Mt. Playmore

Awesome place. Just had my sons party there and everyone had a great time. Staff was friendly. No hassle

I love this place, I could play there all day… My kids like it too!

Had a party for 25 kids and they all loved it. Hostess takes care of serving all the kids food and drinks.
The only complaint I’ve ever had at all the parties I’ve attended is that there is no «parent seating» the size of the room only accommodates children. So parents either have to wait in the general area or stand against the walls. Rooms are small. I had the extra large room and there were benches along the wall so some parents sat there but most got a table outside of the room. Parties are timed but kids can stay as long as they want after the party is over.

The place is looking run down and the prices are too high. Not only do you have to pay to get in but they don’t let you bring in cake and presents because they want you to pay for a party room. No thanks. I would rather spend my money at the other places that are actually kid friendly.

So, The manager, Ben, declined our party because we had cupcakes and gifts and stated that they don’t allow food or gifts unless a room is reserved, yet people had cakes, gifts and cupcakes on the floor tables!!! How ridiculous is that? Makes no sense whatsoever!!!
Well my big family won’t be giving you our business!!!‘
Ben also contradicted himself when I asked him why those people were allowed on the floor with gifts, cakes and cupcakes, his answer was because they most likely (emphasis in the «most likely») reserved a room and no longer had the room and were paying customers! I told him, so are we, we are also paying customers!!! I think it was because we were
Mexican!!!
I blasted this on Facebook in the hopes that people from our culture learn about how we were treated and take their business elsewhere where we are respected and welcomed and in the hopes of costing you customers and money!!!
I understand if a rule is set, «no food or gifts on the play area» so enforce it on everyone, not a few select!
Great job in hiring discriminating employees!

My three and six year old love this place. The seating area is great for parents. You can see your kids at all times. Climbing through the play area as an adult is easy and fun. This place provided our family with hours of fun! Please open one in South Austin!

This place is awesome for kids and the recliners are just awesome for a good rest while the kids expend their energy.
Attended 3 bday parties and always a happening place for all age groups.

$ 6 for a safe place for my 3 year old to go nuts. Worth EVERY penny. This is literally the only place I can sit and take a break and take my eyes off my son for a few minutes. It’s also the only place I’m not only allowed but encouraged to play alongside my son. They also have a black light stamp on each adult/child’s arm. Your number matches your kiddo only. That way only YOU can take your kid out of this place. Gives me a small piece of mind.
It’s pretty rad. Right now it’s Friday at 1:30pm and there are 10 kids in the big area and 7 parents. Awesome.

My kids absolutely love this place. They’ve come a long way since opening their doors. The addition of lockers and more seating has been really helpful. The food is a little pricey, but it’s actually good food! The toddler area has lots to do and my oldest enjoys the playscape so much. I see a lot of people complaining about the prices, but they’ve only raised a dollar or two since opening. They’re a business and need to be profitable. They have a «lost child» wagon for when parents don’t keep up with their toddlers. Please remember this place isn’t a babysitter folks.

