Hole in Wand Wizard Golf opening in Leeds

The team at The Hole In Wand Wizard Golf are opening a new indoor minigolf course at St John's Shopping Centre in Leeds, West Yorkshire this Summer.

You can currently find The Hole In Wand miniature golf courses in Blackpool, Chester, York and Seaham.

Visit The Hole in Wand website for more information.

We visit Leeds a lot and it'll be another new course for us to check out on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

American Football Mini Golf in Leeds

A look at the mini golf course at the Hollywood Bowl in Leeds.

Puttstars Mini Golf in Leeds

The Puttstars indoor mini golf course at the Hollywood Bowl in Kirkstall, Leeds was the 1,076th visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Puttstars Mini Golf in Leeds

The 9th hole on the course was American Football-themed.

Puttstars Mini Golf in Leeds

Check out the Hollywood Bowl website for more information.

King Pins opening at the White Rose Shopping Centre in Leeds

A new King Pins tenpin bowling & entertainment centre is opening in Leeds.

The first two Manchester venues both have mini golf courses, so it'll be interesting to see if the new King Pins location in Leeds will have mini golf on offer when it opens.

Check out the King Pins website for more information.

Puttstars Mini Golf at the Hollywood Bowl in Leeds

A look at the Puttstars Mini Golf course at the Hollywood Bowl in Kirkstall, Leeds.

The Hollywood Bowl in Leeds

We swung by the Puttstars indoor Mini Golf course at the Hollywood Bowl in Leeds recently.

Puttstars Mini Golf at the Hollywood Bowl in Leeds

Hole 1

Hole 2

Hole 3

Hole 4

Hole 5

Hole 6

Hole 7

Hole 8

Hole 8

Hole 8

Hole 9

Hollywood Bowl recently rebranded their Mini Golf courses at their standalone Harrow, Peterborough, Rochdale and Leeds Thorpe Park venues to Putt & Play.

Puttstars Mini Golf at the Hollywood Bowl in Leeds

The Kirstall venue in Leeds is still a Puttstars course. You can also find a Mini Golf course at the Hollywood Bowl in Stockton-on-Tees.

Check out the Hollywood Bowl website for more information.

The Mini Golf course at the Hollywood Bowl in Leeds became the 1,076th visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Crazy Pool at Roxy Ball Room Merrion Street in Leeds

You can find a Crazy Pool course in the basement of Roxy Ball Room Merrion Street in Leeds.

The games you can play at Roxy Ball Room Merrion Street in Leeds

Crazy Pool is a mix of crazy golf and cue sports, with the game played on a table using a golf ball to tackle obstacles, and played with a cue rather than a putter.

We've played Crazy Pool at the Roxy Ball Room at the Manchester Arndale venue.

One of the Crazy Pool tables at Roxy Ball Room in Manchester

You can find Roxy Booze & Ball Games locations in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Cheltenham, Edinburgh, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, Sheffield and York.

Check out the Roxy Ball Room website for more information.

You can find Crazy Pool at the Roxy Ball Room locations in:

• Birmingham (Victoria Square)
• Bristol (Union Street)
• Leeds (Merrion Street)
• Leicester (Humberstone Gate)
• Liverpool (Hanover Street)
• Manchester (Arndale)
• Nottingham (The Cornerhouse)
• Sheffield (Charter Square)
• York (The Stonebow)

And a new venue at St Mary Axe in London is opening soon with Crazy Pool among the games to play.

Some Roxy Ball Room venues have Mini Golf courses called Roxy Golf. We've played the Leeds and Manchester venues, and have swung by the Liverpool location on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour:

• Leeds (Boar Lane)
• Liverpool (Cavern Quarter)
• Manchester (Deansgate)

Plans for new Hole in Wand Magical Mini Golf in Leeds

The team at The Hole In Wand Wizard Golf have plans to create a new indoor minigolf course at St John's Shopping Centre in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

You can currently find The Hole In Wand minigolf courses in Blackpool, Chester, York and Seaham.

Visit The Hole in Wand website for more information.

We visit Leeds a lot and it'll be another new course for us to check out on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Putt & Play from Hollywood Bowl

Hollywood Bowl's minigolf brand has courses in four locations.

Putt & Play from Hollywood Bowl is the new name for Puttstars.

You can find Putt & Play courses in Harrow, Peterborough, Rochdale and Leeds Thorpe Park.

There are also minigolf courses at the Hollywood Bowl centres in Colchester, Leeds Hollywood Bowl, Stockton and York.

Find out more on the Putt & Play from Hollywood Bowl website.

We've played at the Rochdale centre on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Mini-Golf at Hollywood Bowl Leeds

There's a mini-golf course at Leeds Hollywood Bowl.

The 9-hole indoor mini-golf course at the Hollywood Bowl in Leeds will be a new one for us to visit on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Check out the Hollywood Bowl Leeds website for more information.

Adventure Golf at Mission Out in Leeds

Mission Out - Epic Outdoor Adventure at Tingley Garden Centre in Leeds has an Adventure Golf course.

The Mission Out Adventure Park in Leeds has an outdoor Adventure Golf course.

Find out more on the Mission Out website.

Flight Club Darts in Leeds

A visit to Flight Club to play some darts in Leeds.

Flight Club Darts in Leeds

We really like playing darts and have found that Flight Club is a top place to play the game. Although if you're looking to have a play of standard 501 rules you won't find that.

Instead there are a range of interactive games more suited to groups. My favourite is Demolition - as close to a 'normal' game of darts as you'll find at Flight Club - where the aim is to reach zero from a starting point of 180. I managed to finish in seven darts in one of our games.

