Monkey Joe’s

Kids love this place, and I’ll admit that I enjoy going on the slides with them, but as many other reviews mention, this place is dangerous! Parents of older children sit around not watching their kids who jump on things they shouldn’t and play way too rough around younger kids.
It seems every time we go, at least one of the bounce houses is down.
When we first started going 2 years ago, employees were always walking around and monitoring. Now you have to hunt them down if you have a question or concern.
The food isn’t that exciting either. Wish there was at least one healthy option on the menu. I have to sneak my own food in because I’m vegan and can’t eat a single thing that MJs offers.
I’d rather spend the extra few bucks to go to Tree House where the environment is cleaner, safer, and healthier.

This place is chaotic, dangerous, and lacks adult supervisions. So of course kids love it!
I took a friend’s kiddo here and spent the entire time having a heart attack while kids found new and interesting ways to try to break their necks.
There are just too many kids and not enough supervision. Also, there’s not enough hand sanitizer in the world to make you feel clean after leaving there.

Late Review but worth it.
Purchase the B-​day package for our son who turned 5 on April.
Want to say that they have super service when it comes to parties. Food was great kids had fun.
What I like most is that they go the extra mile to help you carry all of your stuff to your car when Chuck E. Cheese doesn’t.

This is definitely a fun and exciting place for a 4+ year old child. We were there for a 4 year old birthday party and the kids loved it. We have a 2 year old and she only did the slide once, however she enjoyed running around the entire place. It’s a big warehouse with bright colors and a few party rooms. Out of the 6 token game machines they had, such as Big Bass Pull The Wheel and some sort of Jump Rope game, half were not dispensing any tickets, and no one seemed to want to restock the tickets. Overall, this is a great place to take your 4 – 8 year old and let them go wild on the slides while you relax in a massage chair or watch one of their flat screens.
The cheese pizza was greasy but surprisingly tasty especially with jalapeño, black olives, and pineapple toppings.
Monkey Joe made a cameo appearance and monkeyed around with the kids and adults, it was funny and loveable. In true monkey form he pretended to pick lice and eat them from the kids and adults which got everyone laughing. He even picked lice from under my armpit ha!
It’s a 50+mile, 1.5−2hour drive away from my house so unless we get invited to another party here we will not be going back, but if you live in the area, and have a 4+year old, enjoy every energy expending moment possible at Monkey Joe’s!

Ugh! This place! My kids like it, but from a parent’s perspective it’s a pain! Too big and sprawling to be able to easily keep track of your kids. Way too loud! And the food is overpriced and only mediocre.
My biggest problem, however, is the lack of supervision. I can’t tell you how many people I know whose kids have been injured here because play got out of hand and there was no one around to bring it under control.

Everything most of these places are, loud, dirty and full of kids with no supervision. We were up in LZ at the tree house. My friend lives up there and was taking her son to MJ’s. We decided to meet up with her. I definitely prefer Pump it Up and Jump Zone.

My kids love this place, but its rough on me. The staff is sparse & I end up watching strangers kids. The equipment has taken a real beating & this last visit was very disappointing in the torn bounces & dirt. They also don’t allow outside food but only provide junk! Pizza, hotdogs, nachos… all junk. Worst part, my son has a dairy allergy & can’t eat anything there except the hotdog w/​o the bun. Its a great idea & great location, but they really need to step it up

