It's often said that parents should forget about giving children expensive gifts - just give them a cardboard box instead and they will have hours of fun.
Spare a thought then for an infuriated mum who splashed out £25 for her kids to enjoy some time at a soft play centre, only for them to have an even better in IKEA a short while later - free of cost.
Vicki Steele, mum to Ivy Senna, 4, and Jenson, 3, can now see the funny side of the saga and she captured her ‘strong and bewildered’ reaction on film.