HopStop Sello hours posted

karen · Post by **karen** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 1:22 pm

Unfortunately, it looks like it's only a childcare facility.

It's not open yet, though.

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Xochiquetzal · Post by **Xochiquetzal** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:39 pm

9 euros an hour?!?? Yikes!

Thanks for posting, Karen.

catstale · Post by **catstale** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:16 pm

You can see the opening times at http://www.hoplop.fi. It opens on 21.4. It's actually HOPSTOP in Sello. You can either leave your child and go shopping or you can join your child without extra cost for adults. If you leave your child there alone you must always fill in an agreement.

karen · Post by **karen** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:02 am

And how much is it to stay there with them? I'm not paying €9 for one hour when I'm staying there with him.

karen · Post by **karen** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 4:59 pm

I went into the Sello HopStop to find out more details. Parents can go in with the children, but it costs the same. And there is no cafe or any other diversions for parents. There were three workers and no kids at 16:15 today. I think I'll continue to take my kid to HopLop in Vantaa. Two hours for €9 and I can enjoy a cup of tea and a nice chat with a friend while the kids plays.

Xochiquetzal · Post by **Xochiquetzal** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:15 pm

karen wrote:I went into the Sello HopStop to find out more details. Parents can go in with the children, but it costs the same. And there is no cafe or any other diversions for parents. There were three workers and no kids at 16:15 today. I think I'll continue to take my kid to HopLop in Vantaa. Two hours for €9 and I can enjoy a cup of tea and a nice chat with a friend while the kids plays.

I have to agree here. There is already a child care center on the top floor and that's never occupied as it is. I am hoping this is a test of a new business model and that they will rethink their positioning eventually. Certainly, they've lost two customers in Karen and I already.

Krisztina · Post by **Krisztina** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:26 pm

Xochiquetzal wrote:There is already a child care center on the top floor and that's never occupied as it is.

Lasten Piste is closing this summer, it´s on their door.

scoobymcdoo · Post by **scoobymcdoo** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:45 pm

We were at Sello on Saturday and Lasten Piste was not open. I was counting on that place being open so that i knew that there was a toilet on every floor for a newly potty trained Sophie.

€9 is a lot of money for an hour, we'll still keep driving round Ring III to HopLop in Vantaa.

Maybe if they get enough complaints they may change their ideas.

Hannah

enk · Post by **enk** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:59 pm

Heck, I can't get out to the one in Vantaa, but there's no way I'd
pay that much for the three monsters to go to the one in Sello no
matter how close it is.

-enk

richard berman · Post by **richard berman** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:22 am

The Hoplop in Vantaa, used to be very packed most days and evenings, but it seems now that the new thing has gone old. I was there the other day and it was just me and one other family, before I could not even find a chair to sit down on.

I used to take my two every two or three weeks, yes they love it there, but they put the price up 1 euro within the first 6 months, it is still a good place but you have to think 18€ for two hours is still alot of money.

I think Sello will not work, If the other company there has already shut down. cI have a friend who is going to open a very big place in Tampere in the next few months (not Hoplop tempere) I hope it works for him.

Xochiquetzal · Post by **Xochiquetzal** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:52 am

I wonder if the space in Sello is so much smaller that they decided to try a different business model. Certainly, the Vantaa one is so large it can't really be a place where someone watches the kids.

The Vantaa one is scary busy on weekends. Now that Summer is here, we should be seeing it less packed, though. But they've been raising the prices so fast and so high that they are pricing themselves out of my comfort zone.

First time I went to Hop Lop, it had just opened and it was 4e for Maia for an unlimited amount of time. Now it is 9E for 2 hours. If I had more than one kid like ENK, I just couldn't do that.

But honestly, how many people really use these services? Even the IKEA one, which is free, is rarely packed except on Saturday. Are they hoping to catch the kids out of school crowd? If so, why not price lower so that parents regularly come in? Why not sell more incidentals like they do at movie theatres (where the revenue is snacks and not tickets)?

I guess I'm just disappointed at how this is going. The first months I went six times. In the last 3 months I went once. I bought food and sodas the first times and didn't in the last times. I wonder if I am or am not an average consumer in that they got more money out of me from the back end than the front end.

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