I have to admit, we ended up here somewhat by accident after trying to go to a gymnastics session and finding it was fully booked. So off to our website I went, checking for indoor places to go with kids in Manchester and this was somewhere we hadn’t yet been to.
An indoor, inflatable play centre, Inflata Nation Manchester is about 10 minutes away from the Trafford Centre. It’s on an industrial estate and if you didn’t know it was there .. it’s not somewhere that you would find by accident.
After parking up and entering, we quickly realised that you needed to book in advance but they managed to squeeze us in. After paying, we put our things in the locker and then grabbed a coffee and a cake before entering for our time slot.
We paid for 1 hour bouncing and it was £6.99 for under 4 and £13.99 for over 4, you can pay for an extra hour at an additional £8.50 or £3.50 for under 4 (Feb 2025). I have to say whilst we LOVED Infata Nation, I did think it was quite expensive for what it was, 1 hour didn’t feel like it was quite enough but I thought that £77 for 2 hours for a family of four (one of who is just 1 years old) seemed a bit excessive so we went for the hour.
Our youngest was too small for the main park, so one of us stayed with her in the baby section and we kept swapping so that the other adult could enjoy the main park with our eldest. The small toddler area was fab and had a ball pit, a tunnel and a great slide.
The main play park was huge and had everything from a HUGE ball pit, to obstacle courses and a large number of different slides, my little girl loved the helter skelter style slide and the mountain slope slide whereas I loved the incredible toboggan type slide but it did go very fast!
If we were to come again, I’m not sure I’d come with the youngest as for little ones as you are paying the full adult price it does seem quite a lot. I would come back with our eldest but would pay for 2 hours and plan for this to be a more expensive day so probably follow up with a park lunch before or after.
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