Mumbler Reviews: Funstation Hull

Funstation is located on the leisure terrace in St Stephens shopping centre Hull. There’s a laser tag inside that we have been to for kids parties over the years but we’ve never used the arcade. So, on a wet school holiday afternoon, my children each grabbed a friend and we went down to check it out.

There is a huge variety of arcade games! From grabber machines to driving games, shooting basketball hoops to dance off’s, pretty much every game I could imagine. The huge bonus is that instead of feeding coins into them all and spending an absolute fortune (like I did at the arcades in Bridlington recently!) you just buy a pre-loaded game card and swipe it to play each game.

We got a £15 card for each child which had 80 points on; games ranged from 2 to 5 points and each time you swiped to play it deducted the points from the card. Some games you were just playing to win an item (like on the grabber machines to win the squishy toys), on other games the more you scored the more tokens you earned. There was also a short bowling lane with small balls that you could swipe to use, this was a particular hit with the teens.

We spent just over an hour going between games, the children playing some on their own and some against each other, until our cards had all been used up. Then it was time to take our cards to the counter and see how many tokens we had and what prizes we could get for them! There was a really good selection and they all came out happy.

I took 8 and 9 year old girls and two 13 year old boys. They were ideal ages for the arcade as they could do all of the games themselves. The older ones went off on their own and it made a good, safe, fun teen activity. The younger ones I kept an eye on and I was on hand to help out (and to cheer them on!). I’d say it’s suitable for all ages though and there was a wide variety of ages there, younger ones were playing with their grown ups.

Its definitely somewhere I will call in again now I know how easy it is and how much the kids enjoyed it, especially if I need a bribe to get some shopping done with them in St Stephens! You just walk in and buy a card (or if you don’t use all the points on the card you can go back again with the same card), no pre-booking is needed. They have also just started a brand new kids birthday party option, which would make a great party idea!

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