Monkey Joe’s

BEWARE! I have been coming here for years. At first, this was a decent place and location. But, over the past year it has gotten much worse. Today, my beautiful SUV was broken into and shattered my rear door glass within 20 yards of the front door in broad daylight! When I came back in with 4 children and my wife out of the cold rain, the manager said we have to pay again, since we walked out the front door. Nevermind the decency that my 35,000 vehicle was just vandalized in your lot, you demand I pay 35.00 again just so my children can be occupied while police arrive? The management, this place, and the area has completely fallen to the waste. They have no integrity or compassion for your children.

Monkey Joes as a facility is nice and clean and the kids loved it. HOWEVER, the staff needs to take a crash course in customer service. We attended my friends daughter’s birthday party today and the party host was only concerned with using inside voices. Said it many times. I completely understand that the kiddos need to be controlled but it was VERY overboard and I’m all about rules. Every single adult in the room was staring at each other in awe. The girl at the check in was miserable. Highly advise reevaluation of your rules and recommend lifting them as kids are kids and want to have a good time. Was considering having my daughter’s party here but will go to Bounce U in Fishers instead as it is 100x better.

We just had a birthday party here last weekend. Overall great experience. My only two complaints would be about food and drinks. The pizza is pretty overpriced honestly, $ 16 for a single topping 8 slice pizza… bit much! The other is drinks. When you do a party with them all the kids get drinks, but not the adults. I assumed we would buy pitchers and have them for the adults, NOPE. You have to have your guests go to the counter, wait in line, and order drinks, and open a tab for them to put it on. Not the end of the world I guess. The problem is that explaining that to over 40 people, and quickly, is nearly impossible. I’m fairly certain that most of my guests either didn’t drink anything or bought their own.
The staff was great! I read a lot of the other reviews, about how the staff doesn’t pay attention and what not. I didn’t have that issue at all. Our party guy was on point, and the rest of the staff were busy watching the bagillion kids running around! I think most people forget that these people deal with screaming, obnoxious kids for hours on end!
The only two suggestions i would give, would be to get some pitchers. And to let the adults get there own food! It is very helpful that you pass it out, but it also a bit of a hassle.

Not bad, but not great either. It’s totally affordable, but the staff is not at all attentive. They were more concerned about conversing amongst themselves than checking us in. After swiping my my card, I stood there for a minute before the girl at the register broke away from her conversation long enough to say «oh did you want your receipt?»
The place is relatively clean, and I appreciate that there were places my little one could play without being trampled by the older kids, while my older one could run off and do her thing without being stuck with the babies. Only a few times did I see them ask big kids to get out of the little person area. Also, there was only one staff member who addressed the fact that there were children not wearing socks. This is one of the main rules, and should be more closely monitored as it is just downright gross and unhygienic. Oh, and clean the bathrooms. They were in desperate need of attention.
Overall, though, I’m not really there to interact with the staff, and my kids enjoyed it immensely. Not a bad deal for the price.

What a disappointment! The staff was so rude! I will never come back! Not to mention the prices on their food. $ 3 for a bottle water sorry this is not kings island! They tried serving me a brunt soft pretzel. I said this is burnt and the guy working said no it’s not. I said clearly it is cause it’s hard as a rock and black! That’s when I got the manager involved. Seriously he was trying to argue about with me. Smh

This isn’t my favorite bounce house place. It’s generally been clean when we’ve gone, but I find it slightly difficult to keep track of my kids with the large birthday party groups and some of the larger slides/​climbers that kids can disappear into with no way of finding them without getting in yourself.
The staff has been polite, but they don’t seem to make the rounds and make sure rules are being followed quite like they do at BounceU.

OOOK — kids’ places pain my mind and drive me batshit crazy. But I have two toddlers with a ton of energy. For $ 8-​$ 10 a kid, for as long as you want to stay, come in and bounce. Wear your own socks and enjoy the loud ass bounce houses which you may lose your child in for HOURS. Seriously though… get a staff that is involved. With 200 kids of many ages and sizes, it is nearly impossible to keep an eye on everything but it seemed no one was monitoring how many children or whether rules were being followed. When you have smaller kids, they get trampled and easily run over. The ONLY bounce house they were monitoring was the one for under 3 year olds. Hello — there are a dozen bounce houses that need an extra eye. There is free wi-​fi and a space for parents to hide, which seems nice but really encourages bad behavior. I am not a fan of parents allowing the bounce houses to babysit their kids — no matter what their age. Annnnyway — I mean, keep your expectations low. That’s all I’m saying.

Great place to take the kids to work off some steam. Around 10 or so bounce houses/​slides with different themes and designs. They have birthday party packages and food as well if that is something that would be of interest as well.

