Crazy golf during coronavirus at Laser Quest in Sunderland

We live in Sunderland and love crazy golf so how on earth did it take us a whole year to discover there was a crazy golf course in Sunderland?  Well, it seemed to pass us by completely. However, rest assured that once we found out about it, we went to play a game.

It's at Laser Quest in the city centre and it's played in the dark so everything - even the sticks and balls - glow in the dark.

We were the only players on the course on the day that we went. And as it was during the coronavirus pandemic, we had to take security measures on our way in and out.  We had our temperatures taken on the way in and were encouraged to use hand sanitiser provided at the entrance. We also had our details taken for track and trace purposes too.  Once all of this had been done, we were led into a vast space for a game of 12 holes in the dark.

It was fun, as crazy golf tends to be, and we enjoyed playing there a lot. The theme was spaceships and aliens and the eerie glowing images added something to playing in the dark.

What was even more eerie however, was playing during the coronavirus pandemic and being the only players in the place on the day that we went. This meant that there was an end of the world feel to the game, which wasn't entirely due to the neon glow of the aliens painted on the walls. It was spooky and sinister ... and great fun all rolled into one.

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Crazy golf coronavirus lockdown in Sunderland

It's Baz's big birthday today, Thursday 2 April 2020 and he's 60 years old!  We should have been celebrating in Scarborough for the weekend with family and friends. And when in Scarborough one of the many things we love to do is have a game of crazy golf.

You can read more on our Scarborough crazy golf shenanigans here.

Well, as we weren't able to get to play crazy golf in Scarborough, we thought we'd bring Scarborough and crazy golf to our own back garden. Oh yes.  I made the signs.... (all expense spared)...

Baz cobbled together a putter and we found an old golf ball in our shed.

Here's Bazy ready to play this morning in the howling wind in our back garden!

Here's Baz Golf set up in our back garden today.

And here we go!

Hole number 1 - The Pipes

Hole number 2 - The Chairs

Hole number 3 -The Birdhouse

Hole number 4 -The Gate

Hole number 5 - The Birdfeeder

Hole number 6 - The Lighthouse

Hole number 7 - The Snake

Hole number 8 -The Hosepipe

Hole number 9 - The Bucket

Happy Birthday, Barry!

Send 60th birthday wishes to Baz on Twitter @sunnyjimbaz

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Treasure Island Mini Golf, Bridlington

Treasure Island Mini-Golf in Bridlington is an indoor game of 10 holes. The course is situated close to Bridlington harbour in the small strip of amusement arcades, opposite the fun fair.

The cost was £4 each and it was a lot of fun. It seemed quite new inside and there were plenty of pirate statues, one of which kept imploring us (over and over) to have a chocolate sundae after the game. I think the chocolate sundae seller might have been the adventure golf owner too.  Just a hunch.

Anyway, it was good fun even if the holes were short and space was tight inside the game. Many of the holes were easy hole-in-one shots. That is... as long as you got the ball in the right place to allow it to run the right way to the hole in the first place. What I mean is that some of the holes allowed a hole in one but you had, first for example, to get the ball up a very steep, short volcano, that kind of thing.

Definitely worth checking out if you're in Bridlington, a lovely place to visit.

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Mr Mulligan's Space Golf, Newcastle

A new indoor crazy golf has opened this year in Newcastle and off we went to give it a whirl.  It's called Mr Mulligan's Space Golf and it based in what was the Co-operative store on Westgate Street.

Inside it's huge - with three games of nine holes each. You can play as many as you like and of course, we paid to pay all three games, a total of £11.25 each.

With it being new it was very impressive and clean. There were free lockers to store bags and jackets in, you were given a choice of colour of ball and off you went to any one of the three nine hole games you wanted to play first.

The first round we played was a little disappointing as the holes were really short - and far too easy. Not much of a challenge there, but enjoyable enough.  The second round was better and by far my favourite was the third and final round of the steampunk game which came complete with some special effects that made us laugh out loud. As we were the only people in playing on the day we went, and we had the course to ourselves, we made those special effects go a bit mad once we realised what was going on.

Yes, it's fun. It's also huge with a large seating area for drinking and dining. It feels a bit 'corporate' but still worth checking out.

Scores: Sunny Jim won - but only just.
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Crazy Golf in Seaburn, Sunderland

As part of Sunderland's annual illuminations each autumn, a mini-fairground has set up in Cliffe Park in Seaburn, which is just a few minutes walk from our house.  And this year, along with the big sightseeing wheel and kiddies rides, a mini golf course has opened up too. Of course, we had to go and take a look!

It's a really nicely constructed course. It's called Golden Putter and there are 18 holes. 

Based on the seafront it's in a lovely location tour. 

It's a temporary course for the duration of the illuminations and so there was a bit of an uneven playing surface on many of the holes but that really didn't matter.  It felt new and fresh, it was clean and inviting and at only £4 a game for adults, it was good value for money too.

You can see the portable course, that's currently in Seaburn, on the Golden Putter website where there's a hole by hole breakdown.   It's here.

All in all, this was a really enjoyable game to play with some tricky holes.

Final scores: Sunny Jim 53 and Flaming Nora 62.
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Crazy golf in Benidorm, Costa Blanca, Spain

Just back from a wonderful few days holiday spent in Alicante, Spain. 

As we were on the same Costa as the city of Benidorn, which we'd never visited before, we thought we'd make a day of it. Off we headed on the tram down the coast to Benidorm and had our eyes opened to the place. Far cleaner, happier and much more Spanish than we ever thought it could be, we can see what all the fuss is about now around having a holiday to "Benny".

And although we weren't looking for it, we found a mini golf course too!

Benidorm Mini Golf has its own facebook page here.

It was a nicely kept course in a shaded spot under trees, in a street just one step back from the main drag.

And the scores were in - a draw!

You can also read about a course we played in Alicante too.
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Crazy golf in Alicante, Costa Blanca, Spain

Just back from a few days spent on holiday in Alicante.  We never expected to find any Crazy Golf there and so it was a lovely surprise to stumble across this little gem.

It's in Parque infantil "Mundo de los niños" - and it has a website here.

It was a quick and easy course to play as it was meant for, er, children to play on, not adults. But did that stop us? No, it did not!  We had fun! I tell you, fun!

Loved the fact that every hole came with its own pen so you didn't have to carry a pen or pencil around the course in order to keep the score card updated.

There were lots of holes which had moving parts, which added to the childish fun too.

And this was wonderful (below). You had to hit the ball into a moving waterwheel. Once the ball went into the bucket of the waterwheel it was carried around and droppped out on the other side, ready to hit into the hole.

All in all, a good, fun course set on a lovely location by the marina in Alicante.

And the scorecards.  Barry won by 2 points.

You can also read about a game we played in Benidorm too.
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