
Adventure Reef
Adventure Reef offers an exciting indoor soft play experience in Barnsley, perfect for kids to explore and burn energy.
About
Adventure Reef is a vibrant indoor play area situated within the Barnsley Metrodome complex, providing a fantastic and engaging environment for children. Visitors consistently praise the venue for its welcoming atmosphere, noting its spotlessly clean facilities and thoughtful design, featuring beautiful wood tones and soft colour choices that enhance the experience.
This popular destination boasts plenty for kids to do, including a highly-rated sensory room that adds an extra dimension of fun and exploration. Families appreciate the ample activities available for youngsters. The team at Adventure Reef is often commended for their very friendly and helpful service, contributing to a positive and enjoyable visit for all families.
Visiting Information
Adventure Reef is open daily from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM. The venue is committed to accessibility, offering wheelchair-accessible parking and entrances for guest convenience. For payments, Adventure Reef accepts credit cards, debit cards, and NFC payments, ensuring a smooth transaction experience.
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Showing 5 of 16 reviews from Google Maps.Last updated 5 February 2026.
Really nice play area, clean, decent coffee. Sensory room is fab! But as others have said rope is too hard on your feet and there needs to be more of the wooden structure wrapped with soft play padding. My boy and other kids kept hitting their heads on the wood. It’s slightly dangerous, I feel much less anxious of injuries at a soft play place.
Very nice soft play! Kids have plenty to do ! Very friendly staff, Kirstyn was very nice !
Clean, spacious and lots to entertain the kids. Plenty of staff about. Food/drinks good value. Pictured is a falafel salad and chicken flatbread. Tasty. Would appreciate a jug of squash for kids though (would work out better value than individual fruit shoots). We get admission half price due to having a family pass here. There's always large play area with various rooms leading off (sensory room, pool table ect). The only negative is I wish there was easier access to the larger play area. Like someone else has mentioned. You access this via a rope (that my child can't manage yet), or a vertical wall that requires strength. He has mastered the wall but some steps would be helpful for children that aren't able to. I've noticed a lot of kids get around this by walking backwards up the slide! Also.. would love to see some signs regarding photography in the main play area. I did bring this up with staff in person and they do agree it's a safe guarding issue. Too many people walking round constantly filming and not respecting other families privacy.
I really wanted to give this place 5 stars, it is clean and spacious, and the food menu is good. However, the play structure isn’t practical for indoor use. The rope surfaces are uncomfortable and hurt your feet, which makes it hard for kids and adults to enjoy. It’s a large structure and the main focus of the play area, but no children were using it which left very little to do. Unfortunately we will visit other play areas in the area over this one next time. Hope it is adjusted soon!
Been today (Saturday) have to say this is the worst I have been to. There is zero control from staff, the play area is very hard surfacing, like an outside play area. The toddler area is not sectioned off and it pretty poor. The ropes are solid and horrible on your feet, again outside materials. Parents who go there just let their kids do what they want and again no staff suggesting parents should be watching their kids. Overall I would not recommend and I certainly won't be back. Very disappointed 😞
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📍 Queens Ground, Barnsley S71 1AN, UK
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Queens Ground, Barnsley S71 1AN, UK
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01226 730060Opening Hours
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