Adventurers Family Entertainment Center

Its a really nice amusement park for the 2−5yr age kids.
They have a variety of different rides and the ride operators are friendly.
That being said… this place is really expensive.
$ 28 for 10 tickets?
$ 110 for 70 tickets?
You would that for that amount of money, you would get unlimited rides. Its more expensive than a ticket to a Disney park!
The wristbands are only available during the week… which would be a pretty good deal.
Most rides only cost 1 ticket but for the price its not worth it.

We just had our daughter’s 1^st birthday party (Aug 2015) at the amusement park because we wanted something the birthday girl can enjoy too. Package includes colored balloons, colored table covers and white paper goods and utensils, juice boxes, pitchers iced water and individual small bags of chips. You can drop off your decoration the day before and the staff will put it up for you. If you want to set it up yourself you can only get there fifteen minutes prior to the party.
No Mylar balloons was a challenge for us so I bought few jumbo confetti balloons with tassels attached and the staff inflated for me (thumbs up). Time went by super fast. I am glad I added the one hour extra ride time with tent. To my surprise my 1 years old birthday girls also needs tickets for the rides. Usually birthday child are free but contract did not indicated anything regarding incl/​excl birthday child.
The major drawback are no outside food and cake! The pizzas are average but the hero was disappointing. I expected the 3ft hero but it was delivered in a ~15″ platter tray. IMO not as festive. Cake is from carvel and you can request any image you can find online and Rosa was very accommodating. But sadly the image I send was so large it took up the whole medium sheet cake. They did not edit the size to fit the writing for my daughters 1^st birthday. The writing ends up so tiny as if it was written on a narrowed ruled paper. I wish the park would charge a fee for bringing outside food instead of setting these limitations. Especially with the cake.

This place is great for young kids especially during the summer. This amusement park has a varied selection of rides. I take my younger brother (5 yrs old) out here a few times during his summer break. He loves this place. When you walk in you notice the ticket booth straight up in the front of the entrance. The prices aren’t as cheap as I expected, but it defiantly was worth the excitement I received with my brother. They have rides that include mini roller coasters along with a train that circles around the area, slides, booths to win toys, and much more! They also have food you can buy there which is overpriced in my opinion. I suggest bringing your own. Besides that, however, I would definitely recommend checking it out. It’s not as fun as the coney rides, but worth trying it for the experience.

All the rides here (excluding the go carts) are for preschoolers and young children, so don’t expect the roller coasters and other rides to be super thrilling for your soul!
I came here for my nephew’s birthday party and there was a small tent-​like structure reserved for our party (the park has a few of these scattered throughout). Even though I am not a child anymore, I was still allowed to go on all of the rides. For the 3 hour birthday party, the wristband for good for 2 or so hours (no more rides after 4:30). I stood on line and waited for a ride (the swings) and by the time I got to the front of the line and nicely greeted the dude, the dude said, «nope» in a cold and non friendly way… like woah… I didn’t even say anything mean! And like that, I was turned away… how embarrassing! I don’t think I’ll ever stop by this establishment ever again…
On a brighter note, the staff for the birthday celebration was kind and did their job correctly (that’s what I call great customer service). We had two hostesses and one male clean up after the party (he did a great job as well, I felt bad that all the paper plates and cups flew everywhere!!). As for the man at the swings… he needs an attitude check.

Great place for parents to bring their kids here! The rides are all great for kids and prices are great! Been there a few times, I will surely go there when I have free time. The staff is friendly and the the place as food worth buying. Must go at least once this summer!

Happy Father’s Day! What better way to celebrate than Dads riding for free?
Cute amusement park with little to no lines, 1 – 2 tickets per ride. I would say the rides are great for toddlers and preschoolers. Spend time with the olders ones in the shady mini golf course, or have a spin at their go kart for an additional price (I think it was $ 12 for 2). Oh, did I mention they have bumper cars, too?! Will highly consider hosting my next birthday party here.
Staff here are quite friendly, there was one girl in particular who went out of her way to honor me my free popcorn, knowing that I didn’t have my coupon printed out, thank you! Prices for snacks here aren’t so bad. We got a cup of refreshing lemonade for 5 bucks, (refills are $ 2). In the end, we waited, and went back around to Wendy’s for lunch instead.
Tip: Get the book of 60 tickets for $ 110, the best deal. They never expire, plus you can use the rest all year round, if there are any left over. They have their own lot for parking, as well as street parking right outside the entrance, just make sure to check sweeping days.

my 4 year old loves this place.
we are in ozone park so its a quick 25 minute ride on the belt.
will say its a bit pricey for tickets but each ride is only a ticket, most 2 tickets but feel they can offer a better deal for sure.
either way we will be back.
the hispanic «win a goldfish» lady was a charm, so sweet to my daughter and held all 7 of our fish until we were ready to leave.

