KidZania London
KidZania London
3.5
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Inside Westfield London, Shepherd’s Bush, KidZania is a real-life mini city built just for kids aged 4 to 14 to work, earn and play! Has your child ever dreamed of becoming a code-cracker, surgeon, actor or dancer? Experience different careers in a fun learning environment.
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  • Mihaela S
    2 contributions
    Disappointing unfortunately
    Really disappointed with our visit, no crowd control and far too many visitors allowed in(they don’t really care if your child really gets to enjoy it 🙁), enormous queues with minimum waiting time of 40 minutes and some experiences over 2 hrs wait 😱. You could see the staff shortage and how unenthusiastic they were. British airlines experience was a let down as the staff member doing the cabin crew experience could not be bothered to call the parents in to see their children, of 8 kids in only one family went in(as they went from the beginning due to special needs)…. Management really needs to review the number of visitors they are taking at one given time and not focus on their financial gain alone….
    Dear Mihaela, Thank you for leaving us a review regarding your recent visit to Kidzania London. I am sorry to hear that your experience did not match your expectations. The nature of our experience means that any activity may have a waiting time as the children wait for the role to be available-essentially they are waiting for the activity to end before their turn. The architecture of our site does not allow for a fast tracking queue. This is why we supply visitors who may need them with Awareness Bands- these are a visual indication that the adult wearing them will be able to enter activities and queues with the child if needs be. Our staff are trained to fully engage with our visitors and make their experience great. I am sorry to hear that this was not the case. We would like to investigate this matter further for you and to improve the standard of our service. Please email enquiries@kidzania.co.uk with your name, date of visit, booking reference and further information so that we can assess your situation better. Kind Regards, Nuha Guest Experience Team KidZania London
    Written December 29, 2022
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    Visited December 2022
    Traveled with family
    Written December 29, 2022
  • marina m
    Chesterfield, United Kingdom24 contributions
    Poorly customer service
    The concept is brilliant. Kids loved it, however from adults point of view it is poorly managed. Customer service is below average. I guess young people who work there don't really bother too much about kids. Some stations managed better then others. Single parent is not an option . Can not get them food/ take them to the toilet and leave a child in a queue. They expect kids stay there still and if move you loose your spot, which we previously been queueing for 30 mins. Disgrace. Been offered to stay another 15 mins for next session. One till in a food place, more servicing staff on one till only. Could add another one or two. 20 mins for slashy. Would I came back? Probably not. Too much stress and bad service.
    Hello! Thank you for writing a review. Please email enquiries@kidzania.co.uk with your name, date of visit, booking reference and further information so that we can assess your situation better. Kind Regards, Mahrukh, Guest Experience Team, KidZania London.
    Written January 5, 2023
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    Visited December 2022
    Traveled with family
    Written December 29, 2022
  • sarah b
    6 contributions
    Terrible
    Absolutely awful. The kids have to queue for 30+ minutes for each and every experience. The staff have no joy and put in zero effort to be creative, efficient checking groups in and out, or towards acting in any of the scenes. It looks dirty and run down and the toilets were filthy
    Hello! Thank you for writing a review. We are saddened to hear that you did not enjoy your experience in our city and that the queues impacted your ability to enjoy your time in our city. Please email enquiries@kidzania.co.uk with your name, date of visit, booking reference and further information so that we can assess your situation better. Kind Regards, Mahrukh, Guest Experience Team, KidZania London.
    Written January 5, 2023
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    Visited December 2022
    Traveled with friends
    Written December 30, 2022
  • L Met
    1 contribution
    Disgusting!!!!
    This has become the filthiest place in London. Apart from all that has already been listed on here by others, on 30thDecember in between 13:00 -14:00 they were selling £7 hotdogs with mouldy bread!!!!🤮🤮🤮 I woudnt ever go back there even if it was for free! Paid hundreds of pounds for my son’s birthday to leave there so disappointed!!!! Shame on you kidszania for torturing the kids AND the parents this way. And most of all shame on you Westfield for allowing this to happen under your roof. This Shiite hole will put people off to come to Westfield ever again.
    Hello! Thank you for writing a review. We are saddened to hear that you did not enjoy your experience in our city Please email enquiries@kidzania.co.uk with your name, date of visit, booking reference and further information so that we can assess your situation better. Kind Regards, Mahrukh, Guest Experience Team, KidZania London.
    Written January 5, 2023
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    Visited December 2022
    Traveled with family
    Written December 31, 2022
  • StuFadden
    Birmingham, United Kingdom3 contributions
    Elf school
    The Elf School experience didn't live up to what was promised on the KidZania website, it was missold and a waste of money. We weren't able to attend all the additional activities due to staff closing sections before our kids could attend them. Numerous other customers left the Elf School earlier due to how disappointing it was.
    Hello! Thank you for writing a review. We are saddened to hear that you did not enjoy your experience at the Elf School Please email enquiries@kidzania.co.uk with your name, date of visit, booking reference and further information so that we can assess your situation better. Kind Regards, Mahrukh, Guest Experience Team, KidZania London.
