Accelerated Center

Organized birthday party for 4 year old on a Saturday. About 20 kids plus accompanying parent. From start to finish, the staff was friendly, professional and efficient. We got a tour during the summer and it was packed (with various camps). I was skeptical of the staff we would be assigned to (ie: possibly jaded teenagers?) but was impressed at how amazing the staff ended up being with all of the preschoolers: warm, enthusiastic, eager to help, responsible. The kids had such a great time with bouncy house, obstacle course, soccer class that the parents were able to relax too. They provided a separate food/​partyroom with Capri Suns for kids, water, tablecloth, plates, napkins, cups. You can bring in outside food (but not outside pizza), decoration, party favors and cake. The staff helped with set up, collecting presents, getting kids settled to the activities, clean up. You can bring in additional drinks/​food the day prior to store in their fridge. We were really grateful at the ease of organization of the birthday party. On this summer Saturday, parking was not an issue at all and we had the place to ourselves. The facility was clean. The time slot was a bit short: 1.5 hours (1 hour for play and ½ hour for food; it can be done but if you are serving more than just birthday cake, just know that time is tight for parents to serve kids food and then do cake in ½ hour). But, the staff served friendly reminders about time without attitude and did not try to rush us and they helped in clean up (and set up). Got a lot of compliments from other parents at how they enjoyed the venue, birthday party and the friendly staff. Would highly recommend hosting birthday parties here — book early for your preferred time slot (whatever it may be; ended up getting the next to last slot in August (!), a month prior, for 3 pm; the last availability that day being 9 am).

I attended a birthday party there this weekend with my two boys and had a horrible experience. The staff was very unprofessional and they were very unorganized. When my Friend who threw the party called to talk to the Manager about the problems she had the Manager hung up on her. Very unfortunate!

They need to expand their parking space. I just sent my son here for his classmate’s birthday party this Saturday, the parking lot was completely packed when we got there, some people even double parked on the drive way. I was horned by one rude and impatient driver from the back when I tried to slowly backup in order to park into one narrow spot. However, the staffs inside the building were nice though.

I was a big fan of the lil kickers program for my daughter when we lived in the city. Their programs were well organized, the instructors were enthusiastic, they provided the kids with a cute complimentary uniform & so amazing to have a huge open space for kids to run around (especially in the winter). When we moved to the burbs we tried the high-​five lil kickers and sadly we were NOT impressed.**
When my son was old enough (18 months+) for lil kickers I had no desire to sign him up, but then I heard that they were running the program at the brand spankin new Accelerated Center and decided to have it a try. We are 3 weeks into the program and I’m so impressed. Coach Nikki has a ton of energy and is fabulous w/​the little ones. And my son and his friends seem to really be enjoying themselves.
Lil Kickers is just one of the programs at this lovely new facility. They have lots of different sports programs to choose from that I’ll definitely be checking out as he gets older. I’ve also heard it’s a great spot to host a bday party.
My only gripe is that they list so many different times for their lil kickers classes and (likely cause they are a new facility) have trouble filling them all. I got a call a few weeks before our class started letting me know that our Monday morning class would be unlikely to run. I ended up recruiting a few more kids and now we have a full class, but a few other friends have mentioned to me that the classes they signed up were canceled due to lack of enrollment. I recommend just sticking to 1 – 2 classes a week for each age group until their popularity grows. And I guarantee their popularity will grow if they continue running such great soccer classes for the little ones.
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