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22 Best Indoor Play Centres In Leicestershire

22 family-friendly indoor play centres in Leicestershire, ranked by rating

A sweet shop is the second-highest-rated entry on Leicestershire's indoor play list. Sweet Sisters Sweet Shop — £2, rated 4.8 — runs experience visits that families rank alongside proper attractions, and its presence here tells you how loosely children's afternoons file themselves under this category. The list's summit is more orthodox: Escape Coalville holds a perfect 5 at £17, putting the county's best-rated family hour in a former mining town rather than Leicester itself. The city answers with Elite Gaming Lounge, £5 of gaming rated 4.8, Megazone Leicester's laser tag, and TeamSport Indoor Karting Leicester at £42.97. Melton Sports Village brings a 4.4-rated sports-centre model with indoor and outdoor facilities, Wacky Warehouse - Two Steeples covers pub soft play, and Mini Mischiefs serves the toddler end at 4.3. Twenty-two venues in all, every one with indoor space, five with something outdoors. Five publish prices — and the gulf between the £2 sweet shop and the £42.97 karting is the usual warning against assuming anything about the silent seventeen.

Top indoor play centres in Leicestershire

Coalville's five-star escape rooms are the quiet headline — a reminder that this county's best family bookings are not automatically in Leicester — and at £17 they undercut most East Midlands escape pricing that does get published. The gaming lounge's £5 sessions make a cheap regular haunt for the screen-inclined. For parties, the karting and laser tag tier carries the load. And if you are passing the sweet shop, £2 buys the kind of goodwill with children that the rest of this list charges considerably more to generate.

Indoor Play Centres in Leicestershire: FAQs

How is a sweet shop an attraction rather than a shop?

Sweet Sisters Sweet Shop runs it as an experience — the visit itself, rated 4.8 at £2, is the product, in the way pick-your-own farms turned harvest into an outing. It slots naturally before or after another stop on this list, and it is the rare entry priced below a bus fare.

Is Escape Coalville worth travelling across the county for?

It is Leicestershire's only perfect-rated entry, at £17 a head, which makes a fair case. Escape rooms suit families whose children read confidently and enjoy pressure in small doses; book a room matched to your group's experience level, since venues typically grade their rooms from beginner to brutal.

What does the £5 at Elite Gaming Lounge cover?

It is the venue's published entry with us, for lounge gaming sessions rated 4.8 — one of the cheapest regular indoor options in Leicester for older children. Session lengths and peak-time rules are the venue's own, so check its current format, but as a repeatable after-school treat it is hard to beat on price.