    Written January 5, 2023
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    Visited December 2022
    Written January 2, 2023
  • lisabalsiger
    1 contribution
    Exhausting experience spent mostly queuing
    Spent about 80% of the time queuing. A few of the activities that my daughter had been looking forward to most (acting academy and Theatre) were simply closed 🤷‍♀️ The hotel was: messing up a bed and then making it. Took about 30seconds. The day prior to our visit I desperately tried to contact customer service.... it was a Sunday but Kidzania WAS open... the answering machine kept repeating that their phones lines would open at 10am but never did throughout the day and my emails were not answered. Some of the staff was very nice but you could tell that many of them were exhausted. This is the third Kidzania we have visited (Bangkok and Mumbai) and the least pleasant one. I think they should't allow that many people to come in at once. 80% standing in lines (also for the food) is just not fun for anyone. Many parents shared the same frustration as me as it is certainly not cheap!
    Hello! Thank you for writing a review. We are saddened to hear that you did not enjoy your experience in our city and that the queues impacted your ability to enjoy your time in our city. Please email enquiries@kidzania.co.uk with your name, date of visit, booking reference and further information so that we can assess your situation better. Kind Regards, Mahrukh, Guest Experience Team, KidZania London.
    Written January 5, 2023
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    Visited January 2023
    Traveled with family
    Written January 3, 2023
  • lama704
    London, United Kingdom64 contributions
    Long queues
    A good place to keep a child busy but some activities require up to an hour of a waiting time. It would be helpful if kidzania develops some form of a booking system for popular activities. The lady at the check in was quite rude and it would be helpful if she at least bothered explaining to newbies how the system with "charge" and "salary" works instead of "go".
    Hello! Thank you for writing a review. We are saddened to hear that you did not enjoy your experience in our city and that the queues impacted your ability to enjoy your time in our city. Please email enquiries@kidzania.co.uk with your name, date of visit, booking reference and further information so that we can assess your situation better. Kind Regards, Mahrukh, Guest Experience Team, KidZania London.
    Written January 5, 2023
    This response is the subjective opinion of the management representative and not of Tripadvisor LLC.
    Visited January 2023
    Traveled with family
    Written January 3, 2023
  • Kristina
    3 contributions
    Disappointing experience for the kids and adults
    Rather disappointed, to sum it up by sitting in queues, not enough staff and adults hogging places in the queue when there is a limit of how many kids can join an activity. Disappointing for kids that waited 30min to realise they needed to wait another 20mins at least as more family members of the adults holding up place in the queue turn up. Kidzania you need to do better to control queues, clearly there is a capacity issue. May be overbooking too many people.
    Hello! Thank you for writing a review. We are saddened to hear that you did not enjoy your experience in our city and that the queues impacted your ability to enjoy your time in our city. Please email enquiries@kidzania.co.uk with your name, date of visit, booking reference and further information so that we can assess your situation better. Kind Regards, Mahrukh, Guest Experience Team, KidZania London.
    Written January 5, 2023
    This response is the subjective opinion of the management representative and not of Tripadvisor LLC.
    Visited January 2023
    Traveled with family
    Written January 3, 2023
  • Margedaws
    London, United Kingdom103 contributions
    Avoid this place at all costs, it’s a complete rip off and Trading Standards have received a number of complaints.
    Worst experience of our lives for a kids day out! Avoid this place at all costs. We were refused access for a disabled child with a young carer and told we would not be able to use a carers ticket and had to pay a further cost of £39.50! The queues were absolutely horrific and Kidzania were clearly breaching Health & Safety by allowing too many people in at the same time. Once inside with tickets and wristbands, queues for activities were up to an hour long each and some had to be paid for in addition to the £39.50 entry cost each! After 3 hours we only managed to get on to two very small activities and there were no costumes to put on. This place is a total rip off!! When challenged with complaints by paying customers Kidzania refuse to accept any responsibility and will not issue any refunds regardless. Lots of complaints have been made about this place including to Trading Standards. We wasted over £100 and our kids left very upset and disappointed at the way in which they were treated. Shame on Kidzania for ripping off families and discriminating against children with disabilities. We will never go here again.
    Dear Marge, We appreciate you taking the time to write a review about your visit to KidZania London. We are sorry to hear you did not enjoy your time in our city. We are also sad to hear that you are not happy with the service you have received so far. We hope your continued communication with our Enquiries Team leads to a resolution you are satisfied with. Kind regards, Guest Experience Team, KidZania London.
    Written January 8, 2023
    This response is the subjective opinion of the management representative and not of Tripadvisor LLC.
    Visited January 2023
    Traveled with friends
    Written January 5, 2023
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Mumof2_p
1 contribution
Feb 2020 • Family
I took my 6 and 4 year old in feb half term and it was absolute chaos! We were there for 3.5 hours and we managed to do only 2 activities, 1 of which was face painting that i had to pay an additional £4 for!!

