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Boomers!
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Neighborhood: Vista
1525 W Vista Way
(between Durian St & Grapevine Rd)
Vista, CA 92083
(760) 945-9474
1525 W Vista Way
(between Durian St & Grapevine Rd)
Vista, CA 92083
(760) 945-9474
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
10 reviews for Boomers!
You need games, but you can't go to Disneyland or to the annual Fair? Head on down to Boomers! It's here - everyday - all day - all 365 days out of the year!
I remember when this was the Family Fun Center. Compared to the other Boomers! I've been, this is the cleanest and most organized facility I've been to. However, there is a manager dude with Dragon Ball-Z hair that's a bit over himself walking around. You got some nice keys on the belt of yours.
At this Boomer's, you'll find -
2 mini-golf courses (Pirate and Medieval themes).
Laser Tag
Batting Cage
Lots of kids. Lots of Kids.
Battle Boats
Go Karts
Two floors of video games and carnival like games; and kids tripping over their prize tickets.
A cafe replete with Hebrew National Dogs, burgers, fries, and MILFs hosting birthday parties for their kids.
Lots of kids. Screaming kids.
Kids with shoes. Kids without shoes.
Because I regularly donate blood, I scored some free passes to Boomers! which allowed for unlimited mini-golf, go karts, battle boats, and laser tag. Mind you, this trip also satisfies my bi-yearly trip to Boomers because there's only so much mini-golf, go karts, battle boats, and laser tag and screaming kids tripping over themselves, their mouths, their feet, and their prize tickets.
Did I just see a party limo bus in the parking lot? Wow, kids birthday parties are sure changing. I remember when I was excited to just have my birthday party at McDonald's.
Boomers are typically great but this one is by far the worst I've ever been too. The service is absolutely horrible, and the gang bangers standing outside every friday and saturday night is not the ideal place to bring kids.
The last straw was when my friend and I went to the batting cages and an employee was constantly hassling us for chewing gum, and kept saying "you better not spit that on the ground" and then made sure we didn't by putting a cup right by our helmets. As well as making other crude remarks.
I wish there were negative stars so I could give this one a -5.
This might be one of the better Boomer's in the land. The video game selection may leave you wanting more and the go-carts are very slow.
But the shining gem of this location is their mini-golf courses. You have a choice of the pirate cove or King Arthur's Court. Both are well painted and maintained. The Pirate's Cove is by far my favorite.
Otherwise, it's a pretty standard Boomers.
Horrible, Lame and SUCKY!!!!!
Minus one star for the bitchy young WHORE-IBLE chick that was working the outside area, who wouldn't let me and my friends go play in the batting cages at night when they weren't really even closed yet!!!!!!
Minus one star for the other lame and boring chick that was working the prizes counter and she bitchy "i-want-to-get-out-of-her-and-get-high" look and attitude on her face.
C'mon BOOMERS! Hire people with personality and who know to have a fun time while working at a place like this. Also, minus another star for the chick at the prize counter not being able to multi-task!! There was another family to me and my friends side who were looking at prizes, and while me and my friends were deciding what to get from our tickets, she could have helped them and gotten them their prizes.
Basically, this place gets there first star for having nice and fun games on the inside and outside. the second star goes to the $12 days where you only pay $12 and you can play all the video games you want and all the other shit you want too.
Basically, the employees are the worse part about coming here.
(I don't think I've ever said so many bad things about one place in a review before!!!!)
Boomers used to be the "Family Fun Center", which is exactly what it is. A decent arcade, 2 miniature golf courses, batting cages and some basic bumper boats and go carts. I usually go here every few months for the videogames, and to win some AMAZING! prizes (like whistle lips!) with my tickets. The mini golf courses are respectable, nicely themed (pirate and medieval) and kept up for the most part. (The pirate course has a pretty bitchin' "giant" volcano and steals the Pirates of the Caribbean theme song a couple of times.) In general the place is clean and fun. I've never had problems with other guests or the staff. Used to love going here as a kid and still roll in as a bored adult every once and awhile. Worth a try on a lazy summer afternoon. (They have specials where you get all the games you can play for a set price sometimes, check with the staff on that.)
