Exscite — Local services in Hamilton

Brought my 9 year old son here today and it was disappointing. We ran out of things to do within 15 minutes.

I can see they have spent a lot of money building specific Maori culture aspects, but they’re not overly interactive and certainly not going to hold a child’s attention for long. You can sit around a fake fire pit and listen to Maori guitar songs, you can play with a fabric vegetable garden, you can do a 5 meter running race, play with fabric trees, and much more. But the best of it is the large Lego.

The fabric native plants are cute, but it’s not like we can’t go for a bush walk 5 minutes away at the Hamilton gardens and see the real thing.

Might I suggest letting children design it in future, I think they’d do a better job.

In final; the whole thing now seems to be an attempt to immerse children in Maori culture. I was expecting a lot more with a name like “exscite” and after all the money spent and time closed. $15 - save your money, you’ll get more from the gardens...

Decided to bring my 20 month old as we thought she'd enjoy all the interactive stuff now she's old enough. Get there to find out over half of the interactive science stuff has been taken out and replaced with a ridiculously boring and non interactive exhibition on the second day level. The only interactive activity is 2 canines that you can sit in, yet they still charge you a full price for this. This place was so much better when we went at the start of the year. Extremely disappointed with what we paid for. Will definitely think twice before attending here and the...

Today was the first time we've visited since before it was renovated.

Unfortunately this time we were very disappointed 😩 the top level used to be so much fun, super interactive and now it's very boring, not very interactive at all so overall we spent less than an hour there. My 4yr old wanted to go after 20mins. I don't think I will go back there again which is very sad as it used to be one of our favourite rainy...