This place my great! Sure, it's a tad outdated, but my toddler son can't tell the difference! He had a great time crawling through the tubes and sliding down slides. For $6 it was a great deal, and I got a workout crawling after him. It was fairly empty, and no obnoxious kids. We didn't eat here, but hey, there's a thousand other food joints in Tacoma that actually specialize in food for all those complainers. For a rainy day, this place is cheap alternative to the park. It allowed for my son to run off all his energy, which is far better than doing so in my house! read more

I had my son's 2nd birthday here and he loved it so much, we take him here a few times a month. It's much more little kid friendly than chuckee cheese. and A LOT cheaper. The placed seemed very clean and didn't smell, I don't know what some other reviews are talking about. The staff is always really nice, yes it is crowded some days, but still better than chuckee cheese. The pizza is great here too, and the arcade is pretty big. I love this place! read more

Just attended a birthday party here and had blast! Laser tag was awesome and the party attendant was very good with the kids. The place looked clean and staff was friendly. Would definitely come back, especially for their chicken garlic pizza...YUMMY! read more

It's a cool place to drop in, pay a few bucks and spend a couple hours with the youngin's! Definitely has a cleaner feel than the other pizza play joints. I'd recommend eating somewhere else. Less creepers here than at chuck-e-cheese. But the video game area is loud and obnoxious! three stars as an okay joint, based on the slides, and kiddo play area only ;0) read more

I prefer this place to Chuck E Cheese except for the fact that you need to pay $6 if you want to play in the play area. Plus tokens if you want to play on the arcades. The pizza is pretty decent, I'm a pizza snob. My child is 3yrs old and she has a pretty good time. read more

This was the first time we have been here, and I will say its the best for toddlers. Friends and family will sure love this place, inexpensive family fun. read more

orrible customer service. We were told multiple times that we were allowed to bring our own cake in for our son's birthday party. When we arrived and had everything set up, they told us we HAD to buy their birthday package pricing, eventhough we did not want it and bought our pizza, etc. So, all along they were clearly in the wrong. To them policy was way more important than a happy and paying customer. I will not be using them in the future for my child's birthday, and would recommend other places that don't have so many odd and unreasonable rules. Other places don't seem to have nearly as many rules for bringing in your own cake, as long as you are purchasing their food and drink. Stay clear of this establishment and their inflexible rules, and staff that is not empowered to make the right call regardless of policy. read more

Well, if you ask my teo kids -- they LOVE to come to this place. Just everthing here is fun for them. For parents -- good place for birthday parties. The kids are busy all the time, the price is reasonable. The kids love the little prizes they get. The reason I give it three starts, is the fact that this place is so noisy, I get headache every single time I come here. Also, the game area is so crowded that I am really worried each time my kids come here. I lose sight of them easily, and the machines could be really dirty. read more

To start off, they provided the cheapest white plates and napkins possible. The adults had planned on sitting out. As we went into the laser tag room, the employee told us that normally two adults were free with the birthday party, but he would let us all go in for free. By the time we were leaving, this employee was nowhere to be found. That's when we were told that they were charging us for all of the extra adults. They refused to give us any sort of discount, and we ending up paying $60 more than we expected. Will never return and am telling everyone I know! read more

This place is great. Way better than chuck-e-cheese. For about 5 bucks you can take your kid here and let them run wild for as long as you like. And they even have laser tag! read more

This place use to be amazing it encouraged parents to interact with their children allowing the parents to climb slide run and play. Now they want us to pay almost $7.00 to what have my young child cling to my hip to shy to play with strange kids and be upset cause momma can't play with them?? And to have my teenager not even be able to help with her younger siblings to just sit and watch...I asked them seriously I thought this place was about family fun.. when I was told that their is video games and laser tag at cost. So pay to come in and play on my phone? Are you kidding me???? The new rules are ridiculous!!!! Thanks for ruining one of the few indoor places that encouraged interacting with your kids! read more

