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Monster Mini Golf
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1560 Boston Providence Hwy
Norwood, MA 02062
(781) 762-3100
Norwood, MA 02062
(781) 762-3100
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18 reviews for Monster Mini Golf
My friend had his birthday celebration at Monster Mini Golf a few months ago. I had never heard of this before, but as soon as we got the invitation email, I was stoked! I loooove mini golf and while I'm not a fan of haunted houses or monsters, for some reason this intrigued me.
Basically, you walk in to a dark building and are immediately in a small arcade. If you walk through the arcade (where they have a pizza vending machine!), you end up at an 18-hole golf course that is all glow-in-the-dark and black-lit.
The holes are all connected, which makes it difficult when there's a group of 20 kids immediately behind you (THAT was fun) and it's not as hard or fun as a real mini-golf course, but on a ridiculously hot day or in the winter, it's nice to play mini-golf indoors! And they have good music. I definitely recommend it as something fun and different to do in the area!
It took us about 2 hours to get playing and finish (it took FOREVER for them to let us on the course), but it's pretty fun.
We went last night around 9:30. The place was quiet except for the music and a few other adult players. While not the most challenging mini golf course it certainly was a LOT OF FUN. THIS IS A GREAT PLACE!
I don't care much for children or anything shorter than 5'5" so this wasn't exactly my idea of a fun Saturday. But hey, when with the right group of rebellious young adults anything is possible.
A word to the wise: KNOW WHERE YOU'RE DRIVING TO. This strip of highway is not really a fan of bangin' Ueys so if you miss your turn get ready for a long drive of "what the hell do I do now?"
Monster Mini Golf will set you back about 7 bucks but will grant you the opportunity to play 18 holes of mini-golf with a bunch of annoying children running around without leashes. Since children have no rights, feel free to throw their jackets on the ground and steal their coat hooks. Sorry guys, this is Ralph Lauren.
Blacklights are everywhurrrrr. I hope you brought a lint brush. There are a variety of "monsters" littering the course but most of them are more comedic than scary. Except for the fat blob in the corner who randomly farts and growls - that thing could make you pee a little if you're not ready. Also, the tweenie DJ blasting the HOTTEST music is fairly scary as well. Please don't look at me...or breed.
Make sure you stop by the delicious restaurant on your way out the door. And by restaurant I mean vending machines of instant pizza and french fries. And dippin' dots. GOTTA GET THE DIPPIN' DOTS.
Wow! I'm not sure why the bad reviews on this place. I've been here twice and it's been nothing but a great experience. I see there a lot of people saying it has cheesy decorations. It's suppose to be fun and cheesy! That's what makes it a fun place.
I've also been to the one in Fairhaven and I have to admit the Norwood one has better monsters. They have tons of video games and air hockey, too. Also, they have snack/soda machines if you're parched from all the mini-golfing!
I did go on a Friday night and it was insane...But, I'm not too sure about all the complaints on that either..It's a Friday night..everywhere you go is going to be completely packed on the weekend. Go during the week..it's empty.
HERES A TIP: Paint your nails a neon color and watch how cool it is. Wear white sneakers, too. It's awesome..I love being a 41 year old kid here. I love Monsters. I love mini-golf...a matter of fact I love black lights. I can't wait to go back!!!
I noticed this place sitting right on busy Route 1 in Norwood and you can't help spotting it. It looks strange in the midst of stores and buildings. When visiting in the winter, get there ealry since the place gets mobbed. I did happen to notice these are a franchise that anyone can start. The place is a large room with the lights turned off and everything including the course is flurescent and painted bright neon colors. The music is cranked up and there is even an arcade. The prices were moderate but with so many people, the lines back up and you start tripping over each other since there is nowhere to stand and wait your turn. The balls are going everywhere and since it is indoors, the place is cramped and just insane. The course is the most basic I have seen and there are no obastacles and the painted glowing rocks looked cheap and made the course cheesy. Plus there are hundreds of birthday parties held here and if you go at that time, you are in for a rude awakening and you will be run over by small children. I would try and avoid this place unless you have nothing better to do!
