Review: Star City, Birmingham!

Just outside of Birmingham is a place for kids and adults of all ages called Star City. For anyone old enough to remember the scene in Toy Story where we met 'the claw' that was freeing the Aliens - that's what this place reminds me off.

In it's bio this is how Star City describes itself:

Star City is Birmingham’s leading leisure destination with an array of great places to eat, drink and have fun. Restaurants and casual dining tenants include Pizza Hut, Nando’s, KFC, Subway, Oodles n’ Oodles, Shere Khan, Harvester, Tinseltown, Pepe’s Piri Piri, Shobhas and McDonald’s. Fun for all the family includes; Star Ice Rink, Adventure Mini Golf, Fun Station, Goals, Vue Cinema, Tenpin, Monster Mayhem and Family Fun Zone. Located 1 mile from Junction 6 on the M6, Star City offers 2,400 FREE parking spaces.

We'd say it's a fun day/night out!

We discovered Star City a few years ago when we were invited to play laser tag. This time we were invited by a PR company to check out more of what was on offer.

Our evening started at the Ice Rink - set up for Christmas. As it was newly opened we were the only ones on the rink giving us the opportunity to get tour skates on test it out. Thankfully we didn't need a skater aid but it was nice that they were available.

After skating we headed to Nando's - as you may know we LOVE Nando's here's why - but this was a whole new experience. Rather than our 'usual' order we got to try Wing Roulette, a selection of wings with different levels of spice. I hit a 'hot' on my second wing and I'm not sure I tasted anything else. It was actually my second challenge - my first being to eat chicken off the bone, not something I would usually do. It's definitely worth trying at least once though.

Having stuffed our faces it was on to crazy golf. The adventure golf has two courses on offer, both are 18 holes and take about an hour if you play as a four and you are okay. I won which was pleasing. We do love a game of crazy golf.

Although golfing wasn't hard work we were grateful to get to Pizza Hut to try out the pizza. It had been a while since either of had been and it will be a while before we go again. It's no Dominoes! The pizza bases were weirdly thin and soft and strangely none of the pizza's had any taste. Like any taste! it was weird.

Overall though the trip was brilliant and a great reminder of just how much is on offer at Star City. There is so much on offer and so much to do that you could easily spend a whole day there. With so many restaurants to try we will be heading back soon just for an evening.