Area of Austin: Southwest, Price for a family of four: $30-40
Features: GattiTown is an indoor entertainment place featuring video games, arcade games, carousel, bumper cars, pizza/pasta/salad buffet, three different dining rooms, and birthday parties....
The Lowdown: A very fun entertainment center featuring a large game room with rides not found at other places.

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Area of Austin: Northwest, North, Central, South, Price for a family of four: $28
Features: Alamo Drafthouse is an independent Austin movie theater that serves complete meals and beverages during the movie, including alcoholic beverages....
The Lowdown: Much more fun and tasty than the usual movie experience.

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Area of Austin: Central, Price for a family of four: $22
Features: The Austin Children's Museum features exhibits for kids, both permanent and changing, art activities, story times, concerts, camp programs, and birthday parties....
The Lowdown: An educational way to spend some quality time with your kids.

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Area of Austin: Central, Price for a family of four: Free
Features: The Austin Nature and Science Center provides education and recreation with exhibits featuring rescued animals, a dino pit, a nature trail, and an indoor lab and educational exhibit....
The Lowdown: A fun, educational, and free way to spend time with your family.

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Area of Austin: Southwest, Price for a family of four: $22
Features: The Austin Zoo is a small rescue zoo including birds, monkeys, bears, lions, tigers, deer, and many other animals. There is also a train ride and a petting zoo. ...
The Lowdown: A great place to make some new animal friends.

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Area of Austin: North, Price for a family of four: $50
Features: Amusement complex with miniature golf, go-carts, bumper boats, laser tag, two rock-climbing walls, little shot ride, tea cups ride, a small train ride, arcade games, and a batting cage. There is a pizza and pasta buffet which is included with admission....
The Lowdown: An entertaining place with many attractions to celebrate a special occasion.

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Area of Austin: South, Price for a family of four: Free
Features: Cabela's is a large store featuring hunting, fishing, and outdoor gear, but also offering fun displays of animals. ...
The Lowdown: A fun place to look around, whether you are into outdoor sports or not.

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Area of Austin: Southwest, Price for a family of four: $48
Features: Cafe Monet is a paint-your-own pottery studio. You choose a piece of pottery from their selection to paint, you paint it, stencil, and/or stamp it, and afterwards you leave it there to be glazed and fired and pick it up in five days. ...
The Lowdown: Let your little artists make a cute keepsake while having fun in the process.

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Area of Austin: North, South, Price for a family of four: $30
Features: Indoor entertainment center, with video and arcade games, a show on stage with large singing animals, birthday parties, pizza and other food, prizes and souvenirs....
The Lowdown: Not a calm and relaxing experience, but great fun and excitement for kids.

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Area of Austin: Northwest, Price for a family of four: $40
Features: Dave and Buster's is an entertainment establishment marketed for adults, featuring a full-service restaurant, a midway with arcade games, two bars, billiards and shuffleboard tables, and a shooting gallery. ...
The Lowdown: A sophisticated and classy notch above other arcades.

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Area of Austin: Daytrip Price for a family of four: $20
Features: The Dinosaur Park is a newcomer to the local entertainment scene located within a short drive from Austin. It features a nature trail with life-sized dinosaur statues to view, a dinosaur digging area, playground, activities such as a scavenger hunt, and a...
The Lowdown: A fun and unique way to entertain your dinosaur-crazed children (they may even learn something).

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Area of Austin: Northwest, Price for a family of four: $20
Features: Inflatable Wonderland is a large open indoor play space filled with inflatable slides and moonwalks that kids can bounce on after paying an admission fee....
The Lowdown: A great place to let your kids bounce to their hearts' content and burn all that extra energy off.

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Area of Austin: Daytrip Price for a family of four: $34
Features: The main reason to visit this park is the amazing cave, the Longhorn Cavern, with cave tours led by a guide that last about 1 hour 25 minutes. There is also a snack bar and gift shop in the main building, an educational exhibit about the CCC in another ne...
The Lowdown: The cave is an amazing sight and seems to be entertaining to children of all ages.

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Area of Austin: Northwest, Price for a family of four: $20
Features: Main Event is a 75,000 square foot entertainment facility offering bowling, billiards, laser tag, video games, rock climbing, glow-in-the-dark miniature golf, and more....
The Lowdown: An awesome day of family fun, indoors, air-conditioned, and with a wide variety of activities to choose from.

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Area of Austin: South, Price for a family of four: $20
Features: Peter Pan has two different courses of mini-golf, one slightly more challenging than the other, both very fun. There are large fiberglass and concrete statues on most holes, including Peter Pan, of course. Snowcones are served in the concession area....
The Lowdown: A very fun way to spend an afternoon while ogling at the giant statues.

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Area of Austin: North, Price for a family of four: $12
Features: Radijazz is a children’s indoor playground, featuring a riverscape with foam animals like a crocodile and swans, and boats to climb onto and into, a large volcano pit filled with foam blocks, a lavascape sloping area to roll down or slide down, decorated ...
The Lowdown: A safe and contained way to allow your kids to get some energy out and have a great time doing it.

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Area of Austin: Central, Price for a family of four: Free
Features: The Texas Memorial Museum is a four-story museum on the University of Texas campus. It features displays of dinosaur bones and other prehistoric animal bones, fossils, gems, bird and wildlife dioramas, terraniums and aquariums, and a nice gift shop. ...
The Lowdown: A very educational way to entertain dinosaur-obsessed kids for free, plus a dose of traditional museum nostalgia.

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Area of Austin: South, Price for a family of four: $17
Features: Westgate Lanes is a 40-lane bowling alley with bumpers and an automatic scoring system, and also has a bar/snack bar and an arcade. ...
The Lowdown: For a trip down memory lane and a fun way to spend a hot afternoon, give Westgate Lanes a spin.

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Area of Austin: Central, Price for a family of four: Free
Features: Zilker Park is a huge (351 acres) and very popular park. It contains Barton Springs Pool, a large playground, a train that runs through the park regularly, numerous picnic tables, sports fields, sand volleyball courts, a disc golf course, a snack bar, acc...
The Lowdown: Zilker Park is a very popular, beautiful, and entertaining park that is used for a wide variety of purposes.

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Area of Austin: Central, Price for a family of four: $10
Features: Zilker Park Boat Rentals has been in business since 1969. They rent canoes and kayaks by the hour, providing the paddles and life jackets....
The Lowdown: Try a canoe ride for an exotic hour-long vacation from real life.

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Area of Austin: East, Price for a family of four: Free
Features: Boggy Creek Farm is a five-acre farm in East Austin that sells fresh produce twice a week. ...
The Lowdown: A very pleasant way to kick off your weekend, by meeting some friendly people and chickens while buying organic produce.

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Area of Austin: Southwest, Price for a family of four: $20
Features: The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center is a botanical garden featuring native plants with an emphasis on protection, conservation, and restoration....
The Lowdown: Go now for the Big Bugs exhibit, but prepare your kids for a few hours of thinking, learning, and enjoying natural beauty (no mindless entertainment).

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