There was no one in there when my boyfriend and I went in on a weekday night. Course is pretty basic, but the glow in the dark stuff is cool. I got 2 hole in ones in a row, so I am a huge fan of this place :)
Monster mini golf was not what I had imagined it to be, but for $7.50 a game, whatever. Much like Meh, I pictured people dressed in bad Halloween costumes wandering around and scaring little kids. No such thing, but I guess the big mechanical foam monster in the corner was sufficient enough. I mean, it DID scare the bejeebus out of Jenna at one point. RRROOOOAAAARRRR.
I might not do this again (unless I have kids of my own one day), but I'm glad I tried it out at least once. I was the worst of my team (team YAY GAY) and promptly received a "get one free practice" card upon finishing up the 18 holes. I did, however, also win a few tickets for having the yellow golf ball and was able to stock up on some more temporary tattoos and a couple of plastic jumping frogs that I later lost at TC's. Fun times.
I'll pretty much echo the other sentiments on this one. It's inexpensive (especially since they routinely give out two for one admission coupons - and Jen had one). It's quick (normally I'd say too quick but being surrounded by kids, I was glad it was quick). The decorations are cheesy. It's like golfing in a warehouse, yes. And the guy who helped us was surly.
But the thing that's most weird to me is that if you've been here once, golfed once, why would you go back? They should have a rotating course or rotating theme. The theme is monsters...always monsters. It's like Halloween - and I can't imagine going inside that hole on a beautiful summer day. They need to switch up the theme.
But what do I know...Jen's been three times and was still like a kid in a candy shop!
Think of Disney. Make it mini-golf. Take away room to spread out. Add more kids.
I think this place turned my ovaries into raisins.
That said, it's a pretty neat idea and if it's raining out and I'm drunk enough, I'm all for it!
This place was worth the 7 bucks, that's all I can really say. $7 isn't that much and you'll probably spend about half an hour here playing golf and another hour playing video games (if you're like me).
The props are cool, I like the huge fat breathing thing in the corner. We definitely got through it in a half an hour with 6 people, but maybe it's just cause we're that good (and the place was pretty empty).
Also, they have a pizza, hotdog and fries VENDING MACHINE. How cool is that? I got a pizza and it turned out cooked upside down (crap), but it still tasted OK. And my friend got fries which were actually good.
A good first experience, though I prefer outdoor mini-golf. Maybe a good option in the winter but it's not really something to do if you don't have anything else planned for the night. I think kids would really enjoy this place.
+ for playing "Thriller"
- for showing everyone all the lint on my black shirt ;)
I guess I was expecting a teenager sort of scary golf course where on each hole there would be some sort of animatronic Freddy or Jason type character trying to fuck up your game. Or maybe it could have been a preteen monster golf course with a "Goosebumps" or an "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" theme. But it's more along the lines of "Monsters Inc." monsters and foam graveyards sticking out at random parts.
The whole place is blacklighted [blacklit?] so I could see all the lint on my black shirt. The place was teeming with tubby 8-year-olds and their sad sack parents waiting for little Junior to take 10 strokes on hole one. We started golfing on the purple course while Madonna's "Crazy For You" was blasting. It would have been more fitting if they pumped "Monster Mash" on a constant loop.
Probably the only scary thing was at hole 15 or so which has a giant sleeping troll who's hooked up to a Crate amplifier and snores and farts every few minutes. Or it could have been the condoms we found in the pockets of hole 1 and hole 2. I managed to get a hole in one on the last hole where you have to shoot it up the tongue of some clown but no free game. WTF?
In any case, I should have saved my $7.50 and bought a pizza or mini hot dogs that come out of a vending machine. The machine even has a diagram that shows that the food in the vending machine goes from the freezer area to the oven for you to enjoy. Hot vending machine pizza. Crazy!
Just to note, the Monster Mini Golf website states in Nickelodeon slime green font that "it's not so scary that...meek adults would not want to come" so all you wussy types can still go. Whee! And for around $300,000 you can have your own Monster Mini Golf franchise.
But anyway, it's still mini golf and I love mini golf, especially when I have a par of 61. Aces!
While I cannot take credit for finding this little gem (props to Liz D!), I will say, that while I've had a hard time assembling more than 4 people for most group style outings, the conversation of going here, had an amazing out pour of enthusiasm. Monster Golf?! FUCK YEAH!
