Grandpa Kevin’s Pumpkin Patch

We went to his spot in Sausalito today. I had promised my son when he saw it on the side of the road. it was $ 35 for 2 old med sized pumpkins. I kick myself now for paying that price. I had a long talk with my son how mommy won’t be be taken advantage of again by a pumpkin patch. He understands :)
The jump houses were also run down and dirty.

Great pumpkin patch with lots of jumpers!!!
The attendants ask people if they paid because there have been numerous times when people try to sneak in. They expect the pumpkin patch to give free rides when it is a locally owned business, that pays A LOT for electricity to keep the jumpers up.
Pumpkins are good quality and give fair prices to how big the sizes are. You also pay for the experience of picking out a pumpkin and being surrounded with hay stacks and cartoon characters. It is not like Safeway where you can just go in and get a cheap pumpkin missing the Halloween experience. Again this is a locally owned business, so they have to arrange getting all the pumpkins on their own.
People who usually rate this patch low are those have been caught sneaking in or complain about the prices. This is very sad considering the fact that they expect a middle class citizen to give their kids free rides and cheap pumpkins for all his hard work and the fact that he is paying with his own money for the electricity to keep the generators up.
Support your local businesses and see for yourself that this pumpkin patch will give you a good experience and a great time!!!

This place doesn’t exist– don’t waste your time driving around the parking lot looking for it!

I took my son there on a weekday afternoon. As soon as we got there, I noticed that none of the jumpers were inflated. I spoke to the attendant, a real nice kid and was advised that their generator had failed and that I should check in the following day. My son was heartbroken because he had been asking me to take him for days. We went to Target and got him a DVD to cheer him up. Upon our return to the parking lot, we noticed the generator was back in service and the jumpers were up.
We went in and paid $ 11 for 30 minutes of play. Later on, as my son was playing, I was confronted by an elderly man and stated in a very accusatory tone within earshot of other patrons, «You were here earlier, is he paid!?» I calmly explained that, «Yes, my son is paid.» and gave him some of the details mentioned above.
What my defense mechanism really wanted to say was, «(Profanity)! Do you think I’d rip off an old farmer eleven dollars?! I’m not rich, but (Profanity)! I got an 800 FICO score and that’s my (Profanity) German sports car on the lot!»
The feeling was quite overwhelming since I’ve never been accused of defrauding a business establishment in my life. The experience totally brought out the a’hole out of my inner voice (thank God, just my inner voice).
The lesson of the story: I’m glad I took the high road and took the time to breathe and compose myself. Shitstorm a’la Dave Chapelle-​averted.
I don’t necessarily want to sway you from going there. I still think of the kid at the front who’s busting his butt off for the family business. I’ll let you decide on whether or not you’d like to patronize this business. I’m sure as hell am not going back (Profanity)…

We attended a preschool field trip this morning in the drizzly fog at the Serramonte location. I can’t find a Unilocal page for that one, but supposedly it;s the same one. We had a great time. My 2 ½ year old enjoyed all of the jumpy houses and the giant slide. The bounce houses were all really wet inside, but that goes with the weather. We prepared for it and enjoyed the wet along with the fun.
The young man running the pumpkin patch, I am not sure of his name, but was way too young to be «Grandpa Kevin» carved a goofy pumpkin for the preschool and played his guitar and sang an awesome version of «Hallelujah» while the kiddies ate their snacks.
The pumpkin patch is small and completely enclosed, which was perfect, in my opinion. After fighting the crowds at the pumpkin farms in Half Moon Bay and having a hard time keeping track of the whereabouts of my 2 ½ year old, this was wonderful. If you don’t mind picking pumpkins in the middle of a parking lot with SamTrans buses driving by, it’s a fantastic place.
The bounce houses are extra, but we had a group rate that included as much bouncing as you could do in the 90 minutes we were there. We also left with a cute little pumpkin that my son picked out.
This pumpkin patch is located in the parking lot outside Target, on the Serramonte Blvd. side of the mall.

The first time I came to Grandpa Kevin’s Pumpkin Patch was in October 2009 at the Serramonte Mall which they are located on the side of Target. My boyfriend and I saw that there was a pumpkin patch so we decided to come here and check out the place. We didn’t get the chance to buy a pumpkin at my hometown where it also has a corn maze so we ended up buying one here. Anyways, Halloween was a week away so we bought 2 big pumpkins for $ 20. We ended up carving Minnie and Hello Kitty pumpkins that year.
Today, I went back to the pumpkin patch and it was the same like last year. They had bouncy houses, paintings and some which you can take pictures with by putting your face in. Some paintings included G-​Force, Lilo & Stitch, Toy Story, Monsters Inc, Patrick & Spongebob, and etc. They even have the weird looking pumpkins which they called it «Aliens». Lol. You pay by the size of the pumpkins which ranges from $ 1-​$ 12 which is the biggest. I was surprised how much perfect pumpkins they had cause at grocery store and stuff they look so ugly loll.

I don’t know Grandpa Kevin, but his pumpkin patch is all right by me. Located seasonally right in Stonestown’s parking lot off Winston and 19^th Avenue, Grandpa’s is low-​key pumpkin shopping at its finest. Sizes of pumpkins are displayed at the sales booth, so you know what you’re in for, and baby pumpkins are around $ 1-​$ 1.50 — can’t be a nicer price.
There’s a bouncy house (extra fee of course) and a sinking Titanic ship slide (extra fee as well). The slide is super fun, but I was a bit disappointed in its theme. Ding one star for the morbidity. :-)
We left with THREE pumpkins: each very, very orange and fulfilling a pumpkin-​carving niche at home. They even sell ghostly white pumpkins and a bunch of squash and corn you can use to decorate your fall cornucopia.
Very handy to go to this pumpkin patch at Stonestown and complete other shopping in quick time.