Calypso's Cove is right by the Enchanted Forest and Water Safari amusement park (but is a separate business). They have an arcade, food/ice cream, batting cages, go karts, mini golf, a climbing wall, and bumper boats. With the exception of the arcade everything here is $5 which isn't bad at all.
Normally I'd want to give a place like this (especially because this place seems really up to date and clean) 5 stars but I had a few issues here making me hold back the praises.
First of all I wasn't too familiar with the $5 ticket system and just wanted a couple tokens for the batting cages. I saw that $5 got you 5 tokens but I assumed you could just buy individual tokens like any other batting cage. I asked the guy for 2 tokens and he asked me for $10. Without thinking I handed over the cash and it wasn't more than 2 seconds after he closed the cash register drawer that I asked why it was $10. He then explained that each ticket that I bought got me 5 tokens (which meant that I just bought 10 tokens). I said that I was sorry and I really only wanted 2 tokens and if I couldn't buy them individually then I could just buy one ticket. Surprisingly he responded that there are no refunds and he couldn't give me my money back. It wasn't until I got a manager involved and explained my situation at least two more times that I was able to wrestle $5 back. Needless to say this messed up customer service left me with a bad taste in my mouth.
I proceeded to make my way to the batting cages (of which there were 6 I believe). All but 1 were out of order and I needed to sit and wait until I was able to use it. It was nice that there was an option of 40,50,60,70mph baseball, or softball. Unfortunately 50mph was pitching so low I had to stand farther than the dividers to get it to the right height and 60mph was pitching so high that I had to stand all the way back and swing high. There seemed to be buttons to adjust the height but those didn't work.
I also tried the go karts with a friend here which I thought were pretty decent but my friend said her kart was so slow that even with the pedal to the floor she was passed by a number of people.
The arcade is pretty small and didn't have much to excite to older crowd like pinball or air hockey but they did have skeeball (the shorter type) and at 1 token (25 cents) per play the price was right.
I didn't play mini golf but it looked like a great course and at $5 it's a great deal.
If the people at Calypso's cove would keep their stuff in peak working order and work on their customer service skills I'd have no issue with giving them a solid 4 stars because it's a great place to have some fun on a nice day and not spend too much money doing it. read more