Launch Pad

As fun as the launch pad is– the staff are all teens and do not have the skills to properly monitor the young children who frequent here. Other than that it’s superb!

We brought my daughter and relatives son here for an hour of bouncing around! I was not exactly sure what to expect. First things first you must fill out and sign a release waiver releasing you rights to sue the place. After a few minutes of hanging out here I can clearly see why. There are more trampolines to shake a stick at and foam pits everywhere. Also in the middle there is a netted in area where bigger kids are whipping balls at each other for live dodgeball.
Some random thoughts that come to mind:
— Why the hell as a young boy did they not have these places where I was a kid growing up?
— This place… I have no idea how it functions and how kids have not jumped or done a flip on another person. Not sure how some kid has not had a compound fracture or paralysed by landing a flip on your neck.
— minimal supervision means it’s jump at your own risk.
— you must go barefoot so the foam pit I cringe at how unsanitary the foam blocks are as they are filled with sweat! My relative who is a total germ phobe was saying «you don’t know how much I want this hour to end».
Yes some of my thoughts were negative but my daughter and the kids had an absolute blast. I made sure to watch them and it’s a great place to jump off some energy.
At $ 14.50 an hour I’d declare it as money well spent and no injuries were had!

I attended Launchpad on a weekday morning, so random kids running around were at a minimum (it’s an absolute zoo during weekends).
We had tons of fun and such a great aerobic workout — there was trampoline basketball, trampoline dodgeball, trampolines on a slanted wall to do flips off… But everyone’s favourite part were the trampolines leading to the giant foam pit which you can jump, flip and dive into.
I am taking one star off due to the unsanitary nature of the activity — you are required to be in bare feet, and you get pretty gross and sweaty, so you can imagine how disgusting those trampoline and foam pits are! I’ve read that other trampoline places sell grippy socks, and I would have loved that as an option. Also, you really have to know your limits and be responsible for your own safety here. There have been deaths or paralysis at similar trampoline places in the US because someone was trying a trick beyond their capability and landed incorrectly. Be safe!
Prices are pretty reasonable — an hour jump at $ 14.50 (which is plenty!), 2 hours for $ 22.50. Tuesdays are 20% off. You can pre-​purchase tickets online for a specific time, which is crucial in peak times so you don’t get there and be forced to wait until there’s an opening. They also apparently offer aerobics classes on the trampolines, which I haven’t tried, but sounds like an intriguing twist to a boring old exercise class.

SO much fun! I am a 25 year old woman haha and I jumped like it was my job. It’s so fun with a group of friends. They are open late until 10, so go closer to the end if you are an adult and don’t want to jump with kids. The pits are so fun! A great place for a date also!

I have to admit I haven’t been on a trampoline since I was a kid. The first jump, I seemed to jar my back — however, I soon got into the swing of things. I love reliving my youth and this is a great way to do it.
If anybody has never played dodgeball in a trampoline pit, you are completely missing out.
If you’re old like me, I thoroughly recommend taking an ibuprofen beforehand.
Great place to take your kids as well.

Launchpad has a TON of space to bounce around, I thought it was great fun and a wicked workout.
We were there for #YelpFitClubYEG’s private event and I think that’s the way to go! I could only imagine how packed that place could be and the increased risk for injury! (though, I’m a wuss!)
If you have energetic kids and you’re looking for something different to do, Launchpad is definitely worth checking out. They have a bouncing area with basketball hoops, a foam pit you can LAUNCH into, and a dodgeball court! There are employees there the entire time watching (kinda like lifeguards) so they can keep the unruliness to a minimum.
I think everyone should try this place out!

Bring a towel! Lol Great workout, way more fun than going to the gym!

Launch Pad! My desire to release my kung fu super high kicks and the promise of a good work out was what brought me here.
It was exactly as promised, very much fun.
They have a free bouncing area, and a dodge ball area that I tried out. I heard there was a foam area, but I never went there.
I got to do a lot of jumping, bouncing and dodge ball. It was lots of fun. It was also a very goofy kind of fun.
As a work out, I’d say it rated with squash for pure cardio.
Biggest Pros
1. It makes you remember having fun as a kid
2. A great way to add extra non-​running cardio
3. Lots of room to jump and bounce makes for a a great date spot
Biggest Cons
1. I can only imagine how annoying it would be if there were actually children in there. They could use an adult/​kid seperatation.
2 Hygenic levels were average. I don’t like the fact that I had to bounce in bare feet.

