A few of us took a Friday (3/22/13) off from work to relax and have some fun and we ended up at Funfuzion. Â How did we end up here? Â Well, I wanted to go gokarting and was trying to decide btwn this place and a gokarting place in Jersey City. Â I decided on Funfuzion b/c it had bowling, miniature golf, laser tag and an arcade in addition to gokarting. Â Now, where do I begin?
BOWLING
We ended up bowling first to get the discount in since we got there at 3pm. Â
Positive: Â decent and nice workers
Negative: Â We were assigned to lane 13, but then that broke down. Â We ended up on lane 14, but OH WAIT ... that broke down too and ended up on lane 12. Â Guess what, lane 12 broke and we ended up on lane 11. Â For the course of 2 games, we had to move FOUR TIMES!
GO KARTING
Positive: Â fun and it went a lot faster than how it looks as a bystander
Negative: Â just goes in circles
LASER TAG
Positive:  it was fun especially b/c it was just the 3 of us and  i got quite the work out from all the running
Negative: Â My friend's laser tag pack was broken, so we informed the lady once we were done. Â She was an extremely unhappy young lady and it looked like we bothered her by letting her know that one of our packs was broken. Â She said that all we had to do was go to the front to get our refund. Â Now, we HAD to buy Funfuzion credits in order to play this game, but we didn't have to for bowling or gokarting. Â The lady who ended up assisting us was this older, white haired lady with a ring per finger and a BAD ATTITUDE! Â We said that we're never coming back here and that we only purchased the Funfuzion credits solely to play laser tag, therefore we just want cash back (not credits!). Â The way she spoke to us was unreal! Â Anyhow, some teenager was nice enough to give us $30 in exchange for $30 work of Funfuzion credits. Â
Needless to say, we will never be going back here again. Â Funfuzion needs to fix their equipment and hire happier employees (seriously!).
Roc city chick, roc roc city chick. (Had to.)
For those of you who've never been, to this super-sized young adult entertainment complex, consider yourself blessed. Â Not because the experience is awful, but because the complex itself is so full of tangible energy, that it is literally exhausting to be a bystander.
My BFF, godson and I drove here from Brooklyn (45 min with a bit of traffic) to attend a birthday party for one of his classmates. Â If I'm being honest, I'm looking at the parents a little sideways for this choice of venue. Â The kids go to school in Brooklyn, so you (fact) and the majority of other parents (presumption) likely reside in BK as well. Â Couldn't you find a nice little bowling alley around here...? Â
Anyway, Funfuzion is huge. Â No seriously, it's colossal for a children's complex. Â It boasts three floors of pure, unadulterated young adult entertainment including a indoor racetrack, bowling alley, miniature golf, and arcade. Â I'm exhausted just typing that. Â It's young adult nirvana, with seizure-inspiring ambiance (if you can even call it ambiance). Â My godson was in heaven; Â after an hour, I had to go to the car to take a power nap (I don't know how you parents do it!).
So here's how I'd rate the establishment. Â The idea is pretty cool - there is lots to do for a variety of age groups. Â The food looked terrible (I wouldn't even consume the pizza provided for the party). Â The noise level was obscene. The bathrooms, well the one that actually worked, was putrid. Â And the staff, who had genuine intentions of being helpful, appeared relatively uninformed.
But all that being said, this is not The Ritz (some moderate expectation management is important here) and I am not 12 years old (so clearly I'm not the target demographic). Â My godson thought the party was awesome and if I was between the ages of 9-16 (back when I didn't have noise sensitivity, an aversion to germs, or the slightest idea of what good food should taste like) I probably would have loved this place as well. And as a parent, if I lived in the neighborhood, I might suck it up a couple of times a year just to spend a little QT kicking it with the kids - for as they say, the family that plays together...stays together.
I came here for our friends kids unofficial birthday party. Â It looks like they put a lot of money into the building that funfuzion is housed in. Â Like the others said, there's bowling, mini golf, a go-kart track and a huge arcade area with laser tag.
Just a warning...the arcade area is extremely loud.
If you live in the area it's probably a nice place to visit. Coming from either NYC or New Jersey I'd say go to Dave and Buster's (D&B 's arcade area is much smaller but not as loud plus they serve adult beverages) in Nyack or just go into NYC. I-95 north is usually a traffic mess and the area around New Roc was so-so.
Came here for a friend's Birthday the other day and I actually had a pretty fun time, but I can't tell if it simply because of the friends I was with.
Funfuzion has all your typical games (shooting games, racing games, air hockey, basketball, trivia, skee ball, etc.), but more than a few machines seemed to be out of service. In addition to these games though, this place also has lazer tag, bowling, go karts, and mini golf, which is pretty cool. I had a really good time bowling, and lazer tag was pretty fun, too. Didn't have enough tickets leftover for mini golf or go karting, but we were definitely open to those two activities.
