White Platts Miniature Golf — Local services in Lakes

A pleasant place to have a fun game of crazy golf (9 holes) with the features / obstructions artfully created from slate and materials that are locally sourced. There is also 9 rounds of pitching holes on grass and tennis courts. All activities are reasonably priced. You have to ask for a score card at the cafe as it isn't offered openly and the service was OK. The cafe has a variety of snacks, hot/cold drinks, available including an interesting variety of ice cream flavours. Unfortunately the staff member was unable to serve the ice cream as he was 'short of staff' although not overly busy. A pleasant hour of crazy golf was had and there's also seating and a playground - all surrounded by beautiful scenery. Car park is close by and worth the visit with the kids. Also recommend having breakfast or lunch at the wonderful Fresher's Cafe which is 1...

Price and number of holes aren’t an issue for the crazy golf, but the quality of the holes is poor for the following reasons:

Variety is quite low so the same style of hole is seen 3 times which isn’t as entertaining Surface of all holes is incredibly uneven and poor, so balls take a very long time to stop and settle, and almost always settle right up against the wall which then means you can’t get your putter behind it!

There were two holes which had really interesting obstacles, but most are just pieces of rock/slate with random holes in.

Might be useful for entertaining children, but not worth it...

We always enjoy our crazy golf and this time was no different. There are a couple of new additions to two of the holes which was nice to see. But the only thing that stops me giving 5* is the fact it's contactless card payment only. Slightly annoying if you only have cash. Or young teenagers want to play and they don't have a contactless card. Other than that it's always a...