Magic Carpet Golf

Don’t recommend… owner doesn’t care for business so i won’t give him mine. 1^st visit was pleasant. We won 2 free games and then came back to play our 2^nd game the next day and he closed early. Called before and confirmed his hours and drove 2 hours to find out he closed early. Thanks for a waste of time. Glad we didn’t bring our kids because there would have been lots of tears.
Be open when you say you are open. You turned down 10 people wanting to play so you could have your silly car show. Won’t be back and won’t recommend

It’s mini golf. It looks like every other mini-​golf around. The girl at the counter didn’t acknowledge us until my husband said hi. It was expensive and boring. Nothing special or unique like the one up the road. Meh.

This miniature golf place was a nice break from the beaches and forests. Located along the main street (Lake Blvd) in Tahoe City!
Arcade games from ¹⁹⁸⁰⁄₈₁ include Ms. Pacman and Centipede which were surprisingly only .25 cents! Plenty of newer video games too; including several pinball machines.
The miniature golf had three course options:
Beginner-​Castle,
Intermediate-​Dinosaur and Advanced-​Grizzly Falls.
We chose the Advanced course called Grizzly Falls, despite golfing like beginners!
Overall, we had alot of fun on these 19 holes! I recommend this place to anybody, young or old!

This place is adorable. It’s not the fanciest mini golf course ever, but they do have 3 courses you can choose from which is awesome. The owner is friendly, and the place is super clean. They even have arcade games! (Mostly classics like pinball, Pac-​Man, and racing games that don’t offer tickets, but are only 25¢ a play!) Fun for all ages, even adults.

Lots of fun with kids. 3 courses to choose from. We take our 9 year old and 6 year old every time we come up.

We had a blast w/​our family at this golf course! They were open late for us & very friendly. We love supporting local small businesses & this is definitely one of them:) THX for a fun evening Magic Golf, see u next time!

This is now one of my favorite mini golf courses. I love that one of the courses is 28 holes because 18 never quite feels like enough! It’s also one of the more challenging courses I’ve played — the obstacles can be pretty tricky on this one! They also have some fun arcade games inside.
There are only two things that stop me from giving it five stars: bees and trees. One of the holes is right next to some flowers which the bees seem to love. It wasn’t that big a deal — but let’s just say we played that hole a little more quickly than the others. Also, there are trees throughout the course which constantly drop big needles all over. Before every single hole we had to go through and clear out the needles so they wouldn’t mess up our shots. That was annoying.
BUT — still one of my favorite things to do on the North Shore. Call ahead to make sure they’re open as they have limited hours.

played the easiest of the 3 courses first time here. had a very fun time. obstacles were unique and well cared for. building and some parts of the course seem newer. my kid had a blast and we will definetly try this place again.

Three courses to play and nice game room. Snack machines are junk food but who cares. Fun times!

The courses are all fun — 3 different ones. I also don’t understand the rant from the girl who went with her boyftiend, a local, and was highly disappointed in the grizzly course. So the boyfriend grew up playing here but wanted a more challenging course. Get real. Its mini golf and it’s done well. You’re not a small kid any more so what do you expect.
I will say the service inside is not terribly friendly but it was just a young lady (teenager?) bored and not smart enough to figure out how to make the job more fun.

Pretty corporate feeling golf with well maintained grounds. Props to whoever brought in the arcade games as they had some great ones including Simpsons, Afterburner, T2 and more importantly Addams Family and Twilight Zone pinball. They should seek a beer license and see profits triple.

A truly wonderful mini-​golf course. However, when my colleagues and I reserved a tee time, we were thrilled at the prospect. When we arrived at the miniature gold course (1 hour and 15 minutes before their closing time) the course was CLOSED! What a shock to the senses! We reeled in agony at losing a competitive round of putt-​putt! We were sure that we’d get in before closing, but we were grossly misled. We are disappointed. We are angry. We will not settle for less. Thanks for nothing.

Kids enjoyed mini golf and as it turned out the family playing in front of us was from our hometown. Three courses to choose from. They chose the Castle option, which has 27 holes plus you drop the ball in a slot machine at the end. Restrooms clean. Vending machine only for drinks. Be sure to sunscreen up. $ 36 for three of us seemed kinda pricey, but it was a couple of hours of good entertainment.

Once again a fun time! We played the larger course, something like 27 holes? Nicely kept, fun different configurations!

