Minitown

I will not be returning to minitown. I am happy I had a groupin and did not pay full price. It is not clean and many of the toys are broken. In the pretend kitchen room, the ironing board was capsized, and none of the kitchen electrics (coffee pot, blender, hand mixer, etc) were working. The refrigerator was full of washed out milk cartons. Very junky. The most annoying thing is the movie theater room playing Disney movies where all the bored kids wander in like zombies. I am paying money for my kids to run around and be creative, NOT watch TV. The only thing my kids liked was the bounce house. Minitown is a great idea, but it needs a major overhaul.

I really don’t know why this place is receiving bad reviews. It is so different than Chuck E. Cheese and Peter Piper! I’ve been to Open Play and it was fantastic! I love the idea of keeping the doors locked so no children get out. I am also impressed with the customer service, for one lady (who is very nice and helpful) being at the front, by herself, everything seemed to be running smoothly. Every room is clean to it’s best. Better than your average Peter Piper. I’ve also been to parties here and it is just perfect! All the kids have fun & you can even have a pintata here! How cool is that!!! The hostess are very helpful not just to the moms, but to the kids making sure everyone is safe. Love this place! Wish they could add more like maybe an outside patio for hot days or a bigger train track. The train is a big plus too! I don’t see why anyone WOULDN’T have their party here? Amazing. 5 stars.

Let me start out by saying that my 16 month old really has a blast here. However, as a mother, I really question Minitown’s cleanliness and business tactics. The place is basically filthy. The walls, the floors, everything… probably even the toys. At least they have hand sanitizer placed throughout the area. Outside is nice, except the sandbox is questionable. The «train» is disappointing. I probably got emphysema from the fumes. Furthermore, the woman who has been working there every time I’ve come is unfriendly and doesn’t seem to be a kid person. The one golden rule of Minitown is to keep the toys in the room. I’m sorry, but how can she expect toddlers to abide by that?!? Meanwhile, I’m hustling around trying to put the grocery carts back in the HEB area so I won’t get a harsh reprimand from that woman.
Yes, my son has so much fun here and it would such a great place to take him during the hot San Antonio summers. This place could be really awesome, but an internal makeover is a must.

You have no reason to come here, trust me.
I bought a groupon for this place, having never been here. The place is a relatively small room with several very small rooms attached.
There’s a «school» which is a room with a chalk board, and empty desks… no chalk
A ‘dance room’ which is literally an empty room with inappropriate club music and a disco ball
A beauty shop with chairs that are too high up for young children
A room with a movie playing
A grocery store (best part)
A little house room
And a backyard with a sand box, a play structure and a «train»
So here’s the review. The place is filthy and unsafe. There are random holes in the ground inside that once used to be mini golf? There was a displeased looking inspector there last time I was. The one rule is leave the toys in the room they came from. The rude front desk lady was telling my child he needed to pick up the room. We would have picked up after ourselves, but I was annoyed that there’s so much emphasis placed on the ONE rule (that he didn’t break), and when she thought I wasn’t listening, she bossed my 2 year old around. I was with a friend with a 1 year old. We were standing several feet away while the 1 year old toddled around and tripped over nothing. The employee very rudely told her she needed to watch her child. Uh we saw the whole thing. 1 year olds trip, she wasn’t hurt, and it wasn’t preventable. The sandbox has cat poop in it. I know this because my 1 year old handed it to me. The exhaust from the train is sickening. Like I think I got cancer while I rode it. It’s a tractor disguised as a train, and when I told the employee that can’t be safe for her to be inhaling that every day, she told me she knew and had tried to tell management to no avail.
This place reminds me of a very very poor attempt at copying the children’s museum. Go there instead, it’s the best place I’ve found for children.

