Jungle River Mini Golf

This place was the bees knees! I got to putt through a gorilla, a dinosaurs skeleton (I believe it was a stegosaurus), and after all that I had a snow cone! This place was like meth for my soul, there are so many activities that I am going to be coming back daily. There were a few moments the decorations were so realistic I thought I was in Vietnam all over again. 18 holes of adventure, normally I can only choose from two!

Jungle River closed but «Tropics Mini Golf» is now open to there. It is newly renovated and the changes are great. It’s cleaner, the course has been newly done, nicer eating areas, and no longer run-​down. New owners. Our family had a great time! I highly recommend checking it out.

Closed
Yes– just wanted to mention that here in HI this is/​was one of the best mini-​golf courses I have been to play.
Sorry to see it go.
I referenced Jungle River in my Rascals post too– I meant that the course is what I meant, I like a nice, bigger well thought out course, Jungle River was a well planned good use of space tucked back behind Toys R Us, Big City Diner and the bank.

People don’t usually think of golf as an exciting sport, but there’s lots of fun to be had at Jungle River Mini Golf!
Check Groupon for great couple and group discounts. My family used a $ 25 Groupon that included hot dogs, drinks, and two rounds of golf for four people. That package normally costs $ 40. Definitely jump online before going to save!
The climate matched this outdoor and jungle-​themed course. Expect hot and humid weather, various trees and plants, and bugs flying around. Lizards aplenty throughout the course, but they’re small and harmless. I even witnessed one get eaten by a bird! Kids would probably be entertained at the sight of them.
The course itself was short and easy: perfect for kids and beginners, and simple putting practice for experienced golfers like my parents. Many of the course’s 18 holes were par 2 in a straight course format. (For those unfamiliar with golf terms like I was, par is the number of strokes it should take to get your ball in the hole.) Tiny leaves littered much of the course, paint was chipped, and the entire facility seemed overall rundown, but it was nonetheless fun and festive. The carpet turf was colorful, and there were cute decorations like gorilla, volcano, and dinosaur bone sculptures.
Slopes, rocks, and tunnels made for challenging yet exciting obstacles. A lot of the fun stems from watching how the balls bounced around them and seeing how close or far they would get to their goal. We were very entertained watching my brother struggle to get his ball up a slope, only to have it roll back to the same spot six times. (He had around a par 20 for that hole.)
Friendly and helpful service from the staff, though there were only two employees behind one counter handling food, equipment, and payment for golf rounds.
The food is basic concession stand food, including small hot dogs and canned drinks. I’d recommend eating before or after mini golf for better food, especially with the mall right there.
I’m no expert golfer, but I did get a pretty good score. My secret? Embrace the bugs! I got a hole in one from quickly smacking the ball to run away from a bee. Watch out, Michelle Wie!

My kids had fun but I don’t think I’ll be coming back. Infested with lizards! I don’t know if they were going for the «jungle» theme but I’ll give them that.
Very small area for mini-​golf.
I can’t stop thinking of all those lizards! Gives me the heebie jeebies!

This place was okay. Not great not horrible. Good costumer service but the course was extremely boring and had no fun elements. It was a nice environment with music and festive color. It’s pretty cheap so I would recommend coming if you have nothing else to do but definitely don’t put it on the top of your list.

This place may not be the biggest or most difficult mini golf course, but it sure is fun :)
From the outside, it looks run down and «ghetto» as my friend put it, but we had a BLAST putting for only $ 8 a person. The lady also gave us two cards and told us we could go two rounds!
Different color calls and different color clubs (apparently an issue at other places?). It DOES get hot with the lights, small space, and lots of people.
In the end, she asked who had won both games and gave us a free round coupons! Woo hoo!
They have glow putt but as of last night, it’s out of order. :(

My boyfriend and I were bored today, and he decided we should go play a round of mini golf.
Right before we parked, we see a large group of about six walking in, so we were pretty bummed we’d have to wait. So, I haven’t been here for years and it has aged with the times, but it still looks good to me. Not much has changed with the holes, from what I can remember, it’s very nostalgic.
After we wait for the family to pay and get their clubs and balls, it’s our turn. The lady at the window was so sweet! At $ 8 a round, who could go wrong. She offered us a score card and I gladly took it, I’m rather competitive, even though I’m horrible at mini golf. She told us to the main thing is to have fun!
After paying, the family was still at the first hole. So we sat and waited for a bit, but the lady at the window told us to walk up the 18^th hole and cross over to the second and just play the first hole last. We were so thankful for her idea because we would’ve been waiting a while. We whipped through the course in a little over a half and hour, and believe it or not, it was so much fun! We counted the score sheet and I lost, really badly but like the lady said, as long as we had fun, and I definitely did!
When we returned our clubs and balls, she gave us a round of free for next time! Awesomeness! We’ll definitely be back!

