Renaissance Fun Park

This was our second time visiting the fun park. Our first visit was a year ago and less than Fun. During our visit there were 5 adults and 9 kids. We got in before noon on Black Friday and the place was not busy. The crowd showed up shortly after. The laser tag was a huge success. After that the go karts were enough to keep the teenagers entertained. Ran out of time so mini golf will happen next time. We ordered pizza and snacks, prices were moderate and the food quality was surprisingly good. Nathan and Andrew took care of making our experience FUN! Suggestion, check their website before attending, great deals were online.

My friends and I went go karting here and these go karts are not meant for adults, if anything you feel crushed because of how tiny these little go karts are. The guy running the track told us no bumping, if you bump into someone once you get one warning and after that you have to get off the track. Okay great, I get side swiped and this same woman keeps slamming into everyone and the guy running it watches this and could care less. My friend gave him a look of shock and the guy running it looks at her and shrugs and says «What are you gonna do?» It was horrible. My friends and I decide to play lazer tag not too long after and stare at the people behind the counter for about 10 minutes wondering if they were going to let us in to play lazer tag only to realize that another game was going on and no one had told us. My friends and I played the games they have later and the games steal your money on the card even if you haven’t even played the game.

Sometimes it’s nice to get a vacation feeling in your hometown by riding go carts or playing mini golf. Then sometimes it’s infuriating to be taken advantage of… which is what’s it like to come to Renaissance Fun Park.
Why do I need to pay a dollar just activate a plastic card to «enjoy» their activities? There’s no good reason, other than to pay them more money for nothing.
Enjoy the money you got from me today, RFP. It won’t happen again while you have a policy such as this one.
Sincerely,
Nate

Oh my gosh I have such a blast whenever I go to this place! We just recently took our campers there to play laser tag. They all had a blast. We even got to play against another camp group! This made it a little friendly fun competition which everybody loves. They also have this great deal going on where you can pay $ 20 for all day fun which means putt putt, go carts, and laser tag. I don’t think you can beat that deal they also have a huge arcade area with air hockey and tons of games you can win tickets on to earn a prize. This place is like a revamped Chucky cheese just with more things to do for teenagers and adults to LOL. I recommend going to this place anytime you’re looking to do something fun with family, friends, or your significant other. I actually ended up taking my husband here on his 30^th birthday. He is 30 going on 13 LOL. I think I might actually celebrate my 24^th birthday here! They have some great party packages ranging from $ 19-​$ 29 per person in your party but this includes a fun filled day for everyone. Can’t wait to go back to this place!

I wanted to take my wife and kids to play putt putt on Saturday afternoon, so I decided to take them to Renaissance Fun Park. When we arrived at around 3 o’clock in the afternoon on a hot July day it was quite crowded inside and smelled horrible from all the sweat and BO because it was so hot inside. I’m not sure if their air-​conditioner was working or just couldn’t keep up. In addition, because it was so crowded you couldn’t hear anybody in order to have a conversation. The counter that you go to to purchase tickets had no clear structure to who was in line who wasn’t in line. Once we finally made it to the counter we asked for four people to play putt putt. We were told that the price would be $ 6 per person plus the cost of a «fun card», which is a plastic gift card like form of payment. This is where our visit ends for us at Renaissance Fun Park. Why do I need to buy a piece of plastic for $ 1 in addition to the cost to actually play when all I want to do is play mini golf with my children? I don’t come here frequently nor do I live anywhere near this facility so I’m never going to use this card again. In addition, I definitely don’t need another card in my wallet. When I contested this cost with the teenager at the cash register his response was «that’s just how we do it «. To which I responded «that’s ridiculous I’m not going to pay one dollar for something that I’ll turn around and throw away.» It became very clear that this place was in it just to nickel and dime its customers. I have never been anywhere where they require you to purchase a form of their proprietary payment in addition to paying for the actual services. I can see using this as a convenience for repeat customers but people that don’t frequent the facility often are only adding an additional dollar bill into the owners billfold. Of course we’re only talking about a dollar but in reality we’re talking about the principle of things that used to be free now being charged to customers. And what makes matters worse is that no one seem to be complaining about it. And that’s probably because this place really doesn’t have much competition in the area. However that’s all about the change in about a year when the new Main Event Entertainment Center opens next to the new movie theater off Blakenbaker Parkway. So I have some advice to the owners of Renaissance Fun Park, while you may have capitalized on your dominance of entertainment facilities in the local market for years there’s new options coming to town that are going to give you a run for your money. But in a way I do thank the owners because at least something positive came out of this. This gave me a great opportunity to teach my 6 and 8 year-​old about the world we live in and the greedy people that they’ll run into and how all it takes is one person to say «I’m not going to stand for this» and turn around and walk out. And eventually if everybody does this, they won’t have a business anymore. I mean they could’ve at least given the card for free and absorbed the cost somewhere else like in the cost of their concessions, which, I’m sure reflect the same cost as at the movie theater.
Renaissance Fun Park
-$ 24
For today’s sales total because you were stingy and wanted $ 25.
Also…
-$???
Negative future dollars from my family with a dash of bad press and public perception because your staff showed no mercy or willingness to make an exception or see that $ 24 is better than $ 0.

