These are places a 13 to 17 year old will want to go, not the usual little-kid list. JumpYard's Oasiz park runs Saturday Night Jump for ages 15 and up. Every Virtual Arena game opens up from age 12. At the Parque de Atracciones, kids 14 and over can go in without an adult. Here's what we checked, from climbing gyms and real snow to the Bernabéu tour.
Two indoor trampoline parks, one in the Oasiz mall in Torrejón de Ardoz and one in Bulevar Getafe. Both have a main court of more than 50 linked trampolines, battle beams, a jump tower, climbing walls and an artificial-turf football court. Oasiz adds a ninja course and the VALO Arena augmented-reality game; Getafe adds the SkyRider ride over the trampolines and a three-story KidsZone soft play.
A free-roam virtual reality hall where up to 12 players share one game, walking freely with no cables or backpacks. Players wear HTC Vive Focus 3 headsets with gaming headphones and mics. Each visit lasts 45 minutes, about 30 of them in the game. Kids from 8 start with polar and wildlife adventures; from 10 they can hunt ghosts, chase dragons and play laser battles.
A 450-meter indoor kart track on two levels, with bridges, a banked curve, a 6-meter-wide racing line and LED safety signals. Kids drive junior karts in 10-minute sessions, with every lap timed live on the scoreboard and saved in the track's app. Adults race the same circuit in their own sessions, and the track also runs driving courses and championships.
Rides range from Abismo, one of the fastest roller coasters in the world at 105 km/h, to Tornado, an inverted coaster where legs dangle, and Star Flyer, the park's tallest ride, a chain swing with views across the city. Nickelodeon Land is the younger kids' zone, with a Paw Patrol roller coaster, Rugrats bumper cars, a Ninja Turtles driving school and SpongeBob's Splash Bash, where riders fire water.
Parque Warner Madrid is a movie theme park in San Martín de la Vega with five areas: Hollywood Boulevard, Cartoon Village, Old West Territory, DC Super Heroes World and Movie World Studios. Young kids spend most of the day in Cartoon Village, with Bugs Bunny's burrow, Tweety and Sylvester's house, small coasters, water rapids and a Flintstones driving school, while older kids head for the big coasters.
A large climbing gym with about 100 boulder problems reset every week, a 12-meter wall with 22 auto-belays and around 75 routes, and more than 120 roped routes up to 18 meters, including official speed routes. Kids can start at 4 with a guided intro session, join the weekly climbing school (ages 4 to 17), or climb alongside a parent. A bar serves pizza afterward.
A real-snow slope covering 18,000 m² inside the Madrid Xanadú mall, kept between -6°C and -2°C all year. Kids ride giant rubber donuts down three ice tubing lanes, try snowbikes, or learn to ski and snowboard on the beginner slope before moving up to the expert run, the chairlift and the snowpark jumps. Boots, skis or board, and a helmet come with every ticket.
Aventura Amazonia Cercedilla is one of Europe's biggest treetop adventure parks, in the pine woods of the Fuenfría valley in the Sierra de Guadarrama. Kids clip into a harness, do a short training course, then cross rope bridges and fly down zip lines. Seven circuits run from Kids and Explorador up to X-Trem, with 114 challenges and 33 zip lines; Canopy is all zip lines, over 470 meters.
The tour starts in the Real Madrid museum, an interactive, audiovisual walk past the club's trophies, including all 15 European Cups. From the third-tier stands, kids look down over the renovated stadium, then walk through the First Team dressing room and sit in the dugouts beside the pitch. Photo spots put them next to a favorite player or the Champions League trophy, and the route ends in the official store.
Kids follow the route Atlético de Madrid players take on match day at the Riyadh Air Metropolitano: the circular dressing room, the mixed zone, the tunnel onto the pitch, the benches and the press room where Simeone meets reporters. The presidential box looks out over the whole stadium. Next door, the interactive museum covers more than 120 years of club history with touchscreens, virtual reality goggles, projections and games.
