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| - Hmph, fiddle sticks.
I've been here four times over the course of about 2 years. Nothing has improved since my first visit. The rides are rickety. The go-karts are junk. The mini-golf is pathetic. The sitting areas and tables are in poor display. And to make it all worse, the prices seem to have gone up.
This place suffers from lack of care. Simple as that. There is no other reason for decaying ceiling tiles that barely hold up the dusty and out-dated 'prizes'. No need for the sitting areas to have tables that are two different colors - faded blue and rust. There is no need for entire patches to be missing from the putting greens.
Kids still seem to like this place...as long as their having fun, I guess whatever is whatever. But while standing around waiting on the tikes to tire out, I couldn't do anything but look around at the decay of this place. (not like any of the arcade games gave me something more to do)
Even my 14-year old cousin was content just standing around pointing out bad things along with me. We kinda wanted to play mini-golf but the disrepair of the courses turned us off. I was talking with one of the workers and out of the blue, he perked up and said "Oh, and they finally got the water running through the mini-golf!" Then he frowned and said, "At least, I think they do..." They didn't. And the fact that he was excited over something that should never be an issue pretty much said it all.
I don't know if that Saturday afternoon they were just understaffed...but repeatedly little kids had to wait way too long for someone to come and man the kiddie karts. I counted at least 5 people walk away with their kids, in just about a half hour. And once they did get to go, only 3 karts worked with one of them needing to be put out of its misery. But there was no one to man it because the guy was too busy manning the regular go-karts. We were there for over 4 hours and he pulled double duty the whole time. And its not like someone who was supposed to be working was somewhere goofing off - there just wasn't anyone else to help. I have to give the workers kudos for working hard that day. The go-kart guy took the time to help one really tiny girl make her way around the track twice, and for his age, you don't usually see that kind of dedication. I also saw the guy that got stuck with birthday party host duties tirelessly keeping track of every guest and making sure they got what they wanted.
The bumper boats didn't bump, they gently touched. They did squirt water though...the kids had more fun squirting water at people standing in line than they did bumping.
There was a little "roller-coaster" that every time it started up, it sounded like a mack truck had busted into the place and was screeching its brakes while running down every man, woman, and child.
I didn't visit the batting cages or the driving range, but last time I did use the batting cages, they malfunctioned more than a few times. And lets not get started on the condition of the equipment.
Inside, there is no fun to be had by people over 11. Outdated arcade games that ate tokens are what you'll find. Plus some standard skeeball and hoops which worked decently enough. The ticket games are there, too...albeit old. Its enough to keep smaller kids busy and entertained. And I guess that's all there needs to be, eh?
Their event area is as bland as you can get, but big enough to accommodate two parties at once...though you'd be so close together you might end up taking the wrong kid home.
For eating, there are tables crappily placed as you walk in, perfect for all the kids in line to stare at you as you try to eat or for people's booties to land right in your nachos.
I don't remember the bathrooms.
I got some Icees but refrained from buying food, even though my 10 yr old cuz kept begging for french fries. Let's just say everything was priced $2 too much, and I wasn't too sure about eating anything prepared in the place.
So bottom line, its a runned down place with no personality other than ghetto; no care or effort put into the appearance; malfunctioning equipment and tacky everything else; kids seem to have fun; staff was hard-working and friendly; overpriced; not fun for adults.
I can't recommend it. Now that their prices are so high, you might as well go to Gameworks.
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