Big Bear Funplex

Kind of run down but I had fun with my other half playing air hockey, pool, arcade basketball. The two young ladies that worked there were very kind. We tried the artificial ice skating but our skates weren’t moving since it’s pretty much skating on wax (it’s more for little kids). They were nice enough to refund us the money. 4 stars for the pizza. It was REALLY GOOD!

This place went severely downhill. Their air hockey table is old and decrepit. Their carpet is absolutely filthy and looks about 80 years old. All the games are slightly broken and do not give you the proper amount of tickets. The food is horrible and by the looks of the games, the carpets, the bathrooms– everything is filthy and should not pass health code. I don’t even know how much I actually trust it. We bought $ 10 in tokens and then after realizing this place was totally run down we wanted our money back which the owners refused and started arguing with us. The owners are rude and they do not care to use any of the money for upkeep.
It’s really sad because about a year ago this place was fun. Now, it’s completely downhill and looks like it has never been cleaned. I hope they listen to the reviews and try to turn it around so it can be fun for kids again.

Pride of ownership seriously lacking. Practically every ride, device, game or machine we tried was not working. Very depressing and dingy. I gave it one star because I had to in order to write the review. I added a second star because the pizza was actually decent.

Bad. Just bad. Everything takes your tokens, the «synthetic ice» is just garbage, the horse carousel luckily runs without and music or lights. Lol. The people there try and help but it’s just run down. I seriously won’t be back. We just wanted to take our daughter out for a bit of indoor fun and ended up spending $ 24 on «ice skating» and $ 5 on lost tokens.

One place in big bear that should just be condemned.
Machines don’t work. They gave some excuse like the games and other machines aren’t theirs, so it is fine to rip people off.
Carpet with holes in it, filthy everything, nothing works right. Just go bowling inatead.

Great place for arcade and laser tag! Cody was supper helpful in explaining how everything works and his manager Christine even comp’d us for another game when their system went down. We got 10 min of laser tag for $ 7 per person per game which isn’t bad at all, and most of all was a lot of fun. I would recommend this for anyone not only kids, especially when we had 4 grown adults in our party and had a blast!

My family recently decided to head up to Big Bear for a few nights. I am a planner and decided to check Unilocal to find things to do that will appeal to my daughters (6 and 9 years old). I saw the horrible ratings the Funplex received, so I didn’t add it to our «to-​do» list and I made a mental note not to waste our money there.
We stayed at the Marina Resort, so we decided to walk across the street, past the Funplex to the Bowling Alley. We were out of luck, there were no lanes open. Our daughters convinced us to check out the Funplex and I am so glad we did. My girls had an absolute blast. We got $ 20 worth of tokens and they turned it into a ton of tickets. The guy working the ticket counter was very nice and had so much patience with my indecisive daughter. They decided they wanted to try out the «ice skating» rink. The staff was very helpful setting our girls up with the appropriate skates and gear. It’s not a real ice skate rink, but that didn’t really matter. My kids had the biggest smiles on their faces the entire 30 minute session — totally worth the $ 16. Yes, they fell and had oil from the rink on them, but it washes off and was totally worth it. The place might be a little run down, but if they remodel, their prices will go up and right now, it is pretty cheap for lots of fun. My kids cannot wait to go back and this time, it will definitely be on my list of things to do.

This place is a little run down and has a strange set up. We came here to let two 2 year olds play some mini golf because we had been advised that a thunderstorm was about to hit the area and theirs is indoor vs Cosmic golf and Alpine Slide at Magic Mountain.
Just about everything they offer, laser tag, ice skating, games and mini golf is in one building. The mini golf is a strange Tetris arrangement of wooden platform boards. They are so close together, there’s nowhere to stand. The toddlers started at hole #1, which is hard to find at first. They tried playing but quickly lost interest.
So we returned the golf clubs and went to buy some tokens so they could ride in the fake Hummer, sadly it wasn’t working. There’s not much here to entertain the kiddies, and a lot of the games were out of order.
The ice skating rink, is a plexiglass type floor, in a really small rink. Don’t see how anyone can skate in there.
The staff was nice, but I would not come here again unless I really wanted to play some laser tag.

I wandered in here during a recent trip to Big Bear and was surprised to see only 1 or 2 other customers inside. The «ice rink» is laughably tiny — I think my living room is bigger, and the mini golf was disappointing at best. Many of the arcade games were labeled «out of order», but I did locate a functioning air hockey table in a small room. I won a few tickets and decided to redeem them, but was blatantly ignored by the teenage boy working there.
The laser tag looked like it may have been promising, but based on the poor state of everything else in this complex of despair, I would not take my chances.

If there was ever a time to give negative stars this would be it. It was laughably horrible. The place had the strangest vibe similar to a Hollywood movie drug den. The neon lights, loud music and overall grungy feel did not make me feel like this was a family place. The mini golf was cheesy. The laser tag was in this small tiny space. Everything was scrunched in together. The whole thing was poorly executed. The worst was the «ice skating rink». The «ice» is SYNTHETIC. The «ice» is really plastic with something to make it slippery. My poor child made the best of it. She tried the «ice» skating but gave up after 10 minutes. When I asked her if she wanted to try any of the other activities she scrunched her face apologized (I think she thought it was going to hurt my feelings) and quickly declined. I laughed so hard. My daughter and I had a good laugh at how bizarre the FUNPLEX was. At least there was some entertainment value.