Went here to play laser tag with friends. We didn't know it was equivalent with a Chuck E. Cheese place for kids lol. We went on a Saturday of a 3-day weekend so it was really busy. We had to wait a while to play laser tag but it wasn't too bad. The place is what to expect for a kid event but we still had a lot of fun. Not as big as other laser tag rooms but big enough! When you check in on Yelp we received 5 free tokens to play games. Nice little perk while waiting for laser tag. Good back up spot if you can't find any other laser tag joint read more

This was the family place that my brother, his girl, and I went to with the kids. While, my brother's girlfriend and her nephew went into the play area for little kids, the rest of went into the laser tag room and had a blast shooting each other. First time around was my brother, my nephews, Lil Man, and me. Second time was Lil Man, my oldest nephew, my brother's girl, and me.. Third time around, it was my nephews, Lil Man, and me versus and another family, but the other family had older kids. So they took kicked our asses since we had little dudes on our team and the littlest one got scared of the darkness. In the end, we had a blast.. We also played in the arcade. I would recommend this place for anyone and everyone to go there with their families especially for birthdaty parties.. Way better than Chuck - E - Cheese read more

The worst customer service I have ever experienced. Paid for 6 people to play laser tag at 3:35. Went back & checked in with the laser tag attendant who explained a birthday party group would be going before us (absolutely no problem) & to have a seat by their desk & it would be 10-20 minutes. We waited 20 minutes, and watched the bday group come & go, then a new group of 3 separate parties play & leave. So I went back up to the laser tag desk, which a new attendant was manning, I explained the situation & asked if it was our turn. She said my name wasn't on the list & that 3 more groups were ahead of us. I asked her if at least 3 of us could fit into play since we had already been waiting 45 minutes, she says"I don't know what to tell you, someone didn't do their job and you're not on the list." I asked for a manager & 15 minutes later my son & 2 friends were brought into play. Horrible service for the $50 I paid! read more

Great place for kids birthday! Something for little ones and big ones. Good pizza and friendly staff. Highly recommend.

At first glance, this place doesn't look like much. But our 4 year old daughter loves this place and always finds friends to play with (which is awesome since she is an only child.) The pizza is actually pretty good considering it's like a large arcade with a larger play place. We did her birthday party here which we felt was a good deal and she had a lot of fun. That's the most important part for us. We haven't tried the lazer tag yet. But every time we have gone thus far we haven't encountered any issues. read more

A whole lot of people. My kids split up on me and it was hard to watch my little one (2 years old) and my big one (4 years old). Had fun even though the big kids didn't really give the little kids much room to play in the play ground area but we had a great time. read more

We love odyssey 1. Great for regular play. Awesome staff for parties, really have a good system down and make kids feel special. Our oldest has grown out of the play area but is now pretty stoked about laser tag. Quality, local and family-owned business. Thanks for many, many fun times! read more

The location of this place is in a delapidated, semi abandoned shopping mall where, galaxy theaters used to be, so that makes it sort of a turn off. However, the actual place inside is pretty nice with a huge, multilevel play pen for kids which is a lot of fun for any age really. The lack of child supervision from parents of older kids makes it a little tough for kids 5 and younger, but what can you do. My kids really enjoy going here and we spend a couple hours here every time. read more

I bought a groupon for this place because the offer was pretty sweet (17.60$. For medium 2 topping pizza and pitcher of soda and laser tag for 4). I didn't really know what to expect but my fiancé and I were absolutely amazed when we got there! Not to mention our 6 year old who was literally a kid at the candy store! Everyone was super friendly and the pizza was great. We were kinda expecting just laser tag but they also have a humongous jungle gym and games with tickets and prizes. You could easily spend the majority of the day here with your kids and not break the bank. They also do birthday parties. Thankyou so much odyssey 1. WE WILL BE BACK!! read more