We booked in for a 90-minute session at the Leeds city centre location for some competitive fun on our recent wedding anniversary.

In case you were wondering who won - it was me

Flight Club has a really good atmosphere, a nice range of drinks, and is a pleasant spot to spend a few hours. The service from the staff is helpful and friendly too. Our 90-minute session was £14 each and we got to play a LOT of games in that time. You also get sent your game results, stats & facts, as well as the photos and videos taken by the oche-cameras at the venue while you play. It's a really neat touch and allows you to get on and enjoy the games without snapping away or tallying up the scores yourself.

We've played at Flight Club Leeds with a friend before and having a third player, or more, can add to the challenge of the games.

Emily recently played at Flight Club in Las Vegas, and I've been to the Manchester Flight Club for some socials in the last couple of years.

The Flight Club venues have some cool darts memorabilia and ephemera dotted around the venue, and I like the onscreen counter in the bar that shows you how many darts have been thrown at Flight Club venues around the world in real-time! It was over 500 million at the time we were there!

We'd highly recommend you give it a go if you've not been before.

Check out the Flight Club website for more information.

Gluten free at The Oxford Place in Leeds

Another superb meal at The Oxford Place in Leeds.

We're BIG fans of The Oxford Place restaurant in Leeds. It serves excellent food and the team there do so much to make the dining experience as normal as possible for people with Coeliac Disease. It's brilliant to be able to dine at a 100% gluten free place.

We had a fantastic three course meal there for our recent wedding anniversary.

I had the Duck & Yorkies for my main - the confit duck leg is hidden behind the Yorkshire puddings and under the fried duck egg!

Check out The Oxford Place's website for more information.

Ready to tuck in!

Carozza

My dessert was the Trillionaire's Slice

A Trillionaire's Slice!

Emily had the cod dish - it was similar to the dish I had there on our last visit. It looked delicious, and Emily said it was

We can't wait for our next meal there already!

Gluten free at The Oxford Place in Leeds

We had another amazing meal at The Oxford Place in Leeds last Sunday.

Pan-Fried North Sea Cod with Crushed New Potatoes, Lilliput Capers and a Prosecco and Brown Shrimp Sauce - this was one of the best things I've ever eaten

It was my first meal out since last September!

Mozzarella Carozza with a Rich Basil and Tomato Sauce - note the side order of Skinny Fries, another must have to share before the main courses

I've had some brilliant meals there before, and this was right up there with the best food I've had. Delicious.

As someone with Coeliac Disease it's always nice to be able to eat out-of-the-home with safety and peace of mind. And when that is combined with delicious and interesting food (such as the Carozza) and a variety of drink options it makes the experience absolutely marvellous.

Emily had the Tempura Battered Vegetables with Homemade Sweet Chilli Sauce for her starter

The Oxford Place is a must visit restaurant if you're a Coeliac or on a gluten free diet. I've dined there with people with Coeliac Disease as well as people on 'normal' diets and we've always been impressed by the food and service.

Emily's main course of Slow Cooked Belly Pork with Baked Apple, Celeriac Purée, Crackling and a Red Wine Jus

I'm really looking forward to my next visit already.

99.9% of the time I have the Sticky Toffee Pudding for my dessert when I'm at The Oxford Place

Check out The Oxford Place's website for more information.

Our friend had the Vanilla Cheesecake - and I nabbed a bit of the ice cream. It's so nice to be able to share meals with friend, something that is very tough for people dining gluten free, unless they're somewhere that is 100% like The Oxford Place

Puttstars Mini Golf at Hollywood Bowl Leeds

There's a Puttstars Mini Golf course at the Hollywood Bowl in Kirkstall, Leeds.

The recently refurbished Hollywood Bowl tenpin bowling centre in Kirkstall, Leeds is now home to a 9-hole Puttstars mini golf course too.

Puttstars Mini Golf in Rochdale. Visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour in June 2021

The course is the second Puttstars to open in Leeds. There's also a Puttstars Mini Golf venue at The Springs retail and leisure park.

Check out the Puttstars website for more information.

Dystopia-on-Sea - Minigolf and Art

A look at a crazy piece of art.

We love the British seaside. Back in 2006 we got our first car and began travelling around the coast. That's where we caught the minigolf bug. Since then we've visited, and revisited, a lot of the UK's towns and resorts. From the big ones of Blackpool and Great Yarmouth, to classic spots like Southend-on-Sea, Cleethorpes and Skegness, to some lesser know places like Sutton-on-Sea and Maryport.

One of the seasides we visited on a road-trip back in 2008 Filey, North Yorkshire, where we played the 9-hole Ocean Drive Crazy Golf course.

Minigolf meets art

That course (and its BIG minigolf lobster) has been captured in a new piece of art by Leeds-based artist Jack Hurley (aka Loud Ribs) in his tongue-in-cheek, affectionate and characterful Rubbish Seaside 'Dystopia-on-Sea' collection.

You may recognise a couple of the characters in the piece too.

Check out the Loud Ribs website to see more of Jack's work.

You can find me depicted on a coaster (among other things) at the Fabrication shop in Leeds

Here's the blog post from our visit to the Ocean Drive Crazy Golf course in Filey. It was the 56th course played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Ocean Drive Crazy Golf course in Filey (June 2008)

The Ocean Drive Crazy Golf course on the seafront in Filey has actually been removed and is being replaced by a new layout, so it's doubly nice that the old layout has been captured for posterity in Jack's art.

We've now been to 1,012 miniature golf courses. 967 of them have been in the British Isles.