Who would of though that jumping around trampolines would be exhausting? But after 15 mins, I’m wiped! After 30 minutes sweat is pouring down my face. After 45 minutes, I’m done!
Found myself at launch pad for Unilocal Edmonton’s fit club. And frankly had a lot of fun. I particularly enjoyed the basketball hoops. It was 10 mins of doing slam dunks my mind always wanted to try, but never could do. And half the fun is hitting people with ultra soft dodge balls. Except when you throw too hard and catch your community manager in the face (sorry Jennie, wanted to go low).
And to be honest, I had to be a little more cautious here with this activity because the padding between trampolines, though generous, didn’t seem like it was enough. I guess that’s what you have to deal with when using the equipment.
All in all if you or your kid want to expend all that extra energy is 30 minutes this is a good place to visit.

This place truly gives us all a pretty good reason to be bouncing off like one happy kid. Great place to be carefree and I must admit — it was a good workout session. I could not even think about the gym after this! My sweat was pouring like the summer rain. No kidding! An hour worth of heart-​pumping activity was enough to make me go «wow! That was intense yet fun «.
A place for any age (especially the hyper-​active little ones) to give themselves a whooping good time if anyone dreads the boring gym environment. They even have a dodgeball trampoline area where you can have a little battle of fun or two.
I do agree with @Marc D that the padding between trampolines could use some improvements. Other than that, induction was short and sweet — to the point.
I bounced away happy as a bunny.

I have been to Launch Pad about half a dozen times since it opened with my three children (ages 10, 12, 15) and their friends. Initially, when it first opened, it was not as busy and the kids had a blast! It is a great place to go to burn off energy on days where the weather is ‘not so nice’. I love that parents can fill out the waiver online as it allows me to pick up a car-​load of kids to join in on the fun.
Of course, word travelled fast with this business and it has just gotten busier and busier… to the point that we have left early (once) and (once) not even bothered to go in after seeing how busy it was. We have always jumped for two hours — the second hour is discounted, so it ends up being just over $ 20 per person.
I will say that every time we have been in the staff has been very helpful and super friendly. We had our year end hockey party here on a very busy evening and, as there were very few under-​eights, they opened this area for under 12s — I totally appreciate their open-​ness to changing to suit the needs of their customer.
It is really great to see a business that actually appeals to adults, teens and children and gets them up off the couch and away from electronics.
All in all, our family loves launch pad. I only wish a few less people knew about it!
(Thinking about it now, maybe I should have written a less than great review so less people would go and I would have it to myself!)

I just took my kids here for the first time and they had a really good time and they want to go back again but I’m don’t think I want to go through the hassle again. The place is really busy so if you are going on the weekend you really should book in advance or you may not get in. The online booking process is very slow and confusing, seems very dated for this day and age. Make sure you fill out your waiver online before you go other wise your wait will be even longer. We had a 12:00 time booked and prepaid and we got there early and we had to wait in the line for over 25 minutes and with 4 kids that is a long time. Once you finally get inside the place is a little less crowded because they do limit the number of jumpers but is still quite busy. The actual Trampolines were lots of fun for kids and it is something different to do with them but the whole experience of getting there does not seem worth it for 1 hour of jump time. I probably wont go back unless it during a week day when they are not so busy. I also think it was kind of expensive, an hour out with four kids cost $ 56. They are a new business so hopefully in the future they will make some changes to make the process of visiting them a little easier.

In theory, a trampoline park would be amazing. There are justo a couple of things that toon a couple of stars away from my review.
1) it seemed really dirty to me when I went. We went on a weekday so it wasn’t particularly crowded, but it still seemed extremely unsanitary. There was a puddle of questionable liquid on and beside a bench which staff clearly saw but ignored. You also had to be barefoot which is just a disease/​fungi/​infection waiting to happen.
2) they say that once you sign a waiver, they’ll have you in their system. When I tried to go back (my friends keep wanting to go for their birthdays) they say they have no record of me.
3) some of their trampolines are already stretched out and losing their spring… which for a newer company, you wouldn’t expect that from.
4) they have a foam pit which they only clean once a month… for cold and flu season, means that hundreds of children have already spat, sneezed, and coughed on the foam that you’re surrounded by.
5) they seem understaff and there are no designated areas for young children or teens and adults, meaning that someone will probably end up getting in an accident.
It’s a pretty fun experience if you just decide to ignore everything though

