Fun City Gurgaon and Vasant Kunj

Fun City is not every mother's dream way to spend an afternoon, but it sure makes the kiddos giggle with glee!

There are two Fun City locations in the Delhi area.  The first is at Ambience Mall in Gurgaon (just past the toll plaza) and the newest is at the NEW Ambience Mall in Vasant Kunj.

There is no admission charge for the Fun City locations, but you will need to purchase a FunCard to play the games and ride the 'rides.'  You should plan on about Rs 500 for an hour's worth of play per child.  Each game is between Rs 15 - 45 per play.   The cards can be reloaded, and do not to be used in the course of one visit. 

There is also a FunZone at both locations (the tubed climbing apparatus things that are so popular in play places in the United States).  This costs Rs 250 per child for an hour.  They will need socks (so go prepared).  FunZone employees DO have socks to lend you, but it appears that the socks get passed from kid to kid throughout the day.

Our kids have favorites at both FunCity locations -- the roller coaster at Vasant Kunj is too scary, while the boat ride at Gurgaon is "our favorite."

There are bumper cars at both locations, and while the game selection at Gurgaon is much more expansive, note that only about 50% of them work, about 50% of the time.

Notice the socks.  Socks WITH flipflops are not mandatory, but apparently he thinks it looks cool?

There are few choice game that REALLY spit out the tickets (but it's a secret!!).  Finding out which games spit out the tickets are the badge you get to wear when you've spent a couple of hours enduring the headache that is Fun City.

Oh and another thing you should note.  If you've been to a typical arcade place that rewards aimless game playing with tickets, you are used to the machine that munch, munch, munches the tickets while counting the total.  Some places even have a "scale" that weighs the total number of tickets.

Nope.  Not at FunCity!  Here the poor guy has to hand count EACH ticket.  Yes sirree bob.  HAND COUNT!

All of this fun to then spend 30 minutes with crying children at the "Rewards Counter" because they don't have enough tickets to get some plastic piece of crap that will break before we even get home.  THAT is no different than Chuck E. Cheese for sure!

Thanks to Elizabeth for the passing along of her unused Fun City cards when they moved!  It's gotten us through several long summer afternoons!

(Tip :: if you get the unlimited play cards, they are good for unlimited play for ONE hour.  You can use the card on simultaneous games if you have more than one child, but note that you have to wait 60 seconds in between each swipe of the card)