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(Trip details: Mid-January, party of 5 2 adults, ...

(Trip details: Mid-January, party of 5 2 adults, 3 children aged 9,13, & 14 single night unlimited rides "Extreme" wristbands, initial $25 video game credits loaded to each wristband, $300 entry fee total. *Important general info at the end of this review.) Warning: The Funplex is INCREDIBLY expensive for a single trip and, in my opinion, totally not worth the money- especially if you don't plan on being there for almost an entire day. If you don't have large amounts of expendable cash and want to plan a fun night out for the family, look elsewhere! First: the lines can be forever long for every worthy attraction which severely limits your ability to experience them "unlimitedly." To be expected though, right? If you plan accordingly and have the stamina to endure an environment of pure chaos for 6+hours to make it worth it, more power to you, I sure don't and the money you would spend in that amount of time would be staggering. A 3-hour trip to Funplex is nowhere near close enough to justify the entry fees alone, take away the rest of the money you will spend here. Secondly: claw, video, & boardwalk games, what kid doesn't love them?!! This is the second extremely big rip off at Funplex. Start with how many tokens it takes to play most video & claw games, which is 4. Say goodbye to your 50 credits in about 8 minutes, literally. The claw games loaded with those irresistible prizes and tickets caches; forget about it. Funplex is shameless in its rigging of these games. You can visibly see the claws are programmed to release any fetched item as they raise to the top, regardless of how well secured. This may seem trivial, but if you decide to go and see what I'm talking about for yourself, it's shameless on Funplex's behalf to so blatantly profit from the foreboding eyes of children. The boardwalk games such as water gun game and basketball shooting; some can take 25% of your tokens to play 1 TIME!! Okay, some general observations and positives: the general population on a weekend night at Funplex where rather unruly and very rough around there edges. Tons of profanity and blatant disregard for rules or authority. I witnessed several completely uncalled for verbal confrontations, but they were speedily diffused. There were nice people there as well, but they were the few. I'm assuming this is the norm at Funplex as the local police department has to place a DEDICATED POLICE OFFICER to walk back-and-forth throughout the facility. The Funplex seemed overall rather clean considering crowd size and all the areas needing cleaning- a big plus for anybody! There were food spills that took a while to get cleaned, but they were ultimately cared for. Go-karts take forever to get on, are not very thrilling for my teenagers or myself. Bowling was fun and probably the best kept and ran attraction in the indoor facility.

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