For context, I rate products and businesses on a simple scale: 5 stars means I love it, 4 stars…read moremeans I like it, 3 stars is okay, 2 stars means I didn't like it, and 1 star means I hated it or think it's unsafe. This is already my fourth visit here this season, and I've been coming to Control Tower Ice Cream for years. It never disappoints. They have a huge variety of both soft serve and hard ice cream flavors, along with a ton of sundae options. Portion sizes are very generous too, both for sundaes and cones. Today I had the Chocolate Overload Sundae with Moose Tracks ice cream. It came with delicious hot fudge, little peanut butter cup pieces in the ice cream, Oreo crumbles, whipped cream, sprinkles, a cherry, and even a fun size Hershey bar on top. So good. While I was there the people in line in front of me got slushes that looked very much like bomb pop flavors. I bet there's awesome! Almost changed my choice but I stuck with my original sundae choice. I've also had their brownie sundae in the past, and that was excellent too. Trust me when I say a regular size is already pretty large. The large is enormous. This is probably my favorite ice cream place in the area, with Kurver Kreme right behind it. Another thing I really like is how quickly they move people through. Even when there's a line, I've never had to wait very long to order or get my ice cream. They also have go-karts and batting cages, which makes it a fun place overall. The go-karts aren't open until May 16th, but it's nice having those attractions there. 5 stars.

Located next to a mini golf course and batting cages, Control Tower is such a great spot for a post…read moreactivity reward! They have an extensive menu of soft serve and hard ice creams but they're definitely well known for their sundaes which is what we got this time! Sooo decadent and delicious and you get to choose what soft or hard ice cream to go with it! So many options you can't go wrong! We got the coconut caramel, pb trashcan, and another peanut butter themed one which were so good! So easy to order and everything came out quick! They also have indoor seating during hot summer months

It's a hidden gem.. the perfect five star fun park for kids of any age.. we were driving back from…read moreVermont to New Jersey and found this place on the way.. it's actually wanted to do some go karting and I found this place through Google and it had good reviews.. yeah even though it's not the biggest go karting tracks kids had ample fun.. a smaller track but they had about 21 laps per person.. It was fun. Kids went to the go kart twice .. and pricewise. It wasn't exuberantly expensive like other the so-called go karting tracks... we paid about $70 for 12 activities, which wasn't bad at all.. There were also batting cages. Kids had fun hitting baseballs at 405060 MPH. Mini golf was fun too... they had 14 holes and somewhere really difficult.. kids also loved the basketball area .. Really good place to past time for about two or three hours . Staff were so friendly and helpful... not much to eat around, but they had cold drinks.. very good experience overall ..

So I showed up at 10:00 and there was nobody there and still nobody at 10:30 so I left came back…read morethe we a giant line and 1 staff what the. You want kids to play so run the place on time!

Not a walk in place and only an appointment only. No information about it and gives you the…read moreimpression that you can just come to the place and enjoy. When called informed that you need to call 3 to 5 days in advance and it's a private party. So much for going to there on a whim. Don't get fooled and waste your time waiting for it to open. Also it's a cash only. So be careful.

Having been to a few go-cart tracks I was pretty excited to try this one. It's not too often you…read morefind one with an overpass such as this one. I would say due to the cart speed/responsiveness the track is best suited for kids and teenagers. Be advised, cash only, $10 per driver.

Fun place for a rainy day. Look out for the $1.50 advertisement coupons around town to make it…read morecheaper than the combo pass. Bumper cars are single rider only. Go-karts are fun, squeezed two adults into a car and it malfunctioned but they let us go another lap so it made up for it. Lasertag had a lot of ground to explore and hide in, with a side room area that I saw a preschool girl and her family playing in, if you need a smaller field safer for a younger child. Minus one star for games being out of service, two bumper cars and a handful of lasertag vests broken, and they really could use lockers for storing shoes for bounce houses, purses, umbrellas etc as they just get left at the starting gates or hold onto them in the attractions.