This place is a nightmare. Went here with a Groupon. Management was the worst, pizza is bad, and in general a pretty dirty place for the kids. read more

i read all these reviews before i booked my daughters birthday there. Because this place got some really bad reviews i went and checked it out and it seemed clean, quiet, the employees were nice the prices were fair so i went ahead and booked the party. This was also the very first time i have ever had a birthday party outside our home. I have to say that this was one of the best parties we have ever had! The employees were nice and knowledgeable. Our party was this last sunday at 2pm and we chose the jungle party. The play area was clean and the employees did enforce the sock rules as one of my guests forgot socks and i had to buy two pairs before the kids could play. My husband crawled around in the tubes with our son and he said that they seemed clean and didnt smell funny like most do. Our party helper was Courtney who was great with the kids! I provided my own plates cups and napkins as my 5 yr old requested strawberry shortcake but they did have basic table wear available. Courtney served the pizzas out to the kids in a timely fashion, also served soda and juice. We had 10 kids who attended and about the same amount of adults. I used the coupon on the website and got a large pizza for the adults for free, also ordered a extra for 13 bucks. Courtney made balloon animals for all the kids. We sang happy birthday and did presents, Courtney helped with serving cake. She was such a pleasant helper and also did all the clean up...... we didnt have to rush out of the room as we were the only party that day. We then went to the arcade and played games. The arcade was clean and games were kid oriented. When i checked out the party was alot cheaper than i expected. I feel like this experience couldnt have went any better. While we were in the arcade i heard a boy got sick in the jungle area, i heard the employee pull all the kids out of the jungle area and had it cleaned up right away. Hey. kids get sick. it happens, the boys father took him home immediately. The food was good! We will definitely have our parties there again. I have to say i was a little nervous from reading all the reviews. But I would strong suggest this place, all of our guests complimented on how well it went and it was stress free for me! read more

I took my tot once on a busy weekend and the older kids almost hurt my child. This place isn't safe for smaller kids since the older kids play rough. However, the price for 2 year old was $2.00 and they refunded me the money since I was upset that the teenage worker allowed the older kids to play dangerously. I will try again when my children get older...11 years old. This place seems to be great for kids over 7 years old. read more

Just went here for a birthday party during the week. The kids at the party were 4 & 5 and they all had a blast! It was nice and quiet because the party was at 10:30am so hardly anyone was there. Only bummer was that they don't offer actual 'parties' unless it's in the evening or on weekends. It seemed nice and clean and the play area was huge. My daughter had a fantastic time. Seems like it would be pretty crazy on the weekends though. I have seen Groupons for them in the past so keep your eyes open for those! read more

Cool place! Very good for kids and teenagers as well. Laser tag was full of children and even though I'm 18 years old I had so much fun. The staff is very warming and the place is very neat. Price is accessible, I think that $8 per person to play 10 minutes of laser tag isn't that bad. read more

I take my niece and nephew here all the time! The laser tag is seriously addictive. As for the food, I think the pizza is awesome. For the price you can not beat this place. read more

Don't get Birthday package! It was a nightmare, to start off the pizza only gave the kids one piece of pizza. (we had only 8 kids) we had to serve the pop, pizza and cut the cake and serve. Our host was gone while we opened gifts. Started to help clean up the was gone so I had to clean up. Had to go order more pizza the guy that helped me said he would bring it out to the table, 30 mins later had to go find my order. The girl at the counter said we have been calling you for a while. You try to talk to someone about this and everyone was RUDE. Then upon leaving kids we get goodies with tickets and the guy at the counter should never have been working with kids. This is not the first party I have booked there but this time VERY disappointed. read more

They get one star just because they were willing to refund my money. 2 HUGE problems with this place. #1 they are way over priced on tokens. And the kids don't get nearly enough tickets for the cost of the game. Most things are 2 tokens and this may seem like I'm griping for no reason but when you have 3 kids it makes a difference. Chucky Cheese everything is one token and they get much much more tickets. #2 the lazer tag.......if I pay for my kids to play they SHOULD not be pushed to the end of the line for some birthday party. That is unfair to the children. It should be in the order of the line to play. We will not be back. read more

