Kid Ventures

Great for kids. Lots of adventure opportunities. Went for my cousin’s birthday party and frankly wished there was some activity for the adults who didn’t have kids, but that may not be this place’s job. I get why activities for grownups is not the priority and I probably should learn from my mistake by not going to these birthday parties in the future. It was fun to watch my little cousin have the time of his life even if I was a little bored… I wish I had a place like this when I was a kid because I would probably have moved into that princess castle. Then I would have gone shopping at the plastic grocery store and tortured my father by doing his makeup in the salon! Great for parents and kids. The rest of us could use a tv for the basketball game or something.

I forgot to write this review, and was reminded by an unwanted email I received from them today. My girlfriend introduced me to this place, and at first I was super excited because the kids enjoyed the place. I met her, and her 2 kids here for a playdate with my 2 little ones. I had to buy socks when I arrived. Everyone was happy playing, so I paid for memberships. About an hour after I noticed a mother changing her babies dirty diaper on the floor in one of the play themed spots. She did not even disinfect the area, or wipe it down after. She then walked over to the food area, and disposed of the dirty diaper #2 in that trash can that was already over full. I was amazed no one else noticed, so I notified the guy who was close by me at the time. We left not long after that unique experience & my children got sick I feel from visiting this place. I do not think they clean, or disinfect as much as they need to with all the traffic they have & the lack of employees actually watching what occurs. The employees seemed to spend lots of time conversing with one another. I called to cancel my membership after that 1 & only visit. I spoke to a manger about what I discovered from my persona experience, and no apology, or anything positive from the lady I spoke to it was astonishing that she did not offer to refund the membership fee, or something because I told her I did not plan to ever return. I have never been back, and can not say anything good about this place, or the unfriendly employees I experienced during my 1 & only visit last year.

Bright, well decorated, kid appealing. Small for the area. Very limited adult seating and crowded. Expensive, $ 15 for the day but they close the whole place for parties and you pay the same rate for 1hour or all day. Closed at noon but said we could return for the afternoon but who drives all the way to Pt Loma and waits 5 hours to re-​open? Its hard to find and parking hard. On the upside, kids have fun despite this and staff are very sweet.

Absolutely love this place. I can’t imagine coming here without Sharrol and Troy though. Seriously not sure if I would survive most days without Kyles smiling face delivering iced coffee to wherever I seem to be chasing the boys at at the time. They make us feel so comfortable and always greet my boys and I with a smile. I’ve only Seen Cameron a couple of times but he is quickly becoming another favorite. :) Great place with happy helpful employees.

So so so fun!
We came here for a birthday party & it was amazing. I was really surprised at how helpful the staff were. Shout out to Shane & Troy for being amazing. They both helped set up, were very fun and rallied all the kids together for fun games & even passed out cake!
I’m so pleased with their facility and service! I definitely plan to visit again.

Very nice place to bring your little ones. Plenty of stuff for the kids to play and learn from. Also they have some guy that work at this place who does lots with the kids. …so fun… the guy is very good with the little ones… My kids love this place.

Super fun! Great place for safe kids play. Lots of really cool toys and structures. The wifi is a little slow, but hey… it’s free!
Also, Trey is super awesome with the kids!

We had a holiday party at their 4S Ranch location and it was a HUGE hit with the kids AND parents. Each family had a blast and it made for a special night. The kids left exhausted too. Kid Ventures was really easy to work with, attentive throughout the event, and really helped to make our event run smoothly. I’d definitely recommend having an event of any kind there — the experience is unique and their staff makes it stress free.

Pretty cool place to bring your kids, but I was expecting a bigger place for the kids to play. If someone is going to pay $ 15, shouldn’t it be way bigger and way better than a free playground?
There’s a lot of kids running around, so you must always keep an eye out on your kid.
There’s a café and free wifi for the adults. The lattes were pretty good and fairly priced.
No outside drinks/​food allowed and everyone must wear socks.
Troy is very kid friendly and he remembers all the kids names!