I have called this company twice, and sent two emails, about booking a birthday party. I have never received any return contact from them. I posted about this experience on their facebook page, and immediately got a phone call asking me how they could get me to stop «blasting» their facebook page. Not an apology for a bad experience. Just a warning about «slander.» The fellow didn’t seem to see the irony of the fact that if they’d been as responsive about my inquiries as they were about my facebook post, they wouldn’t have had a facebook post to respond to.
In any case, I took my kids there this week, and while they definitely had a great time, I had some concerns. It was extremely crowded, for one thing, with adults and little kids all jumping in a common space (they do have a little kids’ space but seemingly no restrictions about keeping little kids in that designated space). The crowding and the common jumping space all felt unsafe to me.
As others have said, the sign-​in process is insane. Even if you pre-​buy tickets, you’re in for a really long wait. And their website booking system doesn’t seem to function if you’re trying to add more than 4 people, which I was. They need to do some user testing on it to see for themselves how confusing and broken it is when you try to add more than 4 people to a family.
They only do digital waivers, which means that any underage jumper could sign the waiver online and say his parent did it. When we got there we hadn’t signed waivers (because the online process didn’t work for more than 4 people) so we were sent to the side to digitally sign waivers. No one checked to see that we actually did it, probably because there were at lest a hundred people in the line and two harried young girls trying to keep things together. To me that seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
The facility itself has no space to store valuables, which creates a bit of a conundrum about what to do with purses, wallets, keys etc. The floors in the front area were littered with the little white papers that come off the wristbands you have to wear to jump, and there were overflowing garbage cans and pop spills on the floors. You have to wear bare feet to jump, so you’re walking on that filthy floor in bare feet.
In terms of bare feet — this is a concern to me. All those people in a common space seems to me to be a recipe for shared fungal infections. Yuck.
The bottom line is — my kids had fun and want to go back. It’s a really fun business idea with great potential. But it’s got a very long way to go in terms of its systems and procedures before I’d ever consider giving it a positive rating.

I wish I could give this business 5 stars but they have to work out some kinks. So as it stands right now I only give it 3 stars for 2 reasons. Being a new business, I know it will take time for them to sort out these issues so I don’t want to judge too harshly. The biggest kink is the whole sign in process. The lineups to get in are crazy. Even though I prepaid and did the waiver online I waited almost ½ an hour to get in. I felt sorry for people who had to wait through the barely moving waiver lineup to get to the line up to pay. Once we did get to the front, they couldn’t find our reservation which didn’t help even though I was able to show them the email receipt. It didn’t appear that they had any way of monitoring capacity either. It was BUSY inside. We brought our 4 and 6 year olds who barely made it through the admission process but once they got in, they were in love. They bounced and played. My only comments is that it does look like an accident waiting to happen. You have adults and young teens doing crazy length long flips and jumps and little kids running everywhere. There will be a collision guaranteed. It is inevitable. I can only think that their open gym should have a separate area for 10 and under. Maybe they could convert one of the dodgeball areas. Young kids don’t look and aren’t aware of their surroundings and you can’t stop mid flip when a kid gets in your way. That was scary to me. Scary enough not to go back? Probably not when I have to listen to my kids beg every day since to go back.

This place has the potential to be great fun, but they have a lot of work to do first. Went there on a Saturday afternoon. The lineup to get in was about 50 feet long (not single file either). And the time it took to process each person was at least 2 minutes. So the lineup barely moved. They need to improve that process badly.
Secondly, once in, it was over run with little kids. It seemed over crowded. I don’t know what capacity is, but I’m guessing they blew through it.
We had a group of young adults and ended up playing dodgeball with and against some very small children. This shouldn’t happen. I would suggest maybe reserving the evening hours for age 13+. It was tough to get any enjoyment with so many young kids running around.
For young kids, it would have been awesome. For anyone over 18, not so much. At least during a Saturday afternoon.
Also, they have no change rooms. You have to get changed in the bathroom. Uncool! Then you have no where to store your valuables (at least no where that I saw). Never a good idea to jump on a trampoline with your car keys in your pocket.

Launch pad is a great place to take your kids to burn off some energy. It’s a refreshing change to the current offering of swimming pools and slide parks in the city. We spent just over an hour with our 2.5 year old bouncing and playing. It cost $ 8 to get the boy in and then I was free as his supervisor. My wife stayed with our baby in the surprisingly large parent viewing area that is nicely setup with couches.
They have a large dodgeball arena, which is earmarked for kids under 8 when dodgeball is not in session and the rest of the area is for all ages. You just have to keep an eye on your smaller kids so that they don’t accidentally get ‘super bounced’ by an adult.