Popular indoor play centre 360 Milton Keynes reopened yesterday (17/5) following months of closure during lockdown.
The leading local leisure attraction, located in Knowlhill, has welcomed back families after reopening under stage three of the Government's roadmap.
Duncan Phillips is the Founder and Managing Director of 360. He lives in Milton Keynes and has two children himself, so he is pleased that they can finally start to play at the centre again.
He said: "The coronavirus has had deep and wide impacts on our city, our families and many of the local businesses that serve them. Some of the most impacted and yet least talked about are our children. As a father of two boys I have seen some of the impacts this latest lockdown has had on them which is why I am so pleased we can open up our attraction for local families to be able to come and enjoy some play time without screens."
Yesterday's reopening was a busy day for staff and customers. Sophie, who is a mum of two children that are under 4, enjoyed her time there.
Sophie said: “I’m so happy to get out of my house and let my children have some freedom and fun whilst I have a hot coffee and know that they are safe and happy, this is like a second home to us and we have missed it so much.”
360 Centre Manager, Chloe Twiselton, added: “The second lockdown has been very hard on many of our staff and so we are really pleased to be able to get back to doing what we love here at 360, and hopefully put some smiles back on our customer's faces. We will keep in place our covid safe operating procedures and be limiting numbers while we steadily emerge from the latest lockdown.
"I have been with 360 Play for 8 years now and have really missed seeing the centre full of life over the last few months so I and all the team are loving the noise our first customers are making with us today.”
