Salem Fun Center — Local services in Salem

The girls and I had a blast spending the day here!!!!😆😍👍💜 There's so much fun stuff to do with the kids. And I'm not going to lie, I had fun myself and I'll be 28 on June 2nd lol. Makes you feel like a little kid again. And I WISH this is what the skating rink was like when I was a child cause I went skating in Salem at this same exact skating rink every single weekend, for every lock in, and every other chance I got. It definitely makes my childhood memories of skating here seem a little dull, although at the time, I thought there was nothing more fun to do.

I would give it 5 stars, but the only thing I didn't like about our day spent at the fun factory was the fact that I spent literally almost $200 for a few hours (I want to say 2 hours) of fun for 3 little girls (only 2 of them being mine). We did end up getting the unlimited wristband for all three girls and then I had to pay for skating for my Fiance and I so we could skate with the girls because they're still really young. But, had I not purchased the unlimited wristbands, we would've paid twice the amount to get into the bounce house, laser tag (if we did have time to play, which we didn't), skating and in the play area with the slides, tunnels, and other fun toys/things for kids. If you don't buy an unlimited wristband you have to pay separately for each individual activity. We also bought a pizza and drinks during our day filled with fun and of course tokens to let the girls (and Drew lol) play games and win tickets to exchange for prizes. Which I'm happy to say they all 3 got to pick out close to the biggest prizes you can win and had a prize to take home. We ended up winning more tickets than I would've ever thought possible, but we also spent like $60 to do so.

Overall, I freaking love this place and would HIGHLY recommend it to anyone looking for something kid-friendly and fun to do with their little ones. BUT I would also add that they need to be prepared to take a decent amount of money with them, or only choose one or two activities to let their kids do for the day. Also, I would recommend with younger kids to not purchase the skating tickets/all day pass cause if they're younger, they're going to have a blast downstairs rather than upstairs skating, and there honestly isn't enough time from open to close (2-3 hours) to skate AND do everything else downstairs.

FURTHERMORE, just in case anyone doesn't know....Wednesday's at the Fun Factory is FREE skating every week!!!!! I found this out by accident, because although I purchased tickets for Drew and I to skate with the girls, we didn't end up having time to skate after doing everything else downstairs. So, I took my two girls back to the Fun Factory again just to skate that day, and while I'm trying to hand the lady my money to pay, she informed me that EVERY Wednesday is free to skate. Overall, I suppose $200 one day and $0 a week later somewhat evened itself out. Somewhat lol. BUT....again beware of Wednesday's with younger children cause I'd guesstimate around 200 other people were already informed that skating on Wednesdays was free. So the rink was super packed, but the girls still enjoyed their day and that was the purpose. So all in all...everyone ended up satisfied at the end...

Nice staff, older facility. Yesterday was my first time there. You can tell that they are trying to keep the building interesting to the under-13 crowd. It's unique in that the skating floor is on the second floor of the building. There were several of those ticket-type games but only a few near the floor. The others are in a separate room, which is nice.

In my opinion, any skating rink should be centered around the skating floor. It's what I'd consider a smaller floor, but still very usable size. Unfortunately, the floor itself needs some attention. It's heavily waxed in the outer parts, hardly at all in the inner section. The need of care is very evident when comparing the center of the floor to where skaters usually travel. It looks like 2 different floors. In some spots, there were chunks of wax chipped out but then just sealed over, making skating difficult due to the uneven surface. The whole thing needs sanded down and re-sealed. If the floor were in better condition, I'd give it 5 stars. All that being said, my skate wheels came away after a 2 hour skate much cleaner than places like the Skate Zone in Austintown. That tells me that the floors and carpet are cleaned regularly.

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I took my daughter here to see Poppy and Branch she's 2 1/2 years old and was beyond excited! But as time went on they practically chased us around as my 20 year old step daughter went in the tunnels to help her and said she wasn't allowed in with our toddler, and told her to leave that area entirely, then my eldest daughter tried to just go stand in the bounce house to ensure the safety of our toddler and they made her get out of there, then we went back to the tunnels to let or little one play some more and as I look over inside the tunnels there's an adult with her toddler around 20 something and nothing was said! I was seeing red! This staff member was so scared of the male owner to get in trouble she had to keep saying petty things! And apologized many times for it! The male owner told me to get my "teen" daughter out of things and never once! Asked us! or her! Her age! And waited for us to leave and re-approached her to tell her to stay out as my husband and I walked away! I will never go back here or recommend this place to anyone! Ever! They were rude and have poor...