We had just finished our jet fueled lunch of gluttony and driven about 15 mins to Norwood from Dedham to play the most epic game of mini golf, ever played. Indoor, and completely glow in the dark, is where we had our fun. For about $7 a head, you can play a full 18 holes and then lather up with a little purell and buy some dippin' dots from the machine. They also have a hot foods vending machine that somehow magically rockets a tombstone frozen pizza into an oven from within and cooks you pizza. MAGIC! Giant foam monsters and my pictures came out with globules! Ghosties! or just dust on the lens. Whos to say, naw meanz?
When I was a kid I didn't do too many planned activities because my parents were of the variety that just forced their fat loser kids out into the streets to play hockey with the other kids that were there just to beat on the fat kids that tried to play hockey. As a result of these years of abuse, i mean development, I learned how to get good at staying inside and faking sick, drawing boobies and eating Ho-Ho's. The one time of year when we my parents would have actually spent money on stuff to do would have been when we were at Hampton Beach or down the Cape. And, every summer I would cry like only a fat kid can until I got to play mini golf and hit the water slides.
As a sort-of fat grown up I look back at those not-so-salad days and miss all the good stuff like mini golf. So when the chance to go and play Monster Mini Golf popped up, I clapped like a sugar high 8 year old and did the Dance of Joy all over the place. But, then reality set in - this was going to be indoors, in Norwood on a Saturday - read perfect breeding conditions for every known communicable childhood disease (also note they have tons of Purell). In all fairness, this place is probably Mecca for the under 10, driven about by bored-as-shit parents, population. It's got it all, bad music, black lights,a vending machine that shits out mini hot dogs and numerous outlets to gittt your Mountain Dew on.
In summation: For a grown up, it's overwhelming, annoying, covered in snot and tacky in a way that only somebody who grew up smoking weed and listening to ass metal while reading Stephen King would ever be able to relate to. In other words, it's totally worth the $7.50, man.
It's like 8 bit Mario, but without the nostalgic charm. Really the best thing I can say about the place is that I came out uninjured and unoffended. My hopes were low going in, and Monster Mini Golf still managed to disappoint. Imagine minigolf in a warehouse. Now imagine that instead of clever landscaping, you get to play in a six inch high maze of cement walls at right angles to each other. Add poor lighting, obnoxious kids and your friends' feigned smiles, and you've got yourself a night out at Monster Mini Golf.
Do yourself a favor and play some video games instead. Its not like you're getting fresh air and exercise either way. Oh yeah, it smells funny in there. Like a fog machine.
Kids might like it, but that is pure speculation.
Good for kids, not good for anyone older than 10 yrs. old.
I thought it was a waste of money - I mean $12 is cheap for my son and I, but still we were done in literally 10-15 minutes upon entering and it wasn't quite worth the drive down. To be honest, I felt like telling everyone who walked in to turn back around.
We were lead to believe that this would be a scary, monsters jumping out at you, freaky kind of place. In actuality, it was painted with tacky black light reactive paint, and the monsters were a watered down type of Spooky World spin-off. Yeah they had some cool props, but the advertisements, website, etc. made us all think we were getting something way more original. WRONG.
And they had pizza in vending machines....how sketchy is that? Gross as hell.
It's pretty much the only game around if you want to play mini-golf in cold or inclement weather. Definitely geared towards kids and families, but 6 of us went, sans kids, on a Sunday afternoon. It was still a bit crowded when we showed up at 4pm so we had to wait 10 minutes or so to get on the course. Luckily, there were plenty of pinball machines, video games, skee ball, and random electronic things that spit out tickets we could exchange for some cheap crap. They also had a pizza and hot dog vending machine! None of us were game enough to try that though.
The course is one level, decorated to look like a cemetary. The place is completely lit by black lights with lots of glow-in-the-dark paint. They obviously spent some time and money on the 3 or 4 animatronic monsters hanging about the course. The course itself wasn't anything special, except that it was dark and the holes glowed in the dark. What made it a really fun afternoon is that even though it was geared toward kids, they had a DJ booth that played music for 30 somethings. The Go-Go's, Bananarama, Poison, Bell Biv Devoe, etc. I felt like I was in a roller rink in 1988. We had a great time dodging children, singing and dancing, and generally being goofy.
When we left at 5:30 the place had cleared out a lot. Prime time is probably the after lunch/before dinner period. Adult admission was $7 and child admissions are based on height. All in all, not a bad place to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon.
