KC Pumpkin Patch — Attraction in Gardner

Bunnypallooza was a nightmare today. You guys are lucky if no one was injured today and I hope you make some significant changes before tomorrow.

That candy cannon failed to disperse the candy in the air so most of it hit the ground in the bag in one spot.There were very young children everywhere and that could have really hurt someone. Secondary to the injury risk is the fact that most kids didn't even get one piece of candy which is relevant since the candy cannon was heavily advertised.

The helicopter egg drop was an epic fail. Luckily, my son is older and decided on his own that it was not worth going over there and dealing with the huge crowd. I was so grateful we were not stuck in that crowd when the helicopter kicked up the horrible dirt cloud. However, we happened to be over by the fenced off area when they dropped more eggs. Most of the eggs broke open and flew all over the place. There were tons of little kids crying cause they didn't get any eggs at all. That's a big deal when you are a kid!

Before the helicopter drop, we stood in line forever for food and then our order apparently got lost when the printer jammed so we spent well over an hour just trying to get lunch so that was fun.

I understand that things happen, but all of these things happened 100% because you did not put a cap on ticket sales. The food and drink lines were insane everywhere all afternoon. You usually have folks directing parking at the fall festivals but not today and it was a mess.

There was nothing posted about how and where the cannon and egg drop would take place and the PA system was inaudible so no one could hear the announcements. Plus the cannon and egg drop were destined for failure because the crowd was so large. People act like they have never seen candy before at parades and easter egg hunts so you really have to have clear instructions and a manageable number of participants in order to pull that off successfully.

To top it off, we couldn't even play any of the games because there were simply too many people. We have been to the pumpkin patch many times on busy days and it was nothing like this. Just super disappointed. Huge...

Have gone 2 years in a row for their annual homeschool day and have advertised it to my homeschool group with 2700 members.

For school field trips teachers get in free. So one adult for every 15 or so kids. For homeschoolers we pay $10/parent and quite a few families bring two parents to better supervise their children.

The monster slide is closed, most of the other games are geared towards younger kids. I’d say there’s not much included in the admission for ages 10+.

As for food, it’s overpriced. They don’t have a non-alcoholic apple cider slush for kids. The kids only slush option for them is an artificial food dye filled blue raspberry slush.

They did open the paid games this year. They are also very expensive. Buried alive haunt wasn’t open so you only save $1 if you do the package for all 4.

An outside group was also booked for a field trip during homeschool day. It appeared to be the JCPRD field trip.

They do not advertise that a pumpkin is included in the price (like it is for other field trips) but after contacting them, it is. Most people don’t know about this and don’t leave with a pumpkin.

They did add more games and better communicate the times this year. Last year they had you sign up for time slots and didn’t clearly communicate that everything closed at 1pm. So we signed up for 11am and only got to stay 2 hours. Turns out we could have come when it opened but they didn’t tell us that. This year the website didn’t do time slots which was much better and the hours were listed.

Advertised Gaga ball and worker said they took it down last weekend

I have mentioned these things to them on social media and via email and honestly will probably not give them anymore free advertisement in my...

We purchased tickets online weeks ahead of our trip to the KC Pumpkin Patch at KC Wine Co. and were excited to visit with our 16 month old son. We arrived at 3pm and it took about 30 minutes to park the car and walk all the way from one end to the parking lot to the Pumpkin Patch entrance. The employees helping find parking spots were doing their best, and we asked if we could park closer to the entrance to the patch, but they said it was full. Once we were closer, we noticed 15-20 spots available so it was a little frustrating because they must not have had a lot of communication about availability.

Once we got to the entrance we waited in an extremely long line to enter even though we had pre paid for tickets.

Once inside, there were plenty of activities for kids who were 4-10 years of age, but I wouldn’t really call it a pumpkin patch. We spent about 45 mins doing the age appropriate things we could with our son and decided to get a cider slushee to share on the way out.

The non alcoholic slushee was good, but they refuse to give straws for “kids” slushees only the alcoholic ones. They gave the slushee in a small styrofoam cup vs a nice big plastic one for the alcoholic one. The employee who helped me apologized for the rule, but I just felt like the entire experience was lacking for $14 per person.

If you’re there right at 10am when they open, able to get good parking, have kids who are 5-7 years old, and want a nice alcoholic drink while they play, and not really looking for a pumpkin, this would be an excellent fall activity for you. We had an okay time, and I think that they did their best to make something family friendly, but I think that KC Wine Co might just be better left for...