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I did not realize there was a Frankie's Fun Park. There is another Frankie's in Irmo, SC. I second about how expensive it. I have found Chuck E Cheese to be less expensive than Frankie's. There is a Chuck E Cheese's in Raleigh/Durham, right?
What about ice skating? I know there is ice skating in one or a couple of the Charlotte malls, so there should be ice skating available in Raleigh, imo.
We hope y'all have a wonderful and fun-filled weekend.
There are several ice rinks. The Factory in Wake Forest has great open skates on weekends. It's nice because there small shops, a skate boarding ramp park as well as a few resturants near there as well as an icecream place (Carvel).
Fwiw, my kids liked Pullen Park. But probably could go there once and not go for a good while, and they are a lot younger than the OP's 7 year old. It's a 'kiddie park', imo. I wasn't so impressed, especially with the fencing around the carousel.
Anyone try Bullwinkles?
Looks like there are many skating options, like Jellybeans Super Skate, Raleigh Ice Plex, RecZone, Skate Ranch, Carolina SportsPlex, The Ice House.
Wow - I cannot believe how much there is to do where you are. This Factory Ice House looks fantastic! I love to go ice skating.
http://www.icehouserinks.com/ (broken link)
Note to self: This is why I NEED to get down to the Carolina's. I think I'll relocate to NC, then I read something about SC, now I'm puuullled back to NC. I gotta get down there...
The north carolina botanical gardens in chapel hill is gorgeous not sure if you said they were boys or girls (my daugter loves it). Their is also a hiking trail there, piedmont nature trail, with walks of differnt lengths depending on which you take. Also Sarah P Duke gardens at the duke campus in durham. The North Carlonia museam of natural sciences.
Funny, I checked here to see if anyone else has ideas. I occaisionally entertain 4-8 year old neices.
We are looking into a public skate at the Ice Plex.
There's rollar skating at the Skate Ranch.
Franke's is expensive and more of less a bunch of video games unless you pay somewhat big dollars for the huge jungle gym thing and all the outdoor stuff is closed right now. We played putt putt but the kids had little interest in doing it right. (mostly just jumped around on the course.)
There's the dollar theatre (Blue Ridge) which has quite a few kids movies out right now. All the ages kids were great and loved Bolt.
The kids always love Pullen Park, but this is going to be a colder weekend than most.
Good luck and maybe we'll see you out and about!
(I'll have the adorable 8 year old twin girls!)
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Things to do with kids