After attempting to book a party online for my girlfriend's autistic son but being denied due to being one week, one day in advance (rather than the required 2), we stopped in where we were advised to book online or via the phone. After 3 calls throughout the work week which went unanswered, we finally arrived to try to work something out. Despite no party being held, we were told in a short manner that we were unable to pay (the full fee) simply to bring the cake inside (no additional perks requested). We were told no cake "will be brought in my store." The remainder of the staff were friendly and the games/laser tag were fun. The cake sat in the car and we eventually left to go eat it. More money would have been spent and it's a shame we didn't get to celebrate inside in full. Don't bother calling and make sure to go online well in advance. Even when no party is being held, they apparently have reservations for...? read more

Never going to return to this place even if this was the last resort. Our experience was the worst overall. I have nothing but complaints about oddyssey1. Customer service: The lady in the front counter didn't seem like she wanted to be there. Since this was a last minute trip to a local arcade, my children and I wore sandals since it was one of the hottest days in Tacoma. We were charged for $2 each for two pairs of socks for my 2 year old and 6 year old to wear for the play area. We then observed another kid running around barefooted and assumed he wasn't told to wear socks and was never charged. My 11 year old and I finally purchased a ticket for laser tag. Upon our initial game, we were told to wait 10 minutes and wait for another party to get finished with their game of laser tag. We almost waited 25 minutes for our game to start. We finally get the chance to play and noticed my vest smelled real bad and greasy. Other patrons didn't get briefed on safety as we did while the attendant didn't care what the others did which concerned me to say the least. Our game starts and I get over ran, physically, by older teenagers getting shoved and my gun knocked out of my hand while attempting to laser tag them. Another teen had tape around his vest which I noticed after chasing him down and finally tagging him in the back. The same teenagers got more physical toward the end of the game so my son and I called it quits early to get out. The attendant apologizes but didn't do anything about it. I also noticed, while waiting for a laser tag game, there was an older gentlemen without a uniform on, sitting behind the front counter of the laser tag desk, soldering electronic circuit boards to some laser tag guns. I have a real strong technical background and if this was my business, I wouldn't want customers to see that our equipment is broken let alone repair it in front of customers. The games aren't up to date and the pin ball machine ate my sons coins. we redeemed over 300 tickets from the games and split it amongst our three children. our options were limited since they each only had 100 tickets to themselves. My daughter chose a teeth chattering toy which broke seconds after she handled it. We traded it in for another one then it broke shortly thereafter. I didn't want to waste my time and complain because I didn't want to get into a confrontation with the attendant who gave an attitude when exchanging the toy. After seeing how dirty the bathrooms were, I didn't want to even try the food they had. I understand that we get what we pay for but in today's economy, spending $31.00+$4.00 (socks)+$20.00 on tokens, we should have at least got better customer service and a cleaner establishment. We could've spent that money at chuck e. cheese. Our experience was terrible overall! If there was a word to describe it, it would be "ghetto". POOR customer service and very dirty. This review doesn't deserve a 1 star in my honest opinion. read more

My 4 year old loves this place and that makes me love it too. The play area is huge and cool. It's probably a little grimy, but it's a blast on a rainy day in Tacoma for a 4 year old who needs to be run like a greyhound. The pizza and caesar salad aren't bad either. read more

LOVE LOVE LOVE this place so much!! We always get the 100 tokens for $20 & that would have our kids ages 5&2 playing for hours. Then after they would rush over to the playground area & start running around like crazy! Whenever we have left over tokens(which we always do) I just put it all in the spongebob game(my favorite machine of all) But the playground area is our favorite cause our kids are smiling non-stop until we leave though then they start crying like there's no tomorrow lol. We can't wait till they get older so we all can play laser tag. read more

I live in portland now but i went to this place alot growing up and i took my son last year when we were visiting..... Awesome place and kids can run and be kids which always makes them happy. I wish we had one in pdx... Thats for sure. read more