A bouldering gym with more than 180 problems over 2,500 m², with new problems set every week, plus 16 auto-belays on 40 short 6-meter routes. Small kids have their own separate family area, where every boulder is set for them. There is also a gym, changing rooms with family bathrooms, and a 350 m² cantina for a meal before or after climbing.
One of only five Olympic-size ice rinks in Spain, 60 by 30 meters, inside the Palacio de Hielo mall. Public sessions are open skating on rental or your own skates, and walker bears and igloos give wobbly beginners something to push. A Zamboni resurfaces the ice partway through long sessions. In the same mall, City Play has bowling, mini golf and arcade games, plus a kids' play center.
A Hawaiian-themed water park with a 2,000 m² white-sand beach, a wave pool and more than 15 water rides. The kids' zone has mini versions of the big rides (Waikiki, Zigzag, soft slides and a rapid river) plus Tiki Island, covered in water jets. Older kids head for Kangaroa's six mat slides, and Kilauea is the biggest new ride in the park's history.
More than 50 optical illusions and interactive rooms across 650 square meters, built to fool your eyes and your balance. Kids cross the Vortex Tunnel, where a steady walkway feels like it is spinning, try to stand straight in the Tilted Room, and pose in the Upside-Down Room for photos. Logic puzzles and holograms fill the rest.
A flea market of more than 1,000 stalls, recorded as early as 1740, that spreads from Plaza de Cascorro down the steep Calle de la Ribera de Curtidores and its side streets. Kids hunt trading cards, old magazines and records, kitchenware and odd objects of every age; each street has its own mix.
The shops stay open all week; the stalls come out on Sundays and holidays.
La Pedriza is a maze of granite boulders, domes and rock towers in the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park. The park's visitor center sits at its entrance, with an exhibition on the sierra and a two-hectare garden holding a rock garden, a mini Pedriza, a bird hide, an aquarium and a reptile and amphibian center. Trails into the rocks start just past the barrier.
These are places a 13 to 17 year old will want to go, not the usual little-kid list. JumpYard's Oasiz park runs Saturday Night Jump for ages 15 and up. Every Virtual Arena game opens up from age 12. At the Parque de Atracciones, kids 14 and over can go in without an adult. Here's what we checked, from climbing gyms and real snow to the Bernabéu tour.
Two indoor trampoline parks, one in the Oasiz mall in Torrejón de Ardoz and one in Bulevar Getafe. Both have a main court of more than 50 linked trampolines, battle beams, a jump tower, climbing walls and an artificial-turf football court. Oasiz adds a ninja course and the VALO Arena augmented-reality game; Getafe adds the SkyRider ride over the trampolines and a three-story KidsZone soft play.
A free-roam virtual reality hall where up to 12 players share one game, walking freely with no cables or backpacks. Players wear HTC Vive Focus 3 headsets with gaming headphones and mics. Each visit lasts 45 minutes, about 30 of them in the game. Kids from 8 start with polar and wildlife adventures; from 10 they can hunt ghosts, chase dragons and play laser battles.
A 450-meter indoor kart track on two levels, with bridges, a banked curve, a 6-meter-wide racing line and LED safety signals. Kids drive junior karts in 10-minute sessions, with every lap timed live on the scoreboard and saved in the track's app. Adults race the same circuit in their own sessions, and the track also runs driving courses and championships.
Rides range from Abismo, one of the fastest roller coasters in the world at 105 km/h, to Tornado, an inverted coaster where legs dangle, and Star Flyer, the park's tallest ride, a chain swing with views across the city. Nickelodeon Land is the younger kids' zone, with a Paw Patrol roller coaster, Rugrats bumper cars, a Ninja Turtles driving school and SpongeBob's Splash Bash, where riders fire water.
