Crazy Golf at Riverside Gardens in Maidenhead

A look at the Crazy Golf course at Riverside Gardens in Maidenhead, Berkshire.

We visited the Crazy Golf course at Riverside Gardens in Maidenhead, Berkshire on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour back in May 2009.

The 18-hole crazy golf course was similar to the 'Eternit' type of Miniature Golf. However, the concrete playing surface wasn't anywhere near as smooth as an official Eternit Miniature Golf layout.

With Humpty

Tee Off Mr Bean.

The crazy golf course at Riverside Gardens in Maidenhead was made famous in the classic episode of Mr Bean - 'Tee Off Mr Bean' - which was filmed at the location!

Playing the course.

No cups on this hole!?

Photos of the course.

Find out more.

You can find out more about the crazy golf course and Riverside Gardens on the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead website.

Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

The course was the 97th visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour travels. We've now been to 1,099 courses on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour since September 2006.

Crazy Golf at St Minver Holiday Park in Wadebridge, Cornwall

There's a crazy golf course at St Minver Holiday Park in Wadebridge, Cornwall.

Find out more.

Visit the Parkdean website for more information about St Minver Holiday Park.

Crazy Golf at Trevella Holiday Park in Crantock, Newquay

There's a crazy golf course at Trevella Holiday Park in Crantock, Newquay, Cornwall.

The crazy golf course is an outdoor 9-hole layout.

Find out more.

Visit the Park Holidays website for more information about Trevella Holiday Park.

On the lookout for new minigolf courses in the UK

I'm always on the lookout for new minigolf courses.

I post about new places planned, in development and opening using the 'New course' tag here on the blog.

If you know of a new minigolf, crazy golf, or adventure golf course opening please do get in touch.

Related blog posts:

• New Minigolf Courses in the UK: Mid-Year 2025 Update.
• New minigolf courses in the UK: January 2025
• New course

Minigolf Magazin from Germany

Now in the Crazy Golf Museum - further editions of Minigolf Magazin.

Minigolf Magazin is the official magazine of the German Minigolf Federation / Deutsche Minigolfsport Verband.

Find out more.

Visit the German Minigolf Federation / Deutsche Minigolfsport Verband website for more information.

A drinks coaster from the Indoor Crazy Mini Golf course in Puerto Del Carmen

A look at a piece of minigolf ephemera from Lanzarote.

Find out more.

Visit the Crazy Mini Golf Lanzarote website for more information.

The BIG Sports Weekender is coming to Mulligans Guildford this weekend!

Mulligans Guildford is hosting the BIG Sports Weekender this October.

Thank you to the team at Mulligans Guildford for sending over the information below about the brand's first BIG Sports Weekender event.

From Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th October, Mulligan’s Guildford is hosting the BIG Sports Weekender, with live sport, 50p wings, bottomless fries and one of the town's cheapest pints of Guinness, plus the chance to win Premier League tickets.

From the 3rd to the 5th of October, Mulligans Guildford is launching the BIG Sports Weekender, where sports fans of all ages can catch all major games on the venue’s 100" TV screens, enjoy food and drink deals, and enter a draw to win Premier League tickets as well as more epic prizes!

Darts at Mulligans Guildford

In addition to the usual games offered at the venue, such as crazy golf and electro-darts, Mulligans Guildford will be showing a variety of live sports during the BIG Sports Weekender. From Premier League and EFL to the Singapore Grand Prix and Rugby League, there will be something to keep everyone entertained, all weekend long.

Electro-shuffle at Mulligans Guildford

The streaming schedule includes:

Friday 3rd October

• Full coverage of the Singapore Grand Prix
• Betfred Super League semi-finals

Saturday 4th October

• Full coverage of the Singapore Grand Prix (qualifiers)
• Betfred Super League semi-finals 
• Premier League: Chelsea vs Liverpool 
• English Football League: Hull vs Sheffield Utd; Sheff Wed vs Coventry; Blackburn vs Stoke; Wycombe vs Barnsley; Doncaster vs Burton; Newport vs Swindon; MK Dons vs Gillingham

Sunday 5th October

• Full coverage of the Singapore Grand Prix (race)
• Premier League: triple header picks including Aston Villa vs Burnley, Newcastle vs Nottingham Forest, Wolves vs Brighton; Brentford vs Man City
• English Football League: Ipswich vs Norwich
• Barclays Women's Super League Grand Final
• National Rugby League Grand Final (Sydney)

Alongside the busy match schedule, Mulligans Guildford will be serving up exclusive food and drink offers throughout the weekend. Fans can enjoy £2.50 pints of Foster's and Inch’s, 50p wings, and bottomless fries for £5. 