I feel that it is necessary for me to give this place one star because some of the employees were nice by some I mean one girl, the rest of the staff is young, lazy, and unprofessional. I have hosted my daughters birthday party at this location 4 times and the last time I had a lazy party host who didn't help with cakes wasn't attentive to the kids and also didn't even offer to blow up the party balloons for the kids that the package includes. We complained to management (kids) and they promised it will be taken care of. Come again this year we decided to give them another chance and this has had to be the worst customer service experience ever. First let me begin with the fact that some of my party was charged when they came through the door and the welcoming staff is unfriendly and not inviting. Next when we had the party room we chose to order an extra two pizzas an extra 20 minutes before the room timers scheduled due to our large party, however 20'minutes into our party and pizza being passed out to half our party the pizzas had yet to arrive, when I went to check on the pizzas a girl was putting cheese on our pizzas!!!! I asked her if our pizzas were ready and she said she was barely making them I complained about the time and she said she would make them as fast as possible with a careless attitude (took about 20 minutes) then after paying $250 something for our party, the ticket machines broke down. Not one but all 3 of them! We asked one of the employees if they could fix it and she asked the manager ( a young girl with a bad attitude) she ignored her and went about her business cleaning wanting to get out of there. We waited about ten minutes and asked again, the employee asked the manager again and this is all in front of us as they scream across the room the manager, the manager then ignores her walks to the back and shuts all the arcade down and says no it's too late were closed!!!!!!! My daughter the birthday girl was told she could not pick a prize for her tickets but to come again another day when the machines were working!!!! HORRIBLE HORRIBlE place!!!! Wouldn't recommend it to anyone!!! read more

I have a 10 year old and a 1 1/2 year old and with such a big age difference it is difficult to find a place they both enjoy. This place was perfect. My 10 year old loves the laser tag (so did the adults) and my 1 1/2 year old was obsessed with the play park-she cried when we left :(. Love the chicken garlic pizza. The bathrooms have been remodeled lately and there is new carpet in the play park. We love this place- my kids can't wait to go back. read more

This is my favorite place to take my kids to play! Their playhouse area is HUGE in comparison to other kids places! My daughters always have a blast. I recently had my youngest daughter's 3rd birthday party here. GREAT place to bring your kids! read more

the manager contacted us and sent grandson coupon for his laser tag. way to go!!!!

We went here yesterday with our 2 kids 2yrs and 8yrs and we all loved it. The kids had a blast playing in the jungle gym and also the arcade. The only reason I did not give 5 stars is because of the personal pizzas I ordered for my kids. We got them personal cheese pizzas and they were very burnt around the outside. I went and asked the employee if we could get them replaced with 2 new ones that were not all black around the outside but he said there was no way to take them out early or to run them through any faster. (He was very nice) I took the pizzas back to my kids and told my son to just eat the pizza but avoid the burnt to a crisp hard crust. After watching my son trying to take a bite I decided it really was not worth it and went and asked for a refund. They lady was really nice and said sorry about the pizzas and refunded them. We had also bought a med pizza and that pizza was really good and cooked perfect so we just shared that with the kids. Overall this place was great and the employees were very friendly, we will definitely be going back (just not getting personal pizzas) we even booked out daughters birthday party there. read more

This place is amazing for children!! We just discovered it today and already talking about going back!! Five stars!!

Worst birthday party I have ever paid for. First I get there early to set up for my 12:45 party and the girl at the counter tells me that I can't do that because even though my party starts at 1245 I don't get the room till 145. So I said forget it cancel the party I have guests who are older and need a place to set their things and selves. She smiles and in a smart a@@ tone says OK but your deposit is non refundable. That is the only part they explained when I booked so fine whatever. I replied fine I will just grab a table then. She once again smiles and in her smart a@@ tone says nope you can't do that. See any other day of the week that would be fine but Saturday and Sunday you can't have cake on the table. WHAT?! So I paid for my party anyway. I will never be back not even for someone elses party. The girl needs to be retrained in customer service and don't smile and talk in a smart ass tone when someone is upset!!!! I paid allmost 200 dollars to have 7 kids in a room for 1 hour?! Maybe explain that to people before taking their deposits!!! read more