Emerald Falls Family Recreation Center

Don't waste your time! Poorly maintained, old, mini golf course. Weeds everywhere, shrubs on the walkways, no tee boxes, bent holes full of water. Holes are lame, not challenging, putters are similar to little tykes childrens putters. Go somewhere else. The broken down rides next door tell you all you need to know. Stay away, this place sucks. Worst $50 I've spent in PCB.

It only got 1 star because there was nothing lower! This place needs to be condemned. The boards are rotten on the track and they have tried to reinforce them all. Only 3 carts ran at a time with dozens in the grass broke down. It’s 100 degrees here and there are no refreshments available. The only seating in the shade was covered with ants. All of the kiddie rides were gone as “under construction”! This whole place needs to be under construction…tore down with new construction! It is so junky and rickety! Please find another go cart track to use like we did…down the road! They only have 1 double cart!!!! Seriously?!!!!?!!!

Hey! I've never ridden that invisible Carousel they have before this weekend! We ate at Guadalajara restaurant next door and the drinks were a little strong. So we decided to hit this place to,,,, you know ... Burn off some of the 'calories'. At first glance, I knew I wanted to ride that invisible Carousel. It was super fast and it seemed to stay on for 15 minutes per ticket purchase. I was not at all disappointed! It would have been much better if all those invisible kids would have stayed on their own horse. They kept jumping around from one horse to another and several jumped on my horse! Several kept breaking line, thinking no one was looking. But I could clearly hear them! It got so bad that I finally complained to the staff. I complained loud enough that they called the cops. The cops that they sent was super nice! They completely understood and made the attendant give me as many free rides on the invisible Carousel as I wanted until this white van with red letters and what seemed like 100 flashing lights came. They gave me a shot of something and asked me to start counting backwards from 100. I got to 94 and that's all I remember. If you are in Panama City Beach, I highly recommend the invisible Carousel! It will literally take you out of this world! Just watch out for those invisible hellians that go there!

So let me preface this by saying this has zero to do with the employees working at the location. They were very nice however I would recommend families stay away from this location. First the go karts were totally dark and not offered. There was no one else playing mini-golf which should have been our red flag to go somewhere else. The photos online are not the actual condition of the course. The course is very simple and not taken care of. The water was dirty and over ran with weeds. I hate we paid $38 for a family of 3 to play but I feel even worse for the employees who are stuck working at such a run down establishment. I highly recommend either Goofy Golf or Hidden Lagoon if you are looking for a fun night of mini golf.

My 2 older boys, 17 & 15 & my husband, really liked the go cart tracks. My younger son, 9, & I stayed in the arcade. We liked the air hockey table, the racing games & the basketball, ball toss games.