Interactive Mini Golf at Boom Battle Bar in Reading

The Boom Battle Bar venue in Reading, Berkshire now has interactive mini golf.

An interactive mini golf game from 501 Fun has been installed at Boom Battle Bar in Reading.

Checking the Boom Battle Bar website the indoor minigolf activity is called an "AR-CADE GOLF LANE". That's a new one on us!

Find out more.

Visit the Boom Battle Bar website for more information on the Reading venue.

And visit the 501 Fun website for details of the interactive mini golf set-up.

Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

We're yet to play one of 501 Fun's type of interactive mini golf games on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour, so it's good to note there's one at Boom Battle Bar in Reading. We wonder where else they'll appear...

Crazier Golf and Crazier Nolf at Boom Battle Bars.

We've visited several Boom Battle Bars on our minigolfing adventures (most recently in Ipswich) and a number of them are home to Crazier Golf and Crazier Nolf courses.

The Crazier Golf course at Boom: Battle Bar in Ipswich

A look at the Crazier Golf course at Boom: Battle Bar at the Buttermarket in Ipswich, Suffolk.

Boom: Battle Bar's Crazier Golf course in Ipswich

We'd previously swung by Boom: Battle Bar in Ipswich back in 2022 when it became the 1,009th course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour. On our most recent return trip to the town we had time for a game.

In our minigolf match I scored the win with a round of 13 shots (including 5 holes-in-one!) to Emily's round of 19

Here's a look at the holes and obstacles on the 9-hole Crazier Golf course at Boom: Battle Bar in Ipswich's Buttermarket shopping & entertainment centre.

Hole 1 - Loop De Loop

Hole 1

Hole 1

Hole 1

Hole 1

Hole 2 - The Fan-tastic Race

Hole 2

Hole 2

The 'cup' on hole 2!

Hole 3 - Barrel O' Laughs

Hole 3

Hole 3

Hole 3

Hole 3

Hole 3

Hole 3

Hole 4 - The A-maze-ing Hole

Hole 4

The four 'greens' on hole 4

Hole 5 - The Puttmill

Hole 5

Hole 6 - Ramp It Up

Hole 6

Hole 7 - Helter Skelter

Hole 7 is a very striking and imposing hole on the course!

Hole 7

Hole 7

The 'green' and 'cup' on hole 7 is in an oil drum

Hole 8 - Blame the Aim

Hole 8

Hole 8

The targets and gutter holes for misfires

This is the 'club' you use for your shot on hole 8!

It's the first time we've used a catapult (cataputter?) to take a shot on a minigolf course!

The green on hole 8

Hole 9 - Over the Hill

Hole 9

Check out the Boom: Battle Bar website for more information on the Ipswich venue, other locations, and the range of games available.

Videos from our visit (June 2025).

Playing the first Boom: Battle Bar Crazier Golf course.

We've previously played the Crazier Golf course at Boom: Battle Bar in the Castle Quarter shopping and entertainment centre in Norwich, Norfolk. That location was the first Boom: Battle Bar venue to open. We played that course in August 2021.

The Boom: Battle Bar Crazier Golf course in Norwich was the landmark 1,000th course visited by Richard, Emily & Christopher Gottfried on the combined Crazy World of Minigolf Tour! We're now up to 1,132 courses visited since September 2006.

Playing Crazier Golf at Boom: Battle Bar in Ipswich

Playing the Crazier Golf course at Boom: Battle Bar at the Buttermarket in Ipswich, Suffolk.

We'd previously swung by Boom: Battle Bar in Ipswich back in 2022 when it became the 1,009th course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

On our recent return to the town we had time for a game.

The 9-hole indoor course became the 584th played on our travels.

Boom: Battle Bar calls their brand of minigolf 'Crazier Golf'.

Check out the Boom: Battle Bar website for more information on the Ipswich venue, other locations, and the range of games available.

Videos from our visit.

Playing the first Boom: Battle Bar Crazier Golf course.

We've previously played the Crazier Golf course at Boom: Battle Bar in the Castle Quarter shopping and entertainment centre in Norwich, Norfolk. That location was the first Boom: Battle Bar venue. We played the course in August 2021.

That course was the landmark 1,000th course visited by Richard, Emily & Christopher Gottfried on the combined Crazy World of Minigolf Tour! We're now up to 1,132 courses visited since September 2006.

Boom: Battle Bar opening in Reading, Berkshire

The latest Boom: Battle Bar is opening in Reading, Berkshire this week.

The doors to the newest Boom: Battle Bar open on Friday 6th June, with the Boom: Battle Bar Reading venue opening on Station Road.

We played Crazier Golf at Boom: Battle Bar in Ipswich earlier this week - it'll be interesting to see if the new Boom: Battle Bar in Reading has crazy golf too

Check out the Boom: Battle Bar website for more information on the new Reading venue.

Boom Battle Bar in Cambridge

A new Boom Battle Bar is opening in Cambridge.

The venue will be home to a 'Crazier Golf' minigolf course among other indoor competitive socialising activities.

Check out the Boom Battle Bar website for more information.

It'll be another new course for us to visit on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Crazier Nolf at Boom Battle Bar in Bournemouth

A look at the Crazier Nolf course at Boom Battle Bar in Bournemouth, Dorset.

Emily recently visited Boom Battle Bar in Bournemouth with some work colleagues for a social do, and saw Crazier Nolf there. A first for the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Boom Battle Bar calls its crazy golf courses 'Crazier Golf' (and we've played the location in Norwich). Crazier Nolf is Crazier Golf, but played without putters!

Hole 1

Hole 2

Hole 3

Hole 4

Hole 5

Hole 6

Hole 7

Hole 8

Hole 9

Emily didn't get a chance for a game of Crazier Nolf on this occasion as some of the electronic holes were out of order. But she did get to play some of the darts and shuffleboard there.

Visit the Boom Battle Bar Bournemouth website for more information.

Check out this post to see all the different types and variants of miniature golf we've visited and played on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour to date.