World Museum, Liverpool
Five floors, free, and it covers three things small children reliably love: giant dinosaurs, an aquarium and a space gallery. The best wet-weather day within half an hour.
Flip Out Liverpool
- Cost
- From £9.95 off-peak, £13.95 weekends
- Ages
- 1 to 11
- Where
- Liverpool, Merseyside
- Weather
- Works in the rain
- Booking
- Book online
Flip Out's city-centre Liverpool site, in Clayton Square Shopping Centre, has no trampolines at all despite the name. It is three floors of other things: toddler soft play, a ninja playground, a ball pit, Floor Is Fire, interactive football, a battle cannon arena, bumper cars, laser quest and a roller rink, with a diner and party rooms. One entry price covers every attraction, which makes it one of the few city venues where a two-year-old and a ten-year-old both get a real session in the same building.
The catch is the calendar. In term time it opens at noon on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and at 4pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays, becoming a full 10am operation only at weekends and in the holidays, and laser quest is closed Monday to Friday. Two hours is from £13.95 at weekends and in the holidays, or from £9.95 off-peak on term-time weekdays, and booking ahead is the difference between a session and a queue on wet Saturdays.
What it costs: Two hour experience from £13.95 and three hours from £17.95 at weekends and in the holidays. Off-peak two hours from £9.95 on term-time weekdays. After School Club from £8.95 (one hour plus a Mini Ninjas meal and drink, under 16s only, term-time Wednesdays and Fridays). SEND session from £10 on Sundays at 10am, with parents and carers free. Family passes for 4, 5 or 6 guests. Laser quest is closed Monday to Friday.
Know before you go
- Term-time weekday opening is patchy (from noon or 4pm depending on the day); holidays run from 10am daily. Check before you set off.
- There are no trampolines here. For bouncing, Jump Inc at Hunts Cross is the big trampoline park in the south of the city.
- Laser quest only runs at weekends and in the holidays, so a term-time weekday ticket does not include it.
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