Jesse S

Review of Strikz

This review is for the birthday party events. The ...

This review is for the birthday party events. The birthday party was advertised as being 2 hours but you only get the private room for 45 minutes. The first 15 minutes of the official start of your party are spent doing nothing. The next little while is spent doing the activity that you picked, such as laser tag or bowling. Then you go back to the party room and get pizza/cake and get kicked out of the room. Note that your party has another hour to go and you don't get a chance to open presents.

The second hour of your party is supposed to be spent playing arcade games. The birth kid is given a $50 game card but everyone else gets a $10 game card. The games range in price from $0.75 to $3.00, and the time it takes to play a game ranges from 10 seconds (for the prize-oriented games) to 3 minutes. Hence the average cost is around $1.50 per minute.

Just to lay out the math problem here, for 1 kid with a $10 game card, they will get around 7 minutes of game play time ($10/1.5). The birthday kid has a $50 game card, so he gets 33 minutes. Once all of the other kids run out of money while the birthday kid is still going, and the party is only half over, every parent is put in the position of having to pay to reload the game card.

For every kid to be able to play as long as the birthday kid, every kid's parent will need to put $40 on their game card. If you invited 10 kids, then their parents will have to pay a combined $400 in game card reload fees to be able to have something to do for the remainder of the party. Therein lies the central scam of this place and how they rip off not only the birthday parents but the parents of every kid invited to the party.

For the steep cost that you pay for an event here, you get very little out of this place other than someone cleaning up the birthday room mess for you.