Indoor playgrounds in London not only are traditional soft climbing and ball pit balls, more and more playgrounds start to add role-playing, sensory exploration, trampoline, inflatable obstacles, interactive games, and themed experiences, let kids and children keep to find a feeling of freshness during playing.
The following 22 play zones all have their own features from large adventure-themed soft play area to a museum-themed space, that all worth to focus on for families.
1. Kidspace Romford
Kidspace Romford focuses on large adventurous indoor playground, its space has a rich spatial layering, suitable for energetic kids. Its multi-level climbing frames, tunnels, slides, and interactive activities can let kids explore along, it also has a dedicated space for children. For children who like challenging heights, speeds, and obstacles. This play place is more liking a all-weather adventure zone.
2. Role2Play
Role2Play takes the soft play to become a mini city, specially suitable for kids who like playing “house”. Its thematic areas such as supermarkets, cafes, garages, construction sites, veterinary clinics, and medical centers, that let children can freely change different roles. This play area is a full of storytelling and very suitable for training imagination, and also let every game all have different plots.
3. Inflata Nation Colindale (London)
If kids like jumping and bouncing, Inflata Nation is a play area with full of energy. This play area takes the large inflatable facilities as the core, including giant ball pool, volcanic-themed area, inflatable slides, and obstacle courses, the overall space more likes an indoor bouncing play park. For lively children, this kind of the high engagement indoor playground is very attractive.
4. Museum of London Docklands
This Mudlarks takes the museum stories into children’s games, that is a very creative play zone. Kids can explore the dock-themed soft play space, DLR carriages, giant building blocks, cranes, and water play tables, and they can learn the history of London's ports during playing. Different from simple play places, it more focuses on exploring, interacting, and learning experiences.
5. Gambado Chelsea - Indoor Softplay
Gambado Chelsea has a large multi-tiered soft play structure, suitable for children who like keeping sports. It has a ball pool, spinning slides, climbing facilities, trampoline equipment, obstacle courses, and mini bumper cars, young kids also have a dedicated area. The overall indoor playground more likes a compact adventure city, very suitable for families playing together.
6. ArtPlay Pavilion
ArtPlay Pavilion is focusing on an "art + gaming" route, it not a large play area in the traditional sense. Young kids can climb, passing, and exploring in a soft artistic landscape, its space design is inspired by classical paintings and pastoral landscapes. Its special place is lining on combining colors, art installations, and children's activities, let children freely create in a play zone of quiet and full of imagination.
7. Kidspace Croydon
Kidspace Croydon belongs to large comprehensive adventure indoor playground, the biggest feature is scale and number of projects. This play area not only has giant climbing frame, ut also has Go-Kart courses, climbing wall, maze, ball interaction zone, slides, and sensory space for young children. For families of a wide age range, different kids all can find their own play zones.
8. National Maritime Museum
National Maritime Museum’s Ahoy! Space takes the ocean story to become children’s interactive play place. Children can enter the 18th-century sailing ships, fishmongers, and seaside ice cream parlors and other role-playing scenes, it also has large ocean maps and interactive activities. It doesn’t focus on traditional ball pools, but through the nautical theme, let kids like a little explorer and play fun games.
9. Little Dinosaurs
Little Dinosaurs specially is suitable for kids who like dinosaur theme, the indoor area has climbing frames, slides, tunnels, and soft obstacles. It also has a safe enclosed activity garden and trampoline. On sunny days, kids can play from indoor playground to outdoor space, forming a continuous indoor and outdoor play area. Combining with the family coffee area, the overall experience is more relaxed.
10. The Sherriff Centre
The Sherriff Centre has a best charm is a special church architectural environment, a soft children’s play zone is arranged in a high indoor space. Traditional ball pits, slides, mesh climbing structures, and play zones with different ages can meet the daily activity needs, and its coffee area can let parents take a relax. For families, this play area is a space balancing children’s play and parents’ relaxing.
11. Flip Out Canary Wharf
Flip Out Canary Wharf more likes a sports and entertainment experience, taking the simple play area to upgrade an activity space with challenges. This play area is suitable for energetic kids, they can release their energy through jumping, climbing, obstacle challenges, and so on. Different from traditional soft play, it more focuses on actions and challenges, very meeting modern indoor playground trend for families who like “playing while training”.