This is an interesting little place. We brought the boys in on a Wednesday afternoon to kill a few…read morehours. Many of the attractions were not open (bumper cars, indoor go-karts, kids inflatable play area), and those that were tended to be underwhelming. The go-karts were fun, and the rides were generously long, but that may have had to do with the lack of crowd size despite the beautiful weather. The go-karts themselves were wildly different in top speeds, and your success on the track was based entirely on the kart you were assigned vs. any actual ability or strategy. No big deal for us, but there was, shall we say, a slightly more competitive family who were extremely annoyed by this, and were letting everyone in earshot know about it. Most of the arcade games were older and not in the greatest condition, with a few exceptions. What was oddest of all was that I found a roll of 5,000 prize tickets just sitting on top of a closed air hockey table completely unattended. I brought them back to an employee at the concession stand and there wasn't even a thank you offered. If it happens again, maybe I'll just the 5' Angry Bird. They also wouldn't honor the Yelp Check-in offer for a free game of Laser Tag. All in all, this place has seen some better days, and both boys enjoyed playing mini-golf at the place across the parking lot far more than they did playing at Adventure Family Fun Center, but you could certainly do worse if you're looking to kill a few hours with the kids.

Outstanding Great people…read more Great service Spotless Clean Great food Great prices Lady knock my food and drink out of my hands They saw and gave me all replacement.

This is a pretty interactive place for kids, lots to do inside and outside…read more That being said the prices a pretty high but they are literally the only game in town. They do have same day pass options that brings the price down, we had one adult, a 4 y/o and a 9 y/o and paid $100 for a mid level pass. The food options are your typical hot dogs, pizza etc with a very, very chaotic system, we waited about 40 minutes whenever we had an order and as expected luke warm and lackluster. All in all the kids had fun, had lots to entertain them, but pricey for multiple visits.

Great,it's fun and they have helmets for all and but there's no suits the karts are fastread more

First time here! Indoor racing at its finest. Live stats as you race. Great place to spend a few…read morehours. Conveniently located on Route 10 right over the Northampton line in Hatfield.

My friend and I came here as part of our mini golf tour, and we were not disappointed. While it is…read more45 minutes from Albany, it is quick highway travel and we soon found ourselves surrounded by cornfields, trees, and hills. It felt like we were in the middle of nowhere, and it was very peaceful. The course is $10.50 a person, but that includes UNLIMITED play for that day. So, it turns out to be a good value if you want to play multiple rounds. The holes are pretty simplistic, but many present multiple paths to the cup including some hidden tubes and channels. If you aren't familiar with the course, I would recommend scoping out each hole before putting. It is a basic course scenery wise: no water hazards, no real sand traps (just gray colored carpet which matches the rest of the green fairway), no jumps, no windmills, etc. There was an intersting tunnel and covered bridge which you played through, and a few other novelty holes with multiple staggered greens that broke up the monotony. That being said, we really enjoyed it. It was more strategic than we first thought, and the cups were for the most part fair (they didn't stick out of the ground causing frustrating rim-shots that plague other courses). All the trees/hills/rocks made it impossible to see the whole course from one place, which isolated us and allowed us to feel like we were the only ones there (until that group of kids caught up... we let them play through). As an aside, the owner woman was extremely friendly and dished out a good scoop of Hershey's ice cream too! This was a fun course.

