Very positive feelings about this spot. First time we visited. Our 7 year old daughter got skates…read morefor Christmas, and learned to get around the house pretty good on the tiled area. My wife, and I--(both 50 y/o)-used to skate every other week growing up, and were both really good skaters. Not anymore.
We both thought it would be like riding a bike. Nope. She had a few little slips and falls, and made it around the ring just twice and gave up, switched to shoes, and just watched my daughter. I went out, got about a half a lap, but it was so hard, and I nearly fell a few times, in that short distance. I saw a smaller rectangular area, where kids were practicing, so I went in there, so I didn't slow down the main circuit.
I took maybe 2 strides, and went tits up. Bad. Really bad. Little kids stopped to ask if I was ok. I was not. Not even close. I went flat out, like a cartoon. Legs went completely up in the air, and I landed flat on my back. I've never fallen like that in my life--I couldn't believe how bad I was now--I used to even skate backwards, back when I was 16.
Anyways, I was down for maybe 30 seconds, then laughed it off with the kids in the area, and said I was fine. I wasn't. it was so hard to get back up, I could barely breathe, but tried to pretend I was fine, smiling through the pain. I walked back to the main seating area, thank the maker I didn't have to go back to main circuit, to get back to main area
I was still fighting for breath, couldn't take a deep breath, and my lower back, bum, and back of my upper thighs were killing me with pain. we ended up staying an hour, my daughter was a great skater, and having fun, so I just kept pretending I was fine, and smiling.
Asked my wife to drive home, that's how bad it hurt. Took a couple Advil, and 2 old, saved, pain pills I had from a dental issue a few years back. . Those helped, I got my breath back, finally, 2 hours after the fall. The next day, I had bad bruises all over my bum, lower back, and back of legs. I was in pretty bad pain for a couple weeks, but it was manageable, and went away eventually. Anyways, I learned my lesson, and wife did too, no more skating for us.
We took my daughter again though, she loves it, and has less distance to fall, if she does fall.
My only 2 minor gripes, took a while to order daughter some chicken tenders, never used a QR code on phone before to order anything, and they won't take a verbal order. Got that figured out, but it was close to 40 mins waiting for the chicken. By the time it was ready, so were we, we were ready to leave. She wolfed down a few bites, and we tossed the rest. They were very good she said, but we were in a rush to leave. My azz was killing me, and I wanted to get home to lie in bed!
The other little gripe was the arcade. We all played a bunch of cakes, using their swipe card. I had a mental aprox of "ticket" points, and we had just over 400 or so. Went to prize counter, they scanned the card, and said he what 63 points. Huh? I know we got 150 points from just one game I was playing, to win her some "tickets".
We told the younger guy at the counter, there must be some mistake, we had over 400. I suggested maybe we might have done something wrong, maybe we scanned the card wrong on the machines? He was friendly, said oh no, it wasn't you, it's the machines.
He said some of them don't update the points won on the card properly, or aren't on "the network", it's a known issue, happens all the time. So I said, well I know we had over 400, can you just up our count, and let my daughter grab something in the 2-300 range as a sort of compromise. He said he couldn't do that, and could only give us the 60 odd points shown on the card. That was disappointing, but not worth causing a scene. Seemed so petty, the thing she wanted to get for 250 points or whatever was a small $3 toy at any 5 below etc.-if it's a known issue, they should have just let her get what she wanted.
Oh well, all in all, we still had a great time the 2 times we went, and are going again tomorrow, for Labor Day, for daughter to skate around. We will probably skip the arcade though, and order her chicken tenders early.