This is an excerpt of e-mail that was sent to Big Air Corp.
I'm not even sure where to start but I will say this, I will never, ever, schedule a birthday party at your business ever again. I will also never, ever, suggest your business for a birthday. As a matter of fact I will go out of my way to tell people to avoid your business and also be submitting negative reviews on google, facebook and the BBB. You're probably asking yourself what would drive me to be so upset? Well let me share with you why.
If I could sum up the experience we had most recently in two words they'd be chaotic nightmare. We had our sons birthday party there last year and it was great. The lines weren't bad, the service was great, the place wasn't too busy, the kids got game cards and the list goes on. This year we were met with immediate disasters with nothing but lines everywhere. There were lines at the wavier kiosks, lines at the main entrance as well as huge lines at the party check in. You could tell that the staff was ran down, frustrated and simply exhausted from dealing with too many people. I saw the AGM getting yelled at several times from unhappy guests. I feel really bad for the workers. That was actually one of the few bright spots, your employees. They were getting abused left and right because the business is WAY under staffed but they maintained a sunny disposition and soldiered on. I'd like to commend Shaki, Naomi (AGM) and Mercedes for taking care of our guests and I the best that they could.
The schedule for our event was jump time from 4-6pm and then food at 5pm and room at 6pm. How does this make any sense? Hey here's your food but you have no where to eat it because your room won't be ready until 6pm. And mind you, there were so many people there at your facility there was no where to go comfortably to wait and gather stuff. We had 16 kids and prob 15 adults there with birthday gifts, treats, coats, etc and we were stuffed onto one picnic table. Super fun and super comfortable.
Let's go in to play time. When I say there was a ton of people I mean there was probably twice as many people there that should've been. It was insane. While standing next to the dodgeball area I saw numerous kids get injured because it was a free for all and there was just no where to go. There was no safe place for my 3 yo daughter to play. My six yo boy and his friend were both injured in the dodgeball area too. Again, just too many kids and no safe place for younger children. Also no employees watching out and managing the crowds because the facility was under staffed.
Then let's go over to the Ninja Warrior climbing area. You had one, yeah one, person staffed there. Absolute crap show. You had one person gearing people up with harnesses and that same person was hooking people up and sending them on their way. Kind of feel like this is unsafe due to the fact that you have kids dangling 25 feet in the air. The same one person busting their butt to crank through the line and keep people happy probably wasn't putting his best foot forward to ensure the safety of each child that was going through. Then let's talk about the girl who was stuck on the zip line part dangling two stories in the air and no one to help her. How could the one person working effectively do their job and keep people safe?
Such a mess.
Let's go to the room and food. Room was cleaned pretty poorly. There were literally crumbs all over the little round table for either cake or gifts., We didn't use it because it was nasty. They ran out of the cookie cakes. They ran out of all juice. And our pizza was a half hour late. We ended up loosing half our party guests because kids were loosing their minds because they were starving. We ended up letting them eat cupcakes because they were so hungry, And due to that we didn't sing happy birthday to my son because there was no cupcakes left to do it properly. Unbelievable. Again the staff was trying to do what they could but there's only so much they could do.
Ticket counter was also understaffed and a crap show. My brother and my niece waited for over a half hour to turn in tickets. After they spent money getting the game cards that you guys got rid of from LY.
Again, I want to personally thank Shaki, Naomi (AGM) and Mercedes for being amazing and facing such a mess. These three girls deserve more than my shout out..... wink wink hint hint. read more