We just wrapped up our son’s 5^th birthday party at Monkey Joe’s and I have to say that the experience overall was great. Communication with the staff prior to the even was very good. We had several questions and called back a few times and they were always happy to answer and accommodate special requests.
The day of the event, they gave us and our guests very clear instruction on how the party would unfold and where to be when. The person assigned to us had a couple initial questions, and then went to work getting the room set up as the kids arrived and bounced on all the equipment for the first hour or so.
When we were called back to the room for food /​drink and ultimately cake, the attendant was fantastic. She had everything set up well, helped facilitate everything, getting 18 kids served, paying special attention to our birthday boy who me made a special food request for (go figure, my 5 y/​o boy doesn’t like pizza???) She made the day very special for him and made sure he had everything he needed at all times.
When it came time for cake, Monkey Joe stopped in to help sing and pay a special visit with the birthday boy. Again, our attendant was fantastic getting all the clutter on the table cleared off and getting the cake served up quickly to a wild pack of kids looking for a sugar rush.
Once the party was over, our attendant again was a huge help, bagging up the gifts and helping us out the door with everything that needed to get loaded up in the car. Near the end, the manager also stopped by to make sure everything had gone well and to thank us for choosing them to have the party.
Another nice touch was the fact that they have installed quite a few big screen TV’s. I am sure all the dads of the kids we invited didn’t appreciate the fact that our son’s birthday party was scheduled dung the NFL playoffs (and I don’t blame them). The good news was that Monkey Joe’s assured me and followed through with it that they would have all the games on the TV’s so the dads could attend the party and still watch the games. Additionally, up front they have several big screens along with nice chairs and tables and WI FI so if you really want to ignore your kids and get comfortable you can.
The only possible negative I have is the fact that they have several games for the kids to play, but all 3 times I have been here in the past 12 months, the token machine has an «out of order» sign on it. They do give tokens for the kids that attend the party, but they only give each child 2 tokens which is gone in about 30 seconds and it is difficult to go about getting more tokens.
Overall, this was a great experience and of comparable quality to Pump It Up and all the other similar places.

So here is the continuation to our Monkey Joe’s experience. Since the introduction to this place from a friends birthday party, it was clear to my kid that he too wanted to celebrate his special day with his buddies and other playful primates.
We decided to book our event with this location based only on the relation of miles from us to here… and because the deal to book a party was discounted. Here is the skinny on the details.
The deal here was that we would spend weekday prices for an area that was not a windowed party room. Instead the area we were offered to have the celebration was behind one of the jumpy play inflatables. It was walled off by cushy play mats juxtapositioned to stand up like partitions and keep other party primates not included with our group from cutting through.
I made sure to have the husband check out the place before plunking down the deposit (½ of the total party). I wanted to make sure we were not going to be in the middle of all the other patrons. I had been at another of the Monkey Joe branches (haha pun intended!) and could not envision what and where we could possibly be placed. After my husband viewed the area it was green light all clear.
The day of the party we were shown to our party area and we met our party host. Our party host makes the party streamlined and allows for all the guests to Jump, Sing birthday wishes, Eat pizza and cake, and Jump some more.
Two of my own children as well as a couple of our guests do not eat pizza due to allergies (this is the food of choice for the party). No problems here. I asked for special consideration and was allowed to bring food appropriate for the allergy kids and ordered pizza for the rest.
Paper goods and drinks for the kids were included in the party as long as set up and clean up. Mr. Monkey Joe made a cameo appearance and sang birthday greetings for the 6 year old and gave him a t-​shirt and goody bag for the celebrant.
I was very satisfied with our party area which allows for privacy and really is only a place where the kids get together, sing a song, and eat. Other than that the parents were all over watching the kids jump and run and laugh and play. I had my mom and in laws set up camp in our party area to keep an eye on our goods.
At the end of our party the manager allowed for extra tickets for my kids to be able to split equally for a toy they each wanted but were a few 20 tickets short.
Other than that the quirk I had was that I had to keep an eyeball on a couple kids that were dropped off so this made my anxiety level increase since I was not all too sure who was who. Kids are running everywhere. I made sure I took pics of all the kids that came to party with our crowd, so I could be sure I knew who to look for when it came time to eat and for overall safety.
Memories were made here and luckily for me no kid was left behind.
A few tips for parents:
If your kid goes for a party then stay with your kid it can be a mad house.
If you have a party book for early slots especially on weekends when this place can get packed.
I put water bottles in the goody bags. The kids get thirsty.
We received a thank you card from our party host a couple weeks later, and my son thought it was the best thing to receive mail.