The Tree House Indoor Playground & Cafe

If you’ve got a toddler and you’re sweating through another Fort Lauderdale afternoon, this place is genuinely worth knowing about. The enclosed play area has slides and enough to keep kids under 7 busy while you actually sit down and drink a coffee — hot, from the cafe, like a real person. Parents can see the whole floor easily, which matters more than people admit until they’ve lost a kid in a play place for 30 seconds. It’s one of those spots that stays noticeably clean, which in a toddler play space is basically a miracle. Birthday parties too, if you’re at that stage of life.