Gymboree Play & Music

My daughter attends the Gymboree in Miami since she is 6 months old. She loves it despite the repetitiveness and sameness of classes. But for me the big disappointment is the lack of attention and care in meeting the parents. I tried to hire them to animate my daughter’s birthday party, and the lack of interest of the party coordinator is unfortunate … So disappointing!
Also I understand that the children rotation is high, but they should be more careful about the cleaning, at least in the Merrick Park location.

our son has been coming to this Gymboree location for months and we are very happy with it. he has never gotten sick or had any issues. its a large bright space.
weve done regular class, art class, and open gym and all the teachers and staff have been great.
I have noticed some disorganization when you email for changes to be made but other than that no complaints.
we hosted his 2^nd birthday here and he had an absolute blast!!! it was great. 2 hour party, ½ to set up and ½ to clean up and the 2 teachers basically did it all. my husband and I are very happy we chose to have his party here and I know our son loved it!!! worth every penny.

I want to give this 3stars, but I really like the place hence 4stars.
My 2year old and I have been coming to the classes for play, then we started the art and we just had a birthday celebration here. The only problem I have with the place is that is dirty. On the surface its looks clean, but when you get on the matts and really look, it filth. For me its ok, I can handle it, but for young immune systems its not. Look between the mats and between the play equipment and you will see I am not just being picky.
As far as the birthday celebration went. What a great team they provided us. They were waiting to help us set up, had a structure for the kids and helped distribute the food and cake. I think this is the new place for the kids bday party for a few years to come.

Torn between giving a good review or a bad one. I have nothing against the class itself. I took my son when he was about 7 months and we really enjoyed it. He went once a week for his class and twice for open gym. The teachers were absolutely amazing! Full of enthusiasm and lots of love. I kept my son enrolled until he was around 14 months because he was starting daycare and the process to cancel the membership… A nightmare! They explained the only way to cancel was to send an email 2 weeks before the billing date. So, I made sure to send the email and of course called to double check that it worked and I wouldn’t get charged for another month. They assured me my son was no longer enrolled and that everything was taken care of. After about two months I noticed my account was still being charged. Then I decided to call to speak to someone with the authority to refund me the months they charged me for and spoke to a lady of the name Nicole, who was extremely rude and did not want to help me what-​so-​ever. Then to top it off she hung up on me. I called back and asked to speak to her boss who happens to be the owner of the franchise. Who was also so unprofessional and rude. Claiming I was yelling and threatening her employee and on top of it all asked me to apologize. To jump to the end after about a hour long phone call I got my refund. Because of this experience I will never take any of my children back to this place. Which is unfortunate because the teachers and staff at the actual location were lovely.

I love this location and the fact that they have a Spanish class on Fridays. The place is not huge but it is clean and has nice glass windows which allows natural light to come in. The staff is friendly and the classes are fun for the kids.

The matts and rug from the main play area do not get cleaned. You will find hair all around the matts and dust. Furthermore, staff and manager are not all on the same page, they are very disorganized. Do not recommend this place for your child!!!

i’ve been bringing my son since he was 8 months old. I love this place! I’m an athletic guy that is a first time parent and I want my son to be active as well. One of the few activities I was able to enroll him at such a young age was gymboree.
When I first got there I didn’t know what to expect, the first thing I thought was whooooaaaaa, this is waaaay to bubbly for me. They busted out into singing, and the other parents were mostly moms. I felt like Mr. Mom, my wife was there, but I couldn’t help but feeling the overwhelming amount of estrogen in the room.
After I got past the initial shock factor I saw how much fun my son was having. We’ve now been going for about 5 months and my son loves it. I look forward to class just as much as him. The staff here is great with children and the facility is kept clean.
Oh and every once in a while I’ll see another dad too lol. I don’t mind being the only dude in the room anymore. Me and my wife take my son and I bet the other moms wish that their husbands could be there too– so it makes me feel like super dad.

We cancelled our membership shortly after my review. It’s not worth it at this location. At least not until they learn to clean the place and stop allowing kids with green snot running down their face in class.
Yuck!

Can’t judge them for classes because I have no kids nor have I experienced them but I was just here for a birthday party and it was great.
It is organized chaos and tons of fun for the little people. The girls running it know exactly how to talk to them and what to do. Everything is like clockwork. The kids did not stop one second and seemed to be entertained the whole time.
The only thing is that their music needs to be replaced. Some songs would get stuck and they had to completely change them also, towards the end they seemed a little rushed to shut down.

I’ve been bringing my daughter to Gymboree for three months now, and she LOVES it.
Honestly, I love it too, because going from being an ER nurse to a (mostly) stay at home mom is hard. This is a way to get out of the house for me, and to allow my daughter to socialize in a fun environment for her. Only thing is, it’s kinda pricy. I don’t know how long I’ll be able to keep up paying for Unlimited classes. Oh well…
I feel like it’s pretty clean, especially compared to some other «gym» places for kids.
Sure, there’s only so many times I can hear the «Gymbo» song, but having a kid pretty much assures that I’m destined for a few years of music I don’t particularly like… So it’s OK. Besides, at their music class, they go through different genres– right now we’re learning about Jazz. It’s really adorable.
The teachers are wonderful, and my kid has «friends» already!
But I think favorite thing about it is that my kid can roam and I don’t have to worry about her hurting herself. It’s liberating!

