On my recent trip to Florida in March my boyfriend had been referring to a place called Pirates Cove for days so when we arrived on the 16th March this was our first port of call.
Pirates Cove was established in 1983 in Traverse City, Michigan and has always aimed to provide wholesome, quality, ... Read review
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Advantages: Best Adventure Golf in the World Disadvantages: None
...referring to a place called Pirates Cove for days so when we arrived on the 16th March this was our first port of call.
Pirates Cove was established in 1983 in Traverse City, Michigan and has always aimed to provide wholesome, quality, family orientated entertainment. It certainly completes that this is by far the best Adventure Golf I have ever been to in my entire life!
Pirates Cove is themed, yep you've guessed it, ... ...and rivers where robot style pirates guard the course with water cannons activated periodically and the odd pirate trapped in a cave with his treasure this really adds the "adventure" to adventure golf.
Music can be heard in the background along with traditional pirate chants it really is a great way to relax and have some fun whatever your age.
On my recent trip to Florida in March my boyfriend had been referring to a place called Pirates Cove for days so when we arrived on the 16th March this was our first port of call.
Pirates Cove was established in 1983 in Traverse City, Michigan and has always aimed to provide wholesome, quality, family orientated entertainment. It certainly completes that this is by far the best Adventure Golf I have ever been to in my entire life!
Pirates Cove is themed, yep you've guessed it, in the world of 18th Century Pirates and it really is a treasure! Walk under cascading waterfalls, through caves and climb steep drops to play each hole as it comes. There are two 18 hole courses Captain's Course is the easiest and Blackbeard's Challenge is the most......well challenging!!
As I said earlier in the review the course is set among waterfalls, caves and rivers where robot style pirates guard the course with water cannons activated periodically and the odd pirate trapped in a cave with his treasure this really adds the "adventure" to adventure golf.
Music can be heard in the background along with traditional pirate chants it really is a great way to relax and have some fun whatever your age.
***The Cost***
Each 18 hole golf course is $8.95 per adult and $7.95 per child If you want to play both courses then the cost is $13.49 per adult and $12.49 per child.
Choose whichever colour ball you want from Pink, Black, Blue, Yellow, Purple, Green, Red and many many more.
There are also 4 different heights for the putters so there is always one available for each member of your party and they are colour coded brightly as well.
Don't forget to pick up your scoring card when you play and take a souvenir pirates cove pencil to mark your scores.
We did both courses and I lost each time I defintely should go back there for more practise!!
***Opening Hours*** Open all year round 9am to 11.30pm so there really is no chance to miss out.
***Address*** Pirate's Cove. 12545 SR 345, Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830
Telephone 407 827 1242.
***Directions*** We were staying at the Comfort Inn at Lake Buena Vista so we found it easy enough to walk from our hotel in Palm Parkway to Pirates Cove taking just 15-20 minutes as it is located in the Crossroads Shopping Centre at the corner of Intersection 4. As you approach the Lake Buena Vista Area from the highway Pirates Cove is visible and is located opposite Orlandos Premium Outlet Mall.
Pirates Cove has been voted No1 Adventure golf in most states and really is a treasure so make sure if you are planning a visit you take a look here!!
The picture Ciao have provided is not the best will add my own soon!!!
Advantages: plenty for children; Disadvantages: very busy in summer months; not much to do in bad weather;
and other animals. My mother refused to go into the Crocodile and Snake house, but we all enjoyed the bird and butterfly house. There used to be a macaw there, which spoke, but I believe it is no longer there. Prices are unknown as did not get chance to visit this time, but well worth a visit.
PiratesCoveAdventureGolf was £3 for adults and very enjoyable
Victorian Carriage rides £8 - not tried, as I was too busy shopping!
Market - a daily covered market near the Hildred Shopping centre. Very reasonably priced items - we get a lot of our first aid equipment from this or Ingoldmells market as my St John leader has a caravan nearby and brings it back for us, as it is cheaper than in Derbyshire!!
TRANSPORT
I went by Coach to Skegness but my two elderly companions invited me to join them in a taxi back to the coach station, as it was ...
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Advantages: plenty to do; Disadvantages: busy in summer; what to choose
Land train - £1.50 (one way) for adults. This was cheaper for children and very enjoyable to watch. I spent all week trying to persuade my parents to go on and eventually my mother went on it with me (and I am 33!!) It travels along the sea front between the two piers and the Pleasure Beach theme park further down. It also went past the cinema and down to the boating lake and crown green bowls area, which was near one of the car parks just outside the town. It seemed to be that you had to hail the train and it would pull in and let you on, although it did stop outside the pier (opposite Regent's Road, which is where all the shops are) for a few minutes.
Great Yarmouth waterway/boating lake - did not appear to be open when we visited in June 2005.
PiratesCove 18 Hole Adventure Putting course (mini Golf) was £4.50 for adults and £3 ...
Advantages: Entertainment overload, great theme parks, lots to do and lots to see Disadvantages: A lot of money will vanish from your wallet
?ll say more about that later.
I?d like to mention that there is a big 20-screen cinema located on CityWalk, which is sort of the entrance to Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure. We tried it out this cinema and it was pretty good.
It took quite a lot of walking to cover Universal Studios so we took the advice from the guidebook (and our feet) to put in resting days in between visiting the big parks. So the following day we played Adventuregolf on International Drive (Pirate?sCove) and we drove of to Gatorland. The golf was pretty good and they had two golf courses to choose from and we took the advanced one since we try to play adventuregolf wherever we go J. Just for the record?I did beat Nikki J.
Then we drove of to Gatorland, which is listed as a good half-day experience. The place itself was not all that impressive but ...