This is a great venue for kids under 12 to burn some energy. I had my son’s 4 yr old birthday party here and he and all his friends had a great time. The bounce houses are clean and well constructed. The prices are reasonable. Don’t forget to look up coupons on
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First time here. They need way more employees! In the toddler area there were several bigger kids that kept coming in and causing the little ones to fall over. Also one of the toddler bounce houses had so many holes in it that it would fall over on itself making it not all that safe. It didn’t seem very clean either. My wife said the bathrooms were not toddler friendly either which was a surprise considering where we were. Won’t be going back. Too nasty.

Have small children 3 and under? Want to see them trampled to death in an uncontrolled environment? Come here. If u want ur children to survive until at least elementary school avoid this place. Jumps and bounce houses grossly overpopulated and unbelievably poorly regulated. My wife and I were watching the twins the entire time and still had too many close calls with way older kids falling from big heights. Not safe at all and for some reason many parents exacerbate the situation by not exercising common sense when they all decide to get into the same bounce house which already has 25 kids in it. Oh and the Wi-​Fi wasn’t good. Too many people on it… imagine that.

The best place for my 2 year old child to have fun. It is a clean organized place. Highly recommended, friendly staff.

My husband and I brought our two children, ages 1 and 2.5, for a day of fun. It seems to be a great place but I do not recommend bringing toddlers under 2 here. There is supposed to be an area for children under 3 and it was upsetting that the age limit wasn’t enforced to a greater extent. There were several times that my daughter (1yr) was knocked over by kids well over 3 years of age. I am surprised she was never kicked in the face when they came out of no where. The employees did come around every once in awhile and told the bigger kids to get out, but they would come right back in. It wasn’t regulated as well as it could be considering the amount of employees I saw standing around doing nothing. I would understand if it was a manpower issue, but it did not appear so to me. I think there could definitely be some changes to make it safer for little ones, but at this moment I was very disappointed. When I expressed my concern to a group of employees standing around, they were not friendly and made excuses. As for my son (2.5), he had a blast and there were no issues as far as he was concerned. We were both allowed to assist him on some of the inflatables if he needed it. He is a pretty tough kid and often thinks he is 12 years old so he handled himself well. Overall, I would go back if I only had my son with me. However, won’t be taking my daughter any time soon, which is disappointing when you are trying to have a family fun day.

It’s great for the Kids; but there needs to be better supervision by the staff. My daughter is 2 years old and there were 5 to 7 year olds playing on the «3 and under» bounce houses. (of course the parents need to be paying attention to their kids also) but reguardless; there needs to be better supervision. Our daughter got trampled a bazillion times and it was frustrating to say the least because no one gave a s***!

This place is nice for the younger kids, its fun clean and safe. My 4 yr old loves coming here and i dont mind bringing her. They have nice price points on their food/​snacks, the referees def help keep everyone safe, and its just an all out nice place to bring ur kids. Especially because Chuckee Cheese across the street is ridiculous and u can never get in, so we we go to monkey joes instead

I don’t know if Monkey Joe’s is a five star venue for adults, but kids fiend for the place like bouncy bouncy crack! They have a height and weight policy that weeds out most kids over ten and keeps the fun to younger preschool and grade school age children of similar size and weight. The bouncy rides are awesome and kept in decent repair considering the sheer number of times they are used and kept blown up all day. Some are more worn then others but nothing hazardous. They have an abundant selection of concessions. Reminded me of a cross between a roller rink and Showbiz Pizza as far as selection. They also have some escape areas for parents with flat panel TVs and a couple of free computers with Internet. They also have a wi-​fi hot spot as well.
They also do pizza parties in one of their four party rooms. The rooms are just big enough for three picnic tables lined up end to end and a bench against the wall for adults to sit on and a prep are in the corner. The birthday girl/​boy gets to sit on a huge inflated throne at the head of the tables of who else but Monkey Joe. The pizza is pretty good, but MJ’s does not make it themselves, but it comes from Marco’s Pizza. They also serve cake and ice cream cups.
I have taken my daughter here about five times now and only had one problem that was really more of a issue with a parent that was not acting their age and would up crashing into my little one. I informed management and they swiftly dealt with her and her «It wasn’t my fault attitude» by reminding her that the bouncy rides are for the kids only and that all parents had signed rules agreements with them Monkey Joe’s. You do have to sign the rules agreement and medical waiver to be admitted and it is understandably necessary in this business of kids constantly crashing into each other. However, the long tenured staff is very kid friendly and very good at making kids feel better quickly. I mean, how could a kid be too sad for long in this expansive universe of bouncy fun anyway?