I’m currently sitting in the lounge of Mt. Playmore. It is Wednesday, December 30^th. School is currently out for winter break and the place is packed. You can’t hear yourself think in here. But oh well, everyone had the same idea as me.
I typically bring my little girl here on a school day so I’m unsure of how packed it gets on the weekends. Probably worse than this. As the playscape is still usable with only a little congestion occasionally building around the slides, swings, and bouncy things. Typically I see staff wandering through the parental seating section but not today. My guess is they’re much too busy in other areas. Many staff seem to be concentrated in the dining area. And they’re doing a good job keeping up. The tables are cleared and wiped soon after they are vacated. Food arrives hot. The only trash I see is under occupied tables.
The whole place is a little too warm for my preference. Maybe it’s because I’m pregnant. Maybe it’s because there are over a hundred little batteries burning energy crawling all over everything. Plus their parents lounging, waking, looking at their phones. Whatever, I could do with some more airflow. I don’t even feel a breeze except when a child races past me. It smells faintly of hot children (not teenage kids as I’ve seen some posts suggest. I’ve got one of those, this is nothing like that).
On a whole everything feels clean. The floors aren’t sticky, the chairs and couches are clean with no cracks or signs of wear. Even the shoe storage cubbies are free of scuffs and grime.
I currently only have one complaint. But for me it’s a big one. I decided today to treat my girl to lunch here which I typically don’t do. The main reason why is because of all the Kids Eat Free (with the purchase of an adult entrée) hype. Sure, works for me. So I order my girl a kids meal and myself a personal size pizza. I pay. I find a seat. Then it clicks at the price I paid. I go up to ask and the lady behind the register tells me it excludes pizza and salads. And my pizza is already in the oven… When I look over the menu, most of the items are in the $ 6.99 to $ 7.99 range. My pizza? $ 9.99. So, I paid more for an item but didn’t qualify for the offer… Also, no where does it state you receive a free kids meal with the purchase of an adult burger, wrap, or sandwich. Not on the table signs, fliers, or website. One kids meal for one adult entrée. I didn’t try to buy an appetizer or side item and get a free meal… Even the salads were priced on par with the other qualifying food items. The food wasn’t bad. Even the pizza was better than some other pizza and play places around, but I won’t buy food here again based on the experience I had. I felt a bit swindled. Maybe it’s not a big deal to you, but $ 5.00 would almost pay my admission the next time we came…

My nephew and his 21 month old son came to visit us so we took them here. I kid you not, before my great nephews feet touch there floor they were running he couldn’t wait to explore, play.
I found a open booth. We shared a pizza and purchased some soda. Overall it was a great time here for the little guy. Next time I will bring my self a magazine.
Although on a good not they have plenty of seats for us Parents and grandparents watching the kids play.
There is a arcade area, rides a toddler area and massage chairs

My niece had her 7^th bday party here. She had a blast! The only thing to me was the bday rooms are very small, so most of the adults had to pretty much stay out in the main room/​lobby. But over all the kids enjoyed themselves and all were happy!

I cannot believe prices have gone up to $ 11 & some change, per kid, to get in! Prices up, yet the place is looking rundown. Floors are filthy & need replacing. Whole place stinks, literally. Bathrooms? Ugh!
Still, I give it 3 stars because our kids love climbing & it’s good for them!
Update: as we were readying to leave, the mgr came by & said the reptile show was about to start, so we stuck around. What a treat! This made our entry price seem reasonable to get to see the Austin Reptile Show with Mr. Mike & his friends!

I brought my 20 mo old here while visiting for a wedding. I went on a Friday during school year so we practically had the whole place to ourselves. Pretty large toddler area with plenty for up to 10 tots to stay busy (climb, crawl, ride on).
Small collection of ride on machines for cheap in separate area.
Kid size climbing structure is HUGE.
If I lived in the area Id definitely be back!

Best playscape in Austin. It is simply massive, and built so you can climb up with your kids if you want to, which is encouraged btw.
The arcade has improved so much recently. They upgraded to a swipe card system. Most of the games are older, which can be fun for parents. (Pac man!) But also means they break down quite a bit. I’ve lost my share of credits to broken machines :(
The food was a pleasant surprise. It looks like a sad stadium concession stand, but the pizza they’re slinging is more like pizzaria.
Toddler area is nice! was recently carpeted, which was long overdue. The previous floor was terrifyingly hard. Not ideal for tumbling toddlers.
Prices can’t be beat.
Staff are mostly kids. They seem to be slowly finding good people. The manager I met was great.
Overall, this place can’t be beat. Bring your kids, buy a drink or some lunch. Let them go crazy and wear themselves out while you get nostalgic on the old school arcade games.

I took the kids here on the 4^th of July weekend to escape the heat. The place smells like dirty feet/​socks. The staff is friendly. There is a section where the adults can relax and sit/​lounge while their kids play. Also some rides in the front of the place like a chuck e cheese. The kids spent an hr and a half here they had a lot of fun.