5 yr olds: "MAAAAAAAAAHM, this is the worse place EVER! Why did you bring me here?! I HATE YOU(AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO THROUGH MY TEEN YEARS!) }:O"
Liz:"bweeeeeeeeeeeee! :D "
Mini-golf and inclimate weather have a tendency not to mix, the rainsnowsleetandhail tend to funk with my stellar game. -holds index finger up in air- -tears clump of astroturf- -releases it- but not on this special day...Mother Natures Worst(save:Cruel Intentions II, monkey butts, and black jellybeans) couldn't keep me from 0wning the course at Monster Mini-golf! Weren't you in Norwood anyway? Just stop by this establishment whose logo is oddly-reminiscent of the energy drink, and step into the world of freshman year Set Design coupled with the budget of the Blair Witch project.
Ok guys, we have $5 and a camcorder...lets make some movie ~*~*MAGIC*~*~*~*~*~*~```304i20.
I came here happily riding off the buzz of MSG mounds and scorpion bowls from nearby Tahiti with a gaggle/crash/pride/pod of my closest friends. You enter into a shanty building of arcades requiring the diligent use of post-gameplay antibacterial soap up front and the mini-golf course out back. The labcoat clad employees stood behind a case full of ticket wonderment...After playing whack-a-mole and crane games for 5 consecutive hours you can score a gooey eyeball or a skull chalice. Admission is $7.50 for adults and those awkward tall kids that will presumably get asked if they play basketball through their middle school years and be haunted with dated nicknames like "SUP BEANPOLE"...and then less for midgets aka people good at gymanstics(tumbling), limbo, and getting the tennis ball out from under the couch for my dog.
While waiting with your number to be called, be sure to check out the black light friendly designs lifted from Reel Big Fish covers and MS Clipart and lurk into one of the party rooms (uninvited) to see what all the money in the world can buy. 2 small rooms, decorated to be "eerie" feature a stock-it-yoself fridge, long table, and creepy accents scooped up from a New England flea market...(evil?) fairies and Dracula dolls that look like they should be holding "Home Sweet Home" placards.
They also feature dippin dots machines which vacuum up your selection, and a pizza vending machine that had the Einstein in me running logistics models through my head of its constructions re:gears, pulleys, trajectories, and the probability that my overpacked stomach cavity could breakdown an additional 4 partially hydrogenated beef weenies and tombstone pizza without spewing blacklight friendly vomit all over my peers. -shakes magic 8-ball- Not Likely. indeed.
Our group was so massive we had to be split up(which didn't stop us for long) into groups of 5 or 4. Naturally I was put into the "double date" group since I have recently turned into an old woman and forego nights of shot-demolishing and whats-your-name bro banging for cuddlepuss and Fox and the Hound II. Hole 1 was off to a good start, I skillfully made a 3 swing deposit into the hole, past a treacherous tombstone or two. As the holes stretched on....our play-by-the-rules accuracy went a bit out the window.... Difficult papermache obstacles were moved out of the way by helpful boyfriends, Chloe showed off her amazing field hockey techniques, her boy defied gravity will his barrier jumping skills, and my ski-ball strategy really stole the show around Hole 15. Photos were taken, most of which didn't come out, monster accents were poked and "BEWARE OF DOG" boxes acted as perfect holding platforms for my purse. A tweenie DJ who was working part-time to earn some $$ to get a 89 Lincoln Towncar his grandpappy drove..spun cheesy toons that caused us to sing into our clubs before prodding them into other people's tushies.
The 18th hole was a sight to see, with a floor to ceiling clown mouth the subject of children's nightmares everywhere which we rallied around egging eachother on. My ball, even with the aid of my wife's gravitating crotch swaying over the hole, went promptly into the gutter of no return, while others had an easier time scoring the most triumphant of holes-in-one.
I wasn't too jealous though because my game was virtually perfect up until this point. I'd say...it was probably holes-in-one all over the place for me for 90 something percent of the time because of my skills, charisma, and inability to follow rules and structure coupled with crippling ADHD.
This place is pretty fun. It's meant mostly for kids, but it can be fun for everyone. It is glow in the dark, with blacklights.
On the courses there are tombstones as obstacles, and many large "statues" of creepy things, and at the very end there is a very
"It"ish clown head.
Its got a normal arcade with a good amount of games to play.
overall this is a pretty fun place to go to.