This place is AAAAWWWWEEEEESSSSOOOOMMMEEEEE! We had my son’s birthday celebrated here on Dec. 20, 2015 3−7pm. All the kid’s had fun! Staff were very nice and entertaining. They helped us from unloading our stuff to setting up, decorating our hall and organizing kids from playtime to cake time (no one got bored!). Even the kids were complimenting on how fun the staff were! Also the barista from the café offered and made sure guests get their drinks. Place is very well set up and play area was safe for the kids, staff made sure that every kid was taken care of and that no one was left out. It was stress free for mom and dad!
Thanks to Amber, for organizing the party and for keeping up with our requests, very prompt with communicating– the party ended up great as expected!
Thanks to Cameron, Sharoll and Gabby. You guys are very helpful, friendly and definitely fun! You made it stress free for the parents.
Thanks to the barista guy (sorry, i forgot your name) you were very nice and made sure mom and dad get their drinks. Even guests were enjoying and loving the drinks!
Im a very particular person, if i dont like a place I will definitely write a bad review. But Kid Ventures without a doubt is the place for parties for small kids. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED PLACE. AND WILL DEFINITELY BOOK ANOTHER PARTY AGAIN!
Thank you Kid Ventures!

This merchant does not have any business with websites like yours, group on, living social, local flavor, etc. if they will give the customers a hell of an ordeal trying to redeem a deal. The local flavor deal was $ 15 for admission for 2 for a free play. The couple times I came there with 1 toddler, the staff happily obliged to offer a free pass since I only came with one child and there will be no savings nothing will be applied using a local flavor voucher if that courtesy (which I did not even ask to begin with) was not extended. NICE right? The problem was when the manager/​owner was there the last time I checked in and did not want to extend the same courtesy. She has the nerve to say «I was training my staff wrong and you already got away with it a couple time so whats your issue?! » Those are just third party vouchers and we are not responsible for their rules whatsoever — WTF !!!
So the customers suffer because you mis-​trained and mis-​informed your staff!!! I absolutely felt like some effin cheapskate!!! Like I am stealing money from her. It was so horrible!!! Whatever happened to customer service in America?
I think it’s down the drain. I think it would have been better off honoring the courtesy right there and maybe say. next time we will be strict with local flavor policy to bring TWO children instead of just one or you will not be receiving any discounts and its just a complete waste of your time purchasing admission to this establishment the «third party» way. Or maybe LIMIT the vouchers a customer can purchase like groupon. I guess this particular manager don’t realize is yes, I was able to get a nice courtesy/​admission out of her business and got in a with a cheapskate’s local flavor voucher. but ended spending more at their café for lunch, tipping their staff (the nice guy who plays with the toddlers) lunch money for a nice work done with the toddlers, not having to mention instagram/​FB posts advertising her business with local moms, or eventually sign up for classes, parties or membership. I am so turned off. What a tunnel– visioned manager!!!

If you ever host a kid’s party here, make sure that employee Troy is working your party. He is GREAT with the kids, remembers all their names, and practically entertains them the whole time!

The facility itself is what gets all my stars. It’s really big, wasn’t too crowded on a weekday morning, and had plenty to do to occupy my 2.5-year-old son. It also seems really clean.
My complaint about it is that it’s almost TOO adult friendly… in that there are so many tables and couches and chairs and a coffee shop, etc etc that 7 of the 8 adults there with their kids this morning were buried in their laptops or on a conference call. One woman was actually swearing at some coworker on the phone in some heated business debate for about an hour and looked annoyed whenever my kid was shrieking too loudly near her. Um. This is an indoor playground, not a boardroom. All of these places have a serious lack of parenting to be had, but this one was especially bad since it totally encourages parents to just check out. I ended up spending my day parenting everyone’s child so they could answer emails. My friend won’t bring her daughter here anymore since she’s had to confront a million kids for misbehaving when their parent was nowhere to be found. One of the employees (all of whom are super nice) had to put this one kid’s shorts back on because we couldn’t find his mother anywhere.
Not sure what KidVentures can do about this problem… maybe put up big signs saying YOUR CHILD IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY? Sad people need the reminder!

Just had my daughter’s birthday party here and it was really great. I loved the fact they allow you to bring your own food (and don’t charge you an arm and a leg to do so) and give you a large room to have the food, decos, and presents that you can enter/​exit from the playing area. The staff was terrific and very helpful. They kept to the itinerary and packed all the left over food, gifts, and did all the clean up. They wanted to make sure the kids had fun and were entertained the whole time. My daughter had a princess themed party and they did their best to assist in my specific decorations, hanging my back drop, table skirts, etc. I like how they are open to the type of party you want. The staff continuously asked me and my guests of we needed anything or if they can help in anyway… GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE.
The only drawback was I wish there was a larger transition time from the previous party to ours. Maybe like a 10 min gap so I wasn’t entering as the previous party guests were leaving and clearing out. They only allow you 15 min to set up for your party which I wish was more like 30 min so I didn’t feel like I was rushing especially as 5 min of that was spent trying to push the previous guests out. But this was my only suggestive improvement.

