Summer afternoons · Story
Summer afternoons in Mount Juliet: an hour, start to finish
Not a review - a description. Here is roughly how an hour goes.
The afternoon heat is exactly when children have the most energy and the least chance of being allowed to spend it outside.
Families searching from Mount Juliet are usually weighing one thing: whether it is worth the trip for an hour of something the children have not done before. The honest answer is that it depends on the child, and the rest of this page is about telling which.
Walking in
By the middle of a southern summer, indoors stops being second best and becomes the plan.
Decide how long you are staying before you walk in. A visit with an end time attached to it finishes on a good note rather than a tired one.
The middle of the visit
An hour on the ice is the most literal way to cool a child down that exists indoors.
School holidays make weekday mornings quieter than weekends - the same visit, half the noise.
The last ten minutes
The afternoon heat is exactly when children have the most energy and the least chance of being allowed to spend it outside.
The quietest hour of the week is the first one on a weekday morning in term time. The busiest is Saturday around midday.
What sticks
By the middle of a southern summer, indoors stops being second best and becomes the plan.
An hour on the ice is the most literal way to cool a child down that exists indoors.
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 Mount Juliet
Coming in from Mount Juliet with more than one child, the useful thing to know is that the room does not need to be rationed - there is more than one thing to do at the same time.
If two children are visiting together, plan for them to split up. Doing different things in the same room is the point of a room with different things in it.
Count on the drive home being the conversation. Children tell you what they actually thought about twenty minutes after leaving.
The drive back to Mount Juliet is where you find out what they actually thought. Children review an outing about twenty minutes after leaving it, never during.
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.