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| - I held my birthday party this year at Rinx, and was pretty pleased with how the whole process went. Jodi is the Director of Special Events who helped me with most of the planning via email, and she made the whole process pretty easy and stress-free. When I had questions for her, she would respond to me in a timely manner, and gave me a timeline right off the bat as to when I needed to confirm certain details with her, when they would be processing payment, etc.
The actual event space is huge, and has multiple party rooms, as well as areas for all of their activities, of which they have many. There's laser tag, a large roller skating rink, ice skating rinks, bowling lanes, a Cyber Sport court (more on this later), and a few others. I think they could have better signage perhaps given the size of the venue, because a number of my friends told me they had a hard time finding our party room. After 7PM they close the reception desk, so there's really no one to ask for help or directions, they just leave out a little whiteboard sign with the name of your party and location.
When you book an event here, you get the use of a party room for the duration of your stay, free coffee, tea, and water, and an event co-ordinator who takes you around to the various activities and explains rules and stuff to you. Our co-ordinator seemed like a pleasant young man, he wasn't like overly enthusiastic or interactive, but he kept us on schedule and did a pretty good job.
We chose to do two activities (for one hour each) - Cyber Sport and Laser Tag. Cyber Sport was actually hilarious and I think so long as you have a group between 10-20 people it's definitely something you should try! 10 people can play at a time (9 for us because one cart was broken), and you sit in these bumper car-type things and have to use a scooper to pass the ball amongst your team and shoot it into the goal areas that are high up on the wall. It is challenging, but so so much fun. Laser Tag is the same as at any other place - if anything the area is a bit on the smaller side (compared to other places that are solely dedicated to Laser Tag) and only has one floor. Our co-ordinator got a bit more involved here, letting us play rounds that were free-for-all, then helping us split into two teams and then four teams for a subsequent game. Some of their equipment doesn't work either fully or partially (i.e. some guns didn't have a laser beam pointer thing), but overall it was still a good time for all. It does get pretty stuffy in the game area though.
I thought the price was reasonable as well - they charge you based on the number of activities you pick, so for 2 activities (2 hours) it was $30/person + HST + 10% service charge for $36.90/person. You can pay for them to prepare food for your event as well, although we didn't. One negative I would note is that they don't let you bring your own food or beverages, except cake and packaged chips, but it's not a huge deal. Overall, I think this is a great place for parties or corporate events, mostly because it's so easy from a planning point of a view and even on the day of, the staff really help to make sure everything runs smoothly and according to plan. I'm so pleased with the way my birthday event turned out, thanks so much to everyone at Rinx who helped me out!
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