Stupidest shit ever. The mini golf looks like a 2– year old colored it and taped it to a wall, dont come here, it IS SHIT. The” ice skating rink” isnt even ice, its small, and stupid, its synthetic and a piece of shit, dont come here, youll regret spending your money.

Wow! This place was out of a twilight zone!!! We walked in and just laughed, the golf was in the middle of the arcade and in daylight while the ice rink was so small you could jump across it, definitely don’t plan to keep your kids entertained here, in fact maybe only come if you want to scare them.

Although the website didn’t quite live up to the actual place, I will have to say our family had a great time. We spent $ 20 a person for an evening filled with laser tag, mini golf and a hour of ice hockey. I will say the ice rink isn’t made of ice, is more like a plastic cutting board greased up with Vaseline. Don’t dare fall, because you’ll be greased up all night.
It’s a place that, if you have an evening to kill and want to spend quality time with your family. You can make memories and have fun times to remember.

One of the worst places I’ve ever been to. It was dirty, dark, and smelled like vomit. The desk staff did not care about anything. We showed up an hour before they closed and tried to play laser tag. The room was completely empty but they said we had to make reservations 40 minutes in advance. When I stated that there was an hour until closing and we would like to give our 40 minutes advance booking, they girl told me that they didn’t do laser tag that close to closing. My guess is that they were too lazy to help us, because they proceeded to text on their phones and stayed glued to the computer she was barely looking up from. Many games were broken or out of order. If we would have known that the staff was going to make us feel unwanted, we would have just gone to the bowling ally instead, which was very close and pretty nice!

This place was a HUGE DISSAPOINTMENT! On their sign outside they advertise ice skating so our group of 10 were excited to go. When we arrive we see a little white plastic barrier and that is their said «ice skating rink» FALSE ADVERTISING 101. If they are not going to have an actual ice rink then need to advertise this rinky dink rink as a skating rink. If I could give a 0.01 star review I would

This place is awful. This is not a funplex more like a suckplex. My friends and I thought we were going to mini golf and Ice skate. Their website totally exaggerates on how cool this place is supposed to be. When you walk in it’s run down and dirty. Their mini golf course is crappy and the «ice rink» isn’t even ice, it’s plastic and the size of a small bedroom. Don’t waste time or money coming here.

We came here to go ice skating. You would think that they would have the ice rink open in December as its winter and Christmas and such. Alas no. Lucky for us when we arrived the ice ring (standing defrosted) was only slightly larger than a king sized bed.
Our gaze wandered to the «mini golf» which was constructed from plywood, poorly cut wood blocks and neon paint. We decided to just stick with the video games so as to not horribly disappoint our children. Our luck prevailed yet again as at least 25% of them were out of order. This kept us from subjecting our children to even more 3^rd rate, grungy games.
My burning desire to sanitize my kids was only thwarted by the fact that the bathroom sink only had scalding water available. Naturally this was discovered after my child already had soap all over his hands.
Hooray for Funplex.

My 8yr had a blast, but our 14yr was bored. They both had fun in the later tag. 14yr loved the free wifi

So so so sad… this place is straight out of a scary movie or Twilight Zone. We went for the «ice skating». I have never seen such a pathetic excuse for a rink. It’s a small white plastic area that is «synthetic ice». No one… and I mean, NO ONE was in the entire building, except for a few teenage workers who looked bored out of their minds.
It was dark and dingy and probably hasn’t been cleaned since it opened. Sorry place for «fun».
Just stay away!

«Middle school dance» is how someone in our group of 11 described this place.
We came to Big Bear for our annual snowboard trip and had some time to kill after our dinner on our last night. Funplex boasted bowling (actually a separate location, something about a bowling barn and the name «alley oops»), roller coasters (did not actually see any??), lazer tag, arcade games, mini golf (and I mean mini, in the middle of the room mini), and an ice rink (a term which they are using very very loosely, seeing as there was no ice).
Originally we went for the lazer tag but figured bowling may be more worth our while since a lazer tag session only lasts fifteen minutes or so. The wait for bowling was 2 hours (guessing there’s not much to do in the ‘burbs of Big Bear on a Sunday night?) and by that time we had lost almost half our group who opted to just go back to the cabin and watch a movie. The rest of us made the journey from the bowling barn back to the arcade part of the funplex and waited our turn for lazer tag. There were 7 of us by then and enough other participants to form a group of 15, free for all.
The gear for the game of lazer tag was quite outdated, as was much of the arcade (one of our friends used the claw machine and on his second attempt the claw didn’t even open). The guns were more like price check scanners and during game play felt more like you were aiming a remote controller at somebody rather than actually using a lazer gun — you also had to «charge» them at charging stations to reload your gun. Given all of that it was actually a ton of fun. There is something charming about the no frills execution of it all — the course is very handmade looking, pieces of wood painted in black with splashes of neon paint. But none of that took away from the game, which was still its basic hide and seek pursuit game — and lots of freaking fun.
***4 stars for the lazer tag, would play again.