Bushiri Karting Speedway — Local services in Oranjestad (city)

I am giving this karting track a one star review. The karts were in very rough condition, the brakes, tires, and steering are very very rough i.e. no alignment at all, brakes didn't work well and tires are spent (I get it, they run on seashells and limestone for pavement).

There was no safety briefing or any instruction, only a small T.V that had no sound and is very glitchy. There were no actual flags just a flashing red light which was easy to lose track of. They do not have enough neck braces for everybody. Seats were too big for kids. To get the brakes to work you had to pump several times in succession and they went from 0 brakes to ALL THE BRAKES when you least expect it based on pedal pressure.(Very DANGEROUS). The visors on the helmets are useless as they are so badly wind / sand blasted you cannot see out of them.

Another odd thing is they seemed to control your Karts remotely with a wireless system to kill the engine or reset the engine. I'm not sure what's up with that? It was annoying at times. Its not our first time dealing with rental karts, but we've never seen them in this poor of mechanical state.

Overall the track was okay, the layout is excellent, but with the Aruba wind it was dirty and rocks kept flying into everybody's face.

The real disappointment is the condition of the karts. They are downright unsafe. DON'T get mislead by he website or the pictures. While they do indeed use Sodi rental karts, they are not the model shown, so the karts don't look like that in real life. We really wanted to give this a higher rating / review based on the video's we saw on youtube.

Sadly this is being generous with 1 star. They sell it as a performance karting experience, yet the result is on par with what you'd get at a pitch and put / batting cage fun center...

Booked an appointment 2 days in advanced for 23rd of august to go go-karting for a post-bachelors party, I also paid the bill of 197 USD in advance.

After arriving 30 minutes prior the appointed time schedule of our booking at bushiri to check out the track and karts. Me and a friend where hanging out there for 20 minutes, a lady came up to us asking what we were doing there to our surprise. We told her we had a booking for a go-karting session.

Afterwards, she called a manager and he responded that they where actually closed and maintaining the track, he also mentioned that the booking we made was on the website of a partnering company, but refused to take the responsibility of this mistake. Next time, make sure you have a system or partner that covers these kind of problems. We didnt even receive a phone call or a email that they where planning a maintence for the track on the booked day. I find this lack of basic service very unprofessional. He told me on the spot to come back on friday, but on friday the group of the post-bachelors is not complete anymore. Because a couple of our friends are traveling back to their home country.

Also, the suprise effect of the post-bachelors party was now off because of this. I even paid the reservation of 197 US dollars in advance, you would say that you would receive at least a notice or call about the maintenance of the track.

Now I had to reorganise the party on the spot with all the chaos and stress of a whole group behind me.

I demand a full reimbursment of the payment, and I wont be coming back to this place anymore.

If you refuse the full reimbursment or the reimbursement is not done within 3 working days, I will let my credit card company...

the helmets smells like sweat, collecting dust on the shelves meanwhile we we’re racing the oldman with the lawnmower we’re in use cutting grasses, the grasses, little stones and dust we’re flying trough our faces while we we’re racing trough the field. the smell of the grass was pretty bad during the driving the go kart it self was misfiring badly they kinda have something programmed so you can’t go faster or somewhat, it just ruined the whole experience kart shut off with me while i was driving the guy came in to crank it , wasn’t friendly at all he’s just they’re to receive money and go it was a tall lanky short hair light skin dude. asked him what’s with those misfire on the kart 2 times he didn’t even respond a word, like if you don’t have the mood, then go somewhere else to work treat people nicely because of we are the ones paying your salary if you gotta ask me i won’t go back you either treat clients nicely so they come back they hire local young guys that don’t even have the social life experience working at this place overall the...