We had my granddaughters 5^th birthday party here yesterday and what impressed me the most was the cleanliness of the bathrooms and park itself. The hostess disappeared a few times but showed up to do what she had to. Other parties at the same time seemed to have more attention from the host so I guess it was just luck of the draw. The young people working the rides were friendly and helpful to the little ones. The rides are geared for the under 9 year old with the exception of the bumper cards and a few others. All in all it was the perfect venue for the party. Plenty of free parking in the private parking lot and on the street. Would definitely recommend.

Old timers may remember this park as Nellie Blys.
Well, the name has changed, but the park is still a great alternative to taking your younger kids or grand children to Coney Island. And, there is PARKING!
The day we went, my grand children had a GREAT time, they loved the roller coaster, bumper cars, Scrambler, and other rides scaled for smaller bodies.
My only gripe would be that they need to hire more people to man the rides, so that ride operators are not running from one ride to another. Most of the young staff is very nice and patient with the kids, taking care to see that children are safely belted in to the rides.
There’s a food concession area, some games, and a mini golf course attached to the park.
If you’re looking to spend a nice day at an amusement park with your young children or grandchildren, without the stress and expense of Coney Island, this is the place to go.

Fun place for kids. Rides can use an update though.
conveniently located just off belt parkway.

This is a cute, if dinky, little amusement park — good for toddlers, preschoolers, and young kids. If you’re older than about… 9? …10… It might be a little underwhelming. Fortunately, I have a three year old, so we had a great day!
There are a few cute little rides and some fixed games. The girl at the concessions stand mixing the lemonade is on point. The prices aren’t too bad: $ 25 for ten tickets and most of the rides are either one or two tix. $ 22 for a P.O.P. bracelet is definitely worth it for a few hours here. Also, they have a parking lot, so parking was free.
The staff didn’t have much to do, because the day we came was SO HOT there were only about 5 people here. But everyone was friendly and more than willing to help us out. I’ll definitely come back here if I think Luna Park is going to be too busy.

Very nice place for kids. My 2 yr old enjoyed it. Only cplsint is one guy was rude wouldn’t let my son on even with me. My baby was so upset seeing everyone else go on except him. He could have made an exception. Other workers have, making our experience there wonderful.

Very disappointed with the service. Not planning on going back (ever) again.
We had a birthday band which entitled us to rides during the 2 hour birthday. If you think about the gathering and interacting with friends and celebrating with food and cake — 2 hours total sails by quickly, leaving little time for rides or enjoy family vice versa.
When we first got our band my husband and I took our baby son to the PONY ride– waited for 20 minutes — only to be turned away and told to come back in a bit bc of maintainence. No problem. We went back to the party and celebrated with family with pizza and carvel. Within 2 hours we gathered our stuff and went back to the PONY ride. To my dismay, while waiting in the very short pony line, we were turned away by the same African American gentleman who had told us to come back. Here We are holding my baby sweating in my arms and he grumpily told us «sorry you are 9 minutes over the 2 hour limit — can’t let you in it’s the policy «. Meanwhile there were only 3 kids waiting to start with at least 20 open seating but he denied my son the pony ride which he had wanted all along. But bc we were 9 minutes past we were pushed away. Very angry especially we had wasted 20 minutes at the beginning!
If customer service was important to them they would have been taught that there exceptions to most policies — especially in a situation where your machine broke down and you wasted 20 minutes of my 2 hours there.
After spending close to $ 400 on this birthday party, my family will not patronize this place again and certainly will not ever join a party here again. In addition, I will also share with family and friends how horrible a place this is — absolutely no sense of customer service. Thankfully my son joined one ride the whole 2 hours there — the chu chu train. We were hoping for the pony ride but the people who work there just didn’t understand the meaning of putting a smile on a baby’s face.
And this starts with management. Management clearly does not value the importance of return customers and the power of word of mouth recommendations and the power of the Internet bc you basically just lost a bunch of customers — at least my immediate family and friends and some of you reading this now.

Great place for the kids! I always bring my daughter here she loves it!

Love this place. Have been going here very often when we lived in Brooklyn with my two older kids, it’s a fantastic place to throw a kid’s birthday party, we did not even buy their package, just bought lots of ticket books, all kids had a blast and then, we bought some platters of cold cuts/​salads, etc from a caterere and had the meal portion of the party at home. There are rides for both big kids and little kids. We have not gone in years since we moved, but were in Brooklyn yesterday and took the kids there. The little one enjoyed all the rides, and the two older ones were hanging out with their friends on the Scrambler, the Bumper card, the Giant slide, etc. One book of 30 tickets was enough for 3 of them.

A nice place for the a kids birthday party. Good mostly for little kids: it is a self contained place that has been around for years. Once known as «Nellie Blye,» it is clean and safe. My kids always have a good time here.

Adventurers is a cool low key spot for some family entertainment. I have hosted a birthday party here and also visited frequently for some good olé fun. While Adventures may not cater to all age groups I think it is suited best towards the little kid and toddler group. The staff is a little less enthusiastic but I think that is typical amusement park behavior especially for a local park. There are never really long lines for the rides and kids seem to love the time they spend at Adventurers.

