Bubble Planet: An Immersive Experience
The ball pit is deeper than it looks. Bubble Planet in Brunswick with a four-year-old — which rooms are fun, what it costs, and a bit of honesty about the wear and tear.
Visited July 2026
Where 62 Dawson Street, Brunswick, Melbourne. Melbourne season 13 June – 31 August 2026.
Cost From $26.90 child (3–12) / $33.90 adult, with VIP tiers above that. Under 2s free.
Runtime Billed at 60–90 minutes
How long we stayed The full session
Verdict Built for photographs, and also genuinely good for a small kid
Site bubble-planet.com/melbourne
Not sponsored. We paid our own way.
The ball pit is deeper than it looks.
I went in with the kiddo the first time. Quite deep, weird, something like a massage as well. A bit creepy, honestly. The second time he went in I stayed out and took photos instead.
While we were down in there we played the game he wanted to play, which was that one of us was the Mum and the Mum was dying. Or dead. But only a little bit dead, so she could still be rescued. We also practised throwing, trying to get the balls between the giant's feet. He'd have stayed in there a lot longer than I would have.
The room that made it for him was one of the first ones, just filled with large balloons. He spent ages in there and went back to it later, working on finding the biggest balloon in the room and then the smallest one. The other big hit was the room that's just bubble machines, doing what you'd expect.
He did the VR too. He was in a little hanging swing seat, reaching out to grab at things. That's about all I can tell you, because I wasn't in there with him.
The best thing is at the end. You colour in a page — actual paper, actual pencils — and it gets scanned and your drawing turns up in the animation on the screen. I sent in a fish with his name written along the side of it. We'd seen something like this at an aquarium in Auckland, I think, but that one was all computer-based. Doing it with pencils is better.
On the other hand... The place is a bit run down. Some of the environments had visible dirt and in one spot possibly even mould. The shop at the end is very basic. It's a travelling attraction and it feels like one that's been travelling a while.
So it's both. It's the kind of thing designed to be photographed, and I have the photographs. It was also a really good ninety minutes for a four-year-old.
He wanted to go again the next day and the price is what made that an easy no. On another trip I'd consider it.
