Galactic Golf in Halifax

A visit to Galactic Golf in Halifax, West Yorkshire.

On Saturday we visited Halifax to play at Galactic Golf.

The venue is home to two space-themed indoor adventure golf courses - the Cosmic Quest and Moon Mission.

We both scored 45 in our round on the 18-hole Cosmic Quest course.

The Galactic Golf courses in Halifax were the 934th and 935th visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour. The Cosmic Quest layout was the 536th course played on our travels.

Check out the Galactic Golf website for more information, opening times and prices.

The UV section of the Moon Mission course

Pitch & Putt and Crazy Golf at Shibden Park in Halifax

A look at the Pitch & Putt and Crazy Golf courses at Shibden Park in Halifax.

We visited Halifax in West Yorkshire for the first time on Saturday. We've been meaning to go there since we moved north in 2016 and finally found some time to a look round. We really liked the town and are looking forward to a return visit.

While there we played at the new Galactic Golf indoor adventure golf. Once we'd wandered around the town centre we drove out via Shibden Park where we knew there was a four-hole(!) Crazy Golf course.

The entrance to the two miniature golf courses

Up these steps is the strangest Crazy Golf course we've ever seen

Our friend and minigolf rival Brad Shepherd had played the course in 2015 and we were intrigued by the layout.

It certainly looks a lot different now to the summer of 2015!

Unplayable

Shibden Park is a nice spot and we enjoyed our walk round it. We also found it's home to a miniature railway.

As the park is quite large and we didn't fancy a wild goose chase looking for the Crazy Golf course I called Brad and he told me the course was next to a Pitch & Putt course. Another bonus.

Unfortunately as it's currently out of season neither the Pitch & Putt or Crazy Golf was playable on this occasion.

The Pitch & Putt course

But the Crazy Golf was certainly a sight to behold!

Blimey!

It looked like a minigolf course graveyard

The Pitch and Putt course at Shibden Park was the 936th course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour. The Crazy Golf course the 937th.

Hole 1

Hole 2 is there

Hole 3

Hole 4

A closer look at an obstacle

One of the best worst course visits we've made in the last thirteen years

Hole 1

Hole 2

Hole 3

Hole 4

Shibden Park Miniature Railway in Halifax

A visit to the Shibden Miniature Railway at Shibden Park in Halifax.

While in Halifax on Saturday we visited Shibden Park to check out the Pitch & Putt and Crazy Golf courses there.

As a nice bonus we also found the park is home to a miniature railway.

We're looking forward to a return visit to ride the railway in the summer.

Visit the Shibden Park Miniature Railway Facebook Page for more information and opening times.

We also saw The Shibden Express while at the park. What a fine park bench.

There was a nice tree trunk bench in the park too. It'd been carved in the shape of a viaduct and tunnel, including a train.

Roxy Arcade in Leeds

A visit to the new Roxy Arcade in Leeds.

While we were in Leeds for the Collectorabilia event at the weekend we visited the new Roxy Arcade.

I had a play on Defender, X-Files Pinball, Moon Cresta, Street Fighter II and Track & Field on our visit

The downstairs section

There are also consoles available to play

The new venue from the Roxy team is next door to the established Roxy Ball Room Merrion Street.

Merrion Street in Leeds

The first Roxy Ball Room we visited was the one on Boar Lane where we played the indoor Crazy Golf course in November 2016.

Roxy Ball Room venues have a lot of competitive socialising activities

We've also been to Roxy Ball Room in Manchester where we had a brilliant time last New Year's Eve.

There's a Roxy Ball Room in Liverpool we're yet to visit. That venue has a new minigolf course too.

Check out the Roxy Arcade website for more information.

Christmas Mini Golf

It's a month until Christmas Day!

Have you heard of any Christmas-themed Crazy Golf courses popping-up this year?

A Christmas-themed course we played in London back in 2009

Jungle Rumble Adventure Golf in Leeds has closed

The indoor Jungle Rumble Adventure Golf courses in Leeds are now lost courses.

Jungle Rumble Adventure Golf in Leeds

We were in Leeds at the weekend and while chatting to my friend Morrt at the Collectorabilia event I found out that Jungle Rumble Adventure Golf had closed down!

The Reception area as it looked yesterday

We visited Jungle Rumble Adventure Golf in Leeds last June. The venue was home to two 18-hole indoor adventure golf layouts.

Rolling to our 900th minigolf course in the British Isles

Two more courses and we're at 900 in the British Isles!

On Saturday we visited four more courses on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour when we were in Halifax, West Yorkshire.

Those courses brought us up to 898 miniature golf course visits in the British Isles.

I wonder where 899 and 900 will be?

We've visited 39 courses in eleven overseas countries.

Our 900th course visit overall was at the North Bay Crazy Golf course in the seaside town of Scarborough in June this year.

At our 900th course overall

Our 800th course visit overall was at Swing by Golfbaren in Stockholm, Sweden in February 2018.

Merrie England in Halifax

We had never heard of the Merrie England coffee shop brand until a visit to Huddersfield in May this year.

It's a chain with branches in Huddersfield, Halifax and Brighouse.

We were in Halifax for the first time on Saturday and we spotted the shop on our wander round the town.

Merrie England in Halifax

Ready Player One

I'm always ready for a game of mini golf!

At Puttshack White City last month

I wonder where my next game on the Crazy World of Minigolf Tour will be...?