Post Road Recreation Center

The cars are not well maintained which makes go karting not very much fun. My family broke two cars in half an hour don’t waste your time or money go somewhere else if you want to go karting.

Went here because my son wanted to go karting and it was close by. The price was alright if you get the unlimited pass. We got the 2 hour unlimited go karts, laser tag, and mini golf and needless to say it was plenty of time. The indoor slick track was the best thing out of he whole place. The karts were fast enough for the small oval track. The outdoor course track was terrible and the karts could definitely use some engine replacements and upkeep. The kart I got was so slow I got lapped many times by the same karts. They also preach when you get there about their no bumping or hitting policy that will get you kicked out, but they do not enforce it on anyone. I saw the same two people on both the slick and outdoor track break the safety rails of their karts by hitting each other and the employees did nothing. The mini golf course was the worst thing I had seen there. The course looked like it had been abandon many years ago. The landscape was over grown, the fake houses and light house looked like they were homes for homeless people oh and the greens were so worn that they were peeling up. The tubes that took the ball from one part of the green to the other part were so clogged you got your ball stuck and had to use your club to push it through. The water creek was empty and had weeds growing everywhere. The laser tag was ok even tho the guns weren’t very accurate. We didn’t eat here and thank god we didn’t. This place needs a lot of money put into it before I will ever go back. If you go just take a walk around everywhere and see everything before you decide to spend the money. We didn’t and it was a mistake I now have to live with.

Holy cow. A few weeks ago, I took my racing-​obsessed three-​year-​old to Post Road Rec. It’s save to say that this will be a very positve review. My youngest and I were kicked out of the house so that my wife could clean. Bonus. We get to have fun and come back to a clean house. With nothing planned, I racked my brain for something to do. The boy loves everything, so the issue was how to narrow our options. It was too early to go see a ComedySportz show, I wasn’t in the mood to play «keep the preschooler quiet at the movietheater» and no sporting events were going on that evening. After removing those options, what was jumping up and down in my brain for attention was «gokarting». I got pretty revved up anticipating how excited my boy would get. I did a quick search on my phone and this place popped up.
In transit, I told Nick that we were going to race gokarts. We hadn’t eaten yet, so after prompting Nick, he suggested that we eat there. «Cool», I thought. I didn’t want to make another stop either. Well, this means that by the time we arrive, I am starved and with little patience.
My first impression of the place was «Toto, we’re not in Carmel anymore!». The parking lot was cracked, the interior didn’t have the same sparkle, and there weren’t nearly as many patrons looking down their noses at Nick and me as I’m used to. The food offerings are what you’d expect: pizza, corndogs, hotdogs, nachos. I didn’t have the patience to wait for their pizza (which has been recommended by others). I ordered corndogs. Here’s my review: it’s a corndog. Starving that I was, I inhailed my corndog and coughed up the stick. Still hungry, I patiently waited for Nick to finish his. After 7 minutes, noticing he had little interest in finishing his, I inhailed it too. No longer feeling like Betty White or Abe Vegota, I was ready to go.
Post road has several options for entertainment. They have an arcade that is not the largest, but it has a few games that one would expect. Nick loves airhockey and skeeball. This place has those. It has a couple of racing games that didn’t peak my interest and a few other «ticket» games. Not the lamest arcade in the world. You don’t come here for the arcade… it’s just a way for you and your last Alexander Hamilton to part ways before you leave. They have minature golf and laser tag. Nice, cool, fun. When I come back with my jaded 13 year old, I’ll review those then.
We paid for three 5-​minute gokart sessions @ $ 5 each before the young lady suggested that we should have purchased the unlimited session for $ 20. This includes two hours of go karts and all the minature golf one can handle until the doors close. It might include their laser tag as well; you’ll have to call or check their website to verify. The young lady was very polite and friendly as she allowed me to transfer my previous purchases over to the unlimited for the additional $ 5 required. The fact that she did it and was polite and didn’t make me feel like the «stupid customer» is the type of customer service that will bring me back. Each and every employee, although some look very rough around the edges, treated my boy and I with courtesy and respect.
I should probally mention the gokarts.
Nick’s first choice was the road course. Most of the carts are one-​seaters, but they placed us in a two-​seater. I highly recommend you bring a little one with you: the two-​seaters are fast!
We were passing everyone. We had a blast. It was like we were racing for Hendricks Motorsports, or Penske if you are an IndyCar fan. If you don’t follow racing, it’s like you were racing for the better equipped and highly funded Empire against the ewoks. You would think that boring, but it was pretty thrilling to pass people three-​wide in the turns without so much as a nudge between the three. That’s not to say that their is no contact. There were some teenage girls that were so reckless at times that people knew to watch out for them. They were involved in three wrecks that shut the whole tack down for a few minutes. They got so bad that if I were a mom instead of a dad, I would have complained. If I were an employee, I would have been a bit more forcefull in getting them to stop. Since I am not, nor ever was, either, I decided it would be more fun to settle it on the track.
The racing was run. The staff was polite. Great value. My boy was pleased and we havent even played the mini-​golf yet. We will return.