When rain or snow keeps everyone inside for days, these are the places where kids can still wear themselves out. Some are about height, with kids' routes on bouldering walls and ninja courses. Others are about bounce, speed and aim, from trampoline arenas to laser tag and blacklight minigolf. Here's what we checked, from JUMP House to Coool! Arena.
A 3,400-square-meter trampoline hall with 13 attractions. Next to the big FreeJUMP trampoline floor sit Ninja Warrior-style courses (the NinjaBridge and the points-based NinjaPod Arena), a soccer arena, and SurvivalJUMP, where jumpers try to outlast a spinning bar.
It suits kids who want to burn off energy and try a challenge. Parents can jump too, or wait in the café area.
Superfly Munich is an indoor trampoline park of about 4,000m². Beyond the open jumping courts and a foam pit for landing flips, it has Valo attractions, where trampolines meet video games, and Pixel Games, where teams collect points and solve puzzles level by level.
It suits school-age kids and teens who want to burn off energy on a cold or rainy day.
Munich Action Park fills the former Olympic ice training hall at the Olympiapark with about 2,000 square meters of action sports: bouldering walls, a Ninja Warrior obstacle course, a parkour area and a calisthenics zone.
Younger kids get their own Kids' Area with low bouldering and obstacles to try each sport. A bistro sells pretzels, pinsa, cake and drinks, and outside food isn't allowed.
Boulderwelt München Ost is a bouldering gym on the upper floors of a building by München Ost station, with 6m walls climbed without ropes.
The 4th floor holds a Kinderwelt just for kids: hand-painted underwater walls with a castle, crawl tunnels and a slide for climbers from about age 2. Kids 6 and up can also use the mixed area, where routes marked with a hand have closer holds.
A large bouldering gym: climbing low walls over crash mats, with no ropes or harness. Upstairs is a kids' climbing world with child-sized holds, a parcours zone modeled on the adults' hall, and a hand-painted underwater and Inca jungle area for toddlers.
Three wall sections are reset every week, so regulars keep finding new routes. A café sits by check-in.
Boulderwelt München Süd is a bouldering gym in Brunnthal, just south of Munich. Kids under 14 climb in the Kinderwelt, a separate area with kid-sized holds, a hand-painted Alpine scene, a slide and tunnels, or in a mixed area with marked kids' routes beside the adult walls.
Parents can wait in a lounge with coffee. It is not a drop-off: an adult supervises kids the whole time.
A German Alpine Club (DAV) climbing center with 5,100 sqm of rope walls (about 500 routes), a separate bouldering hall, and outdoor walls under a wide roof overhang that keeps them climbable in rain.
Kids' routes and boulders carry a small monkey sign and use holds sized for small hands. Downstairs, a play area has a pirate ship, a knights' castle and thick crash mats.
A large climbing center run by the German Alpine Club (DAV), with roped walls up to 15 m high inside and out, plus a bouldering hall. Kids get their own routes and boulders, marked with a monkey sign and set with small holds, and a ten-problem kids' course.
Upstairs, an enclosed play area has climbing walls and a slide. Outside there's a playground with a sandbox and a big trampoline.
An arcade and family entertainment center inside the Forum Schwanthalerhöhe mall. Kids race on Mario Kart and Super Bikes 3, play air hockey, skee-ball and NERF shooters, and the youngest ride licensed kiddie rides such as Peppa Pig and a carousel. There is also an 11-hole blacklight mini golf course and bowling lanes with colored lights and animations.
A 1,000 m² blacklight minigolf course where kids putt through glowing themed worlds, from jungle and dinosaurs to outer space and underwater scenes, wearing 3D glasses that make the neon pop.
A separate arcade zone has pinball and high-score machines, and TEAM-UP! runs game-show challenges in themed rooms for groups. It sits beside the Forum Schwanthalerhöhe mall, a short walk from Theresienwiese.
A 1,150 m² indoor laser tag arena in Garching, just north of Munich, with obstacles, raised platforms, and light and sound effects. Up to 50 players wear Laserforce Gen8 vests, and power-ups change how each round plays.
Staff give a short briefing before play, so first-timers can join in. A lounge serves pizza, snacks and drinks between rounds.
Dream-Bowl Palace is a big bowling center just outside Munich, with 52 lanes, an 18-hole blacklight minigolf course, 11 pool tables, darts and table soccer. Every lane has bumpers that staff switch on for kids up to 1.37 m tall.
A bistro and lounge serve fries, burgers and nuggets. Weekend evenings turn into Palace Party Night with blacklight and louder music, so families with young kids tend to come earlier.