The staff was... less than pleasant. One of our first encounters was with the lazer tag girl... she was less than thrilled to assist us. Sorry I'm not sorry that you work here... so just give me instructions (which she sped through) and fake a smile until I don't see you anymore. Also, one of the girls at the prize station looked like she hated the world. The only thing that made her crack a smile was the fact that we were playing with one of our prizes in front of her... slime cow. I highly recommend this prize if you have enough points at the end of the day. It's actually really disgusting, but great. Speaking of prizes, I was kinda upset they didn't have any candy because that's usually the prize you get if you didn't end up getting a lot of points. Let's just say I ended up with a crazy straw and a parachute man.
One thing I really liked was that you could use your credits toward food. I obviously used credits for a pretzel, which was somewhat stale. I mean, I'm not complaining because I wasn't expecting anything gourmet. The pizza and nachos looked pretty good... in an arcade kinda way.
Broken games and annoyed, zombie-like staff members aside, I'd give this place a shot if you're looking to play some games. If you have kids, it seems like it could be a good place for parties. If you don't have kids though, I had a decent time as a 23-year-old.
Lastly, you know how you win tickets for some of the games in places like this? Well, at Funfuzion, it keeps track of your "tickets" right on your card (the one you buy to put all your gaming credits on), which I really liked because 1. You don't have to carry your tickets around, and 2. Go green!
This review is for the bowling center...which I've been to three times now. Â It turns out third time is not the charm. Â This. place. sucks.
Where do I start? Â How about the price $7.50/game on a Tuesday night...Are you kidding me? Finish reading this review and understand why this is robbery. Â Also, quoted from their website: "Management reserves the right to change hours, pricing, promotions and policies at any time without notice." Â Well of course they do, they manage the place. Â But maybe they should lower the price a little, I'm sure there is a reason that we called 5 bowling centers in the area, all were full, and this was the only place with availability. Â
Next, the lanes. Â Approach was disgustingly dirty. Â The lanes were oiled so poorly that anyone rolling the slightest bit of hook is going to find their ball uncontrollable. Â Pinsetter consistently failed, scoreboard was consistently inaccurate, halfway through our first game the lane completely stopped working and we had to move to another. Â
How about the atmosphere in here? Â Overbearingly loud. Â Absolutely no ventilation, which causes the place to be smokey due to the smoke coming off their deep fat friers, which shouldn't be smoking in the first place! Â Change your oil!
I'm going to pretend that the one star I have to give this place is for the bartender. Â She was actually really nice and was probably the only employee in the place paying attention to their job. Â
Also, this review is from my most recent visit, however the previous two were just as bad. Â I can't believe I've wasted time and money here 3 times.
This is seriously one of the biggest arcade (one whole floor), games (sports games such as miniature gulf, ping pong, pool) in New York. I've been searching for good arcades in New York for a while, and none are this big. Yes maybe Dave and Buster have some decent games but not enough. This is a real arcade! not just some mini games in a bar.
Review Source:This is the complex inside New Roc City with all the entertainment- Rack n' Cue (pool), Roc n' Bowl (bowling), Fun house (arcade), Mini Golf and the Speedway (Go kart). I bought a discount booklet to this complex since my bf mentioned it before and wanted to go. Overall had a fun experience with some mishaps.
The first being that we waited OVER ONE HOUR and a half for a bowling lane. This is unacceptable in any bowling alley. Had I not bought the deal, I would not have wasted my time. They let the school groups go first and gave us a beeper that never went off. To make it worse, the booklet included one game for one person only. Who bowls ALONE? That did not make sense. Why have a free game for one person and then have a separate buy one get one free. It's the same thing!!! Management needs to put more thought into their promotions because they are just confusing and do not make sense for the customer or their customer service reps. We took the beeper, went on the carousel, played mini golf and they had still not called us! Ridiculous!
The Fun House was a giant arcade with kiddie rides, ticket games for prizes and regular arcade games. The booklet included a free carousel ride and then I used my own money for credits. But the guy failed to tell us that the horses were only for the children and we had to sit in the benches only. I would have only used the free ticket if i had known and not wasted my credits on that. I enjoyed the laser tag game but you do have a wait a while to get in. So get your ticket and then play some games while waiting.
Rack n' Cue was fun but expensive as they charge per person per game which was $16 per hour. We had a free hour included in our deal and played about 4-5 games in one hours so not bad.
The mini golf was fun and was a glow in the dark experience indoors. The only annoying thing was that so many people were there you had to wait and wait before you would play the next hole and you could not do it out of order as we soon found out.
The speedway was fun but people like to bump you when this is NOT bumper cars people!
Overall I had a fun but LOOong day as we had to wait for several games.It's nice that they have everything in one place. But they should manage it better. Lots of kids so mostly for kids minus the pool.
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