Binks Yard Nottingham reviews by real event-goers

Review of Little Bop Carnival | Family Mini Fest

The music live music with the colourful dancers and fire performance was brilliant. My daughter loved the costumes and getting photos with the cartoon characters. Shame it wasn't a bit longer but overall highly recommended day out!

Review of Little Bop Carnival | Family Mini Fest

Good fun, can't wait for next one.

Review of Little Bop Carnival | Family Mini Fest

It took 30 minutes to get in despite paying for a slot from 10.00 - 12.30. The venue was small and the queues for each thing were big. We queued for 30 mins to get food and then got told to leave once we finally sat down to eat it. Disappointing, a good idea, poorly executed.

Review of Little Bop Carnival | Family Mini Fest

Unfortunately this event wasn't very well organised. We queued for nearly 40 minutes to get in and had arrived ten minutes before the start time. As it was only a morning event it meant we hardly had any time to do any of the activities. The queues inside were also very long, which meant we didn't order any food. The event was advertised as having kids steet food but again this wasn't the case, only adults sized burgers, hot dogs and loaded fries. A lot of the activities were for 5 year old plus so we couldn't do any of those, resulting in a lot of disappointment from my 3 year old. The entertainment was good however it was very loud for the size of the space, a lot of kids found it too noisy. The face painting was very good and there were some nice activities like drumming. If the event was better coordinated it would be a really good one, just needs better organisation.

Review of Little Bop Carnival | Family Mini Fest

Really great to see something new and fresh in our home town and we could take the kids too. Binx Yard is a lovely venue and was a really fun atmosphere.

Review of Little Bop Carnival | Family Mini Fest

Great afternoon out, it was beautiful carnival weather and friendly atmosphere. My grandson loved the costumes.

Review of Little Bop Carnival | Family Mini Fest

Lovely festival. They need to cater for younger kids as my kid is 2 and there was not a lot of activities for her not even a bouncy castle. Overall it was good.

Review of Little Bop Carnival | Family Mini Fest

Overcrowded and overpriced school fete. Very long queues for food - 45 mins! No space to dance as area was taken up by queues for facepainting (which was an additional cost), and very large carnival costumes (which were lovely but not practical for such a small area). Event advertised as suitable for 2 and over, but I would say it would be better for 6+ as there was little suitable for our 4 year old. Ultimately, thoroughly underwhelming, and given overcrowding, at times, unsafe. Would not recommend at all.

Review of Little Bop Carnival | Family Mini Fest

This was a very expensive event with a lot of queues. I spent £44 for my family to get in, then a fortune on food and drinks. Although we had fun, and the staff were nice, we had to queue to get in, then spent forever in the queue for face painting, followed by another massive queue for food. This is to be expected to some extent, but the system of sessions meant that there was no time left to enjoy the rest of the event. I had hoped the food would make up for it, but it was pretty low quality. My burger cost £9 and was not good: basic bun with some mashed avocado and sriracha. In the end, we dropped well over £100 in total on the event. My daughter had fun, and she LOVED the fire eaters and all the carnival costumes, but it was over in a flash. I wouldn't attend another one of these events.

Review of Little Bop Carnival | Family Mini Fest

Will definitely go to another little bop event , we had a great time!

Review of Little Bop Carnival | Family Mini Fest

Very poor options for those under 5. Went with friends as a group with our children and there was almost nothing in the way of choices for them (5 kids, all under 5). Very cramped to get between spaces and queues for drinks/food were ridiculous. Gave up on food eventually and left.

Such a shame as the music and atmosphere were good. Complete rethink needed on venue (somewhere with a grassy area to allow for sitting down), activities for younger ones (soft play area, ball pit, anything like that would've been better) and options for food.

Felt like we'd spent money to sit in the shaded area with our little ones.

Review of Little Bop Carnival | Family Mini Fest

One included activity suitable for a 3 year old. Other than the stage performance which was alright.

Review of Little Bop Carnival | Family Mini Fest

We had such a great day, my daughter had a great time

Review of Little Bop Carnival | Family Mini Fest

Absolute joke, nothing for 3 year old to do, no magician as stated, a couple of cheap Aldi toys for kids to throw rope onto, £5 for face painting and £20 for hair braid, alcohol being served to parents from 10am, very very expensive event with nothing to do, we left after 40 minutes of walking around in circles trying to find something to do, it should of been advertised as a disco

Review of Little Bop Carnival | Family Mini Fest

Was really overpriced for a ticket (£5 would have been acceptable), space was too small for amount of people and activities. Queued for a long time to get in. When there spent the entire time in queues for activities (which you had to pay for on top of very overpriced ticket) and food which was expensive and poor quality, and expensive drinks. Event was over by the time we'd queued for face painting and food. Felt chaotic, cramped and overcrowded and stressful.

Review of Little Bop Carnival | Family Mini Fest

Review of Little Bop Carnival | Family Mini Fest

The event cost more then 10 pounds, my 3 year old had nothing really to do because the bouncy parts were for mainly older kids. Didn't know that face paint and those would cost extra. If he was older he would have enjoyed I assume. Left after 30 min

Review of Little Bop Carnival | Family Mini Fest

awful that you charge so much to get it, the games were terrible and massive cues, food was ridiculously expensive, we only spent an hour there as there was nothing else to do, will never be attending again

Review of Little Bop Carnival | Family Mini Fest

Definitely won't be doing this again. The tickets were too expensive for what was offered. Face painting was very bad and amateur, food was over priced for tiny portions, there really wasn't much to do either and we left after an hour.

Review of Little Bop Carnival | Family Mini Fest

We had to que for 35 minutes to get in, inside was very unorganised, there were very long ques for everything, extra charge for some activities, not enough space. Very expensive for what it is. No entertainment on stage. Carnival dancers in huge costumes which looked great but in a very small venue it was not practical at all. Not enough time to que for the few activities in the time we had. Very poor