Jolly Jungle Review at Yishun SAFRA
Looking for the cheapest indoor playground in Singapore? Read this Jolly Jungle review located within SAFRA Yishun now!
Taking over the space from Dinoland, the indoor playground Jolly Jungle offers a play space that children aged 3 to 8 can fully engage for parents’ peace of mind come sleeping time at night.
The basic entry fee in Feb 2026 is $17.60 going on a weekday with 2 hours of play, including entry for 1 accompanying adult. This is for SAFRA members.
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Jolly Jungle’s play area includes:
- Toddler climbing area
- Beads play area
- Giant ball pit
- Second storey with slides
- Zipline
- Party venue
- Building blocks wall
- Trampoline, climbing wall and sponge pit
- Computer game with interactive floor
- Donut slide
- High elements course
1. Toddler climbing area
Warm up area, also to be merciful to parents of toddlers who just want to give their little ones an air-conditioned place to entertain themselves. Has a climbing A-shaped ladder that’s fully padded for training a toddler’s balancing skills.
After overcoming the ladder, the reward is a zebra merry-go-round that spins just fast enough for fun and not enough to endanger the toddler. My 3 year old got bored after 20 seconds and never went on it again throughout the visit.
2. Beads play area
The latest material I’ve seen in sensory play areas, the beads look like colour-coated chocolate candy from my childhood. They’re cool to touch, and is therapeutic burying your hands and feet underneath a mountain of them.
In earlier days of indoor playgrounds, materials used to line the area ranged from balls, hinoki cubes, cassia seeds and now these colour beads.
They provide ASMR sounds when they run through the toys, like a zen garden amidst the chaotic energy from children let loose in the playground. The colour scheme doesn’t match the overall safari theme like the rest of the playground, perhaps for the better.
3. Giant ball pit
Being a newly opened playground has its advantage of little damage to the balls. The height of the balls were able to fully cover a toddler lying down, for that dramatic peekaboo play when the toddler decides to have a hide and seek segment during playtime.
Suction machines enable curiosity in the little ones by letting them put the ball into a hole and watch as they travel through transparent tubes elsewhere.
The interactive display is sensitive to balls thrown at the screen when aliens appear and you have to hit the moving targets with the balls.
4. Second storey with slides
The slides are smooth enough for thrills, again because they are new. There’s a spiral one, one that looks like you’re exiting a cone-shaped loudhailer, and 2 straight ones that let you go down with a partner side-by-side.
These slides at Jolly Jungle look like children older than 4 years old will enjoy unsupervised play. Any younger, you may want to have an older sibling or even put yourself as the accompanying rider.
Besides the slides, the structure surrounding them serve as obstacle courses to let your little ones get nimble on their feet.
5. Zipline
Jolly Jungle’s zipline ride adds to the safari adventure theme by having lava-designed floormats to land on. The 7 year old can hop on by herself without assistance and complete the ride from end to end.
No staff on site to manage the turns, so kids have to rotate amongst themselves. It is largely one way, zipping all the way to the end and the ride will reverse around halfway before stopping. Rider has to hop off and bring it back to the starting point.
6. Party venue
I spotted glass doors marking off rooms for parties. A quick look on the website reveals the prices range from S$700 to S$1598 to host a party at Jolly Jungle. I imagine it could be for birthday celebrations.
At the lower range, 13 kids can attend and up to 31 kids for the upper range. Economies of scale work out as you get more value when your entourage gets close to 31 kids and 1 accompanying adult.
This place offers a legit safari-themed celebration for children at Jolly Jungle, adults can go for an actual safari theme at the zoo’s function rooms.
7. Building blocks wall
The little ones spent all of 5 minutes taking a break from the action of physical play to rest their engines and actually build some things on the wall.
It’s a creative use of space as filler activity, placing the base boards vertically instead of making it like the surface of a table.
But come on who are we kidding, do we expect the kids to actually play this for long? The tracks meant for balls to run will drop out against gravity.
8. Trampoline, climbing wall and sponge pit
To give kids a complete workout, there’s the climbing and jumping stations too. The trampolines connect to a video game on a wall-mounted screen to make the hopping more meaningful. That’s a nice touch to have, helping regulate children’s hopping with more intention.
Maximising the space is a climbing wall, and a reaction time machine to press as they light up.
The 3 year old spent quite some time building up a wall of sponge from the sponge pit, in her quieter moment of play. She was patient enough to come back to it after running away, seeing another kid mess up her formation and promptly went back to rebuilding her vision of psychological safety.
9. Computer game with interactive floor
Potential of family fun limited by the small play area this computer game area occupies in Jolly Jungle. In trying to provide something for everyone, this interactive play area was sacrificed in favour of more physical space.
Maybe good for family of 3, or siblings and their cousins to play. Would imagine a family of 4 barely being able to claim their own space to cover when their tiles light up. May step on one another’s toes as their play areas overlap.
10. Donut slide
I first saw this slide at Superpark, there’s always queues for it along with a height requirement. At Jolly Jungle, this slide is not manned by staff, and no height requirement applies.
Perfect mix as both kids end up having a whale of a time playing at this station.
The fatigue never registered until long after we left the playground. The repeated cycle of climbing up while lugging the donut followed by the adrenaline rush of sliding down the high speed ramp kept the kids coming back for more.
11. High elements course
The highlight for many Jolly Jungle visitors is the high elements course. The other matching ones I know of is at the zoo, Sentosa and Bedok Reservoir Park. The indoor playground uses the upper part of the space to challenge 6 year olds and up to level up their height confidence.
True to Yishun traditional of being the most badass, the high elements course requires players to wear a rock climbing harness and attend a proper safety briefing by a staff member on site.
The fun part of the course is the branching paths you can take to practice balancing skills, adding multiple combinations to your journey on the circuit. The rock wall at the outermost edge was challenging even for an adult.
Good news for children – you don’t really have to do the balancing as there are fail-safe frames right below the boards, planks and discs so there is a sure way to clear the obstacles.
The staff limits the number of people on the course at any one time for good reason. The overhead cable tied to your harness may interlock with another player and cause a traffic jam.
Useful tips to share for first-time visitors to Jolly Jungle
- The price difference between whole day and 2 hours is marginal. If you want to maximise your time there, you can play from as early as 11am on weekdays or 10am on weekends till 8pm on weekdays, 9pm on weekends.
- Bring your own non-slip socks so you don’t incur additional costs to play there
- We walked further than we had to when finding a washroom. Turns out it’s just outside the entrance. Facing the main entrance it’s on the right.
- Staff on-site is minimal, only at ticketing and high elements course. Keep a close watch on your toddler.
Washroom just to the right of the shirt
hanging on the wall
Conclusion
Tampines Hub has another Jolly Jungle, that feels smaller and without SAFRA discounts. Other playgrounds for comparison is town area. For northern Singapore, Jolly Jungle proves itself to be one of the cheapest indoor playgrounds in Singapore. Share this article with your partner to consider bringing your little ones there!