I am a fan that my kids have fun and the notable fact that the staff knows how to perform in an «emergency.»
Recently during a visit to a birthday party being held here, the power went out; for the entire surrounding city block.
My protective instincts kicked in and I huddled the kids I knew into one location, since many parents left them at the party under the responsibility of the hosts. As I did my part I saw the owner/​manager make sure his employees started standing by all the exits and doors. They shut the doors on any party rooms not being used. They asked the children to leave the playscapes and performed many other drills as if it was routine.
As a parent and military veteran, I appreciated this attention to detail and action plan that they had in place.
The staff made sure everyone was happy, safe, and accounted for as people were leaving (since there was only emergency lighting). They checked EVERYONE at the door to ensure their UV stamped matched with the child they had.
After many people were leaving, I watched as they directed the staff to start accounting for all of the equipment, the cleaning, and doing important items like turning OFF the gas; so in the event that the electricity came back on quickly, no pizza oven, or other explosions, would happen.
Overall a satisfying visit. When the power was on, the staff attended to the party, served pizza, served drinks, and did all that they could to make the party a great event for the kids.
My first visit was a very unusual one, but the staff and management did a great job to handle it very well. It takes a lot of responsibility to keep your employees focused during an emergency (non-​threatening), but you could see they all did it as a team in their own areas of responsibility.

This is difficult to review, honestly.
If my kids were reviewing this place, or I was reviewing based on their pleasure… It would easily be 5 stars.
Having said that… From a parent’s perspective… I don’t know that I could EVER do this again. Honestly.
1. The place was filthy dirty. Just filthy. Trash all over, crap all under the play scape everywhere… Floors were grimy filthy. Food all over the place… On the floors, I mean… In the play scape.
2. Not near enough seating for parents… Although… I will say, if anymore parents had been parked on their buttocks, there would have easily been more trouble than there was. So maybe its good that they don’t have any more seating.
3. Too many unsupervised kids doing as they please. Pushing. Shoving. Kicking. The noise level was insane. Not sure what was worse… the Ill mannered, unruly, heathens or their parents who were apparently OK with their behavior… kids were getting kicked, bleeding from their face (a few of them)…and here’s the real «kicker» I called before we went and the staff said it was MUCH slower than normal… WOW.
4. They do serve food there, but didn’t eat anything. Wouldn’t either. Ever.
5. The arcade room is pitiful. For the price you pay to come inside and play, that should be free… with no tickets in return. Or something. It was far too expensive. Half the games were broken. More bratty, ugly children lingered there as well, taking whatever they could. Tokens that didn’t belong to them. Tickets, places in lines (cutting) it was chaos.
6. Staff all young and pretty much careless. Not helpful. Just there.
7. Shoes all over the place. Tripped on them a few times.
As a parent of 2… I’ve been to places better than this where parents actually join their children and play and not let them run loose as if there are sitters all over. The kids made me sick. The parents made my blood boil. I can think of far better places to go where morals and ethics are not forgotten. This is NOT one of those places. I will NEVER go back. EVER.