They will also be pouring one of the cheapest pints of Guinness in Guildford, for just £5. To complete the experience, stout lovers can snap a selfie and print it on the head of their smooth pint of Guinness.

For every pint of Guinness purchased during the BIG Sports Weekender, the purchaser will be entered into a draw to get the chance to win epic prizes, including tickets to Premier League matches, football kit vouchers, and more.

Stephen Brown, Chief Operating Officer at Adventure Leisure, said: "We’re thrilled to be hosting the first BIG Sports Weekender this October. We can’t wait to welcome sports fans of all ages to join us for an action-packed weekend full of live sports, exclusive food and drink offers, and epic prizes. See you there!"

Find out more.

For more information, check out the Mulligans website. And to keep up with Mulligans Guildford’s day-to-day updates, follow Mulligans Guildford on Instagram and Mulligans Guildford on Facebook.

Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Thanks again to the team at Mulligans Guildford for sending over the information.

Mulligans Guildford opened its doors to two 9-hole crazy golf courses and more in July this year.

We've been to several Mulligans courses on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour and look forward to checking out the two courses at the Mulligans Guildford venue in the future.

Mulligans in Guildford and beyond.

The Adventure Leisure group now has 13 Mulligans sites across the UK which include venues in Basildon, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cheltenham, Hemel Hempstead, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Norwich, Stevenage, Tonbridge, Worcester, and now Guildford.

Adventure Leisure Limited is a subsidiary of Burhill Group Limited (BGL), which also operates 10 golf clubs and the BUNKERS! and Ninja Warrior UK brands.

New Mini Golf at Pickie Fun Park in Bangor, Northern Ireland

A new mini golf course will be one of the updates as part of an upgrade to the facilities at Pickie Fun Park in Bangor, Northern Ireland.

Pickie Fun Park in Bangor, Northern Ireland will close for a year in 2027 with the park re-opening in 2028 following work to upgrade and refurbish the fun park.

One of the improvements will be to the crazy golf course.

The 18-hole mini golf course at Pickie Fun Park will be reconfigured and receive updates to add a new Northern Ireland-theme to it.

Find out more.

Check out the Pickie Fun Park website for more information.

Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

We'll have to pencil in the opening date of the refurbished crazy golf course at Pickie Fun Park into our 2028 diaries!

The Original Crazy Golf course on South Parade in Skegness, Lincolnshire (May 2011)

The site of England's first-ever Crazy Golf course is now home to a hotel.

A new Travelodge hotel and Starbucks drive-thru are now open on the location of England's first Crazy Golf course.

The Original Crazy Golf course on South Parade in Skegness, Lincolnshire had been derelict since 2018.

England's first 'Crazy Golf' course opened on South Parade in Skegness in 1926 and the game is widely known by that name in the UK. Crazy Golf is seldom, if ever, used overseas except in tourist spots popular with UK holidaymakers.

In May 2015 The Original Crazy Golf course became the 363rd played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour. We'd first visited the course in 2011.

We've also got some nice old postcards of the course in our collection.

Related blog posts:

• Crazy Golf history: from a minigolf course to a hotel
• Skegness
• Postcards
• Lincolnshire
• Crazy Golf

The Lost World Adventure Golf on Sandown Pier on the Isle of Wight

Did you know there's an indoor minigolf course on Sandown Pier?

We first visited and played The Lost World Adventure Golf on Sandown Pier on the Isle of Wight in July 2008. Emily returned to the Isle of Wight in 2021 and while there snapped these photos of the course sign while whizzing about the island!

Find out more.

Visit The Lost World Adventure Golf / Sandown Pier website for more information.

