Hoop Dee Doo Review?

[moparop]

I am pondering this for our next trip but we are traveling with my daughter who will be all of 16 months old. Obviously, you don't know my child but if you've seen show or brought a young toddler how did they do? Will this hold her attention or is she going to be climbing out of the highchair as soon as she's done eating?

Any photos? Thanks!!

 

[indimom3]

In my opinion, that's too young. They ask the kids to stay at the table during the show, which is very interactive. You can't let her run around or play on the floor or whatever. We took our 3yo, but not our 2yo, this last trip. He would never have been able to sit still for the show.

 

[Princess&CowboyMommy]

You may have an additional problem holding her attention - she may not be able to see anything at all. My kids were 5 and 7 and we were sat in the very absolute back table of the first floor before the Tier 2 Tables started (they are higher tables, so they actually had a better view than we did). Now granted - my kids are really short for their age (they are in the 5-15%ile in height), but honestly, my daughter, the oldest and tallest only saw about 1/3 of the show. She hated it because she couldn't see.

They brought out booster seats for both kids, but they STILL could barely see. Maybe it was just horrible luck, but the table in front of us had like 12 people, 10 of them were adults, and they were ALL tall, including the women (ranging from 5'8" to 6'5"). We tried leaning left or right to see, but it didn't help. I'm only 5'2" and honestly probably only saw 1/2 the show myself (I needed a booster seat, too )

Anyway, the tall group was probably just bad luck for us, but even still - if you get a table towards the back, it's likely your little girl won't see much if any of the show.

Then again, you don't have to pay for her entry, so that's a plus

 

[gallagher35]

Took our kids when they were 20 months old and 4 years old. The 20month old couldn't take her eyes off the show and spent half the time clapping. I'm sure she didn't get the humor but she remained seated the entire time and closely followed what was going on. Looking around I wouldn't really think there's a bad seat in the house but wasn't thinking of it from a 3ft tall child perspective We were lucky enough to have great seats in Cat. 1 so not sure if that helped. Also, I think I've heard that they will serve the children something else -- you should definitely call and see what "child" options are available.

 

[Princess&CowboyMommy]

Took our kids when they were 20 months old and 4 years old. The 20month old couldn't take her eyes off the show and spent half the time clapping. I'm sure she didn't get the humor but she remained seated the entire time and closely followed what was going on. Looking around I wouldn't really think there's a bad seat in the house but wasn't thinking of it from a 3ft tall child perspective We were lucky enough to have great seats in Cat. 1 so not sure if that helped. Also, I think I've heard that they will serve the children something else -- you should definitely call and see what "child" options are available.

I promise you that my kids could barely see, with booster seats, at age 5 and 7, this past T-day in the back of Cat. 1 table seating. If you got a front (er) table - you got lucky. My kids couldn't see most of the show, even with booster seats. Or maybe we were just unlucky.