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Zoom
Zoom children’s museum is an arts and crafts session with a lot of play thrown in. Children are guided through themed programs and have the chance to make, break, draw, explore and be creative. The museum consists of ‘Exhibition’, a section with a new exhibition every six months (free entry), a ‘Studio’ (child €5, one adult free, two adults €3.50) for budding Picassos, and sections ‘Lab’ (multimedia; child €5, adults free) and ‘Ocean’ (play activities to stimulate coordination, social and cognitive abilities; child €3, one adult free, two adults €2.50). Programs, aimed at kids from eight months to 14 years, last about 1½ hours and spots can be reserved from the ticket off…
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Fantasy Park
Roughly 2km east of the city centre, Fantasy Park, in the Kraków Plaza shopping centre, is the perfect place to head on a rainy day. It has 20 ten-pin bowling lanes (54zł to 84zł per hour, depending on the time of day and day of the week), plus billiards, air-hockey, video arcades and even an internet café and bar. There’s also a supervised kids’ play area (10zł to 15zł per hour).
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Parque de las Ciencias
With four buildings and eight interactive exhibition areas, Granada’s popular Parque de las Ciencias should keep the kids happily absorbed for hours. Playing giant chess or threading the Plant Labyrinth are just two activities they can do here. It’s about 900m south of the centre, near the Palacio de Congresos conference centre.
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Codona’s Amusement Park
The Esplanade sports several traditional seaside attractions, including Codona’s Amusement Park, complete with stomach-churning waltzers, dodgems, a roller coaster, log flume and haunted house. The adjacent Sunset Boulevard is the indoor alternative, with tenpin bowling, dodgems, arcade games and pool tables.
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Legoland Discovery Centre
The elementary-school set will likely be more enthralled by the nearby Legoland Discovery Centre. It's a cute indoor amusement park with a 4-D cinema, a Lego 'factory', a Jungle Trail where Lego crocs lurk in the dark and a mini-Berlin with landmarks made entirely from those little plastic bricks.
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Filmpark Babelsberg
Filmpark Babelsberg is a movie-themed amusement park with live shows (great stunt show!), a 4-D cinema and a few poky rides. A highlight is the guided tram ride where you'll be whisked past working sound stages to the studio backlot and such outdoor sets as 'Berlin Wall' and 'Berlin Street'.
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TunFun
Under the Mr Visserplein traffic circle, TunFun is a kids’ playground built in an old underpass. It has slides, ball pools, trampolines, a minicinema, a soccer field and a snack bar – even a children’s disco. An adult must accompany children.
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Edenlandia
Fabulously kitsch and loads of fun, Naples’ major amusement park boasts a plethora of attractions, including dodgem cars, a fairy-tale castle, a 3D cinema and a flight simulator. The €2.50 admission covers the cinema, variety show and children’s theatre.
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London Trocadero
Just east of Piccadilly Circus is London Trocadero, a huge and soulless indoor amusement arcade that has six levels of hi-tech, high-cost fun for youngsters, along with cinemas, US-themed restaurants and bowling alleys.
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Muumimaailma
Muumimaailma is based on Kailo Island, and has costumed characters wandering through Moominhouse, Snork’s Workshop (where kids help with inventions) and a host of places that leap to life from the books.
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Parque de Atracciones
At the Parque de Atracciones, individual rides (which include roller coasters, boat rides, carousels and pony rides) cost between €1.80 and €2 extra.
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Europark
For water-slide excitement, there’s Europark, an aquapark in the Nadzaladevi district, offering 12 slides, four pools, palm trees and several cafés.
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Praterfee
Praterfee has a cool trampoline area where adults can enjoy a drink outside while the kids soar into the sky.
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Aqua Park
The large Aqua Park has tubes, slides, spas and a wild river ride, guaranteed to keep the kids happy.
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Tropiclandia
Tropiclandia has plenty of water slides, Jacuzzis and health spas to keep both kids and adults happy.
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FantaSea
FantaSea is a small amusement park in the harbour with waterslides, pools and a swimming beach.
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Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard has tenpin bowling, dodgems, arcade games and pool tables.
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Aquafàn
At Riccione, the area’s biggest water park. Bus 42 or 45 from Riccione station.
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Italia in Miniatura
Scale models of Italy’s major sights. Bus 8 from Rimini train station.
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Minopolis
This city theme park offers children the chance to play grown-up for the day. The 6000-sq-m park of streets, buildings, shops and cars includes 26 stations that provide information and activities on various occupations, such as journalist, fire fighter, and doctor. Children are given Eurolinos, the money of Minopolis, to spend or save as they see fit, and while it’s commercially orientated entertainment, children seem to love it.
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