A rollercoaster minigolf journey!

Looking back at the crazy golf course at Fantasy Island in Ingoldmells, Skegness, Lincolnshire, England.

We've been to some weird and wonderful miniature golf courses in some crazy locations over the last 19 years.

One of the fun and intriguing places we had a game of minigolf was UNDERNEATH a rollercoaster at the Fantasy Island theme park in Ingoldmells, Skegness, Lincolnshire, England back in May 2011!

A lost minigolf course.

Sadly this particular crazy golf course is a lost course. Fantasy Island is now home to an 18-hole course called Lava Creek Adventure Golf. It's a course we need to visit on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

At that point the 12-hole outdoor crazy golf course at the Fantasy Island theme park was the 240th played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

We've now been to 1,099 courses overall in the last 19 years, with 1,038 of those locations in the British Isles.

Within the British Isles Emily and I have been to courses in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Jersey and the Isle of Man. We've also travelled to minigolf courses in twelve countries - Australia, Austria, Belgium, Chile, Finland, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, Spain (including Lanzarote and Majorca), Sweden and the USA.

Find out more.

Check out the Fantasy Island website for more information on the theme park in Ingoldmells.

Related blog posts:

• Crazy World of Minigolf Tour
• Ingoldmells
• Skegness
• Lincolnshire
• Rollercoaster

Gold Mine Adventure Golf in Skegness (May 2011 & May 2015)

A look back at the Gold Mine Adventure Golf course and Cactus Canyon River Ride at Bottons Pleasure Beach in Skegness, Lincolnshire.

We played the Gold Mine Adventure Golf course in Skegness back in May 2011, and returned in May 2015.

The course had a fun river ride running through it too! That was the first - and to date only - time we've seen that on a minigolf course.

Adventure Putting at Bottons Pleasure Beach in Skegness (May 2011).

Gold Mine Adventure Golf at the Pleasure Beach in Skegness (May 2015).

The Pleasure Beach in Skegness.

Check out the Bottons Pleasure Beach Skegness website for more information at what's at the Pleasure Beach and Pleasure Grounds now.

Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

We need to revisit Skegness on our Crazy World of Minigolf as there have been several changes and additions to the minigolf courses in the seaside resort since the last time we were there.

Related blog posts:

• Skegness
• Lincolnshire

Videos:

• Minigolf and gold mine river ride in Skegness
• Minigolfing to gold mining music in Skegness

Lavvy golf at Golf Fang Nottingham

There's a toilet obstacle hole at Golf Fang crazy golf in Nottingham.

Would you fancy playing this minigolf hole?

The lavvy bowl is the 'cup'!

Find out more.

Check out the Golf Fang website for more information.

The Golf Fang course in Byker, Newcastle also has an absolutely horrifying ablutions hole!

Our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

The Golf Fang crazy golf course in Nottingham was the 1,088th course visited and 587th played on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour since September 2006.

Related blog posts:

• Playing Golf Fang indoor crazy golf in Nottingham
• Mini Golf Toilets
• Toilets

Toys R Us at Macy's in Chicago, USA

A look at a Toys R Us at a Macy's department store in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Emily visited this Toys R Us within a Macy's in Chicago earlier this year.

Emily first visited the store in August 2024.

It's one of over 450 Toys R Us stores you can find within Macy's in the USA.

Find out more.

Visit the Toys R Us at Macy's website for more information.

Working at Toys R Us.

My first job while at university in the year 2000 was as one of Geoffrey's helpers at the Luton store. I worked on the video game and electronics section.

The old Toys R Us.

It's been very interesting to find that there are still remnants of the brand on some retail parks in the UK and we've visited several of these closed, abandoned, derelict and demolished Toys R Us locations on our travels.

Toys R Us at TGJones and WHSmith in the UK.

Toys R Us returned to the UK shopping scene in 2022 with an online presence and in 2023 with concessions opening inside some WH Smith shops.

The relaunched Toys R Us brand can be found in sections of some travel hub WHSmith stores, as well being inside some of the rebranded TGJones shops.

There are currently over 90 Toys R Us stores open nationwide.