Babylon Park, London, July 2025

Rollercoasters are one of the last things you’d expect to find in the middle of London, yet if you know where to look… Babylon Park popped up on our radar last year, and we always said if we were ever in London we’d seek it out. There’s a coaster cred to get after all!

Located in Camden, Babylon Park is an indoor theme park and amusement arcade. It’s all underground too. It’s 3 floors of cartoon alien theming, bright lights and sounds, with lots of games and rides to try. I say 3 floors, floor 1 is just the entrance and escalator.

Entry to Babylon Park is free! To access the rides and attractions you can either:

A wristband will set you back £30 per person for unlimited access to rides, games and machines for 1 hour (or 1.5 hours depending on the day). 2 hours is £50. Groups of 4 or more can get 1 or 2 hour access at a reduced cost of £27.50 or £45.

You can buy ‘Babylon Coins’ either on the app or at various screens around the venue. App prices look like they’re cheaper than buying in advance, but we found them to be the same for a basic price. Coins start at £20 for 200 coins up to £95 for 1100 coins. The £95 combo includes pizzas and drinks.

With the Babylon Park app (visit their website for details), link your wristband or buy Babylon Coins. It’s also used to scan to activate the games and rides, do challenges, check your coin and token totals and enjoy mini games to earn prizes. Definitely worth getting if you’re visiting.

As an estimate on the value of Babylon Coins, a ride on the rollercoaster will cost 48 coins, some of the big arcade games are around 16 coins and ticket style machines are 12.8 coins. So if you’re planning on spending on lots of games, unlimited might be the way forward. As for us, we were only there for the rollercoaster, so £20 for 200 coins was enough.

Down to level 1. Here you’ll find the cafe area and a few arcade games. The Ovo and Neta Cafe served the usual stuff like pizza, hot dogs, nachos and drinks along with ice creams. We opted for a couple of tubs of Kelly’s ice cream which cost £3 each. There are seats all around and a few smaller games to play like mini air hockey and the biggest game of Hungry Hippos I’ve ever seen.

Also on this floor was the soft play area. We didn’t go in but the website shows its got the standard issue slides and climbing areas. For ages 3-10 without adults, and there’s a smaller area for 0-3s too. The cost of the soft play to purchase in advance is £10 or 80 coins. It is included in the Unlimited wristband cost or you can just buy separately if that’s all you want.

The bottom floor is where you’ll find the bulk of the fun at Babylon Park. And all the heat! It was warm down there and it wasn’t even that hot a day outside, so be warned it may get toasty in there! It’s pretty loud down there with the music and ride noise, but its bright and colourful. It’s themed to aliens so that’s the vibe down there. Luminous colours all around.

Yes, there’s an indoor rollercoaster in the middle of London. Don’t get excited, it’s no Hyperia or Nemesis, but it is a fun little coaster. Made by the SBF Visa Group, it’s a bright blue track that goes around the room with a small blue and green train that can hold up to 20 people.

And the best bit, it’s a 4-lap special! So even if it is costing nigh on 20 quid for a go on a rollercoaster, you do get some time on it and not just a one and done. It was pretty nippy too. Not the most comfortable as it’s just a plastic train with little padding, but still a fun family coaster. Coaster Credit claimed, 48 coins spent. Minimum height to ride is 105cm.

Along with the coaster, there is a family drop tower, bumper cars, a spinning alien ship ride, a giant spinning teacup type ride called ‘Tagada’, ‘Convoy’ – a children’s tracked truck ride, a small carousel and a kiddie wheel – like the London Eye, but much smaller and for small children. The rides all have height or age requirements so check in advance and most cost 32 coins up to 48 for the drop tower and coaster.

There were loads of games to choose from. Jurassic Park and Nerf themed shooters, space battles and King Kong VR simulators, motorbike racers and fighting games. The kids spotted Jurassic Park and that was the priority with our remaining coins.

Along with the games there were dance machines, a giant Pac Man game, full-sized air hockey tables and much more. It’s wall to wall in there.

All around the room were machines that you could win tickets or tokens from too. Scan you app to take part to spin the wheel, hit a hammer, magnetic grabbers and collect tokens that were either physical or linked straight to your app. We found that a few of the spin machines would just keep going and give you more tokens even if you’d had 10 spins already. One of the magnetic ones was just spitting out tokens without linking to it, which someone handed us a pile to redeem.

Whenever you wanted to take part in a game/ride you could either scan your wristband/card or the app on your phone. We were all sharing my phone, so no cards or wristbands available. Every 5 times you scanned a game, you were given a ‘free spin’ on the app. This would give you bonus coins or free games to use. So even though we’d only bought 200 coins, we’d had a few free spins that allowed us a few goes on the other games around the place. Not enough for 4 more rides on the coaster, but still enough to encourage you to play on.

When you were done you could head over to the Winner Station to ‘cash in your chips’. We’d earned a few from the spin games and were handed an absolute bundle by someone who had to leave. As with most arcades you need a billion tickets to get a penny sweet, but we did quite well. A Babylon Park balloon/ball thing, some of those classic foam planes (that I hadn’t seen since the 80s), some building shapes and some sweets. Not a bad haul. I’d imagine the total value was about £2.50 but the kids were happy.

It was a fun few hours of the morning. The biggest stress we had was the queue to redeem tickets which seemed to take forever. You also had to scan your app to get into the toilets, which we didn’t realise when we first got there and had to wait for someone to come out so we could get in. The only mishap of the day was when the app crashed when we were scanning to get on the rollercoaster and redeemed one extra ride from us, but the issue was dealt with quickly and the coins were refunded.

As an experience, yes, it was fun. It didn’t feel like the sort of place you could visit again and again, but definitely worth a visit if you’re in the area. It could be a costly day for a family of 4 with unlimited wristbands but could you play everything and get multiple rides in a 2 hour window? Maybe. If you want to take your time and do some of the activities, then buying the coins may be the better option. The fact that you can do either is great, especially with the rides and games in the mix, plus the ability to win extra tokens and such.

The rollercoaster was a fun experience too. A real novelty, and it didn’t feel like a naff travelling kiddy coaster either.

And after that, we took a trip into Camden Lock Market to get some fancy food and drinks!

Visit the Babylon Park website for full details and to download the app.