as a semiprofessional mini golfer, there are a few things I look for in a putt putt course.
Snack bar: spam musubi and shave ice? yes please!
Club and ball selection: the putters were soft enough to feel the ball and lots of choices in ball color (orange is where it’s at)
Volcanos, dinosaur bones and pirates: well, two outta three ain’t bad!
BYOB: No one said NOT to bring a 40oz onto the course
Location: I swear if I was kidnapped and thrown into the trunk of a car and dropped off at this putt putt course, I would of thought I was in the middle of Kualoa ranch. Obviously no one wants to hike for hours to get to a putt putt course so this has the best of both worlds, being tucked away behind a mall parking lot and all.
Now you may be sitting there asking yourself, «But Mike, I like mini golf, but I feel like there’s not enough techno and pop music and black lights and strobe lights and stuff,» Well they have that too, but it isn’t sanctioned by the US pro mini golf association.

My Mom had one of those Groupon or Living Social type deals for this so it was no cost out of my pocket. =) Took the kids and the place looks the same as when I was a teenager with very little updating. As an adult, it wasn’t the greatest of places (and it was HOT, even in November), but the kids (6 and 3) really enjoyed it. After we were done, they asked to go again so I guess it’s great for little ones as it’s a very simple course and just long enough for them. I would recommend it for little ones.

I accidentally stumbled on this place when I was in the parking lot near the bank a few weeks ago and filed if away as a mental note as something to do. Yesterday after my navigation system got us totally lost trying to go hiking on the Aiea Loop Trail an suggested to do a u-​turn on the H-​3 and I determined my desire to see wild pigs was not more than my desire to live we decided to give up on this quest and just play some mini golf instead.
The golf course is tucked away in the back of the parking lot near the office complex and Toys R Us parking lot. The games are normally $ 8 each for adults, and a military discount is offered bringing the game down to $ 7.50 a head.
Most holes on the course are a par 2, but there are other holes that are a 3. The course is not overly challenging but it was a fun way to spend the day. We were surprised at how they were able to take such a small space and make use of if for an 18 hole mini golf course. Some holes had more than one hole to aim for and even with that, I still even ended up with a 5… Tiger Woods I am not. The course doesn’t have any of those hokey challenging things that you may be used to at other courses, but it is still a nice way to kill some time in an afternoon. I wouldn’t come back here regularly but it would be good in a pinch.
After we turned in our clubs and balls we even got a coupon for a free round which made me happy.

Fun. Seems a little run down, but still enjoyable.
Traffic backs up if they are busy and you can spend more time waiting in line than golfing.

My daughter wanted to play some putt putt and I didn’t feel like driving over the mountains so I took her here. It’s not the most adventurous mini golf course, but if you got an hour to kill with some little ones then its not a bad option. The games are cheap and they go by quickly.
There’s no super tough holes or anything. No windmills or castles or anything fancy. Just your basic mostly straight hole layout. Also can get quite dirty with fallen leaves. That being said my kids love it and they always seem to beat me when we play, and that is all that matters.

Not impressed.
If you read my other reviews, you know I’m a harsh critic of miniature golf establishments, having worked throughout high school and college at a top-​notch course in the Midwest. Even so, this course has a lot working against it.
Poor surroundings. They’ve tried to carve out a jungly oasis, but you’re still in the middle of the Pearlridge area, and it shows. A for effort, C+ for execution.
Poor maintanance. Loads of leaves on the courses, and carpets not even in places. Please, send your employees out with a leaf blower at least 2x a day to clear the carpets. We notice. D-​, didn’t show up for the midterm.
Poor design. Holes either not challenging or frustratingly engineered to keep it from being a game of skill. Maybe the «luck» aspect levels the playing field for kids, but we grown-​ups all enjoy using physics to our advantage. C–
Poor party control. We went on a Saturday, late afternoon. Not a lot of players on the course, but two birthday parties were in full swing. Now, ordinarily, this is not a problem — in fact, it lends a jovial tone to the whole place. But. The kids weren’t really golfing. They were running through the course, even while we were playing a hole, as well as putting before we were even finished. Employees can help this by taking a party out to the first hole, teaching some rules of the course and game, and then enforcing them. Very off-​putting. F, with a phone call home to the parents.
A little threadbare in places; try to find a coupon and time your visit when there isn’t a party scheduled.

$ 8 per person. My son has been asking to go mini golf for awhile now and since we were on the way to Pearlridge decided to stop here.
Not too crowded. Very simple course, no real obstacles like how Castle park mini golf was.
I don’t think I would take my son again.

