A screen free afternoon · Faq
A screen free afternoon in Indian Trail: the questions parents ask
Short answers to the things worth knowing in advance.
Screen free is easy to say on a Saturday morning and hard to do by two in the afternoon.
Weekends bring more of Indian Trail out at once. If the schedule allows a weekday, take it; the same visit is quieter and the machines wait for nobody in particular.
The short answers
What replaces a screen has to be more interesting than a screen, which rules out most of the obvious answers. A machine a child actually controls is one of the few that works.
A birthday group runs better with a rough plan of who goes where first, even if you abandon it in the first five minutes.
The longer answers
The feedback loop is the same one games use - do a thing, see a result, adjust - except it happens with hands, in a room, with other people watching.
Nobody has to ban anything. Children put the phone down on their own when the alternative is better.
Still worth asking on the day
Screen free is easy to say on a Saturday morning and hard to do by two in the afternoon.
Photograph the machine as well as the child. In two years you will have forgotten what the room looked like.
Questions parents ask
Is there screen time involved?
The machines are levers and cables. The ice is ice.
How do I get in touch?
By phone on +1 (424) 387-6232 or +1 (615) 968-4925, or by e-mail at info@newlife-entertainment.com.
What are the opening hours?
10:00 AM to 8:00 PM Monday to Saturday, and 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM on Sunday.
Planning your visit in Indian Trail
Families around Indian Trail who have done it once tend to plan the second visit differently: shorter, earlier in the day, and with the machine the child liked in mind.
A short visit that ends while they still want more beats a long one that ends in a meltdown, every time.
Bring a snack for afterwards rather than during. Hungry children leave early and full children want to stay.
From Indian Trail the practical question is timing rather than distance. Arriving in the first hour after opening is worth more than shaving minutes off the drive.
The practical details
- XCAV ZONE — 433 Opry Mills Drive, Nashville TN 37214: four child-operated machines over a ball pit.
- ICE PARK — 8111 Concord Mills Blvd, Concord NC 28027: a real rink with bumper cars on the ice.
- Opening hours — 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM Monday to Saturday, 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM on Sunday.
- Phone — +1 (424) 387-6232 · +1 (615) 968-4925
- E-mail — info@newlife-entertainment.com
The two centres are at 433 Opry Mills Drive in Nashville and 8111 Concord Mills Blvd in Concord, open 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM most days and 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM on Sunday.