I LOVE MINIONS. Like the beings themselves, I'm just okay with the Despicable Me franchise. This is…read morea small "land" but the theming is super cute and the merchandise that they have in the shop is pretty unique and great if you do like the franchise. There's a cafe, a small water park like attraction, the Minions Mayhem ride off to the side, a kiddie ride, some carnival games and the merchandise shop. You can meet a Minion near the Minions Mayhem ride entrance or you can do the photo op with the statues. I always make sure to take a picture with the little rubber ducky one. So cute. Short and quick visit if you don't have kiddos with you and just want to take a gander.

We LOVED Super Silly Fun Land…read more Great rides. Fun water play on a hot day (we usually end our day there so we don't have cold rides after). Watch out for kids that just sit on the water shooters!!! You have to wear shoes - so bring some water shoes!!! I can't believe I convinced Flavor Flav to go with us - he said it was not whack (but I sat on a water shooters and kept getting him).

The facility is located in a safe part of Burbank and is clean and climate controlled inside…read more Check in was quick. Unfortunately the wait time seemed longer than usual. We had hoped to get a couple races in today but stopped after just one. We live in Sacramento so will use our race credits there in the future.

We hosted a birthday party here for my 9 year old. I had many points of contact with both the party…read moreplanner at corporate and the location before the event. The service on the day was very disappointing. Often, we were unable to find our party host. The food was very delayed coming out despite my asking multiple times beforehand that it be delivered promptly. They do not provide any water to guests - part of the party package is one drink ticket per kid and the options are bottles of water, gatorade, or soda. You can imagine that every kid picked gatorade and was over-sugared and dehydrated. I asked for pitchers of water. The arcade is a room with about 10 games - only half of which work + all of which are filthy. They are very expensive. Our races started almost 30 minutes late. What should have been a fun party ended up being an extra hour long, and really expensive. I have not recommended this venue to friends. No one at corporate, or the venue, has addressed my issues as of April 14, 2026. 4/23/26 Update: Thanks for responding, Jane D. I emailed and called both corporate and the location and no one has gotten back to me. You can send me a direct number and I'll reach out.

There are a good amount of rides and things to do for people of all ages. I had not been here since…read moremy senior graduation trip from HS and a lot has changed. For my kids, it was their first time. One of our favorite things was the Studio Tour which has a lot of the old things to see that we saw when we were kids back in the day. We borrowed wands and a Mario bracelet for Super Mario World, but it would be nice if kids who didn't have them could have loaners or rent them. Overall, it was fun, just expensive.

Universal Studios Hollywood is worth visiting for the studio tour alone. The tour takes you onto…read moreactual working lots, so what you see varies depending on what's currently filming that unpredictability is part of what makes it special. The rides, on the other hand, were underwhelming. Jurassic World was the best of the bunch, followed by the Harry Potter rides. Everything else was just okay. The VIP experience includes unlimited rides, but honestly, nothing in the park felt worth it enough to ride more than twice. If I were visiting purely for the rides, I'd choose Disneyland over Universal every time. In fact, if it weren't for my excellent tour guide, my recommendation would be: skip the Universal tour, pay for the Warner Bros. tour instead, and spend your ride-time at Disneyland.

So the train ride is a lot of fun and we love taking our daughter here…read more The conductor Vincent is great. He does a good pace and is very welcoming. The conductor Edgar is not as welcoming and his pace is off. It either is too fast, too slow and can jolt. The main reason the score is not higher is because it is a little run down and scenery is not maintained well.

Such a fun cheap outdoor activity for the family in Griffith Park. It's all by itself now since the…read morepony rides are gone. I wonder if they plan on putting a playground or something in its place. I think that would be a nice spot for a playground so that there's more to do than just the train. The train ride itself is 10-15 mins and they have the area decorated depending on the holiday. We went near Easter and they had bunnies, eggs, carrots, etc all inside. Really nice. If you used to go here as a kid, definitely come back with your kids. Nostalgia will hit and it'll be just as you remembered it.

Came on a day when it was supposed to rain later, but even though it was cloudy, it was actually…read morereally nice. It was not too crowded, and there is a lot of parking on both the left and right side of the zoo, which made it easy. Before entering, there are many vendors selling food, hats, accessories, and children's toys. Children under 2 are free, ages 2 to 12 were $22, and adults were $27. I believe there is also a senior price, possibly around $24. We were able to go through the entire zoo in about 4 hours, and the kids spent some time at the playground, which was new to me since I had not been here in a few years. If you are going without children or with older kids, you could probably get through it faster. Some animals had been relocated to another zoo, and the elephants were not there, which was a bit of a bummer. We were told animals get put away about an hour before closing. I am not sure if that applies to all of them, since we still saw some animals out around closing time. We were able to bring in our own snacks and drinks, which was nice. They do have a few spots that sell food, drinks, ice cream, and other snacks, but they were a bit expensive for me. We did end up getting churros and shared them since they were really long and more than enough for my kids. Overall, it was a fun visit.