12. Young V&A
Young V&A’s children’s space combines the museum design and young children's games, specially suitable for toddlers. Its soft carpets, plush display elements, tunnels, and interactive installations to build a small play zone, let babies can climb, drill and touch exploration. Its highlight not is large equipment, but is a play place with full of exquisite, highly designed, and childlike charm.
13. Discovery Planet
Discovery Planet has a colorful and lively two-layer indoor playground, suitable for kids who like climbing and sliding. The space has ball pool, soft mats, climbing net, cargo net, tunnel, net bridge, and slides, children can keep moving from an area to another area. Its equipment of different heights also can let children get a more rich physical activity experience.
14. Babylon Park London
Babylon Park mixes the soft play, play equipment, street machines and themed entertainment into a large indoor entertainment area. Kids can enter a soft game area first, and then experience arcade game, VR, and various themed playground equipment, its gameplay changes is very rich. For children who not want to stay in a traditional play area, this kind of “one-stop” model is more modern entertainment experience.
15. Wavelengths Leisure Centre
Wavelengths Leisure Centre not only has swimming and fitness activities, but also offer a soft space suitable for kids. Kids can pass in the multi-layer soft structure, and they can release energy through giant slides, tunnels, and net-based climbing facilities, young kids also has an independent area. Taking sports, swimming, and indoor playground on the same place, it is a place which is different from simple play places.
16. DING DONG FUN BUS
DING DONG FUN BUS has a most eye-catching feature which is a rainbow-themed gaming environment with full of creativity. Children can freely pass between platforms, slides, and ball pits, the overall play zone has vibrant colors and a lively rhythm that is easy to let kids quickly enter the game status. Different from large comprehensive indoor playgrounds, this play area more focuses on a relaxing and lively atmosphere that suitable for short family trips.
17. Discover Children's Story Centre
Discover Children's Story Centre takes the “story” to become a space where kids can truly enter inside and explore. Kids can enter magical forest, spaceships, castles, and puppet theater to join in the games through role-playing, drawing, and storytelling activities. Its Story Garden also has slides, pirate ships, and musical installations, let kids freely change between these areas.
18. Topsy Turvy World
Topsy Turvy World is suitable for kids who like traditional soft play and want rich activity changes. This play area takes the large multi-layer play zone as the core to form a continuous route through climbing, crawling, sliding, and soft obstacle courses, let children explore along, rather than just stay in a single area. The overall gameplay is lively, specially suitable for little kids who need to release a large number of energy.
19. Flip Out Brent Cross
Flip Out Brent Cross more focuses on a sense of movement and challenge, suitable for children with full of vitality. Different form simple play places, this play space mixes jumping, obstacles, and physical coordination into the entertainment process, that can let kids keep to try a new action during playing. For the currently popular “active play” trend, this kind of indoor playground is more youthful style.
20. Kidzmania
Kidzmania is a community-based indoor playground suitable for kids of different age groups, young kids have a special game area, the older kids can enter a more challenging climbing, tunnel, and sliding area. It also offers birthday party and SEN special session, let children who need different needs all can find a comfortable play area.
21. Rainforest Soft Play Club C.I.C
Rainforest Soft Play Club C.I.C uses tropical rainforest concept to create a play zone with a sense of adventure, let kids like entering a mini jungle world. Soft activities such as climbing, traversing, and sliding can form a continuous exploration route, the themed environment is more easy to inspire children's imagination than simple play place. For children who like adventure stories, this kind of immersive gameplay is more attractive.
22. Globetrotters Soft Play Centre
Globetrotters’ best feature is the theme "World Travel", combining children's soft toys and different destinations. Children can climb, explore, and play a role in the themed play area, liking performing an indoor global adventure. This play area also has a game area for different ages and offers the birthday party services, let kids get some relaxing sense of world exploration beyond entertainment.
From giant climbing frames, slides, ball pits, and Go-Kart to marine theme, dinosaur adventure, role-playing, artistic exploration, and inflatable obstacles, London’s indoor playgrounds are gradually developing from simply “releasing energy” to a children's entertainment space with a theme, more interactivity, and a storytelling. They all can find a happy from these play zones.