My kids really wanted to do the cabin crew so we waited over half hour in a queue, i actually went into the activity with them as my little one was quite nervous with lots of bigger kids around - the activity itself was a complete rush with kids not really being told what to do properly, before they then put on a little performance for the adults.

It’s a money making machine with time being spent in each activity taking professional photos of each kid (for you to then buy when you go home!). Lanyards to hold the money which light up cost me (£15 for 2) so i would suggest bringing something from home your kids can use.

The money that the kids have left by the end can be used to purchase a gift from the shop (the shope is split into 2 - some nice cool stuff (which you have to pay for) - some crappy tiny things (kids can spend their money on).

Overall very disappointed and wont be returning. If you and your children hate crowds and queuing then this not the place for you (at least in the school holidays).
Written February 21, 2020
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Hello, Thank you for taking the time to write about your recent experience at Kidzania and we are extremely sorry to hear you were unhappy with your recent experience. Please be assured that all feedback gets passed onto the relevant departments so we can improve our service and standards. We are very sorry to hear of your experience in the Kidzo's shop. We are currently looking at ways to make the shop better so our younger visitors and shoppers will have more choice of items, so we do appreciate all of your feedback. If you would like to discuss this further, please email enquiries@kidzania.co.uk Zanks
Written March 24, 2020
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LemiaS
1 contribution
Jan 2020
my kids are from plymouth visiting London to see their cousins and we decided to go to Kidzania as we have one in Saudi were we used to live. They absolutely loved it. We came from the morning and it did seem that some staff were too tired already with dull faces on them, which is surprising considering the city had only just opened. We then were told the stadium paid highest in the city so my kids wanted to check it out. When we arrived we were greeted with a beautiful smile by a beautiful girl called Basmah. She brought my kids in and let me watch, she even managed to run the session in arabic for my kids cousins who don't speak english well. it was fantastic and they loved it. to their luck later on this same girl was in h&m fashion and again she greeted them with a lovely smile and they loved the activity. As we were leaving they caught her in h&m recycling where she did the activity with them whilst letting them go head to head in a heated race. they loved it. a big big thank you to her!

