Uptown Alley — Attraction in Winnipeg

I went bowling and played laser tag here with a few of my friends.

There is lots to do with a modern arcade to keep you busy in downtimes. We had to wait for a booking to open up for a bowling lane, so we hopped into a few games of laser tag.

The map is reasonably sized for the ~20 people in it at a time. Good obstacles, choke points, lighting is just enough so that you don't run kids over or get run over. The map contains 2 "bases" that we all forgot existed but aren't exactly obvious since the targets are ceiling mounted. so it was a major full scale Team Deathmatch both times we played.

The lighting in the vests is good. Hit detection is nice and easy to get used to(provided you have good aim). When you get shot, all your lights go off and you flash white(which is quite helpful so you don't get picked off right when you respawn) so neither team knows which side you're on when you're out for the 7 seconds or so it takes to respawn. It allows for some deception early game when the teams aren't used to their teammates yet and you can play some short term covert ops.

Guns are super easy to use and require 2 hands on the gun in order to shoot. There is a touch sensor on the front of the barrel so its really easy to manage. No buttons to depress or anything. Just hold your hand like they show in the demo video and you're golden.

The bowling lanes are good as well. Very nice seating, 2 USB charge ports mounted in the back of the couches is a nice touch to stay in touch with the kids these days. Your team takes pictures of yourselves with the info screen and it plays cheesy routines and animations on the overhead monitor as you play. Easy to see scoring and positioning. Hard to tell who is up currently since whoever is selected in the overhead screen, their name over their (grayscale) picture goes away, so at a glance it's hard to tell who's up now.

All in all great experience and staff were good to deal with. They give free water at the bar, but it left a...

Great venue for kids and adults with bowling, laser tag and an arcade! I attended there for a child's birthday party and was incredibly disappointed in the lack of service. The host assigned was not present. We had to search for her each and every time. What makes things worst is that there is no private rooms for bdays so you are back to back with other parties and watching their hosts attend to the needs.

First, our table set up was not even safe as it wobbled and tipped when the kids put their hands on it. We brought this to our host's attention and her solution was to add pizza boxes under the table (while we were eating on it). Needless to say, this didn't work. This should have been seen as they were setting the tables up and should not have been used because it was that bad.

Next, our food came out in the middle of our bowling game. The kids ran to the hot food and enjoyed their meal, and a few minutes later returned to finish their bowling game which was shut off. We did resolve this with the staff and are grateful for their assistance here, but the timing of everything was off as had it not been resolved, there would have been 40 mins of nothing for the kids to do until it was their assigned laser tag time.

Overall, the kids had a blast, but I think there is room for improvement in hosting these memorable bday parties to help make it less stressful on parents who choose to book their events here.

Great place and they offer pinoy food (pricey,...

Very nice, new facility. Good location. Arrived at 8, wanted to bowl. They were booked until 11pm. Fair, this is somewhat of a hot spot in the city at the moment. Make a reservation if you want to go on a weekend. We grabbed a drink and checked out the arcade. You load a card with money to play arcades, win virtual tickets that load to the card. Not sure how the points to ticket conversion calculates, but we ended up with 210 points which got us a ring pop (for $10 of play). Games we played cost between 2 to 8 points for 1 game. I really wanted to play lazer tag and the next game had space in 20 mins. Lazer tag was fun, one level course with lots of different shapes walls and black lights. Very fun. Went out, played the rest of our card and were done here. It was ok overall, staff were quite young, the lazer tag guy kinda seemed like he hated his job, leaning on the wall, on his phone the whole time we played (not watching for safety like the instructional video told us). The young people at the arcade were friendly but very new to customer service. Guys at front desk had obviously told a million people the same answers over and over so they sounded like robots, but not rude. There are also 3 VLT'S in a tiny lounge. Many washrooms that were never full. It was empty but young children were hanging out in it. If I had played bowling, may have a different rating, but meh... I may go back but I am not...