I been actively enrolled in this place’s weekly classes for just about 4 months. I found the classes on the weekends to be too packed to be enjoyable, they were held in one of the closed rooms they have available (the only closed room) and with all the families in there and the activities preformed it would get unbearably hot.
They’re yearly picnic was wonderfully fun!
I maintained actively enrolled in the weekend classes and opted to attend a week day class with my son, to which one of the ladies at the front desk told me to please switch if I wasn’t going to use it about two weeks into not attending a weekend class, which I was told by the teacher would be fine the day I signed up (to be signed up for the weekend class in case my husband and I wanted to attend). I understand there are working mothers who could use the open spot and decided to switch (I just didn’t like the fact that they said everything would be fine before I signed up and than had a problem with it when I was already a member and payed for the registration.)
I was also told switching would be fine because my son would be 6 months and switched into the level 2 class. WHICH by the way, never happened by their efforts! so I spend about another month in level 1, my son having learned how to roll and sit hated me hovering over him singing him songs to the extent we did it… and I always felt like a nuance in class; me not making him lay there quietly as we sang and dangled objects on top of him. Needless to say I had other parents come up to me and say: «you’re son is too old to be in that class» when no one in the staff offered to «graduate him» which is something they only do for level 1 students.
I got Jury duty and my husband called the day off, and wanted to attend a class he called ahead of time (as I told him too) the lady tried to talk him out of coming because of it being a level 1 class (this is right before I made the switch so I wouldn’t have known why it matter since they never actively did anything to move him out and graduate him). When he got there he was the only one, wouldn’t it had been a better customer service to say: there’s no one in that class, would you want to do the class by yourself? before he wasted his day off with our son driving there? or maybe sent him to a different location. didn’t care for that!
That same week I took it upon myself and switched him to level 2 class and he enjoyed it, I actually started having fun. His level one teacher was surprised to see us there and she said: Oh he’s doing good. (my response: ???) «Do you want to graduate him?» (to take the pictures in the cap and gown I guess) and than she’s like: «Maybe we can graduate him next week?», «Oh wait there’s already a graduation next week», (OH BY THE WAY they only do one graduation per class) So I have to wait two weeks to take cheesy photos and move him up (I’m sorry if that sounds non-​maternal, but really?, I rather him have fun in a classes more suited for his development) where he can watch other kids crawl and not just lay flat on his back. Anyways I got that somewhere else.
By this point I had already been looking at other activities (swimming/​children’s gym) than gymboree seemed like an unnecessary expense really.
The reason I knew for sure I didn’t want to come here and finally canceled was because this Father’s Day I decided to make a cute shirt they were doing as a gift for my husband. I was in there with another woman and her child and one of the girls in the staff started speaking about a child that was up next to the other girl that worked there, telling her to watch this kid and prepare herself (and not in a nice way) that she has him for her art class and that he is awful, rolling her eyes and what not: «he hates getting his hands dirty» and so on, anyways I don’t know if I already have a bad taste in my mouth for this place that everything they’ll ever do will just be MEH! or what. But I knew that moment I wanted out!

Great Place!!! The best choice to have fun with your kids

I have loved Gymboree since I had my daughter, over a decade ago. I remember enrolling her in the Play & Learn classes when she was around 4 months old. She continued going until she was around 2. I took a long hiatus from Gymboree, but reconnected with it last summer when I started taking my then 2-​year old son. The location is different now. They moved to a shopping center next to Kendall Village. The place is really nice. It’s colorful, clean, and very safe. My son started taking the Play and Learn classes last year, and this year he’s been going to the Sports classes. He LOVES it! The programs are very engaging, and the teachers are wonderful (especially Ms. Lissette!).
I had my son’s 3^rd birthday party there. It was the best kids’ birthday party I’ve experienced. The Gymboree employees were great with the kids, and I didn’t have to do anything. I received many compliments from my guests. Of course, the best compliment came from my son. He said it was a lot of fun and wanted to go every day.
They have seasonal events throughout the months (at an extra cost), which are nice. I love their monthly Jammie Nights. It’s on the last Friday of the month from 6:30 to 9:00 pm. The kids get to play, make a craft and watch a movie. There’s a different theme every month. My son loves going, and I love the time it gives me to enjoy dinner and drinks with my husband. It’s a win-​win.
Yes, Gymboree can be on the pricey side. However, they often have 2-​for-​1 class deals or reduced registration prices which make it worth it. The quality of the experience is definitely worth it.

This place is wonderful to take your children. With its padded environment, colorful decoration, and tons of things to climb and play on this is a perfect setting for a child to learn to interact with other children their age and still learn. The staff are very friendly and they make the children feel comfortable since, they put on music and let the children run around.
I really like gymboree since, they offer many classes from art to music to sports and learning skills. Also, i like the fact that one can register online for a free class and then if one decides to join after attending the free demo class they offer you a discount which is always great.