Summer afternoons · Faq
Summer afternoons in Donelson: the questions parents ask
The questions below are the ones that come up before a first visit, answered plainly.
An hour on the ice is the most literal way to cool a child down that exists indoors.
Weekends bring more of Donelson 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
The afternoon heat is exactly when children have the most energy and the least chance of being allowed to spend it outside.
Bring a snack for afterwards rather than during. Hungry children leave early and full children want to stay.
The longer answers
School holidays make weekday mornings quieter than weekends - the same visit, half the noise.
By the middle of a southern summer, indoors stops being second best and becomes the plan.
Still worth asking on the day
An hour on the ice is the most literal way to cool a child down that exists indoors.
Let the child lead the order of things. Adults optimise; children choose the thing that looks best, and they are right more often than they are wrong.
Questions parents ask
Is it air conditioned?
Both venues are inside malls, and the ice park is a rink.
When is it quietest in the holidays?
Weekday mornings, generally.
Where is New Life Entertainment?
Two centres: 433 Opry Mills Drive, Nashville TN 37214, and 8111 Concord Mills Blvd, Concord NC 28027.
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 Donelson
Plenty of the families in the room on a weekday morning have come from somewhere like Donelson. Nobody is local to a mall attraction; everybody has driven.
Agree the leaving time before you walk in, out loud, to the child. Announcing it later sounds like a punishment; agreeing it first sounds like a plan.
The quietest hour of the week is the first one on a weekday morning in term time. The busiest is Saturday around midday.
If Donelson is home, this is the sort of place you end up returning to rather than ticking off. That changes what a first visit is worth planning around.
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
Anything time critical is worth a phone call first: hours are 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM Monday to Saturday and 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM on Sunday.