What activity will Ryazan parents choose for their weekend? Should they just leave their children with grandparents? Are there any amusement park which can attract both children and adults? 
So, what is a usual weekend for an ordinary family? Do you see mothers with the children in parks or yards? I do! And what about fathers? Where are they? When an ordinary wife suggests going to the puppet show, or to the circus, or to the exhibition for children, an ordinary husband says that it isn’t interesting at all and it will be better for children to stay at home and watching TV, or playing computer, because it is too sunny, rainy, cloudy, frosty, windy outside. In fact it happens just because there no places in Ryazan, which can attract everybody. Going to the cinema takes only 2 hours, bowling – 3 hours, going to the Kremlin for feeding ducks – 2 hours, and what is the next thing? "We have Prioland”, "Parents can go to Solotcha with their children!”, "They can go swimming”, - you’ll say. OK, but what should poor parents do if it is winter? if they have no car? if it is rainy weather? Our city really needs some places independent of weather conditions, season or something else. I think that the first try in this sphere is OZON club, especially "Akapulko” – so-called aquapark. This place can really comply with the wishes of all members of family: saunas, rides, Jacuzzis, pools, bars, a restaurant. The very idea to make a place of entertainment for all the family was great, many of my friends who have children waited for the opening, but … The opening changed their opinion, I don’t know why, but the owner of this "establishment” go as far as inviting girls with alternative behavior from "Casanova club”, and he or she continued doing it. The question is: "will sensible parents want their children to swim with such girls in the same water?” I agree that there are people who don’t worry about such trifles, and who will attend this "aquapark” from time to time. Well, I wish "Akapulko” to continue attracting that sort of people and to be successful in it! "What do you say about carting in Ryazan?” – you’ll ask me. So, there are also some disadvantages. The first one: do you know the price? 350-400 roubles ≈ 10 euro for only ten minutes. I think it is too much. The second one: you have a daughter and it isn’t interesting for her. The karting also has driving school, but it is also too expensive.  Rollerdrome. I think that you remember this kind of entertainment situated in "Samohval” store. I like this idea, but the realization was non-professional. There was no advertisement, at the beginning of its work the administration didn’t allow to use own rollers, but didn’t provide visitors with rich range of sizes, the decoration was too poor – no drawn hares and cats on the walls, no obstacles in the form of mushroom for example, no music for children. I think that the owner of this place didn’t know for what audience it is created. Children and their parents weren’t frequenters, because the music was too loud, and everything is dark-coloured. Young people want rides, bigger area and no children at all. Finally "Rollerdrome” was closed. Skating-rink. It isn’t expensive at all (100 roubles for 45 minutes), healthy, exciting, funny, you can get it with public transport and so on and so forth. But you can not skate there in every day you wish, because sometimes there are trainings of sportsmen or shows on the ice-arena, but you can find the schedule of such events on the official site www.ledoviy.com. I think that the problem "Places for family entertainment” is really urgent. Birth rate (and the amount of divorces:)) is growing nowadays, but the amount of places for family entertainment isn’t. Why? What will be a result? Parents usually work 5 days a week. The only opportunity to be together is weekend. But they have no place which will satisfy the needs of all the members of the family. So everyone chooses his\her own activity, gradually drifted apart. Then children blame the parents for misunderstanding, and it is normal, parents sometimes don’t know their children enough, because they don’t spent time together at all. All the information adults take from school record book or from school teachers.  Problems in the marital relations also occur. "You don’t communicate with son!”, "You have no time for your wife!”, "You don’t think about your family!” These are usual reproaches to husbands. But there is really no interest for man to visit exhibition in his weekend.
The sphere of amusement is very high-profitable, but it requires solid investment. So do you think that our city needs such places? Will it be profitable to built mini-Disneyland, but in enclosed space? or may be an aquapark? Will you and your friends visit this place? | 