Thank you Nellie Bly, thank you for instilling a lifelong fear of ferris wheels in my tiny little six-​year-​old brain.
It was 19[redacted] and I went on a fabulous day trip to the amusement park with my mom, and my then two-​year-​old brother. Life was full of adventure and wonderment up until that day. I could have or do anything I wanted. The world was my oyster. I had big plans, I was going to be the world’s first astronaut/​artist/​veterinarian. Also, I had just completed the first grade, getting astronomical marks of 100% on all my spelling quizzes and no grades lower than a check plus. I was the first grade equivalent of that jerk who ruined the curve in your college physics course. Nobody could touch me.
So as a reward for being so clearly awesome, WE WERE GOING TO NELLIE BLY YAAAAAAY! I know now that I was totally jipped and it would have been way cooler if mom took me to Astroland but WHATEVER.
Well, Nellie Bly, from that day forward I was a little punk, beating up nerds and dealing Pop Rocks from my permanent spot standing face toward the brick wall at recess. Perma-​timeout, Nellie Bly, and it’s all your fault.
First, you crushed my childhood dreams when I realized all the carnival games are a damn scam. I don’t care how much Beer Pong you played in undergrad, nobody wins a damn goldfish. Not even a crying six year old who desperately wants a pet and has already given you all of her $ 5. If you only knew what damage you’d do to the delicate psyche of the children you torment, maybe you wouldn’t have done it.
But what really sealed the deal on RUINING MY LIFE that day was the ferris wheel ride. Sure, it was probably a tiny, rinky dink, kids ferris wheel, but let me tell you, it amounted to a three minute horror, with lasting implications.
First, they wouldn’t let me ride with my mom. Only two to a car, they said. Somehow, even in my small child’s mind, I recognized the fact that it was quite unwise to separate a mother and a six year old. Even more unwise, would be to separate a mother and her toddler. It seemed to me, that a six year old and a two year old weigh less and take up less space than an adult, so it should be a-​ok for the three of us to ride together.
GUESS NOT.
So I end up riding with an older boy, how much older I can’t remember, but he mustn’t have been too old, because he was clearly illiterate.
Why do I say that? Because the sign on the back of the car in front of us said, in no uncertain terms, to NOT ROCK THE CAR. What did he do? Yep, he rocked the car. Rocked it hard. As if that wasn’t scary enough (Hello, the sign must be there for a reason), and I wasn’t upset enough about being separated from my family, I have to say I’m pretty sure the operator sensed my fear and decided to test me by keeping my car at the pinnacle of the wheel for a full hour and a half (probably 30s in reality).
I can remember it vividly, a large white sign with red letters became visible on the horizon: «BAYSIDE.» In reality, I’m pretty sure it was probably a sign for a fuel oil company, but at the time I thought I had saw straight to the end of the earth.
I cried.
Thanks Nellie Bly, next time I find myself nervously biting my nails and rocking back and forth in the fetal position, I’ll think of you and know that it wasn’t all my fault.

*My parents used to take me here as a kid and I would love it!
*Great, fond memories of this place.
*Even tho their prizes were lame, I kept them as souvenirs for many, many years.
*Unfortunately, I went back a year ago and everything was mini-​sized.
*The realization that I was no longer a kid anymore sinked in and all I could do was walk around and try to remember which games/​rides I played on and which were new.
*I was very disappointed by how they took out the arcades section. My parents loved that coin game where you put in a real quarter and try to get as many real quarters to slide out. They also watched my siblings and I knock alligators on the heads with a giant hammer.
*Such fond memories of my childhood. very disappointed it changed so much.
*Pre-​adulthood: 10 stars.
*Reality of the new Nellie Park: 3 stars only. :(
**Thank you for responding to my review! Even tho Nellie Park has changed, I still take my niece here every summer. Her fav is the huge slide, she keeps going back to it. And the merry go round. A tip for readers: all the rides have a height requirement, if the child is too tiny, an adult is allowed to be on the ride with him/​her (if applicable). So think roller coaster, spinning bear cup, etc. My family continues the Nellie Park tradition. Even tho it’s not geared towards adults anymore, it’s still wonderful to take children here. Adding one star for new memories.**
***I’m not used to calling this place by anything other than Nellie Park, no offense to the new management!***

I have nothing but great memories of Nellie Bly.
My first ride on a roller coaster was here.
My favorite stuffed animal was won here.
I discovered I suffer from motion sickness here.
My family used to take me to Nellie Bly when I was a little girl, since it was right around the corner from where I lived. They have kid’s rides, carnival style games, and miniature golf. Nothing here is particularly new or exciting in the least, but to a kid growing up in Brooklyn, it’s heaven.
My cousin took her boys there recently and said it has become quite the disaster so I can’t, in good conscience, give the place 5 stars, but it will always have 5 stars in my heart.