Urban Playground

Highly recommend the cube experience in Urban Playground. Upon entrances it looks super cool but gives a feel of unorganised and busy HOWEVER it’s so well organised it’s great. Scan your QR code, you get told what game next to go to and you scan as you go round so it’s never long wait times. The games are fantastic and feel very much like it looks on tv. we had a fantastic time.

We booked the cube game as me and my partner were up in Manchester for the weekend. Our booking was for 2pm and we didn’t officially get started till 2.30 due to it being quite busy on a Saturday afternoon. Coats and bags can be stored for free in their cloakroom so you don’t have to drag your things around which was a plus. It was quite loud so can be hard to hear when staff are explaining things to you for each of the games. In addition it was boiling so we were getting a bit restless after standing waiting to start our games after other people. Nonetheless after we got going eventually we had a drink and got round a few of the cube games and thoroughly enjoyed. Would definitely come back again it was nice to do something different!

The is a great place if you visit when it's not so quiet (I went when my son on Thursday, 1pm) . I thought that we would be partnered up with another pair, as stated on the website at the time of booking, but we ended up doing the cube on our own which just wasn't as much fun as I'd expected (having been before, with a large group of friends on a busy Saturday afternoon , which was really fun and exciting). We paid £42 each and the experience was done in less than 1 hour and the we us going slow in between each cube. So it was a lot of money for not that much entertainment. Had we been against another pair, it would have taken longer which would have felt more worth the cost. It's a well run place and staff are nice, though given how quiet it was, they could have been a bit more generous with the odd tiny practice here and there.