Ellen’s Amusement Center

Absolutely a real waste of time. Indifferent staff, poorly kept grounds (poison ivy was actually growing at hole 12 where patrons can easily brush against it.
When reported to staff, they laughed and basically stated that: «I’ll bet a lot of people will get infected and never even know where they got it».
Years ago this was a well run family business. Today? A «true ghetto playground».
So sad!
Don’t waste your time or money!!!

The place is run by children. The kid in charge of go karts obviously has no idea why a dad takes his kids to race karts. One of my sons got to take off. Then the next one wouldn’t get in gear. That son had to get out and get the kart behind me. We take off and I wait for him. Everyone else ¾ of a lap ahead. We raced. As we come back in I politley ask the kid if we could go again because of the malfunction, stating we didn’t even get to race. He smuggly replies we could have waited on each other. I did wait on the one I could. Then he tells me because we went the 4 minutes, no we can’t go again. The point isn’t the 4 minutes of driving a slow kart around a track. It’s racing with the kids. Plus it is small, dirty, outdated. Other than that it’s ok.

Don’t be fooled by the vintage, somewhat run down golf course. Its one of the best mini golf courses I’ve been to in DFW. Bring a group of friends and spend the day laughing at each other. Their arcade is pretty decent as well, though its more for the kiddos. Their food is not a high selling point, but I don’t expect gourmet meals walking into an establishment like Ellens.

I was here this weekend for a birthday party. Seems bdays come along so fast, so doing something a little different was fun. My friend rented the party room for an hour. It’s just a room with plastic picnic tables. No idea the price. We didn’t check in or anything just went to the room and set up. Being adults we knew when our hour was up and packed up and left the room.
We all decided on the pick three things package which included mini golf, go karts and tokens for games. All were fun if nothing else for reliving our youth. But seriously some of the put-​put holes were challenging. Lots o balls in the water. :)
The go karts were fun. Just what you would expect. I had mine floored and never got out of last place, though. In fact some kid lapped me.
We found enough games to blow our tokens on, and then a few more. Pulled our tickets for some candy and a slimy thing for someone’s kid at the prize bar.
The thing, this place is manned by young folks. Who cares, though. I’m not there to be catered to. It’s a kids place for pete-​sake.
Overall, this was the cheapest fun I could ever have on a Friday night. And it’s really not that far from Dallas. Want some cheap kinda ghetto fun, go!

Recently visited the center for an adult birthday party. I was able to do the batting cages and the paint ball challenge. I must say the batting cages were horrible. The balls were hitting the whole before they came out and would come over the base. They would hit the concrete before they would get to me. Almost every other ball would barely make it to me.
But, the paint ball challenge was so much fun!!! I was a little intimidated by the game (since I was a virgin) to the game. IT WAS INCREDIBLE! We had 3 couples play and had so much fun. It was really hot outside but that didn’t stop us. I would definitely go back!

Unprofessional staff. I took my kid and nephews to this place a while back. They didnt care if your kid was strapped in or not. The go– karts were fast and the prices are cheap. Also If you have have a coupon make sure you print it out.