one thing I will say is food options are very narrow in the city as their is only one shop open. the queues at time are a bit long and it does seem like staff don't always want to run the activities. the city was quite packed when we came making it hard to move around.

overall though, it was an amazing experience for my kids and we managed to get 7 activities done!

will definitely be returning.
Written January 3, 2020
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Hello, Thank you for your 5* review regarding your recent visit to Kidzania London. We are happy to know you enjoyed your visit and look forward to welcoming you back to the city! Kind Regards, Mahrukh
Written January 20, 2020
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Shipra Bharara
1 contribution
Feb 2020 • Solo
I went to Kidzania today and being an annual pass holder I had a great time and I was given extra Kidzos.The workers were really polite and at the end I was able to get a fantastic travel size ludo set and robo fish. These were quiet expensive but I managed to get them because I had been saving up my Kidzos.
Salaries of the jobs varied from 5 to 13 Kidzos but some activities required you to pay because they were fun not work.Luckily I was able to do quiet a lot because I went when it wasn’t at it’s busiest.
Overall I would recommend this for children 5 to 13 and also I believe that you should visit when there aren’t many people inside.You should book your tickets in advance or buy an annual pass to get more value for your money.
Written February 22, 2020
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Hello, Thank you for your positive feedback about your experience at Kidzania!! We are super glad that you had a great time, and we hope to see you again soon! Kind Regards
Written March 21, 2020
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marion f
Essex, UK3 contributions
Feb 2020 • Family
Far too many people let in, queues for anything worth doing were far too long. Example: The television studio, 7 people go in at a time, half an hour experience, we got there and first group went in, we were 8th in line, so an hour wait to go in (parents now waiting for an hour and a half for their child to come out). Leaving your child is not an option as other children push in the queue, over the age of eight children can be dropped of and left with no supervision Example above eats into a 4 hour visit and we experienced this with 3 rooms. So many unpleasant incidents to type in this review from miserable/rude staff, health and safety. We spoke during our queuing to many parents who equally felt the same. We wanted to record this experience, we waited for half an hour for a form to arrive, someone was coming to speak to us....then told the manager was to busy?
Written February 22, 2020
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Hello, Thank you for your feedback regarding your recent visit to KidZania London. We are very disheartened to hear that your visit was not up to your standards. Please be assured that all feedback gets passed onto the relevant department to improve the standard of our service and implement any training. If you’d like to discuss this further please contact enquiries@kidzania.co.uk Kind Regards
Written March 21, 2020
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Sue
4 contributions
Feb 2020 • Family
My children were looking forward to going to this in half term. Came away upset. In 4 hours only got to do 4 experiences as queues so long. Rude inexperienced staff. Mine queued an hour to do the tv experience was first in the queue and wanted to be weather people some boy appeared from no where who hadn’t queued pushed in and the girl running it chose him to do it and mine just had to sit and watch as too many people had been let in after an hours queues not happy. Went to the newspaper reporting station so they had something to take home only to find the printer had stopped working. They said 10 mins it would be repaired an hour of waiting still not working. They promised to email me the reports but never did. My children then wanted a photo of their day so took their wrist bands where photos had been loaded to choose one only to find they hadn’t been loaded. I asked to see the manager who gave me an email add to tell them about my experience to which their reply was we can have an extra hour next time we go. We will never go back through that disappointing experience again. When I asked where the news reports were they never replied. Poor customer service too. Wouldn’t recommend to anyone.
Written February 23, 2020
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Hello, Thank you for taking the time to write to us to explain your experience in detail. We sincerely apologise that your experience was not up to the standards that you expected from KidZania. We have passed your feedback to the relevant teams to ensure we can improve on our service standards. We are keen on investigating this further, please email enquiries@kidzania.co.uk Kind Regards
Written March 21, 2020
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ejb190
London, UK10 contributions
Feb 2020 • Family
