Centre Fun Carie Factory — Attraction in L'Ancienne-Lorette

This was a pretty great place! My daughter says it was 5/5. My son says 4. What it has: free video games with the price of admission, really cool Slushies in nifty reusable containers (keep your container, refills are cheaper!), cool ball room. Area is compact enough to let the kids roam free and parent comfy couches and other seating was ample. Entry way is on the small side. Not confident it is wheelchair accessible. No wristbands. If you're in, you've paid, and everything we played worked without coins or tokens. The environmentalist in me appreciated this waste-free system. Because the games are played hard and often, some were not working perfectly (pretty sure Guitar Hero has a few loose wires, or maybe it's just my bad playing). The whole place has a well-worn atmosphere. The much-anticipated 4D experience was out of order when we visited, as was the beverage machine dispensing cold bottled water. The only drink we could access was the nifty slush, which was fun but eventually not refreshing. The canteen only serves slushies and popcorn. Lots of toutous for sale though, and I saw some people back at our hotel had colourful Carie Factorie towels.

On the whole, worth a visit with little ones and any gamers in the family. Fun family outing. Although missing many attractions they have at places like our local Fun Haven (no bumper cars, climbing walls, laser tag, etc.), the all-inclusive price and safe atmosphere are really...

While it was nice to be able to do unlimited arcade games with the kids, this place feels really run down. About 30 to 40 percent of the games did not work at all which was really disappointing for my little guy. We drove all the way to Quebec from Beauce because he really wanted to play pinball and do arcade games for his special day out with mom before going off to kindergarten. None of the three pinball machines worked and most of the games that did work had many broken elements. For the forty bucks it cost to take one kid (and his parent) to this attraction, I'm not sure it was worth it. I notice that many people have said the same in their reviews and the owner of the establishment keeps responding with the copied and pasted answer that they are "surprised to hear you say that because blah blah blah". Well, after years of receiving the same reviews about your broken down games, it seems pretty dishonest to keep trying to pretend you're surprised, guys. Time to invest in some upgrades, replacements and repairs.

My kid had a good day though, despite the frequent disappointments when trying to play a broken game.

Make sure your visit doesn't coincide with the...

Used to come here regularly. However, on the last few occasions we noticed there are way too many grown men without children (which made us feel unsafe letting are 2 young children run around) as well as grown men hogging the arcade games while children waited endlessly to get a turn. Finding more child friendly places moving forward.

As you can see by the owners updated response. Invaliding customer experience and gaslighting people by telling them they are wrong and don't know what they are talking about is exactly the problem with this place. When 5 grown men are standing around games for an hour while children wait to get on this is frustrating. I can assure you the last time I saw several men wandering around and never meeting up with children or families over the course of our time there. In fact I saw several men leave without their "kids" or "wives" so yes, I have a problem when my 3 yr old child is in an enclosed private ride and an adult male hops in too. This is not appropriate. It did happen and does happen every time we have visited...