The Baroness

Review of Rainbow's End

We paid to play the "Sword Fighting" game in the R...

We paid to play the "Sword Fighting" game in the Rainbow Playlab. Two of our team have glasses and were asked to wear chunky safety goggles over the top. For the first round, they complied and wore them and they fogged up completely.

In the second round, we asked if they could just wear their own glasses and accept liability if something happened. But they said that wasnt what the policy was.

So their choices were either to stop in the middle of a competitive time limited game to wipe their wet safety goggles, or to be fighting completely blind which is incredibly unsafe.

After a while, the game operator said that he understood and would let them play. But one of the other operators had scuttled off to get a manager who interrupted them in the middle of the combat to demand they wear goggles. Again, have enough spine to say "No, I'm sorry you cannot do that" rather than smiling in peoples faces and then being sly.

So we ended up paying for a game that we couldn't even use.

All four of us do combat training and are actively part of sword fighting clubs and organizations, we know what safety precautions for this kind of activity should look like, and this was absolutely not it.

And after spending almost $300 on entry to Rainbows End alone, youd think theyd treat their customers better. Completely disappointing.