 & kids 2 & under are free.
They do need to add healthier meals & snacks (fresh fruit would be great, peanut butter sandwiches, veggie chips, pirate booty, etc.) since there are signs saying no outside food or drinks. They have hot dogs, movies theater type nachos, & pizza I heard was sad, but I’ve never tried. There’s only Capri sun for the kids. Also, cash only for snacks.

Why in the freaking world would they charge adults?! Why? You made it a new rule to not have parents get on any of the bouncy houses with their children or on any other equipment then WHY DO YOU CHARGE ADULTS?! We should at least get a free drink out of it for the kids you cheapsakes and the bathrooms were disgusting and smelled foul and filthy they were more worried about if your kid takes off his socks than cleaning up the place and on top of that they were making a pizza and obviously burned it because the entire facility smelled of burnt cardboard and we left my son and husband were complaining that the strong smell was making their eyes hurt will not be returning they need to be shut down
Bad reviews spread faster than good ones.

Best place for the little ones to burn off energy. This place has become our weekend fun spot.

It’s really not worth the journey to go because the equipment and amenities are worn and limited. The space is large because its an old warehouse, but its not full, a lot of open areas which looks depressing. It has a nice basketball court but the rims are bent and the basketballs old. Its just looks like they are loosing money and barely holding on.

Love taking my kids here. They never want to leave. I like letting them run around until their are pooped. I can even go play a game of pool or just relax and read a book. If you want to get your kids out of your hair for a while this is the place to go.

I went her for a nieces bday party. When you first walk in, amazing! It’s a kids dream! But many of the people there that day were rude. Parents were on their phones and not paying attention to their kids.
I was part of the party and didn’t pay but normally kids AND adults pay. Why? Adults don’t play on any of those things. Just another way to get money. Can you imagine? you’re paying for 4 kids already, can you seriously let me, the adult who should be supervising her own kids, in for free?
Big kids were jumping and acting crazy with no regard for the little ones next to them. They could have gotten seriously hurt!
I’m not sure if they’re understaffed or what but the place was also pretty gross. Bathroom were dirty and overall looked like it needed a good vaccuum and hose down.
Luckily I don’t have you children anymore, so I don’t have to worry about that but if anyone asks for a recommendation, NOT HERE

I don’t have any of my own kids as I was here for my friend’s daughter’s 4 year old birthday party. The parking lot was tight as everyone else must have had the same idea to come here or were here for the party or a party. There are a few girls manning the front directing people to areas where there was a party and then stamping people to let them in. Apparently you could stay all day and totally let your kids get worn out. I was just here for a couple of hours watching and I was tired. Oh to be a kid with so much energy. This place definitely has quite the variety of fun activities to entertain your kids. You can’t be afraid of germs and must be prepared to be around lots of kids. You’ll be lucky to find an empty table to put your items on and save seats. The staff was pretty good about cleaning up and setting up for the party. We had a slightly tough time getting them to refill water and pop. In any case a good idea for a child’s birthday party.

It wasn’t that great. It wasn’t cheap, and they won’t let me slide with my two-​year old. Would not recommend.

I was a little nervous on booking a birthday party here because of the reviews I’ve read. But I ended up booking it anyway and I’m glad I did! My daughter and her guests had a blast.
The place is really big. They have a section for infants/​toddlers which I thought was pretty cool except for some toys (vanity mirrors and kitchen appliances) which are old and broken. They have a small section for adults only. 18 and over to be exact. The room has a basketball game and wrestling bouncy house which I thought was cool. They have a lot bouncy houses and slides for older kids and arcade games.
The employees there aren’t really friendly and they talk among each other. They don’t pay attention to any of your needs. If you need something you need to go find your hostess. And they don’t provide any matches or cutting knife for your cake. The package that I bought included 2 pizzas and 3 pops and the pizzas were huge! Even though the pizza didn’t taste that good I loved that my guests were able to have seconds. The hostess came at the end packed the pizza that was left over and put it on the side for me and she cleaned after us. You DON’T have to clean after your party finishes! Overall my experience was good and I would definitely book a party in the near future.

I was invited here for a birthday party for the 1^st time and my impressions are mixed. It’s basically an old warehouse facility converted to an indoor playground with large inflatable apparatus for children to play on.
The security for entering the facility is in order so that random adults without their children do not enter, but the exit was not well guarded. I did leave without children in hand, but there really wasn’t anyone to see me leave?!
The facilities are large and there is plenty of room. There was a basketball court for adults and children to play but there were several rooms with bumper cars not in service and the arcade room is totally suboptimal with only 5 – 6 machines to play.
The pizza served is like Domino’s not great but not bad either.
I would not randomly bring my grandkids to play here until they are much older because I didn’t feel there was much supervision around.

The Good: The kids LOVE this place! They bounced around for hours. Lots of room to run about.
The Bad: DO NOT leave your children unsupervised. Since this place is sort of a free for all, the working attendants, if any, are barely there to help. Little ones can be bumped, squished, hit, or trampled. There are some aggressive kids there who wouldn’t even look back or care that they knocked over a little one. I was on mine the whole time. So don’t expect to just sit and relax while your child age 6 and under is jumping around with kids that are practically pre-​teens. This was my experience during a party on a Saturday. During the week it may be entirely different.
Overall, I liked this place. I thought it was clean and well kept. The bathrooms were not as bad as some other reviewers mentioned, the day I was there, is was pretty clean and not smelling so bad. If you do come here, bring lots of change for the arcade games. I didn’t see an ATM anywhere but they did have a bill changer near the games.

bathrooms were disgusting and not clean, no veggies or healthy food being served, place is not clean, no anti septic hand sanitizers, makes me wonder if they ever clean this place. Frozen packaged cardboard looking pizza.
It’s basically a large empty place and they put a bunch of inflatables in the place. They make the adults pay as well, which is stupid. The only good thing about this place is that they offer free wifi.
My brother in law said the man walking around making balloon animals didn’t wash his hands when he was finished in the washroom.
My nephew liked the place but only because of the inflatables. I wouldn’t dare bring my kids here.

Reviewing this place was kinda tough. Part of me would not go back to this place unless they fix a few things first. The other part of me wants to take the kids back because they loved it (Of course, we would avoid the obvious problem areas, lol).
Fun factor:
Monkey Island provided a fun environment for my 9 year old and my 18 month old boys. They met that expectation nicely, as both were worn out after two hours of running and jumping on the various inflatables. It is difficult to find a place that will entertain the two of them at the same time, since they are so far apart age-​wise, but this place did the trick.
We were here for a birthday party and we felt as if the staff were doing an ok job with providing the group with enough food and drinks.
The food is basic kiddie food, hot dogs, chips, soda, candy, which is available at a small consession stand.
So from this POV, the visit was great.
The negatives:
1) I did not see a lot of staff supervision at the inflatables so that was a concern because some parents let their kids run amok and I can see how problems and injuries could arise out of lack of supervision.
2) The bathrooms were horrible! The day we went, there was a sewer issue and the women’s room was backed up and water was all over the floor. The family washroom smelled like a sewer and the men’s room was not clean, but was the better of the three options.
3) Adults are no longer allowed on the inflatables, but they still charge you to enter. WTF! One, how do you get a kid on these thing for the first time if they are scared? Two, paying to sit and watch your kids run around makes no sense to me.
I really hope that this place takes the negatives seriously and makes the right changes because it is a real cool place for the kids.