I give it 4 stars because it is not insane in the arcade area like Chuck E Cheese’s and I don’t like taking out kids just to get my ski-​ball on. And believe me if you are higher than 3 feet and you won’t give me a turn at the ski-​ball (which is one of my FAVORITE games to play), I will take you out! Ok not really but I will buy a cute furry stuffed animal and throw it in the opposite direction and tell the kid they can have it and then jump in on the lane when they make a mad dash to retrieve it! I digress, back to the Fun Park. There are only 2 ski-​ball lanes. Sad. But I didn’t have to fight for one since I went at 9pm on a cool Friday night and most of my would be challengers were home in bed. (hopefully — well unless their mom is one of those crazy ass Wal-​Mart mothers who take their kid into the WalMart Zone (read: alternate version of the Twilight Zone) just so they can shop and the kid can SCREAM the whole way through the store after 8:30pm! Yes, I am a sound proponent of putting little kids to bed at a reasonable hour and NOT subjecting others to the torture of screaming/​melting/​crying children!) Sorry, my ADHD is obviously in high gear today! Anyway here is the scoop:
Buy a package. This place is CRAZY expensive even if you got a Groupon or Living Social deal, you are gonna need to take out a second mortgage. My four kids (it’s ok, they are teens ;) wanted to play mini golf and ride the go-​carts. At $ 10 for each thing, this was $ 80 total already and that did not include me & hubby getting our video/​ski-​ball fix. But if you buy a $ 75 package you get 8 big entertainment choices (mini-​golf, go-​carts, laser tag), 55 tokens and six drinks. I think that was right. Anyway they went off to play and hubby and I got down to trying to beat eachother’s high score which included a little screaming since we are both competitive as all get out. But it was fun and the staff was fantastic!!! Go, Play, and Have Fun at the FunPark!

Yes, it’s true, I’m really just a big kid. I like playing in the rain, getting messy, occasionally tossing a football in the aisles at the local toy store. I spend enough time being an adult that sometimes, I just have to let my little hellion out to play.
When I was a child a long, looong time ago, we didn’t have places like Renaissance Fun Park to cut loose. We played in ditches and culverts, old barns or run-​down houses. You know, safe places for good clean fun. Now my kids have places like this: arcade games, skee-​ball, laser tag, mini-​golf and a go-​kart track. It’s no replacement for my «amusement parks» of yesteryear but it does in a pinch. And my kids enjoy it.
However, on this particular day that I am reviewing, no kids were used for testing. Strictly adults only and my fellow adventurer is always game. We didn’t partake of every activity, and we didn’t stay long, but I’m pretty sure we had fun, so much that we even worked up a sweat with an intense game of air hockey. The puck flying back and forth, ricocheting from rail to rail with such intensity you could practically see sparks fly. I’m still trying to figure out how I got beat though. Hmmm.
From there we moved to the go-​kart track, where on this day it was just the two of us, so it was more of a game of cat-​and-​mouse, switching leads, a little bump here and there, with a spin out at the end. You can’t necessarily play like that when it’s a full track but when you can, take advantage of it.
So, if you’re looking for a break in the monotony of your daily adult routine, bring a date/​friend, or the kids, cut loose a little and be a kid for a little while again.
Now if they only served alcohol, I am a BIG kid after all. ;)