When rain or snow keeps everyone inside for days, these are the places where kids can still wear themselves out. Some are about height, with kids' routes on bouldering walls and ninja courses. Others are about bounce, speed and aim, from trampoline arenas to laser tag and blacklight minigolf. Here's what we checked, from JUMP House to Coool! Arena.
A 3,400-square-meter trampoline hall with 13 attractions. Next to the big FreeJUMP trampoline floor sit Ninja Warrior-style courses (the NinjaBridge and the points-based NinjaPod Arena), a soccer arena, and SurvivalJUMP, where jumpers try to outlast a spinning bar.
It suits kids who want to burn off energy and try a challenge. Parents can jump too, or wait in the café area.
Superfly Munich is an indoor trampoline park of about 4,000m². Beyond the open jumping courts and a foam pit for landing flips, it has Valo attractions, where trampolines meet video games, and Pixel Games, where teams collect points and solve puzzles level by level.
It suits school-age kids and teens who want to burn off energy on a cold or rainy day.
Munich Action Park fills the former Olympic ice training hall at the Olympiapark with about 2,000 square meters of action sports: bouldering walls, a Ninja Warrior obstacle course, a parkour area and a calisthenics zone.
Younger kids get their own Kids' Area with low bouldering and obstacles to try each sport. A bistro sells pretzels, pinsa, cake and drinks, and outside food isn't allowed.
Boulderwelt München Ost is a bouldering gym on the upper floors of a building by München Ost station, with 6m walls climbed without ropes.
The 4th floor holds a Kinderwelt just for kids: hand-painted underwater walls with a castle, crawl tunnels and a slide for climbers from about age 2. Kids 6 and up can also use the mixed area, where routes marked with a hand have closer holds.
A large bouldering gym: climbing low walls over crash mats, with no ropes or harness. Upstairs is a kids' climbing world with child-sized holds, a parcours zone modeled on the adults' hall, and a hand-painted underwater and Inca jungle area for toddlers.
Three wall sections are reset every week, so regulars keep finding new routes. A café sits by check-in.
Boulderwelt München Süd is a bouldering gym in Brunnthal, just south of Munich. Kids under 14 climb in the Kinderwelt, a separate area with kid-sized holds, a hand-painted Alpine scene, a slide and tunnels, or in a mixed area with marked kids' routes beside the adult walls.
Parents can wait in a lounge with coffee. It is not a drop-off: an adult supervises kids the whole time.
A German Alpine Club (DAV) climbing center with 5,100 sqm of rope walls (about 500 routes), a separate bouldering hall, and outdoor walls under a wide roof overhang that keeps them climbable in rain.
Kids' routes and boulders carry a small monkey sign and use holds sized for small hands. Downstairs, a play area has a pirate ship, a knights' castle and thick crash mats.
A large climbing center run by the German Alpine Club (DAV), with roped walls up to 15 m high inside and out, plus a bouldering hall. Kids get their own routes and boulders, marked with a monkey sign and set with small holds, and a ten-problem kids' course.
Upstairs, an enclosed play area has climbing walls and a slide. Outside there's a playground with a sandbox and a big trampoline.
An arcade and family entertainment center inside the Forum Schwanthalerhöhe mall. Kids race on Mario Kart and Super Bikes 3, play air hockey, skee-ball and NERF shooters, and the youngest ride licensed kiddie rides such as Peppa Pig and a carousel. There is also an 11-hole blacklight mini golf course and bowling lanes with colored lights and animations.
A 1,000 m² blacklight minigolf course where kids putt through glowing themed worlds, from jungle and dinosaurs to outer space and underwater scenes, wearing 3D glasses that make the neon pop.
A separate arcade zone has pinball and high-score machines, and TEAM-UP! runs game-show challenges in themed rooms for groups. It sits beside the Forum Schwanthalerhöhe mall, a short walk from Theresienwiese.
A 1,150 m² indoor laser tag arena in Garching, just north of Munich, with obstacles, raised platforms, and light and sound effects. Up to 50 players wear Laserforce Gen8 vests, and power-ups change how each round plays.
Staff give a short briefing before play, so first-timers can join in. A lounge serves pizza, snacks and drinks between rounds.
Dream-Bowl Palace is a big bowling center just outside Munich, with 52 lanes, an 18-hole blacklight minigolf course, 11 pool tables, darts and table soccer. Every lane has bumpers that staff switch on for kids up to 1.37 m tall.
A bistro and lounge serve fries, burgers and nuggets. Weekend evenings turn into Palace Party Night with blacklight and louder music, so families with young kids tend to come earlier.