Would be worth the cost if they limited the numbers so you could actually do anything. But in fact we ended up paying almost £90 for 4 of us to stand in queues for 4 hours. Totally rammed, completely understaffed and absolute chaos. Such a shame as we’ve been to the one in Delhi and loved it. But this is just exhausting and a complete waste of money. Would avoid unless they are going to start limiting the numbers for sessions so kids can actually access the activities they want.
Written February 22, 2020
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Hello, Thank you for your feedback regarding your recent visit to KidZania London. We are very disheartened to hear that your visit was not up to your standards. Please be assured that all feedback gets passed onto the relevant department to improve the standard of our service and implement any training. If you wish us to investigate it further please email enquiries@kidzania.co.uk Kind Regards
Written March 21, 2020
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BeckyWayne_11
Croydon, UK4 contributions
Sep 2021 • Family
We went to kidzania today for the first time with my 8 year old daughter. After reading the reviews I was a bit worried as they weren’t great but we had a great day! It was definitely something different and she really enjoyed it. I agree that some of the staff were miserable and uninterested but some were also very good. We spent our full 4 hour time slot there and her favourite activities were the radio DJ and Pilots experience. We didn’t eat there as were having too much fun. The only thing I would say is that the adult tickets are over priced for you just to stand outside the activities waiting for your children. Also as the children do jobs they earn money and then get to spend it at the end. We early 132 kidzos and all we were able to buy was a silly little rubber?? Which was a little disappointing I think this needs to be looked at! Even if the kids could buy sweets they would probably prefer that to the rubbish toys on offer.
It is what you make it though and we had fun the surroundings and set up is amazing and feels almost like your on a film set.
Written September 2, 2021
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Lisa H
Stoke Poges, UK14 contributions
Oct 2021 • Family
No where near as good as expected. Long queues to get into activities with teenager staff who don’t care. No where to sit or eat and all the toilets looked like they hadn’t been cleaned in days.
Far too many people packed into small spaces making the activities chaotic and rushed. The reason you get 4 hours is because you end up queuing for each activity for at least 20-30 minutes so don’t end up doing that many.
Not enough staff around overseeing things - I saw at least 3 children telling other parents they had lost their mummy/daddy.
Half the activities were closed and the available food, when the machines are working, is overpriced and Luke warm.
They say a guardian has to be with younger children but there’s no one policing this at all.
It’s ok - but definitely not worth the money they charge. I was super disappointed.
Written October 2, 2021
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Christineg07
London, UK19 contributions
Nov 2021 • Family
On the positive side the staff were good and for the MOST part well trained, and the experiences, when you could get to them, were interesting and fun. However, they allowed far too many people in, the queues were horrendous with long waits for every experience and food. We got to the front of the queue for one area and a poorly trained member of staff mistakenly refused to let my 5 year old participate because he didn’t understand the system, leaving her in tears. They charge for adults whose only pleasure is trying to placate bored and frustrated youngsters waiting in long lines! We left early as there was no point spending hours queuing, resulting in some very disappointed children. I complained at the time and was assured I would be contacted, but I never heard from them.
Written November 9, 2021
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Sridevi Dasari
1 contribution
Feb 2020 • Family
Had my son’s Gold Birthday Party there on 22nd February 2020 @ 11:30 am, they promised me fast track for all the kids, its was a big NO for me, we had 24 children with us. When Kidzania knew how many kids are inside, they could said that to us.

The cake was not enough, the food was served a bit late, children were very hungry, the fruit plates were only 2, the assistants would ask, “ Do you need any food”, what would young children say about it, they said nothing.

The staff were rude to the kids and one of the very patience kids said that the staff are not helping and they are rude. We were told the kids will be looked after but we hardly had any help.

Atleast at the cake time, a video should record the crier and the cake cutting, don’t have any of those memories.

I had to pay for take home party gifts and the assistant said I have to pay £30 per bag, they don’t even know how much they are.

Sridevi Dasari
Written February 23, 2020
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Hello, Thank you for your feedback, please be assured that all feedback gets passed onto the relevant department to improve the standard of our service and implement any training. We are sorry to hear you didnìt have the experience you hoped for and we are keen on investigating this further. Please email svc@kidzania.co.uk so we can look into it more specifically. Kind Regards
Written March 21, 2020
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