We came because my son wanted to feed the giraffes. We thought it would be a fun experience. The…read moretrip to this zoo, turned out to be anything but fun. It was really hot, a lot of walking to exhibits that were either closed and or only had one animal. We waited for the giraffe exhibit and no one was there to help with the feeding giraffe experience! It's not advertised anywhere in the zoo so not sure if it's something that was still offered! Literally so surprised at how run down the zoo is and the lack of animals and exhibits being closed! Definitely disappointed.

This is such a cute spot for a low cost birthday party! While we were only attendees recently at my…read moreson's classmate's party, I can't imagine booking one of the picnic areas for a party to be any more expensive than it is at a regular park ... but normal parks don't have a huge number of full sized trains laying around, a train museum, and a rideable train (only $2-3 per ticket) that goes around the whole place! If your kid is a train lover, this is a great FREE place to visit. I still can't believe it was free lol. There's a play place for kids inside the museum, but you have to provide your own train toy for the tracks there. There's a gift shop near the museum where you can buy those. We bought our son one of those that you pull backwards, then it goes fast in forward motion on its own. Totally worth the $12 price tag because he hasn't put it down since, and even sleeps with it lol. You can't get into any of the trains, BUT there is a black one under the awning where many of them are that you CAN go up into. The kids were obsessed. There's plenty of space on the property to setup a picnic for the day that doesn't involve having to rent one of the covered spots. We were there for 3-4 hours walking around the grounds with the kids - a huge group of 3-7 year olds - and none of them got bored.

My family and I have been coming to Travel Town for many years…read more After entering travel town and walking past the many old steam engines that display there is a ticket booth and entrance to the miniature railroad. Tickets are $4 for adults and $3 for children, the same as the Griffith railroad on the other side of park. The ride is a brisk 12 minutes or so and takes you around travel town with two laps across that time. The whole breadth of travel town is available to be seen, including the many steam engines, miniatures, gift shop, and more. The train you ride itself is comfortable, covered, clean and well maintained. They make an excellent ride for a family. Our kids loved it! As with Travel town's sister railroad on the other side of the park, I recommend sitting near the back of the train to avoid the exhaust smell. The staff are very friendly and clearly love their jobs - I don't blame them! The rest of travel town is otherwise quite limited. Aside from a large number of locomotives, and nice areas for picnic, the museum and other sites are fairly limited. You come to travel town to see the big locomotives and ride the miniature train - that's about it. A playground would go a long way! Thankfully, admission is free and parking is plentiful. You need not budget more than two hours for your visit unless you are a true train aficionado. Nonetheless, Travel Town is an excellent, worthwhile stop for families and especially those with children 8 and under.

This Jurassic themed playground is interactive and educational, perfect for dinosaur lovers and any…read moreyoung ones who need to burn off some energy climbing, sliding, running, learning, and swinging while parents find some shade to lounge. The main and centered attraction is the ceratopsian dinosaur jungle gym with rope elements and a pebble bridge. Framing the fossil-like dinosaur is a bridge with two entrances, a stairway on the right or a vertical multi-platform climb on the left. The educational dig site includes a fossil finder among other activities using the naked eye, handheld magnifying glasses, or stationary binoculars. A periscope is also situated nearby. The hanging percussion chimes encourage everyone to learn the beginning of Jurassic Park's movie theme song and, of course, impromptu music play. There's also a rainmaker spinner.

My kids loves coming here. There's a net suspension bridge on the upper level and a playground on…read morethe lower level. On the side there's a magnifying glass with Dino footprints for archeological exploration. There's also chimes to hit with music notes instructions. It's a small space with lots to do.

How cool is it to live somewhere where you can just visit the old zoo while taking a stroll through…read morethe park? Pretty cool if you ask me. After living in LA for just under two years my wife and I figured it was about time we actually checked this place out. We came here with all three of our dogs on a Sunday morning and it was a really cool experience. When you arrive to Griffith Park all you really have to do is follow the signs and it'll lead you right to a small parking lot, usually also loaded with man-made signs for kids birthday parties and such. Once you park, you have to follow a trail and walk up a slight hill for like two minutes before you are suddenly staring at some old enclosures and such. These enclosures are fully open, meaning you can walk right up to them, inside of them, and check them out yourself. If you follow the path a little more you are able to go up a hill and explore behind the bigger exhibits (which I was unable to do this day thanks to some recent lung issues). I have no idea how big the actual old zoo area is, but the area we saw was really freaking cool and definitely has me itching to come back when I'm 100% in order to see everything. Overall, The Old Zoo is cool chance to go back in time for free and experience old some Los Angeles. The park is free, parking is free, and guess what? Checking out the old zoo is free too. You really can't go wrong with some slight exploration and cool photo opportunities. I look forward to coming back soon and exploring some more.

Not anything huge to see, but something unique if you're wanting to do a hiking trail anyway.read more