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What the centre is for in Concord: where it fits among family activities
There is no shortage of indoor options. The useful question is which one suits your particular child.
Those are ordinary words until you watch a child work out a bucket for the first time, and then they are just a description of what happened.
Families searching from Concord 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.
What it does differently
The centre describes its aim in four parts: inspiration and creativity, safety and care, educational games and activities, and creating lasting memories.
A birthday group runs better with a rough plan of who goes where first, even if you abandon it in the first five minutes.
Where other options win
The last one is the one parents actually buy. Children remember the day they drove an excavator far longer than they remember most afternoons.
Educational is doing a lot of quiet work in that list. Levers, timing and patience are a curriculum nobody has to announce.
How to decide
Those are ordinary words until you watch a child work out a bucket for the first time, and then they are just a description of what happened.
Two shorter visits teach a child more than one long one. The second time they already know what they want to try, and that is when the good part starts.
The short version
The centre describes its aim in four parts: inspiration and creativity, safety and care, educational games and activities, and creating lasting memories.
The last one is the one parents actually buy. Children remember the day they drove an excavator far longer than they remember most afternoons.
Questions parents ask
What is the centre aiming for?
Inspiration and creativity, safety and care, educational play, and days children remember.
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 Concord
Plenty of the families in the room on a weekday morning have come from somewhere like Concord. Nobody is local to a mall attraction; everybody has driven.
Count on the drive home being the conversation. Children tell you what they actually thought about twenty minutes after leaving.
Do not schedule anything immediately afterwards. An hour of concentrated play is tiring in a way that shows up in the car park, not in the room.
The nearest of the two centres to Concord is the one to aim at - Concord Mills in Concord - and the drive is the ordinary sort rather than an expedition.
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.