For the freezing January weekend, the wet afternoon, or the kid who has to burn off energy before dinner. These are the indoor play spaces we'd point a friend to: ball pits, soft-play climbing frames, slides and trampoline parks, often inside a shopping mall. Some suit toddlers best, others are built for older kids who want to jump and flip, so check the ages on each listing.
Soho Play is an indoor play space rented out for private children's parties, so each booking gets the whole room. The play structure has a maze, a trampoline, a slide, a climbing wall, obstacles and interactive play houses.
Parents sit in a lounge with tables and a mini bar right next to the play area, and a video screen shows the kids while they play.
MimaKids is a play space in Afumați built for children's birthday parties. Inside is a bright playroom with mostly wooden toys; outside is a yard of natural grass where kids can run barefoot.
Parties come with themed decorations, entertainers, games and a candy bar, and the kids' menus are cooked fresh on the day. Parents get a café and terrace. It suits families planning a party.
Kiddo Play Academy fills more than 1,200 m² on the first floor of Băneasa Shopping City with themed play zones. Kids fly over the play area on a zip line, jump on trampolines, wade through a ball pool, race down the Slide Express and build with blocks in the Construction Zone.
Pretend-play corners include a stage and a plush-toy hospital, and a bar serves coffee and snacks.
Zorky's Planet is a family entertainment center inside AFI Cotroceni mall, now in front of the Cinema City entrance. Kids play arcade games that pay out tickets, then trade the tickets for a toy of their choice. There are also ride simulators, bumper cars, trampolines and a little train that rolls through a safari scene. Games run on a top-up card rather than coins.
Hype Sun Plaza is an indoor action arena on the first floor of Sun Plaza mall. Kids bounce on trampolines, ride the Slide Galaxy slides, scale climbing walls and cross Urban Jungle, a suspended rope course.
Older kids head for laser tag, the Arkadia multiplayer VR arena, VR simulators and a row of arcade games.
Hype Colosseum is a token-based play arena on the first floor of Colosseum Mall. Kids bounce on trampoline courts, clip into Urban Jungle, a suspended rope course, and climb Vertical Thrills, 22 climbing walls 8 m high.
Laser tag, VR simulators and a room of arcade games fill out the floor, so older kids and teens have as much to do as younger siblings.
Hype Play is an active indoor play park for kids and teens at the Romexpo exhibition center. Kids load game credits onto a reusable wristband and spend them across the attractions: trampolines with a foam pit and giant airbag, cosmic slides, suspended rope courses, a climbing wall, laser tag, VR games and old-school arcade machines.
The Cube has 25 short challenge rooms, and there is an escape room too.
Cyberjump Lujerului is a trampoline park of nearly 3,000 m² inside the Supernova Lujerului mall. Past the open free-jump field, kids shoot hoops mid-air at Battle Basket, race a timed ninja course, swing from a trapeze onto an airbag, and duel on rotating beams. The bounce runs and high-performance trampolines are for experienced jumpers, so first-timers start on the free-jump field.
Cyberjump ParkLake is a trampoline park of close to 3,000 m² on level -2 of the ParkLake mall. Past the big free-jump field, kids can fly into an airbag zone, race the clock on a ninja course and two bounce runs, climb a rope-free wall over soft landing, try the slackline, and play interactive games like Battle Basket and Valo Jump. The hall is air-conditioned and has a bistro.
Destiny Park is an edutainment center laid out as a miniature city, with 43 grown-up jobs for kids to try: pilot, surgeon, TV news presenter, firefighter, supermarket cashier, toy maker. Each child starts at the bank, swaps an entry check for Magic Money, then earns or spends it at each station.
Parents stay outside the activities, which last 10 to 20 minutes each. A separate Lupilu area is for under-3s.
Gymboland at Sun Plaza is a Wonderland-themed indoor play center on the mall's ground floor. A climbing frame links ball pits, trampolines, slides and suspended bridges, and there are creative corners with educational panels.
Older kids head for the touchscreen games, virtual reality and arcade machines such as racing simulators, air hockey and basketball.
Gymboland is an indoor play center inside AFI Cotroceni mall, built around a huge pirate ship that kids can climb aboard. The modular structure packs in soft play, inflatables, slides, trampolines, ball pits and ball cannons.
A small lake with electric boats lets kids drive themselves around, easy to handle and hard to leave.
Gymboland is a Romanian chain of indoor playgrounds inside shopping malls, and this branch sits in Mega Mall. The chain's play areas mix slides, ball pools, inflatables and climbing structures, with a separate soft-toy corner for under-3s. Staff supervise the play floor, and the chain also hosts themed birthday parties. A rainy-day option where parents can shop or grab a coffee in the mall nearby.
Kiddo Play Academy is a 1,200-square-meter play center laid out as a pretend town, upstairs in ParkLake Shopping Center. Toddlers get a soft foam jungle with a donut-mat slide.
Older kids move on to role-play stations (chef, gardener, builder), a tree house with storybooks, a science corner with paper planes and magnets, and a costume stage. There is also an auto-belay climbing wall, a laser maze and mini bowling.
An indoor play space inside MINA, a new media art museum, built around more than 15 interactive digital installations across 1,000 square meters. Kids shape sand in an augmented-reality sandbox and watch water and mountains form, play projected games on the walls, color a paper parrot or butterfly and see it move on screen, take a virtual hot air balloon ride, and jump into an 8-meter ball pit.
