Where to have a birthday party for a 2 year old?

Question

I was wondering if anyone knows any good places to have a birthday party for a 2 year old around the Asheville NC area?

Answer 1

At home or in a park. Save the big money places for when your child will remember them.

Do a classic party with traditional games.

Answer 2

Next month I am having my daughter 2nd birthday at Chuck E Cheese. For her 1st birthday I had it home. OMG I rented a moon jump, grilled fanks and burgers, rented a person to do balloon shapes and face painting. In the end It was very nice but I went totally out my budget for a 1 yr old and the clean up. My goodness the clean up. This time its somewhere else for an hour and half and no clean up for me!

Answer 3

Try Asheville's Fun Depot.  http://www.ashevillesfundepot.com/partie...  This link will get you to their party package page.  They have parties  from $99-$220.  They have a soft play area which is ideal for 2 year olds.  They'll supply the decorations, balloons, pizza, pop, t-shirt.  The more expensive the package means you get more perks (eg. more pizza or more pop or cake etc).  For an extra $30 added to the package price, you can have the party in their caboose.  It's a real, full size train caboose (too bad they don't have a Thomas the Tank Engine".  They will also supply you with invitations.  The $99 package is for 10 kids, each additional child is $5 extra.

  Have fun, and Happy Birthday.

btw, I took my 2 year old to Chuck E. Cheese for his second birthday.  Next year we'll be going to Jungle Java.  It's like the Asheville Fun Depot, but a lot better.  It's way cool.  It's in Michigan.

Answer 4

Yes - the price at Chuck E Cheese is pretty good. I had my son's 1st party at a park.. and spent over $300 by the time decorations, food, and drinks were bought. (Yikes!) The only thing with CEC, is that even though they have the prices listed for kids... some locations charge the same price for each adult that attends also.

A park is always a good option though. You have entertainment for the kids, and can always bring a radio or something with you. For my son's party, we ordered pizza. Every single pizza place I called ran a special where if you bought so many pizzas, you got them at a cheaper rate (we bought 10 pizzas at $6 a piece).

Also - if you do the park, save money by making things yourself. One idea that I thought was fantastic.. is making cupcakes but not decorating them. Then take some icing, sprinkles, etc.. with you and make it an activity for the kids to do. They have such a blast creating their own cupcake masterpieces.

A skating rink could be fun, but check to see if they can close it for so many hours or if it would still be open to the public during the party. Nothing worse than planning a party, and then having it ruined by a bunch of unruly teenagers.

Here we also have a place called Picasso's Cup. They offer birthday parties. They don't provide food or anything, but it's an art cafe. Everyone picks a piece of art they want to paint, you paint it, and leave it with them. In about a week, you pick up your piece, which has been fired, glazed, and fired again. Kids really love that because they get to have fun painting, and get a souvenier to take home. So I would check to see if there are any places like that in your area.  

Answer 5

For a 2 year old?  Your back yard.  Your kid isn't going to remember this, so it's a little silly to go overboard with some big shebang.  Two-year-olds spill drinks, drop their food, knock things over, make messes, get dirty, fall a lot, get in the way of other people, and have melt-downs.  They're ADORABLE, but they're TWO.  If you're in your backyard and he drops his cake, it's no big deal.  If he spills his ice cream all over his clothes or dumps it over his head, you can squirt him with your garden hose.  

I've been to Chuck E Cheese parties and had one there when my daughter turned 9.  It's LOUD, and there are a LOT of people, and there's a whole lot going on everywhere you look.  It isn't someplace I would take a small child simply because all the overstimulation can send a toddler into melt-down.

For my grandson's first birthday, my daughter and s-i-l rented one of the "hospitality suites" at a local Marriott hotel.  This is one of the big rooms, about the size of 3 or 4 of their normal guest rooms, that has a table and chairs and sinks and a bathroom.  It's for meetings and parties, not for overnight stays.  It was closed off to other guests so we didn't have to deal with music or noise or people from other events.  Easy set-up, big enough for the families and close friends, clean-up done by the hotel.

His second birthday, in October, is going to be a party in their back yard in late afternoon right after his normal nap time.  Burgers and hot dogs on the grill, easy foods, room for the kids to play, no worries about spills or messes.  

Answer 6

Do you have a Dave & Busters there? It has kids/adult games & food too=)

also I live in NY & having it at a park is cheaper but you still have tp pay for a permit which could run to about 50$-100$ just for that & then *knock on wood* what if it rains?

Also, someone else mentioned Chucky Cheese or maybe try miniture golfing, an indoor bouncer place, Saf-T-Swim, & maybe a craft store that will have a part room for a "crafts party"  

Answer 7

HOOTERS! It will be such a great story for him later in life... I can't wait to have kids of my own.

Answer 8

lol just take them to a park with a lot of other kids and let them run around they have a lot of fun and it wont cost half as much as other places