Once again there is a great deal on admission to the Jump Club in Henrietta. Check out Groupon for this great deal, only two more days to buy it. This is 50% off normal admission. There is a limit of one person, but you may one extra as a gift. And they are good until Sept 30, 2011. It may be used for more than one trip to Jump Club. Enjoy! Maybe we’ll see you there.
My mother in law just alerted me to yet another group coupon site! This one is offering a 4 pack of admissions to the Jump Club in Henrietta, NY. That is 50% off the regular admission rate. You are allowed to buy 2 deals for yourself and up to 2 more as gifts. They expire Nov. 30, 2011 and can be used over multiple trips. For info click here.
Ever want to show your kids how much you truly love them? Then let them come out and bounce, climb, slide, and explore on enticingly fun, larger-than-life inflatables at Jump Club with today’s Roc’n Deal: $17 for 4 pack of open play admissions ($34 value). Buying this Roc’n Deal is likely to get your kids to do their chores, but we can’t make any promises!
Jump Club also features a designated space for toddler play, an upscale “Parent’s Lounge”, and a café offering a variety of food options. So what are you waiting for? Order yours now!
IHOP®, one of America’s favorite restaurants for breakfast, lunch and dinner, today announced it has joined Kids LiveWell as an inaugural leader in the restaurant industry’s efforts to provide more healthful menu choices for children and families. Kids LiveWell is a new, nationwide initiative created by the National Restaurant Association in collaboration with HealthyDiningFinder.com to provide parents and children with a growing selection of healthful menu options when dining out.
In celebration of the partnership, IHOP also announced that its popular “Kids Eat Free” promotion will return to restaurants nationwide beginning August 1. Every day in August from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. at participating locations, families with kids under 12 can receive one free kids meal from the “Just for Kids” menu with the purchase of each adult entrée.
Every item on IHOP’s “Just for Kids” menu is SIMPLE & FIT and under 600 calories. Families can choose from four options on IHOP’s kids menu that meet the guidelines required to be included in the Kids LiveWell program. Those items include:
Just for Kids Baby Cakes with a Jr. Fresh Fruit Dish: Scrambled egg substitute served with one turkey bacon strip and five silver dollar buttermilk pancakes and paired with a refreshing dish of seasonal fruit.
Just for Kids Jr. Scrambled Egg & Pancakes with a Jr. Fresh Fruit Dish: Scrambled egg substitute served with one buttermilk pancake and paired with a refreshing dish of seasonal fruit.
Just for Kids Jr. Fish: Tilapia lightly seasoned, grilled to perfection and served with broccoli.
Just for Kids Jr. Fresh Fruit Dish: A refreshing dish of seasonal fruit.
My kids love the Jump Club and I love when there is a discount offer! For the month of August they are offering 50% off admission if you show them proof that you follow them on Facebook. So just print out a screen shot and bring it in for your discount admission.
Have you been to the Seneca Park Zoo yet this summer? Well if you’ve been putting it off here is an incentive to go before summer ends. With this coupon you get one free child’s admission when you buy one adult’s admission. Coupon is good through Sept. 5, 2011.
If you haven’t been before you are missing out! We are members and we go a couple times a month. I admit that our zoo is not the biggest, although it is bigger than Buffalo’s and Syracuse’s, but it is beautiful and offers some great fun for the little ones. My girls absolute favorite is the creekbed where they can play in the water, so make sure you either bring clothes they don’t mind getting wet or a change of clothes. (We bring swimsuits and aquasocks) Yep they are that into it. Of course their other favorite is the Zot Zone building where they get to pretend to be vets and take care of stuffed animals. And then there are all the animals to see of course!
Take 590 North to 104 West (Keeler Expressway) at exit 10A. Take the Seneca/Clinton exit from 104. Following the zoo signs, turn right on Clinton Ave, turn left on East Ridge Road to Saint Paul Street. Turn right on Saint Paul Street and then the first left into the Zoo.
Regular Rates-Adults 12-62 $10 Seniors 63+ $9 Kids 3-11 $7 2 and younger free Members free
Open 10am-5pm, gates close at 4pm.
Regal is offering kids movies again this summer, although this year they are charging $1 a person. Movies are run on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings at 10am. Check their website for your local listings. They have already begun and will continue on til August 24. All the movies are either G or PG rated. I have always found the film festival to be awesome with little kids because they don’t turn the lights down all the way and you are welcome to bring in your own drinks and food. Enjoy!
If you go to the “Be a Healthy Hero” website they have a few coupon links on the left side of the page. One of those coupons is for half off admission to Kango Play. It’s a printable coupon, which means you should be able to print it out in multiples to use a few times if you like. The coupon doesn’t expire til 8/31/2011.
There is also a $5 off coupon for Bay Creek Paddling, and a coupon for one free game of bowling at Clover Lanes.