For the freezing January weekend, the wet afternoon, or the kid who has to burn off energy before dinner. These are the indoor play spaces we'd point a friend to: ball pits, soft-play climbing frames, slides and trampoline parks, often inside a shopping mall. Some suit toddlers best, others are built for older kids who want to jump and flip, so check the ages on each listing.
Soho Play is an indoor play space rented out for private children's parties, so each booking gets the whole room. The play structure has a maze, a trampoline, a slide, a climbing wall, obstacles and interactive play houses.
Parents sit in a lounge with tables and a mini bar right next to the play area, and a video screen shows the kids while they play.
MimaKids is a play space in Afumați built for children's birthday parties. Inside is a bright playroom with mostly wooden toys; outside is a yard of natural grass where kids can run barefoot.
Parties come with themed decorations, entertainers, games and a candy bar, and the kids' menus are cooked fresh on the day. Parents get a café and terrace. It suits families planning a party.
Kiddo Play Academy fills more than 1,200 m² on the first floor of Băneasa Shopping City with themed play zones. Kids fly over the play area on a zip line, jump on trampolines, wade through a ball pool, race down the Slide Express and build with blocks in the Construction Zone.
Pretend-play corners include a stage and a plush-toy hospital, and a bar serves coffee and snacks.
Zorky's Planet is a family entertainment center inside AFI Cotroceni mall, now in front of the Cinema City entrance. Kids play arcade games that pay out tickets, then trade the tickets for a toy of their choice. There are also ride simulators, bumper cars, trampolines and a little train that rolls through a safari scene. Games run on a top-up card rather than coins.
Hype Sun Plaza is an indoor action arena on the first floor of Sun Plaza mall. Kids bounce on trampolines, ride the Slide Galaxy slides, scale climbing walls and cross Urban Jungle, a suspended rope course.
Older kids head for laser tag, the Arkadia multiplayer VR arena, VR simulators and a row of arcade games.
Hype Colosseum is a token-based play arena on the first floor of Colosseum Mall. Kids bounce on trampoline courts, clip into Urban Jungle, a suspended rope course, and climb Vertical Thrills, 22 climbing walls 8 m high.
Laser tag, VR simulators and a room of arcade games fill out the floor, so older kids and teens have as much to do as younger siblings.
Hype Play is an active indoor play park for kids and teens at the Romexpo exhibition center. Kids load game credits onto a reusable wristband and spend them across the attractions: trampolines with a foam pit and giant airbag, cosmic slides, suspended rope courses, a climbing wall, laser tag, VR games and old-school arcade machines.
The Cube has 25 short challenge rooms, and there is an escape room too.
Cyberjump Lujerului is a trampoline park of nearly 3,000 m² inside the Supernova Lujerului mall. Past the open free-jump field, kids shoot hoops mid-air at Battle Basket, race a timed ninja course, swing from a trapeze onto an airbag, and duel on rotating beams. The bounce runs and high-performance trampolines are for experienced jumpers, so first-timers start on the free-jump field.
Cyberjump ParkLake is a trampoline park of close to 3,000 m² on level -2 of the ParkLake mall. Past the big free-jump field, kids can fly into an airbag zone, race the clock on a ninja course and two bounce runs, climb a rope-free wall over soft landing, try the slackline, and play interactive games like Battle Basket and Valo Jump. The hall is air-conditioned and has a bistro.
Destiny Park is an edutainment center laid out as a miniature city, with 43 grown-up jobs for kids to try: pilot, surgeon, TV news presenter, firefighter, supermarket cashier, toy maker. Each child starts at the bank, swaps an entry check for Magic Money, then earns or spends it at each station.
Parents stay outside the activities, which last 10 to 20 minutes each. A separate Lupilu area is for under-3s.
Gymboland at Sun Plaza is a Wonderland-themed indoor play center on the mall's ground floor. A climbing frame links ball pits, trampolines, slides and suspended bridges, and there are creative corners with educational panels.
Older kids head for the touchscreen games, virtual reality and arcade machines such as racing simulators, air hockey and basketball.
Gymboland is an indoor play center inside AFI Cotroceni mall, built around a huge pirate ship that kids can climb aboard. The modular structure packs in soft play, inflatables, slides, trampolines, ball pits and ball cannons.
A small lake with electric boats lets kids drive themselves around, easy to handle and hard to leave.
Gymboland is a Romanian chain of indoor playgrounds inside shopping malls, and this branch sits in Mega Mall. The chain's play areas mix slides, ball pools, inflatables and climbing structures, with a separate soft-toy corner for under-3s. Staff supervise the play floor, and the chain also hosts themed birthday parties. A rainy-day option where parents can shop or grab a coffee in the mall nearby.
Kiddo Play Academy is a 1,200-square-meter play center laid out as a pretend town, upstairs in ParkLake Shopping Center. Toddlers get a soft foam jungle with a donut-mat slide.
Older kids move on to role-play stations (chef, gardener, builder), a tree house with storybooks, a science corner with paper planes and magnets, and a costume stage. There is also an auto-belay climbing wall, a laser maze and mini bowling.
An indoor play space inside MINA, a new media art museum, built around more than 15 interactive digital installations across 1,000 square meters. Kids shape sand in an augmented-reality sandbox and watch water and mountains form, play projected games on the walls, color a paper parrot or butterfly and see it move on screen, take a virtual hot air balloon ride, and jump into an 8-meter ball pit.
