The Margaret Mahy Family Playground

What a great playground! So many fun and interesting objects to interact with. Great slides, including a three story spiral tube slide. There’s also a fun waterpark area where kids can pump water and manipulate where it goes. A great place for kids to have fun and explore physics.

What a great park to spend the day at , coin operated bbqs, fish and chip cart that are delicious , donut cart , ice cream cart . Great water play area for the warmer days . Close buy is a bike pump track and other cafes . Loads of parking .What a great spot on the central city .

The playground has many attractions like slides, swings, a sandpit, and a lot of toys to develop new skills like climbing, balance and others. It also has a water play area that's amazing! I really recommend it!

Impressive creation! This huge playground off Manchester Street is amazing. There are dozens of things to swing and climb up. My kids favourite is the double flying fox, because they can race each other. There are food outlets BBQs and toilets too.

No wonder it has such a high rating—4.8! A must-visit place for families with young kids. My children, aged 10 and 8, loved this place, and we ended up spending two hours here. We were tourists and stayed in New Zealand for three weeks, and this was the best park we visited. There were clean toilets and a few vendors selling snacks and drinks.

Amazing playground for children. Really fun slides and zipline.

Definitely one of the best playgrounds in NZ. Completely free. It has a zip line and really big slides along with climbing rope-things and swings. Children will definitely enjoy it. It gets a little crowded in the evening- after people are done with school, and during weekends it gets quite crowded. Free parking, but it is a bit hard to find during popular hours.

Amazing! Pretty full on when its busy and the slides are very fast. So much to do and a fantastic water play area. More swings would be ideal :)