My review has been updated after receiving a response from Daniel B the Miami Airsoft owner. Daniel, comments such as those left by myself and other customers are an insight into our overall satisfaction with your business. My review had some positive points and some negative points... but they were all honest. You can take these comments as well as those left by others and try to defend yourself against each and every point... or you can thank us for taking the time our of our day to tell you what we think... and use the comments to IMPROVE YOUR BUSINESS. Your choice. And the success of your business depends of it!
Miami airsoft is an indoor airsoft range. They also have a nice store where they sell guns, accessories, repairs, snacks, pizza, etc. They also have party rooms. The course is pretty fun. Its set up like a city. There's a house complete with different rooms and furniture. A repair garage. A port complete with containers and equipment. Several elevated River houses. Plus an office building complete barbershop, copy center, cubicles, desks, etc.
This was my first time playing airsoft. The sport has a lot of potential over paintball. Paintball ball is getting really expensive due to the rising cost of ammo and co2 refills. But if you own all of your own gear its only 10 to 20 dollars to play all day long at miami airsoft.. Plus ammo is really cheap. If you need to rent all of your gear it will cost about $60 per person including everything to play for the whole day.
Airsoft stings like a bee sting. Depending upon what clothing you're wearing, where you are hit, and the velocity of the weapon from which you are shot the sting could leave anything from a small red mark on your skin to a lump the size of a quarter protruding a half an inch off your body. Face protection is a must. I recommend wearing long sleeves, long pants, boots, gloves, face guard, and most of the players wear a hoodie jacket and padded vest. The game itself is exhilarating. It's a lot of fun playing and really gets your adrenaline and heart going.
The sport however has one critical flaw. Unlike paintball which leaves a clear obvious distinguishable paint mark on your body airsoft does not. The course is quite large for the two to three referees there. They're not even usually watching the game. On a number of different occasions I have shot people, seen them react to the sting, and watch them stay in the game. Depending upon the rules of that particular game come on when your head you're either out or need to go back to your home base to reactivate. But there doesn't seem to be a lot of honor at Miami airsoft nor is there enough interest or ability of the referees to keep the game honest. On a number of different occasions I was shot with full auto, which is against the rules. Or shot with high velocity guns that exceed the range safe limit and were not checked appropriately by the referees. There was a number of other occasions on which I was shot, raised my gun and hands to show that I was out of the game and on my way to the exit was shot again a number of times with my hands in the air. From my experience people are shooting first then looking later. But in real life you look first before you shoot. Getting shot with my hands in the air is not a lot of fun. That's not cool. That's not safe. That takes all the fun out of the game for me and makes me think twice about going back to Miami airsoft again.
My review is 3 stars because I feel that the owner and staff are not doing everything possible to ensure the safety and integrity of the game read more