Here is another 50% off discount offer for Jump Club! This one is offered by Living Social, it’s a four pack of admissions for only $17. It can be used for multiple trips and you can buy two, four packs, and extras as gifts if you want. This time you have 6 more days to get in on the deal, so if you missed out last time, get in quick! And these certificates are good til Nov 18, 2011.
If you’ve never used LivingSocial click here to sign up and you’ll get $5 to use towards your purchase. Then find the deal by looking for coupons under Family.
Yup we’ve been away on vacation, so I thought I’d pass along some of my money saving ideas for a great vacation. My last posts on vacation savings are still getting comments and questions so I thought it might make a good topic.
We vacation differently than some people since most of our family live near us, so we don’t go away to visit family. Our goal is to visit all 50 states so we never go the same place twice, or at least we try not to repeat places. And that is why this year we ended up in Chicago. Just a place we’ve never been to before, within a reasonable driving distance, with LOTS of museums and things to see and do.
In fact there is so much to do here we’ve made it a two week vacation to make the drive here worthwhile(10hrs). Part of why it’s a good choice for a budget vacation is that we can go to nearly every museum for free with the use of our membership card from the Rochester Museum and Science Center. I always encourage friends to join the science museum and the zoo because they are part of a group of museums that allow members in for free or at a discount just by showing their ID card. Some of the places we are able to get in free include The Field Museum, famous for Sue, the T-rex skeleton, Adler Planetarium, Lincoln Park Zoo, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Museum of Science and Industry, and the Chicago Children’s Museum. And on top of all that your membership is tax deductible.
Of course being in a big city makes parking VERY expensive! So we are staying outside of the city and driving to a L-train station and using public transport to get around. But even that can add up so to help keep those costs down you need to buy multiple day passes which let you ride the train and buses unlimited for up to 7 days at a time.
But our favorite thing to keep costs down that we have discovered over the years is to find an affordable rental house. I think the first time we discovered this is when our kids were just toddlers. Trying to get everyone to settle down and go to sleep in a tiny hotel room, every night, was no vacation! So one year when researching vacations we decided to go to Mystic Seaport, CT and I found a beach cottage for a week rental with 3 bedrooms for $1000 a week during the summer! In all honesty that is the most we’ve ever paid for a rental, usually we find something like where we are at for only $500-600 a week. Stick with me, that does sound expensive, but when you compare it to hotel rates it’s a bargain. And the place we are staying at has 2 BR, 1 Ba, living room, dining room, equipped kitchen, and a whole basement for the kids to play in. I brought all our breakfast food and meals I made ahead and froze, so we only have to pay for lunches out, and all I have to do is reheat our dinners so there’s little work making meals for me. So we end up saving lots of money on food. Plus we all sleep so much better in own rooms, and having space to move around without tripping over one another.
Interested? Here are some places to start your vacation home rental search:
Or if you just google vacation home rental and the location you are looking at you can find some great deals. Last fall we went to Disney World and because it was off season we were able to rent a 4 br, 3ba house with a pool and hot tub for only $500 a week! We shared it with our in-laws which also helped bring down costs. Another tip is if you are in a place like a beach area that is driven by summer tourism you can look into realtor companies, lots of them also rent vacation homes for the summer.
There is a brand new play area that has just opened at Marketplace Mall in Henrietta, NY. If you shop there you may have noticed the construction going on for a while and wondering what was going on. They took out one of the old fountains and replaced it with the cooshiest carpeting and a number of soft sculptures for the young kids to climb and play on. 
I’m not a big fan of shopping at the mall, but I do take my car to Sears every 3 months to get it’s oil changed. It may be a few bucks more expensive but the ability to walk through the mall with my children while waiting for the car to be looked at is well worth the couple of dollars. We have always made an afternoon of it going to Friendly’s for ice cream and then to Robin’s Pet Corner to see the baby puppies. Such fun compared to sitting in a greasy mechanics shop trying to keep the kids quiet.
Now there is an added incentive to go to the mall. A FREE play area for young kids. I remember being so excited when Irondequoit Mall opened their play area, but was disappointed to find that they charged money for kids to play in it! I love how colorful it is, and all the sculptures are based on New York state themes, such as the beaver being the NYS animal, and the lilac being the NYS bush. My girls absolutely love it.
There are a few rules to go along with the play area to keep everyone safe.
Play Area Rules and Regulations
Children must be under 42″ in height to use the play area.
Remove shoes before playing.
No food or drinks allowed.
Children are not to be left unattended – adult supervision is required at all times.
The Marketplace Mall does not provide child supervision of the play area.
Please use inside voices while playing. No shouting.
Please play politely and be respectful of others.
Use play area at your own risk.
Please do not run, jump or climb on the surrounding benches.
The Marketplace Mall reserves the right to dismiss children from the play area who are in violation of these rules.
Have fun!