GAMA Ride — Attraction in San Mateo

Well it isn't a bad place, but it's not a great arcade either. In all honesty, I cannot comment about the state and quality of the games and arcades because at the time of this writing, they are all brand new and 4-months old.

So I'll review my experience here. I came here on a weeknight for a 6-year old birthday party. It happened this way only because this was the time the birthday boys parents could do it before traveling. Because of this... our party was the only one in there on a week night, aside from a few random drop ins.

It was great, everyone was friendly until you accidentally piss off the owner. It went down like this, I had to use the bathroom. There was someone in the men's bathroom, so I went quickly to the women's bathroom seeing that there wasn't anyone in there. I knocked, I said hello before entering. I locked the door behind me. And as I was going, there was a lot of banging and shouting and kicking the door down. When I finished I put the toilet seat back down and washed my hands, and came out. Oh it was the owner and 2 employees waiting for me. He said "You can't go in there, it's for women ONLY." I apologized and knew I shouldn't have been in the women's bathroom. Then he adds "don't you know it's ILLEGAL for you to be in there". Okay.... now I was a bit offended. Really guy, my wife who was outside told me they ran in like it was a 5-alarm emergency to tell me it's illegal?!? Lol what if I "identified" as a women. I'm pretty sure your making it illegal for having video cameras back there and not making restrooms accessible to the possibility of LGBTQ community. Nice.

Then the second gripe is that we had a birthday party from 5pm-7pm rental of their tables. Without any warning, one of the workers had told us at 7:05pm that our time was up and he was here because his boss told him to kick us out. Lol wow... we paid money for that. Not even a curtesy 15-min warning or anything. It's amazing they have 2 rental areas, we were paying customers (the only customers), and no other party waiting. Granted we knew to leave by 7pm, but a curtesy warning would have been great.

If you're expecting customer service... forget this place. This created a horrible experience for the party and set the tone from that point on. I don't fault the workers as they seem to be doing what the owner told them. After making that mistake to the bathroom, the owners smile simply wore off.

They are currently applying for a beer license... let's see them control drunk patrons in that bathroom... like a Wannabe "Dave...

Came here with a premium party package and it was all super well run!

Good: Tons of variety in the experiences offered - I liked the zombie shooter on the roller coaster, and the horror video games There's a good mix of upscale premium titles and short gambling ones as well as social ones like the connect four basketball game The party room was set up and ready for us exactly at the time they said The pizza was so tasty as well as the moz sticks Service was great, everything was done without us noticing too

Bad: The bumper cars were being charged when we went so we couldn't play

Overall would come again, takes you back to...

I enjoy GAMA Ride a lot, perhaps even more than Dave N’ Busters. It’s a bit smaller than Dave N’ Busters, but you’ll still have a good time and can spend an hour or two there. They have games that children, teens, and adults can enjoy. They also have actual rides. Granted, they are small rides. While the prizes aren’t great, it’s possible to get lots of points if you know which games to exploit. Plus, they don’t only have junk for prizes, they have some useful items like erasers. Overall, I would like to come...