Parque Warner Madrid is a movie theme park in San Martín de la Vega with five areas: Hollywood Boulevard, Cartoon Village, Old West Territory, DC Super Heroes World and Movie World Studios. Young kids spend most of the day in Cartoon Village, with Bugs Bunny's burrow, Tweety and Sylvester's house, small coasters, water rapids and a Flintstones driving school, while older kids head for the big coasters.
A large climbing gym with about 100 boulder problems reset every week, a 12-meter wall with 22 auto-belays and around 75 routes, and more than 120 roped routes up to 18 meters, including official speed routes. Kids can start at 4 with a guided intro session, join the weekly climbing school (ages 4 to 17), or climb alongside a parent. A bar serves pizza afterward.
A real-snow slope covering 18,000 m² inside the Madrid Xanadú mall, kept between -6°C and -2°C all year. Kids ride giant rubber donuts down three ice tubing lanes, try snowbikes, or learn to ski and snowboard on the beginner slope before moving up to the expert run, the chairlift and the snowpark jumps. Boots, skis or board, and a helmet come with every ticket.
Aventura Amazonia Cercedilla is one of Europe's biggest treetop adventure parks, in the pine woods of the Fuenfría valley in the Sierra de Guadarrama. Kids clip into a harness, do a short training course, then cross rope bridges and fly down zip lines. Seven circuits run from Kids and Explorador up to X-Trem, with 114 challenges and 33 zip lines; Canopy is all zip lines, over 470 meters.
The tour starts in the Real Madrid museum, an interactive, audiovisual walk past the club's trophies, including all 15 European Cups. From the third-tier stands, kids look down over the renovated stadium, then walk through the First Team dressing room and sit in the dugouts beside the pitch. Photo spots put them next to a favorite player or the Champions League trophy, and the route ends in the official store.
Kids follow the route Atlético de Madrid players take on match day at the Riyadh Air Metropolitano: the circular dressing room, the mixed zone, the tunnel onto the pitch, the benches and the press room where Simeone meets reporters. The presidential box looks out over the whole stadium. Next door, the interactive museum covers more than 120 years of club history with touchscreens, virtual reality goggles, projections and games.
A bouldering gym with more than 180 problems over 2,500 m², with new problems set every week, plus 16 auto-belays on 40 short 6-meter routes. Small kids have their own separate family area, where every boulder is set for them. There is also a gym, changing rooms with family bathrooms, and a 350 m² cantina for a meal before or after climbing.
One of only five Olympic-size ice rinks in Spain, 60 by 30 meters, inside the Palacio de Hielo mall. Public sessions are open skating on rental or your own skates, and walker bears and igloos give wobbly beginners something to push. A Zamboni resurfaces the ice partway through long sessions. In the same mall, City Play has bowling, mini golf and arcade games, plus a kids' play center.
A Hawaiian-themed water park with a 2,000 m² white-sand beach, a wave pool and more than 15 water rides. The kids' zone has mini versions of the big rides (Waikiki, Zigzag, soft slides and a rapid river) plus Tiki Island, covered in water jets. Older kids head for Kangaroa's six mat slides, and Kilauea is the biggest new ride in the park's history.
More than 50 optical illusions and interactive rooms across 650 square meters, built to fool your eyes and your balance. Kids cross the Vortex Tunnel, where a steady walkway feels like it is spinning, try to stand straight in the Tilted Room, and pose in the Upside-Down Room for photos. Logic puzzles and holograms fill the rest.
A flea market of more than 1,000 stalls, recorded as early as 1740, that spreads from Plaza de Cascorro down the steep Calle de la Ribera de Curtidores and its side streets. Kids hunt trading cards, old magazines and records, kitchenware and odd objects of every age; each street has its own mix.
The shops stay open all week; the stalls come out on Sundays and holidays.
La Pedriza is a maze of granite boulders, domes and rock towers in the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park. The park's visitor center sits at its entrance, with an exhibition on the sierra and a two-hectare garden holding a rock garden, a mini Pedriza, a bird hide, an aquarium and a reptile and amphibian center. Trails into the rocks start just past the barrier.