Going undercover.

For ages now I've wanted to visit another play centre in Coventry. The woman who runs it had written about it on NetMums when she was setting it up and had asked for suggestions from the members about what they wanted from an Activity centre. For a start I thought that was a silly idea as no matter how hard you try you are never going to please all the people all the time.What one person likes, another person will hate.

Anyway, I suggested it to Mum and Dad and after a initial bad reaction from Mikey, "I'm not going to a little kid's place!" he yelled, we all made the 40 minute journey to Coventry. Jam Jam Boomerang is very similar to us, but on a much smaller scale and without the bouncy castles. There was no parking and we had to squeeze into a gap further down the road, yet there were businesses all around with huge fenced off car parks that Jam Jam could have used (rented?) at the weekends...a case of not very friendly neighbours?

We queued to get in for ten minutes and the place was heaving. First stop was grub and I paid out £20 for coffees, cake and lunch for the children. We had a good look around, and despite Dad introducing himself when we went in and asking to meet the Manager to say hello, nobody came over to speak to us, which was a shame. We rarely meet other operators and it's always good to swap stories and experiences. We are not competition to them, but there you go. In fairness to them, they were very busy and we saw a couple of things that we liked, but I think Mikey's days of enjoying these sort of places is over as he spent most of his time playing football with a load of other boys.

No photography was allowed but I did manage to sneak a couple of photos of the framework on my mobile. They didn't seem to have as much to do as our place but we did like the small tots area which was completely separate.

So, all in all, a good afternoon and a useful exercise that we need to repeat...quickly! Mikey is now 10 and his days are limited. He is really too old to play at Berzerk now which is a frightening thought!

http://www.jamjamboomerang.co.uk/