Charlotte Gift Help

[lindyanne]

Anyone want to help me shop for gifts for my family in Charlotte? My sister is pretty anti-stuff. I am looking for a place for her and my 3 year old niece to get a pedicure or some other "kid" spa type experience place.  My nephew is 7 but is a little anxious/nervous about rough and tumble type stuff that my DS loved. I am looking for something for him and my BIL to do together.  Also looking for a gc for my sister and BIL to do something fun or for dinner. They live in the Lansdowne area. 

[sadlebred]

This is an amazing museum that the family might enjoy if they haven't been. www.discoveryplace.org/

[CrazyLucky]

Yes! Agree with sadlebred. The Discovery Place is a really good kids museum. Does nephew like art? DD is into art and loves those places where you pick a piece of pottery and glaze it. Is a ropes course too rough and tumble? My DS loves those. Is he into sports? Maybe tickets to the UNC-C basketball game? Or a GC for one of those arcade/go carts/laser tag places?

[lindyanne]

Nov 5, 2019 8:10:01 GMT -5 CrazyLucky said:

Yes! Agree with sadlebred. The Discovery Place is a really good kids museum. Does nephew like art? DD is into art and loves those places where you pick a piece of pottery and glaze it. Is a ropes course too rough and tumble? My DS loves those. Is he into sports? Maybe tickets to the UNC-C basketball game? Or a GC for one of those arcade/go carts/laser tag places?

He would probably enjoy going to a game. I don’t think that he would do a ropes course. He has played flag football but hasn’t done any other sports. They watch football but I don’t think other sports on tv.

[ohgillian]

Maybe instead of two separate sets of tickets, you could do Great Wolf Lodge tickets for the 4 of them?

[arch01]

I agree with GWL-and for them to do together for a night out-axe throwing is the new popular thing here.

[cuadrado]

I agree with Discovery Place. If you wanted to make it simple then you could just get them all a family membership.

Does your nephew like cooking? Chef Alyssa and Flour Power offer kids cooking/baking classes.

[lindyanne]

Nov 5, 2019 11:56:16 GMT -5 ohgillian said:

Maybe instead of two separate sets of tickets, you could do Great Wolf Lodge tickets for the 4 of them?

My other sister already gifted them with GWL last year and they all went together.

[ohgillian]

Nov 6, 2019 14:39:42 GMT -5 lindyanne said:

Nov 5, 2019 11:56:16 GMT -5 ohgillian said:

Maybe instead of two separate sets of tickets, you could do Great Wolf Lodge tickets for the 4 of them?

My other sister already gifted them with GWL last year and they all went together.

Darn! 

[orval]

Not sure about any kids spa places.

Maybe tickets to the Charlotte Knights baseball (AAA) for the spring? www.milb.com/charlotte-knights

Children's Theater of Charlotte has some great shows. www.ctcharlotte.org/Online/default.asp

If the adults like broadway type shows, www.blumenthalarts.org/
If they like beer  www.brewscruisecharlotte.com/
Even though I live in Charlotte, I did this food tour when a friend came to town. It was fun and tasty!
feastfoodtours.com/

[MrsDarcy]

Nov 4, 2019 17:20:53 GMT -5 lindyanne said:

Anyone want to help me shop for gifts for my family in Charlotte? My sister is pretty anti-stuff. I am looking for a place for her and my 3 year old niece to get a pedicure or some other "kid" spa type experience place.  My nephew is 7 but is a little anxious/nervous about rough and tumble type stuff that my DS loved. I am looking for something for him and my BIL to do together.  Also looking for a gc for my sister and BIL to do something fun or for dinner. They live in the Lansdowne area. 

Check out Inner Peaks for your nephew. It’s an indoor rock climbing place. Would that be too scary for him? He could definitely do that with his dad, and it’s near their neighborhood.

As for a kids spa, I personally don’t know of one, but most places will do kids too. You could check out My Bella Spa, I’ve had good luck at their locations.

Day passes to the whitewater center would be fun for all.

Ditto Discovery Place. Hockey tickets?

[MrsDarcy]

Nov 5, 2019 8:10:01 GMT -5 CrazyLucky said:

Yes! Agree with sadlebred. The Discovery Place is a really good kids museum. Does nephew like art? DD is into art and loves those places where you pick a piece of pottery and glaze it. Is a ropes course too rough and tumble? My DS loves those. Is he into sports? Maybe tickets to the UNC-C basketball game? Or a GC for one of those arcade/go carts/laser tag places?

Yes, both my kids (5&8) love painting pottery. Dish It Out and Paint Ur Peace are two that are close by. I personally like Dish it Out much better.

[MrsDarcy]

There are also many trampoline places that both my kids love. Big Air is one that’s great and close to them. Sky Zone is another good one.

BounceU is a bouncy house place that both my kids also like. Make sure you get passes to the Matthews location.

[lindyanne]

Nov 7, 2019 22:39:17 GMT -5 MrsDarcy said:

Nov 4, 2019 17:20:53 GMT -5 lindyanne said:

Anyone want to help me shop for gifts for my family in Charlotte? My sister is pretty anti-stuff. I am looking for a place for her and my 3 year old niece to get a pedicure or some other "kid" spa type experience place.  My nephew is 7 but is a little anxious/nervous about rough and tumble type stuff that my DS loved. I am looking for something for him and my BIL to do together.  Also looking for a gc for my sister and BIL to do something fun or for dinner. They live in the Lansdowne area. 

Check out Inner Peaks for your nephew. It’s an indoor rock climbing place. Would that be too scary for him? He could definitely do that with his dad, and it’s near their neighborhood.

As for a kids spa, I personally don’t know of one, but most places will do kids too. You could check out My Bella Spa, I’ve had good luck at their locations.

Day passes to the whitewater center would be fun for all.

Ditto Discovery Place. Hockey tickets?

Thanks. I’ll bookmark Inner Peaks for a few years. I think he wouldn’t want to do it and if he did and failed (which is inevitable) he would get frustrated and mad. I don’t see him too much so I’m not sure how he has matured in the last year.