Oxygen York

If you’ve got a kid between 2 and 8 who needs to burn off some serious energy, this place in York delivers. The tunnels are a genuine hit — little ones disappear into them for ages while you actually get to sit down for five minutes. Staff here are the kind that actually pay attention and make birthday parties feel like they’ve been thought through properly, not just thrown together. The food’s decent too, which isn’t something you can say about every soft play in the city, and the whole place is kept clean in a way that reassures you without feeling clinical. Restrooms are on site, which sounds basic but matters more than you’d think when you’re mid-party with a four-year-old.