Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Indoor Playgrounds in Toulouse, France - Kidou Recre

Fancy a playground to go on a rainy, windy or cold days? Seriously, staying at home with energetic children the whole time or even a few hours with them can drive you nuts. I love going out, with kids or without, I can't even warm up my sofa seat at home.

When I discovered the insanely amount of playgrounds in Singapore - indoor, outdoor and water play parks, I would make sure my kids go to this places. Some you need to pay and some totally free! Can you imagine, every shopping malls, place of interests, heartland areas have at a least one playground for the kids?! Even with no cars, you can still take train or bus to the playgrounds within a short time. That's what I love about Singapore.

When my family have to move to France, my first thought was where I could bring my kids to play everyday? Honestly, you can't really bring them out to play everyday unless you are talking about your own home garden (if you are lucky). The weather could be cold today and sunny tomorrow. Or it could be sunny but soooo windy. We can't go indoor playgrounds all the time. Firstly, it is costly. Secondly, it could be out of the way for people with no cars and thirdly, indoor playgrounds don't open everyday except Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. Huh?

Ok, enough talk. The very first indoor playground I went to was

1. Kidoc Recre
    6 Rue ThĂ©ron de MontaugĂ©, 31200 Toulouse
    accessible by metro.
 This is one part of the play area. There are some more play areas on the right hand side (not shown in pic).

 Adults are not allowed on the play areas so make sure your children are confident enough.
 This is the baby area. For up to 2years old. A little pathetic i would say. But adults are allow inside.
 Trampolines! 1 child per trampoline so it's quite safe even for the smaller children.
 Hello Mr sun! Initially, alittle difficult for Stacy (3 years old at that time). Now she's an expert.
 The slide is very high so younger children can be scared of this but once they figure it out, it's great fun for them!
The recommended age for this is 5 years old and above. There are actually more obstacles at the other side, i just managed to take this part. Haha. Younger children will have a tough time coming out and may cry. And if that happen, sorry, no adults allow in the play area, the children just have to figure it out by themselves. (Seriously, the staff made an announcement on the microphone telling the father to get off the play area when he was trying to help his child).

I would say it's great fun and exercise for older kids (3 years and above). Younger children will have limited things to play. The place also have a cafeteria , the usual coffee, waffles sweets,  ice-cream and some hot food. Reasonably priced.

Stacy (4 years old) seems to like the place, Erica (2years old) will need some help and for me, i'm bored. Cos' i can't play with my children in the play area.  Haha.