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8 Best Indoor Play Centres In Gloucestershire

8 family-friendly indoor play centres in Gloucestershire, ranked by rating

A county list of eight is nearly as short as this category gets, and two of Gloucestershire's eight entries are so new to us they carry no rating yet — Jungle Chums Soft Play Centre and Gloucester Apollo await their first verdicts. What is rated runs strong at the top: VRXPerience - Virtual Reality Experience and BattleSports Glos share a 4.9, one indoors under headsets, the other an outdoor combat game site. Hocus Pocus Play charges £3.50 for its 4.7-rated sessions across indoor and outdoor space, and Go Bananas Indoor Softplay Centre publishes £2.50, among the smallest doors in the South West. JDR Karting adds indoor motorsport at 4.1, and The Play Farm Cheltenham holds the county's second city — town, strictly — at a straight 4. Seven of the eight have indoor space. Two publish prices, and with a list this short, every closure, party booking or refurbishment moves the county's whole wet-day capacity. Check twice, drive once.

Top indoor play centres in Gloucestershire

No. 1 · ★ 4.9

BattleSports Glos

No. 2 · ★ 4.9

VRXPerience - Virtual Reality Experience

No. 3 · ★ 4.7

Hocus Pocus Play

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Newnham · Gloucestershire

Indoor Play

A county squeezed between Bristol's gravity and the Cotswolds' tourism was perhaps never going to sustain a deep play-centre scene, and eight entries is the result — but the quality curve is kinder than the quantity. The 4.9 pair at the top would grace a list five times this size, and the £2.50 and £3.50 doors keep the routine visits cheap. Cheltenham and Gloucester families should also note the unrated newcomers: first visits to unreviewed venues are how a short county list eventually grows a better one.

Indoor Play Centres in Gloucestershire: FAQs

Why does Gloucestershire have so few indoor play venues?

Partly geography — much of the county's family leisure spending flows to Bristol's larger venues or the Cotswolds' outdoor attractions, which sit outside this category and this county respectively. The eight that remain serve their towns directly, and the strong ratings at the top suggest the survivors are the good ones.

What do the two unrated venues offer?

Jungle Chums Soft Play Centre and Gloucester Apollo have no visitor ratings with us yet, so all we can honestly report is their presence on the list. Neither has published pricing either. If you try one, you are ahead of the data — and the county's short list makes every working venue worth knowing about.

Is the VR venue or the combat site better for a birthday?

They split by weather and age. VRXPerience runs indoors and suits smaller groups rotating through headsets; BattleSports Glos stages its 4.9-rated combat games outdoors, wanting a dry day and a bigger party. Both formats usually set minimum ages, so match the guest list before booking either.