As a group we love mini golf as experienced a ton of big courses back east… This is one of the best mini golf courses out west. Actually had obstacles and challenges. Three different level courses which is nice and three different themes. They also change some of the obstacles locations and change them out each year which is nice.
One course is 28 holes and that was too long for the little one but we did it and had some fun. Photos with some of the obstacles are quite entertaining.
Overall good but missing one star as the last hole is like a slot machine rather than an actual golf hole and the staff seemed a little put off we asked questions.

While at Tahoe on vacation as a kid, we waited a few days while they put on the finishing touches, and played on opening day, back in the 1960’s. We found it far more creative than the typical mini-​golf, we went back year after year, most recently 2010. Looking forward to a trip to Carnelian Bay in about 3 weeks, to play all 3 courses again!

Well maintained and clean miniature golf place. The kids enjoyed playing there. Also an arcade is available to eat up as many quarters as you like. We played the longer Castle course. Interesting holes.

3 Miniature golf courses — easy/​medium/​hard — all fun and well enjoyed by the kids, this is a must annual do for our kids. Most of the holes are in excellent condition, a few need some TLC. Each course will take you about an hour, depending on if there are folks in front.
There is a video arcade next to the office which the kids also love.

Best place to go on a lazy summer day in Tahoe. Beautiful courses that have been recently redone. Great customer service and fantastic environment for the kids.
I don’t understand the other negative review? I have always been treated great by the owner (Bill). They must have been a little to pushy with their «locals» argument. We get this all the time in Napa from people that think we owe them something because they live near the winery.

Stay away from this establishment if you care at all about how a business owner treats repeat local patrons.
My boyfriend was raised just around the corner from this place. He has been going here as long as he can remember. I, however, am not originally from the area and my experience with this place has been no more than to oogle at the amazing structures (dragon with glowing red eyes, massive castle, etc) from the road as I pass by in my car. We tried to go once, but found that we had just missed a «last call» situation. As we discussed which course to try in the future, my boyfriend expressed great desire to try the newest one: Grizzly Falls. He wanted to do this course because he had never had the opportunity and the other courses were so amazing… something themed with GRIZZLIES had to be insane!
Wrong.
We finally made it out to the golf course on Tuesday night. We paid our money and made our way to the back course (you know — the one AWAY from the road… out of sight/​out of mind). I was severely disappointed immediately. The only namesake for this course is a waterfall and a mural with some grizzlies on it. The rest of the course is basically put-​put, sans about three or four with some sort of challenge. After getting frustrated with the lame-​ness of this course in comparison to the other courses (my boyfriend was SEVERELY let down, considering his history with the place) COMBINED with waiting for 15 minutes every hole behind a really slow & drunk group of six, we opted to go in and try to get a refund or at least access to a different course.
Upon walking inside, we noticed they were severely busy getting people onto the courses, so we took our place in line behind all of the families. When we reached the counter, we were greeted with none other than the actual OWNER of the place. We explained exactly our dilemma and how let down we were. We explained that we were locals and that we just wanted to go to the other course (same price, as well) instead. He basically told us no and even went so far as to LIE and say that the Grizzly Falls course was the most popular one and that people raved about it and repeated it all the time. I can tell you that there is NO CHANCE a course that boring would get so much attention when the course right by the road has the epic things in it that it does.
We explained that we were locals with family in the area and that he should really be more concerned with the repeat customers that LIVE around there. He was VERY rude and unsympathetic. It’s obvious that this man lives to prey on the massive Bay Area families that take over the Lake in the summer.
On our way out, I made sure to make my point once more… explaining the «locals» thing and «repeat customers for over 20 years» thing. Finally he yelled at us and asked us what we wanted. We told him (again, and calmly — way moreso than him at this point… his face was BRIGHT red) that we just wanted access to the other $ 8 course. He kept asking if we had finished Grizzly Falls and we kept explaining that we hadn’t because it was a HUGE let-​down. He referenced our score-​card and saw we ended at the 7^th hole. Begrudgingly, he told us to start the Dinosaur course at the 8^th hole.
SO, we did. And it was WAY better. While most of the Dinosaur course actually resembles an Old West town with cowboys, and city hall, and a «town,» it was a better course to play through. Nearly every hole was ACTUALLY miniature golf and NOT put-​put. Granted, there were actually only two DINOSAURS on the namesake course, but it was a million times better than «Grizzly Falls.»
It doesn’t matter, though. We will never return to a place with an owner so rude, inconsiderate, etc. Kings Beach has a (cheaper) place to go… and they care more about their patrons.
If you absolutely have to go to this place, skip Grizzly Falls. It’s boring. Dinosaur is fun… Castle looks like the best one… but at an over-​inflated $ 11/​person, it better be.