CK'Sters Fun Park — Attraction in Town of Vestal

Visiting Chucksters on the 17th July 2012 was a dream. I was looking forward to visiting the attraction for quite a while, since the previous time when I came to New York from London. Whilst the Brits may not generally play Baseball nor Softball by a huge amount, not a lot of adjusting was required to get used to facing the ball in the cages, with a non-bounced shot being slammed to the back wall which I believe is known as a "home-run". I had not done rock/wall climbing or a jumpster (what a great name!) for a considerable amount of time yet I thoroughly enjoyed climbing the four walls right to the top so that my Aunt Pani could take some spectacular snaps. Although I had not been on a jumpster for quite some time, my single enjoyable event awarded me with the capability of doing a back flip, which seemed like a personal achievement that could only be accomplished at a wonderful location like Chucksters, New York! With the brilliant backing of Joseph Underwood throughout the evening's events, I successfully dragged Randy Stutzman into the aeroball where he defeated me after falling slightly behind. It was what I thought to be the best workout ever constructed, with five minutes of bouncing around, including target aiming, darting around limited areas for catching, throwing with power and (hopefully not to cheesily) being on the ball! It is the best possible exercise imagined by anybody, and all would wish for a follow up five minute workout at the end of the game. Feeling hot with all of the special sports the park has to offer? Whether or not you have a towel (unfortunately in my case it was not but with a wet car), splash over to the Shoot n' Shower with the opponent (once again Randy Stutzman) to shoot some hoops from a near range with variously sized basketballs. Shoot for half minute rounds and whoever does not win (both contestants if it ends as a tie), gets soaked with water a couple of seconds. It's the best way to cool off unless Randy triumphantly wins and only gets wet once during the tie...leaving me drenched but cool! Last but not least one must not forget the magnificent mini-golf in the frequently described "golf-park". With a "19-hole" golf course and a practice green including the world's longest hole, why go anywhere else in the world for mini-golf? It is very enjoyable and in fact I did not realize I was walking to the start of the longest hole until asked to hurry off by other players. This was after skipping a couple of holes due to the vast amount of time having fun with the other activities at the world-renowned park, Chucksters. I can now picture myself returning to visit the States next year, primarily due to each of the thrilling activities at Chucksters! -Dev Shah, Wembley,...

We visited CKsters recently and also when it was previously known as Chucksters. We went this past Sunday to do the zip line. The zip line was fine and fun but I noticed there were lots of teenagers working, as you’d expect, unfortunately sitting on their phones. A very bad look and very different to when the teenagers were employed by Chucksters. We went again on Tuesday, this time to use the batting cages, a few of which were broken and the ones that were supposedly functioning had faults like not pitching the balls far enough over the plate. A very helpful employee (I suspect a manager) sorted out the problems. We also played the basketball game and noticed the hoops are rusted and full of holes, so the person playing on that side couldn’t win as the points weren’t properly counted by the machine. We had to go over to the desk to get the employees to help us with the games as again they were sitting together distracted by their phones. My conclusion is the person who bought the place is not keeping it up properly and the employees, although very nice, are not entirely proactive and looking to be where they need to be. A real contrast to Chucksters. If the batting cages and basketball hoops aren’t being maintained, what’s happening with the zip line - I am not a paranoid person but I would not have let my kids go on it if I had noticed the lack of maintenance with the other...

We called during the week to see about going zip lining and we were told they only run the zip line for a couple hours a day on the weekend. We called back today (Saturday) to confirm the zip line was running before going down and they said “I don’t think we are going to run the zip line anymore this season”. We have an exchange teenager in from Japan that we had told we were going to go zip lining this weekend which has now fallen through and he leaves for home in a couple days. I understand that it takes an employee with some additional training to be able to safely operate that activity but as one of the few attractions they have it’s frustrating the that there is such a small window of when the activity is actually open. The person that I spoke to a just a few days ago didn’t mention anything about it likely being closed for the remainder of the season. Lots of other negative reviews regarding closed activities. It definitely feels like a “bait and switch” scenario when the website advertises all these things to do and then you show up with excited kids and you have break the news that most of the activities are not open….not a great way to treat you...