Part 17 of our comprehensive review of every mini-golf place within an hour's driving distance of…read morethe Capital Region quadrangle moves us to the bucolic setting of the Schoharie Valley, where we tried Gobbler's Knob. The complex includes bungee jumping and a simple but nice driving range, plus what looks like a very nice Par-3 golf course. You can rent golf clubs for the Par 3, and for both the mini-golf and par 3, you pay once and can play all day. There's a basic snack bar with sketcy-looking hot dogs and ice cream, three sad arcade games, and one actual-working pinball machine in the snack shack. There is also a picnic pavilion, although this seems to be rental only. This review, as ever, is only for the mini-golf portion. I note there's a go-kart place on the same drive, but it's run as a completely separate business with different hours. If you want to combine activities, as we did, it's tricky because the go-kart place is run as a side business and the hours are a bit erratic. Pricing is simple: $6 for 5 years old and up, free for 4 and under, one price lets you play all day. Bring the scorecard back to the clubhouse to get a fresh ball and scorecard after hitting the ball into the outhouse on Hole 18. This is a mostly putt-only course, with a few hazard holes that have a little bit of a theme to them. Obstacles are mostly rocks and hills/dips; a few former sand traps have been replaced with painted astroturf, which looks really tacky. It shows the signs of some originality but at least some of the holes are cookie cutter. The holes are on a paved concrete path, surrounded by nice flowers, but make sure you turn left to start out - the holes aren't marked well, with no flags and only an embossed number in the concrete for each hole to tell you where you are. The setting, as noted, is absolutely lovely: there's a farm silo nearby, mountain views in all directions, and a nice lake. There's a creek running into the lake but there was no water running into it. Very disappointingly, there was what looks like a watercourse in part of the course, at least a fountain-mountain, that was dry, and even if there was water running they didn't incorporate water into any of the holes. A mini-golf course with no water hazards is a real waste, IMHO, and given there's natural water here, this is especially sad. The holes weren't terribly challenging, and a number of them had problems with wear on the astroturf surface, including a few with very annoying seams that actually went through the hole (see picture) that made them difficult plays. That said, the course was swept and blown of debris, and the staff were very nice and accommodating. Best holes are #9 (a covered bridge you can walk under), #11 (a deceptive three-tiered hole that had us wondering where our balls had gone), and #15, a walk-through fibreglass "cave" sponsored by nearby Howe's caverns. There's ads/sponsorship for some of the holes, but only the Howe's cavern hole is related to a theme at all; a pity, since the Schoharie Valley offers history from the French and Indian War to Hurricane Irene that easily lends itself to mini-golf themes. #18 Is an "outhouse" where you subtract strokes from your score for hitting it into a skee-ball like target, with the ball disappearing; no free-game-for-hole-in-one, but since it's play-all-day it doesn't matter that much here. There are three two-tiered holes, which is fun, but on none of the holes where there's a "trick shot" are you rewarded with a hole in one. I'm quite torn about the rating here, because the course itself as a course is only a very average three, and wiithout the water features it's a bit plain. The maintenance is also only average, the nice daily maintenance countered by worn turf and bad seams. But it's a very nice outdoors setting, off the road, and at $6 for play all day it's a pretty decent price if you play twice. But still, you will get bored about halfway through the second round. We're on the fence between three and four stars, so will give it a nudge to four based on kind staff, with the understanding it's a middle of the road mini-golf course among the region's offerings if judged on pure playing.

Visited 7-3-24. Plenty of family fun to be had here. Go…read morecarts, batting cages, mini golf, laser tag, small game room and laser tag. I've been here with a bunch of families quite a few times over the past 5 years. Each activity is about 9 bucks and they offer a bit of a discount if you purchase a package. Prices aren't crazy and it's definitely a cool way to spend an afternoon in the summer. The go carts are a standout and lots of fun for children and adults that still think they are children (like myself).

Would not come here. Super rude people and they yelled at kids for having kids water bottles…read morebecause they 'sell water'. Literally yelled at a 2 year old for having water. The equipment is old - laser tag broken

Great place to tunes with the kids! A bit on the pricy side, however, it was not crowded and the…read morelanes were fast and well kept. Magic carpet ride to the top and right back on the slope! We went from 10am-12 and that seemed to be the sweet spot before it started picking up.

Zero stars. First - Magic Carpet isn't working, you either…read morehad to walk up it or wait 15-30 minutes for a small transport vehicle, when you pay for 2 hours. Second - Since the magic carpet is not working they drag the tubes through the mud up to where you are tubing, so make sure you where ski clothes that can be trashed or you do not want ruined. Third - Overpriced compared to every other tubing place in the area. Almost double with disclaimers of how bad the services is.