Let's face it- arcade games were outdated back when the first Playstation was released, so there's no way a bulky cabinet game is going to compete with anything you can play at home on your Wii/XBOX 360/PS3. The age of the arcade is probably dead, at least until America catches up with Japan (and I don't see that happening where this industry is concerned).
The game section of Boomers is a testament to this technological change, as I don't think I've seen a new game appear there since I moved here three years ago. The DDR machines seem to get a decent amount of play, but the rest is pretty old. I can dig that though, as there's something comforting about playing the games you grew up with And the skee-ball, air hockey type games are fun. Boomers also offers two different mini-golf courses, which seems to be the "awkward first/second date" destination for many. And yes, I took my girlfriend there on our second date.
The real reason I come to Boomers, though, is for the batting cages. If I'm feeling particularly stressed, hitting a bunch of baseballs is a fantastic cure. They have three different speeds available (slow, medium and fast), and you get 30 pitches for $2. I highly recommend bringing gloves of some kind; hit a ball with your bare hands fifty times or so, it'll hurt like eight bitches in a bitch boat. I'll also warn that the "softballs" are anything but, and are actually quite hard and heavy.
Stepping into the cage is always a nice Zen moment for me, where I just focus on the pitches and not think about anything else for a good half hour or so. The cages at Boomers aren't perfect (some pitches tend to be too low, they can come out at a rate that's hard to keep up with) but they're the most affordable.
Boomers is an excellent place for entertainment of all ages. They have an arcade, water bumper boats, a slick track, laser tag, batting cages and miniature golf.
The golf course is challenging and fun. The batting cages are inexpensive, it's about $2 for 30 pitches. Their bats and helmets are lacking, so if you have your own - bring it for sure.
i love you, but i swear if the next time i go and you are closed for a private event i might scream!
that is the second time that they have been completely closed.
at least we got a bunch of free attraction tickets!!
OK, I just got back from this place. We went there for my nephew's 10th birthday party. We live in San Diego so what a schlep! We hauled our 9y/o, 7 y/o and 4 y/o up there. They've been to Boomers in Kearney Mesa before and they were excited. For me and my wife, it ranks up there with Chuck E. Cheese in popularity. Anyway, the place in Vista looks newer and better maintained than the one near us. They have bumper boats and go karts and batting cages just like the one in Kearney Mesa but they don't have a ferris wheel and other carnival rides. The minature golf courses in Vista look newer and better maintained and the game room is nicer, more spacious and has more games than Kearney Mesa. Don't go there for the pizza-it's OK but not much better than the Chuckster's stuff. I was disappointed that althought they had a nice selection of beer on tap, I had a real hard time getting to any of it. I stood at the counter in front of the beverage station for 10 minutes on two separate occasions waiting for someone to come by and take my order. These young kids kept walking by so fast I couldn't catch them. When I finally grabbed someone, they told me they didn't serve beer by the pitcher and that I'd have to go to a different counter on the other side of the concessions to get beer by the glass. The line over there was so god damn long that I totally lost interest in the beer anyway. Minus one star for the beer fiasco and minus another star for the lousy pizza. On a bright note, there was a mexican market next door with a bar b cue going in front that smelled wonderful. The smoke kept blowing on to the minature golf course and forced me to take a look. It was there that I found the habanero hot sauce I had been looking for.
I don't throw the word "love" around as much as a lot of people, so when I do love something you'll probably want to listen up because chances are it's incredible. A fine example is this mini golf course. I love it. If you live anywhere near Vista and you haven't gone to the ol' Family Fun Center in a few years, you need to visit immediately. They turned the boring old golf course into a pirate mini golf course. And it's not just a cartoon-looking pirate on a sign telling you what hole you're on, you actually trounce around through a Spanish-style mission that looks like it's been firebombed, as well as a misty mountain cave that brings to mind the finest amusement park ride ever, the Pirates of the Caribbean [pre-Johnny Depp]. Further, there's a hole where you shoot into a giant skull-looking rock, in which the ball plumbing has apparently never worked right on so to get your ball back, you have to lay on your belly and shimmy into this giant skull like a real pirate would have to do. Very high marks across the board.