Cool Crest Family Fun Center

I’m sad to leave this review as I loved coming here as a child and was excited to finally be able to bring my child who is now old enough to play miniature golf. The cashier was kind enough to let my 6 year old have a free game as it was her birthday and we chose the kings area because it was the most shaded but was sad to see what condition it was in when we started playing. What used to be a course with animatronic moving characters is now nothing more than aged green turf that is ripped and causing creases that affect the golf ball going into the hole. The alligator we had to pull open his mouth to even get the balls in and one eye that lights up was missing. The rocket ship is completely gone and now is just metal and brick. At the end you could win a buy one, get one ticket if you get your golf ball into the hole and we did but didn’t get a ticket because the machine was broken. Inside isn’t any better as there is water damage in the walls, wall trim falling off or missing and it smells musty as there is likely mold. I tried to peek at the other courses to see if they were better and there was a different alligator working but that was the only one I found that moved. There was a creepy clown that seemed broken but if I remember he is supposed to be moving. We sadly will not be back.

Edit: A ton of people have viewed my images and need to make a clear point. This place is fun, and we will likely be back in a year+ in hopes of some clean up being accomplished. We would be back more frequently, especially for golfing, if some general clean up is done. A few hours a weekend of the owners time could easily remedy many of the short comings. 3/5 Price : Value (summary) We had a blast at a really reasonable price, there were just a few things, mostly with the golf course that we kind of expected a little more from. The kitchen/dining area smelled like a moldy towel. $50 takes four adults through 2-3hrs of content. You definitely have to make some of your own fun and look past a little bit of maintenance, but for an arcade/golf course they provide fairly acceptable value for the price. 10/10 Employees. They stayed engaged, were quick to provide service, and were both "cool" and accommodating. 4/5 Food : price There's a Sonic across the street, but the prices here were only a little inflated. The hot dogs were large which was also cool. 3/5 golf For $9 a person for a single round of golf I would expect a little bit better maintenance on the courses. Consider getting rid of gimmicks that are truly broken. I would prefer less volume and more quality. The trees were great cover and made golfing in 89° weather pretty comfortable. As of early summer of 2022 there are wasps nests in the free game ticket distributor right next to the door to the building / kitchen. 4/5 arcade The arcade was solid, we had a few machines eat a token or two, but the staff was cool about it. There's a high volume of arcade games about half of them were essentially slot machines, the other half were genuine games. So the choices were nice. There was a pirates game that was absolutely killer, but the left gun had a vertical jittering malfunction with the atom cursor. It was an absolute blast even with a little bit of jank on the left (red) controller. There was also essentially only one ticket receipt machine, but this might be by design as the prize counter was constantly busy. The staff at the prize counter, while they weren't necessarily jolly, they were definitely quick to assist. ~/5 Go-karts We actually initially went for the go-karts, but a sign in the lobby said that due to staffing issues the go-karts wouldn't be available on the day we went. This could be to poor pay, high heat, or a general difficulty to get people in to work weekends.

Our family has enjoyed Cool Crest for decades. We wish they would invest some money to update the putt putt courses, but the kids still have fun.