We checked out Minitown yesterday after wanting to do it for months since I found out about it. It was fabulous. Exactly what I expected it to be and more.
The location of Minitown isn’t the best, it is hard to find if you don’t know the area. I’m very familiar and I’ve passed this street plenty of times so I know exactly how to get there. I’m sure if you use GPS or mapquest it may get you lost, so it may be best to have their phone number handy in case you need to call.
We arrived yesterday (Monday) around 11AM, we were expecting it to be somewhat busy but it definitely wasn’t. Their parking lot is ginormous and there is a small area in front where you can pull-​up in case you’re having a birthday party, makes for easy loading and unloading which is nice. We walked in and were really surprised at how large the building actually is. From the front, you really don’t expect it to be what it is. It’s perfectly designed and a lot of fun for the kiddos.
It really is what the name says, a mini town. There is a mini HEB, school, bank, disco room, playroom, movie theater, hair salon, dress up area and infant and small toddler area. It is fantastic! When we got in, the woman asked if it was our first time, we said yes and she stated that the only rule is that none of the toys from each room be taken to another room, they have to stay in the room they are designated in (which is understandable).
The rooms are awesome. Fully equipped with everything you need to keep busy. Plus even though it’s quite large for the kiddos, they can’t really get lost and if you just want to sit back rather than hover over them, you can just sit in the middle and watch them run throughout the rooms. Our favorite room was probably the disco, it’s pretty neat they have a small room that’s black but has disco lights and loud music lol! It’s adorable.
Anyways, unbeknownst to us there is an EXTREMELY large fenced in area in the back. Since it was a Monday there was no train which is only fri-​sun, but it was still nice for the kiddos to run around back there. Plus there’s a large gymnasium with slides in the back too. It was just great. We didn’t spend too long out there (it’s wayyy too hot). It was great though.
The entire place was fantastic and I would definitely recommend and go again. The only complaints I would have is that it designated more for stay at home parents rather than working parents since the hours are like 10AM-​5PM (closed on Tuesdays, fyi). They are open on the weekends but they ask you to call prior to coming, I suppose so it doesn’t get too crazy with lots of kiddos which is understandable. Check it out!
Also, go to their website prior to your visit, they had a coupon for a buy one open play get one free, so it worked out perfectly for us since we had two kids with us at the time.

Like others we found this place because of Groupon. I say found it in the sense that we discovered it… finding it was another thing entirely.
The place looks like a strange rennovation of a fast food restaurant complete with walk up window in the front. Parking is not in front and the parking lot was not very accessible for strollers, strange given their target audience.
Once you go inside it looks essentially like a large play room. Each room in the place has a different theme/​paint scheme and some (and I do mean SOME) toys for kids to play with. Our boys are 5 and 3 so we let them run around and check everything out. 20 minutes later they were pretty bored and starting to drive us nuts.
We went out back to ride the train. I find it strange that they have all this land back there but the train runs in a big circle three times in a space that takes up less than 30% of the space. Why not use the space better, increase the length of the ride and not just drive in three circles and call it over?
The outdoor playground was nice but the approach was dangerous as they have stones or bricks of some kind that stck out of the floor. My son fell and scratched his legs pretty bad before we ever got to the playground.
It was too hot to be outside so we went back in and ended up leaving 15 minutes later. There is a few things to do here but overall I wasn’t impressed.
I had to yell at some other parent’s kid too because the place is full of soccer moms who come to chit chat with their brethren rather than watching their kids and one kid tried to lock my kid in the phone booth they have there. With NO staff wandering around its really up to the parents to chaperone their kids (or in my case snatch up some random kid because his mom was too busy talking).
Haven’t been back since and my kids haven’t asked to go back so I’m assuming it wasnt that fun for them either.

Saw this place on Groupon and decided to give it a try. 7 open play tickets for $ 15?! Don’t mind if I do.
The place was pretty cool, had various themes rooms ranging for a Mini-​HEB to a Mini-​Movie Theatre. The theatre even had kids sized theatre chairs. Movies are DVDs and are played on an overhead projector. The Mini-​HEB comes equipped with what looks to be authentic old HEB signage. All toy groceries aren’t the plastic ones you’d find at your local Target, but they are actually empty boxes of real HEB or Hill Counry Fare items (i.e. empty milk cartons, cereal boxes, shampoo bottles etc.) Shopping carts are mini carts made of steel like you used to see at grocery stores, not the playskool plastics ones.
It was raining today, so out back they didn’t have the moon bounce or the train but outside was also well maintained and looked well organized.
Friendly staff and awesome place for kids.

In a city that has many days over 100 degrees it is great to find an indoor place where kids can run around like maniacs. Minitown is just that: multiple rooms that are «mini» versions of things. There is a mini IBC bank, mini hair salon, mini HEB, mini theater that shows movies all day, mini phone booths, mini school, and a small room for babies under 18 months. Outside there is a full size playground and a mini train runs Fri thru Sun. I believe open play is during the week everyday except Tuesdays and runs $ 8 for the first kid $ 6 for each subsequent kid. Weekends are mainly birthday parties so you may want to call ahead. Three party rooms are available for reservation, and they have kitchenettes. A small arcade is towards the back for older kids, but for the most part this is a venue for toddlers/​little kids.
Directions (since my GPS led me on the scenic route):
Heading west on I10 exit DeZavala stay on access road.
After DeZavala pass Home Depot, then after Brake Check make an immidiate right on Casa Bella. Then look on your left for Minitown. Try not to miss the turn b/​c you will have to loop all the way back around to DeZavala.