So I wanted to take my family out for some fun in the sun one weekend and decided to take everyone out for a round of miniature golf over in Pearlridge. I had known where they were located since I had been there once in the past (about ten years prior) for an evening company party. I wanted to do something that wouldn’t be too strenuous for my Mom and miniature golf seemed perfect. Besides, from what I could remember it was a pretty tame course.
We paid for all of the adults $ 8.00 a head and my daughter was free because she was under two. It was fun at first with the tame jungle-​like theme and a little variety on the holes, but after about five holes it all got monotonous. I felt bored with no real challenge. It was all too easy for me, and I’m definitely not a golfer. Every hole started looking like the last and it was weird how it just looped around and came back. Not much options to design a golf course with that amount of land apparently. I guess I’m somewhat of a miniature golf snob because I’m used to the ones in California, so I kept expecting to see a large working windmill or castle as well as large water features and other working displays.
All in all we had a fun time just being together, but this course definitely needs some renovating to make it worth the $ 8.00 entrance fee. You get so much more for your money at the courses on the Mainland. I would save your money and skip this attraction until they plunk some money down for some serious renovations.

I’m not totally sure what to say… I enjoy mini golf, but there are some weird things going on here… I bought a Groupon a while back for two rounds of golf for two people (= 4 rounds total) and it came with a $ 5 concession credit. I finally used it this past President’s Day weekend.
1) Kind of hard to find for first timers.
I used Unilocal to get directions, as always, but when I get to the end of my route, I’m at an intersection, not the business. If I hadn’t been in the passenger seat and looking carefully all over the place, I wouldn’t have seen the «Jungle River» banner at the far end of the parking lot of the Toy’R’Us across from Pearlridge.
2) Looks aren’t always deceiving…
I was surprised that the course had 18 holes because it looks really small when you drive up to their entrance, but it stretches almost the length of the back of the parking lot.
Course length aside, this place is kinda old and you can definitely see the ware and tear on it. The holes themselves look worn. The paint on the rocks are peeling, some of the «bamboo» sidings are missing/​broken, and the vegetation needs a bit of clean up.
The waiting/​concession area where you pay for your games, buy snacks, and/​or sit on picnic tables is canopied by some weathered blue tarps that have been strung up all over. Some of the snapped ropes that used to hold tarps are still tattered and hanging. In the pic I took (
) there’s a little girl who got whipped by the corner of one of the low hanging tarps because it was windy. In addition, they sort of get in the way when you’re standing in line for the concession/​pay line… which leads into:
3) Concession & paying for rounds shouldn’t be in the same place… or they should have an extra employee or two…
Apparently there was only one woman working the day we went? But it was a holiday and the line was LONG. Anyone who wants to order food OR pay for a round has to stand in the same line, which makes it take as long as it looks.
Food orders get taken, but ppl have to wait up to 20 minutes before getting their food because the person inside has to take care of the line AND the food.
Mealwhile, ppl finishing rounds who only have to return their golf ball and clubs, have to wait in this line as well.
4) Food… not so amazing.
Pretty overpriced for stuff that I could definitely buy for cheaper or make myself. I realize that’s the case with all concession stands everywhere… but I’d rather just go across the street to the Pearlridge food court or across the lot to Denny’s or something (and I don’t even like Denny’s).
I’m glad I used a Groupon because I’m not sure I would have paid $ 8/​person for one round of mini golf there. I don’t know what the cosmic mini golf is like since I went during the day, but I’m pretty sure I’m not going back there again unless I’m peer pressured by a large group of ppl (which I’m also pretty sure will not happen).

Been coming here to play mini golf since I was little. A great place to relax and have fun. Never too crowded.
You can totally see the wear and tear of the course though. Not very tough at all with minimal traps etc. no windmills but boulders as obstacles. No frills or thrills but a great place to hang out and have fun.
My 5 year old loves mini golf and i enjoy coming to this place! It is close to our house and It is perfect for him. Not too difficult. We bought the Groupon and my son and nephew played two rounds and got ice cream at the end. ll for $ 18. Can’t beat that. Perfect way to end the day.

Cosmic golf! Yes, they have this on Friday & Saturday nights! Good place to take your family, a date, or have a birthday party!
BIRTHDAY PACKAGES
Safari Party package $ 14.95 per person:
1 round of mini golf per guest. a choice of pizza, jumbo hot dog or teri burger
1 regular 16 oz. soft drink.1 ice cream (sundae cups).1 complimentary mini golf pass to use for a 2^nd round of golf. Seating available for 6 to 60 people — 3 hours maximum.
ENVIRONMENT
Located in Aiea, next to Toys R Us. Lots of parking. Outdoor 18 hole course. Food stand that serves burgers, pizza, hot dogs, & shave ice. Video games & kiddie coin rides.

Growing up in Hawaii, one of your teenage memories involves going to the Jungle River mini golf course. Whether it was for a class outing or just hanging with friends, you probably went there and swung your club in an effort to hit the damn ball into the hole.
With 18 holes, the course is starting to show its age. The astroturf is showing wear in many spots, however that is really where you should start your strokes and gives you a bit of a guide to getting the ball into the hole. Are the obstacles hard? No, but they do present a level of difficulty and make the course a tad interesting.
It will probably take you about 30 minutes to complete the course, slightly longer if you go on a busier night and the groups that are ahead of you.
At about $ 8 for a round, its pretty reasonable and offers a affordable excitement for a date or perhaps the family outing.