Love this place for kids. Great for play and they have great seats for parents. The staff members are great and the kids really enjoyed playing with them.
There are so many themes and things to play with. Does not matter if you’re a boy or girl the kids will enjoy it.
Highly recommend the place.

As a mere visitor to San Diego, I don’t know how «in demand» indoor play areas are. After all, if I lived here, I would be outdoors as much as possible. But today was actually a gloomy day in San Diego so it might explain why this place was so crowded.
I can see why some folks would say this place is pricey because there has to be a return on investment by providing a quality experience. Like I said, it was crowded so the place was a mess and the toys were all over the place. If it weren’t for the giant structures such as the castle, the firetruck, etc., this place would have very little to offer kids. What I think this business needs is to update their toys and to make sure there’s enough staff to make sure that there are actual toys inside the playrooms.
What few staff they had appeared to very outgoing but also overworked. One guy, in particular, was so energetic and appeared to genuinely like his work interacting with kids. It entertained the kids for a bit but with so many kids running around (imagine that scene from Toy Story 3 when all the kids came screaming inside the room after they were unleashed from the outside), we had to leave. I hope they improve because the concept is great.

I am torn between here and kidsville. I like here because there is a lot more to do for my 3 year old but not much for my infant. I like to keep an eye on my kids unlike most parents there which seem to be just sitting around with other trophy wives talking to each other. Not much soft area without getting ran over here for infants. Can’t see well to watch if kids are being mean to each other.
I have been here once and prefer kidsville just because it’s smaller and easier to keep track of kids and more infant friendly.
Not to mention when I was here there was this one certain crazy out of control kid that literally somehow managed to get a metal kids shopping cart up the castle and literally pushed with all he could the cart down the slide. I am talking full force not to mention the metal cart going down a metal slide. Without thinking I put my hand up to stop it from hitting any kids around. I am glad I did only because if it was a child instead of my hand. Oh man. Serious issues would happen. I couldn’t use my hand to the point where I couldn’t even put my 3 year olds shoes on. I was literally crying trying to buckle my infant into the car and couldn’t use my hand for almost 2 days and it’s still bruised even now.
I know that this was messed up a lot but I would return here. I just prefer kidsville because it’s smaller and infant friendly.
It is cleaner than kidsville though.

Unilocal 100 challenge 2015 tHis place is great for kids they have a castle, fire trucks, the staff really keeps the kids entertained, the rooms for the children to celebrate is big enough for around 30 people, they make sure the kids are engaged and make sure the bday kid is center of attention

The kids I watch love it here! The staff is friendly and helpful. Everything is usually clean and organized, the only reason I don’t give 5 stars is because there is little selection for people or kids with different food needs. Don’t get me wrong, They do a Great Job at providing foods for all ages at a reasonable price for what they offer, however majority of their foods are high cards, high gluten and I’m gluten sensitive and have been put on a restricted diet for it.
*you can’t bring any outside food in unless it’s for an infant/​toddler in those squeeze packs and I totally understand why they do it so they don’t loose money, but it’s hard to stay and play all day when there aren’t any gluten free options.

Seems as though this place is typically closed on Sundays, but was open today for an event, which happened to be my nephew’s birthday!
It’s hard to say how parking or populated this venue is on the daily considering I attended a private event. Parking seemed ample and the venue seemed the same. The floor plan was more of a rectangular shape. As you enter, there is a front desk and to the left is a small seating area which has a door that opens up to a room where the adults and food were situated. Unfortunately, most chairs around this place are meant for children! Lol, so good luck. To the right of the front desk ran a hallway with painted walls and branch décor near the ceiling, felt like walking through a forest.
The plan area contained a pirate ship and castle, of course with a slide! 2 levels and spacious enough an adult can crouch within the areas. There’s also rooms to go into, 1 with an old school type fire truck, a salon looking room and another a diner (?) looking setting.
There is also a coffee bar with snacks, yummy! The Kona coffee (dark choc blended) was delish! Between the hallway and coffee area was a room surrounded by windows where the kiddos ate.
Fun experience, but probably will be more fun if I had my own kiddos to play with.