Mt. Playmore is pretty darn awesome in my book! I know we will be going back regularly from here on out. Here’s the scoop on the highs and lows of this awesome play place:
Highlights:
1. The playscape here is absolutely awesome! It is huge and has so many different layers of fun in it. There are climbing, trampolines, swings, tight ropes, and slides inside the play place. Once you enter through one of the many entrances, you are is a rope jungle of fun! I’m am totally jealous they didn’t have these things when I was a kid.
2. Huge area to play and run around. The playscape is huge! The seating area within the playscape is big and has a few of seats and table. The rest of the place with the other arcade games and rides is huge as well. You almost get tired just walking across the place. It’s nice to be able to sit and not be right on top of your neighbor, or worse, they misbehaving kids.
3. Adults can go in the playscape. It definitely isn’t easy if you are tall, but it is nice if your kid freaks out and you need to rescue them. This happened to a mom/​kid in our group. The kid just froze when he got way up high. It’s an awful feeling when you can’t help you kid. Well the mom was able to climb up and get the kid without getting heat from the management. We then noticed lots of parents were going inside with their kids. I actually went inside with my kiddo for a bit and it was fun. It was crazy hard because I am tall, but still fun and exhausting.
4. There is a snack bar that has a decent selection of food. I usually go to these places having already eaten, so I usually don’t grab food, but the option is there for you. This last time we went, we actually had lunch with our play group. It was nice to be able to get food to eat while the kids played on their own.
5. The front door is pretty guarded. It would be hard for a kid to escape out the front because of the set up. When you check in, you and your kid (s) get a number stamp on your arm. They check the stamps on your way out to make sure the numbers match. It’s nice to have the extra level of security.
Now for the reasons I didn’t rate this place higher:
1. The small amount of seating inside the playscape area. I have a 2 year old. She plays on her own with her friends, but is way too little to be left alone to play. I want to be somewhat close to keep an eye on her, just in case. I stood around for a while before I was able to snag a table for us. There is plenty of room to add more tables and chairs, so please do so for us parents.
2. The arcade games/​rides need some help. We only looked at a few of them, but of the 4 we tried, 2 were broken.
3. The prices for the arcade rides are all over the place. Some rides were 1 token, which is a great price and seems reasonable. Others were 3 tokens for the same amount of ride. Everything should just be the same token price to make it easier for the kids and the parents.
4. The prices. For M-​F, it is $ 2.95 or $ 7.95 depending on your kids age. That’s ok. on the weekend it goes up to $ 3.95/$ 9.95. The high end of $ 9.95 seems high. Then you add on the adults having to play $ 1 each just to go in and watch their kid, it gets a bit high. If you were a big family, it would be a very expensive day out.
All in all, I really do like Mt. Playmore and I think the longer it is open, the better it will become. I will be back for sure!

Families with small children, come to Mt. Playmore for a fun, physically active, indoor experience that you can share. Skip the arcade, as most of the games have seen years of use & are malfunction-​prone.
We tried out the place on opening day, Saturday, July 19^th, 2014 with 2 adults and 1 2^nd grader. At full price, we paid $ 1 per adult and $ 9.95 for the kid, but kid prices are a couple bucks lower on weekdays. This includes in & out privileges for the whole day, and they use a similar blacklight stamp system to that of Chuck E Cheese to ensure that your child only exits with you.
Longtime Austinites may recognize the playscape system as similar to the one at Playland Skate Center, but this one is about 20 times as large. According to Mt. Playmore, the structure is 18 feet tall and 60 X 120 feet wide. Socks are required for entry, but if you forget, they are available for purchase.
Our son and his pals played in there nonstop for about 2 hours, climbing, sliding, swinging, and bouncing until they were sweaty. We loved that parents are allowed to enter the structure if they wish, but there are also attentive staff members on duty inside to make sure everyone is safe. Because the structure is see-​through & open to the air via mesh enclosure on all sides, it’s easy to find your child inside and communicate from outside the structure, too.
Toddlers have their own 1400 square feet room with a few ride-​ons and crawl-​throughs that are more their size, but we saw plenty of little ones in the big obstacle course, too.
The kitchen wasn’t yet fully operational on this first visit, but we liked what we saw of the menu (see pics). While the typical amusement park fare is represented, there are also some lighter items like salads, wraps, fruit, and yogurt. Available treats not shown on the menu include candy, ice creams, chips, and sodas.
The arcade was our only disappointment. There are plenty of cool games for all ages, but at least 50 percent of them were broken down & totally powered off on the first day. Many of the seemingly functioning ones didn’t work very well either, taking tokens without play or refusing to issue tickets. We saw a lot of kids with frowns when their tokens were wasted. We did see one staff member working to repair a single machine for about 30 minutes, but there were at least 20 more needing the poor guy’s attention. Hopefully this situation will improve as the staff get their bearings and become experts at maintaining these machines.
Speaking of staff, everyone interacting with us was friendly and attentive, from checkin to snack bar to prize redemption (something we don’t always experience at competitor businesses). The Mt. Playmore owners have clearly done a fine job selecting and training their student-​aged employees.
What else? Free wi-​fi — woo! Open 10a-​9p on AISD school days and 9a-​10p on non-​school days except Sundays (10a-​8p). Birthday party reservations become available in August. Check online for other discounts like social deals or neighborhood coupons.
If you think you’ll come here more than twice per month, it might be worth it to consider a monthly ($ 40) or annual pass ($ 175), which are now 25% off for the grand opening. Buy passes online at
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