When the rain sets in for a week, kids still need somewhere to bounce. These are the indoor spots we'd pick for burning off energy: trampoline parks with ninja courses, bouldering and climbing walls, laser tag, bowling, an escape room and a kid-size city where they try grown-up jobs. The biggest sit outside the center and are easiest by car. Here's what we checked, from JumpYard's trampolines to KidZania.
JumpYard Lisbon is an indoor trampoline and activity park in Carnaxide. Beyond the trampoline courts, kids can climb the Clip 'n Climb walls, run the Ninja Warrior course, play Valo TV interactive games and fly on the SkyRider. Toddlers get their own soft play zone, miniJumpYard.
It suits kids who need to burn off energy on a rainy day, and birthday parties run here too.
Quantum Park Lisboa is a large indoor adventure park in Cacém, west of Lisbon. The trampoline arena includes a ninja course, a jump tower, foam pits and trampoline football. Alongside it, 23 Clip 'n Climb walls up to 10 meters high run on auto-belay, with a speed wall and a face-to-face race. Older kids can play two-floor laser tag, and toddlers have a small playground of their own.
Vertigo Climbing Center fills a former riverside warehouse, converted in 2014, with walls of colorful holds. Kids climb in guided sessions and at birthday parties, and beginners can sign up for courses.
There's a café with a riverside terrace where parents can wait, plus gear rental and a shop selling climbing equipment.
9.8 Gravity is a bouldering gym with 600 square meters of climbing walls and problems for every level, from first-timers to competition climbers. Kids can join weekly children's classes or book a one-hour first session with climbing shoes included.
Upstairs there is a fitness gym, and the café serves toasties, soups, salads and cakes. It sits in Prior Velho, next to Lisbon airport.
KidZania is a kid-scale city with its own streets, buildings and vehicles, where children try more than 60 grown-up jobs in copies of real places: an airport, a supermarket, a theater, a police station, a fire station, a newspaper and a TV studio.
Kids are paid in kidZos, the city's own currency, and decide for themselves how to spend or keep them. It suits kids who enjoy role play.
Login Laser Tag fills a 1,000 m² warehouse near Alfragide and bills itself as the largest laser tag arena in Portugal and Spain. Players wear wireless vests and battle in teams through a dark arena in 12-minute games. Up to 20 play at once, so bigger groups rotate tournament style.
Between rounds there are arcade machines (air hockey, Sega Rally, a Star Wars Battle Pod) and a café-bar with a terrace.
Bowling City has 12 lanes on the second floor of the Colombo mall, beside the cinemas. It also runs HyperBowling, where kids roll at moving colored targets that multiply the score, so aim counts more than strength.
The entrance level holds foosball, Power Puck and other game machines, plus Hologate virtual reality games. A lounge and bar sit by the lanes for parents waiting their turn.
Mission To Escape runs escape rooms across Portugal, and this is its Lisbon branch. A team of two to six is shut in a themed room and has an hour to solve its way out, with a Game Master watching throughout. The three rooms here are Wizard School: The Tournament, Space Wars and AXN Prison Robbery, each played in Portuguese or English.
Birthday groups finish in a private party room.
When the rain sets in for a week, kids still need somewhere to bounce. These are the indoor spots we'd pick for burning off energy: trampoline parks with ninja courses, bouldering and climbing walls, laser tag, bowling, an escape room and a kid-size city where they try grown-up jobs. The biggest sit outside the center and are easiest by car. Here's what we checked, from JumpYard's trampolines to KidZania.
JumpYard Lisbon is an indoor trampoline and activity park in Carnaxide. Beyond the trampoline courts, kids can climb the Clip 'n Climb walls, run the Ninja Warrior course, play Valo TV interactive games and fly on the SkyRider. Toddlers get their own soft play zone, miniJumpYard.
It suits kids who need to burn off energy on a rainy day, and birthday parties run here too.
Quantum Park Lisboa is a large indoor adventure park in Cacém, west of Lisbon. The trampoline arena includes a ninja course, a jump tower, foam pits and trampoline football. Alongside it, 23 Clip 'n Climb walls up to 10 meters high run on auto-belay, with a speed wall and a face-to-face race. Older kids can play two-floor laser tag, and toddlers have a small playground of their own.
Vertigo Climbing Center fills a former riverside warehouse, converted in 2014, with walls of colorful holds. Kids climb in guided sessions and at birthday parties, and beginners can sign up for courses.
There's a café with a riverside terrace where parents can wait, plus gear rental and a shop selling climbing equipment.
9.8 Gravity is a bouldering gym with 600 square meters of climbing walls and problems for every level, from first-timers to competition climbers. Kids can join weekly children's classes or book a one-hour first session with climbing shoes included.
Upstairs there is a fitness gym, and the café serves toasties, soups, salads and cakes. It sits in Prior Velho, next to Lisbon airport.
KidZania is a kid-scale city with its own streets, buildings and vehicles, where children try more than 60 grown-up jobs in copies of real places: an airport, a supermarket, a theater, a police station, a fire station, a newspaper and a TV studio.
Kids are paid in kidZos, the city's own currency, and decide for themselves how to spend or keep them. It suits kids who enjoy role play.
Login Laser Tag fills a 1,000 m² warehouse near Alfragide and bills itself as the largest laser tag arena in Portugal and Spain. Players wear wireless vests and battle in teams through a dark arena in 12-minute games. Up to 20 play at once, so bigger groups rotate tournament style.
Between rounds there are arcade machines (air hockey, Sega Rally, a Star Wars Battle Pod) and a café-bar with a terrace.
Bowling City has 12 lanes on the second floor of the Colombo mall, beside the cinemas. It also runs HyperBowling, where kids roll at moving colored targets that multiply the score, so aim counts more than strength.
The entrance level holds foosball, Power Puck and other game machines, plus Hologate virtual reality games. A lounge and bar sit by the lanes for parents waiting their turn.
Mission To Escape runs escape rooms across Portugal, and this is its Lisbon branch. A team of two to six is shut in a themed room and has an hour to solve its way out, with a Game Master watching throughout. The three rooms here are Wizard School: The Tournament, Space Wars and AXN Prison Robbery, each played in Portuguese or English.
Birthday groups finish in a private party room.
