Odyssey Fun World

It’s okay. Odyssey needs a bit of a remodel. The games are fun but the prizes kind of suck!

My family tried the Naperville location for the first time yesterday and all I can say for sure — we will never be back. There were 8 in our party. There was nobody at the front entrance — for a greeting let alone security, the carpet is filthy, the place reeked of stench, a majority of the games were broken, the bathrooms were disgusting with urine all over the floor and we can’t forget to mention the huge potholes in the parking lot. We drove from Aurora and will stick with Luigi’s Fun Center in Aurora and Funway in Batavia. You have a long way to go to achieve their status.

The selection is terrible and what they do have is, majority, unusable. Plus, it’s just filthy.

We frequent family fun places and this was incredible! Yes, it is older BUT it is well kept and HUGE! OUR 4 year old and 6 year old could have played all day. THE ADVENTURE LAND and unlimited rides was a great value. When in Illinois, will def come back!

Well, where to start. It’s dirty, cheap and mostly all you get is out of order in most of the machines. Out all the staff members we encountered there were 2 that were nice and friendly, but let us not speak of the little brat working the laser tag room. Mistreating the kids in there. I wanted to give that little shit a piece of mind but I had to play it kool in front of the little ones. I spoke with the manager Milda or Melina what ever her name was and she did nothing. Just stood there as the laziest person without any real experience in the hospitality industry. The place seems like it was once a nice fun family place but going down due to Poor management. Get up, dust and do some sanitation.

Odyssey fun world is definitely the best place to take your kids! Prices were great and service was amazing!

Alot of games didnt work. People there are nice. I wish management would put new games in. I was not impressed. This place was a mess and very unkempt.

Driving past this place on I88 I thought «oh, that place is abandoned!» Lo and behold, the next day I get an invite to a kids’ bday party there. So I drive up to the party with my 5 year old daughter in tow. The parking lot looks abandoned. There are potholes and grass growing all over the lot. And like 3 cars parked there. We go in and there’s not a soul to be seen. We finally find the «party» which consists of a crappy room with burnt out fluorescent lights and shitty reheated frozen pizzas.
We are handed a ticket to go to the play area and are told to remove our shoes. The place is so dirty that I don’t really want to. All the shoes (like 50 pairs) are thrown in a massive dirty Rubbermaid. An hour later we all gather round and dig them out.
We are then given a little stack of tokens for the kids to play the «games.» Well the games are so dirty I don’t even want my 5 year old to touch them. She keeps putting tokens in and nothing happens. Literally more than half the games say «out of order.» Finally my daughter is thrilled that she has earned 73 tickets. We get to the counter and see that everything is 300+ tickets. So we leave with a crappy metal ring and a pink plastic suction cup toy.
Thanks Odyssey Fun World for the 1992 birthday party experience.

much need of an upgrade all around.

Disgustingly dirty, ghetto and dirty. There is a huge buzzing sound that clouds your hearing wherever you are at in the building. Driving in I thought I was entering an abandoned warehouse. The parking lot is festered with pot holes and it seems a crew of Mexicans that must have been blind landscaped the property. The front door is littered with cigarette butts and garbage. DO NOT TAKE TOUR KIDS HERE!!! This place needs to be shut down. Filthy filthy filthy!!!

We went to Odyssey Fun World yesterday and it was a lot better than the reviews here would leave you to believe. We nearly went somewhere else because of those reviews and I’m really glad we didn’t. This is kind of a hidden gem.
Odyssey Fun World has arcade games, air hockey, and a bunch of those games that spit out tickets you can exchange for little junk toys. It also has bumper cars, a little tea cup ride, a frog jump ride, and a massive 3-​story climbing structure with a ball pit, a bridge, and a slide for kids. They also have laser tag and paint ball. It’s a huge cavernous building with a lot for kids to do, side rooms for birthday parties, and a big eating area.
We spent the majority of our time in the climbing structure with 4 kids 2−½, 3, 6−½, and 8 years old. All had a great time. We also played a couple games of air hockey and did the rides.
We arrived at 10am on Saturday morning when the place opened and were the first ones there. At 11:30 there were only a few other families. By the time we left around 1:00 it was picking up. One of the staff members I talked to commented that it would be a lot busier in the evening.
My impressions:
The climbing structure is fantastic. The kids all had a great time. Let me stress this. They had a fantastic time. They climbed and climbed and climbed. They buried themselves in the balls. The came down the tube slides. It was great.
There is also some security around the play structure. Kids get special wrist bands and parents get matching coded stickers. They check you when you leave to make sure the combination of parents and kids are correct. So your little ones can’t escape, and no one is going to run off with them. This is important because the structure is huge and at any given point in time, you may not be able to see your kid. I’d say they certainly got this area right.
The air hockey table we played on clearly had a weak motor and the puck didn’t glide as well as you would expect, but the kids didn’t notice. They thought it was great.
The kids all had fun on the little rides.
Let me do some debunking. While certainly not new and not gleaming, I would not call the place totally run down. A little worn — yes. There was some dust on the top of the 3^rd story of the top of the climbing structure, but that would have been a real challenge to get to. Aside from that it seemed clean. The carpet was old, but again not dirty. Although it was raining, the roof was not leaking into buckets as another reviewer commented. The outside also did not look like an abandoned building as another reviewer suggested. Someone complained about the lockers. Yes, there are a limited number of lockers however they are on the other side of the building from the play area where you have to take off your shoes. Your family’s shoes go in a numbered bin that matches your parent name tags. It shouldn’t be possible for someone to steal your shoes.
The place appears to be staffed by high school or maybe young college kids. All were courteous and on top of things.
With respect to food, they have all the typical stuff you would expect from a kids menu. Pizza, Burgers, Chicken Strips, Hod Dogs, Corn Dogs, etc. Prices were not cheap but also weren’t at all outlandish when compared to other entertainment venues. Those expecting cheaper food need to get real. I mean seriously, you’re not going to get kid-​menu restaurant prices at any entertainment venue.
In the food area they have a little stage with singing animal robots that come out for a song occasionally. They should probably do away with that. The robots were very old and the eyes didn’t really open. I suspect that they were purchased from an old Chuck E Cheese. That was really the only part of the place that would call totally run down. …but the kids didn’t seem to really notice.
So in summary, while it’s not Chuck E Cheese or Dave & Busters, it is a fun, safe, and clean place to take your young kids to play. They will have fun.

What a dump!!! First off the place looks abandoned from the outside. All the games upstairs were busted. There were buckets everywhere catching water leaking from the roof, games were not issuing tickets, and the prizes looked like they’ve been there for a decade. Glad we only started off with $ 20 in tokens. We will spend the extra $$$ at Dave and Busters next time.

Great place for family fun. They have a few packages on line and they also promote a few promotions to.
I recommend getting their emails they have some great promotions.
Fun for all ages, don’t rely on the food it’s your typical fast food.
Bring socks to go into the jump zone

As a parent, this place isn’t that great. Games, machines, EVERYTHING is old and calling for much needed updates all around. The exploration adventure area is a neat place for the kids to run around and tire themselves out, but again… it’s not the cleanest place.
On the other hand, my kids had a great time. They thoroughly enjoyed climbing the tubes, playing games and winning tickets to later get some prizes.
This place has so much potential to become better if they put money into updating it. There are not many places like this around but the quality they provide really makes you not want to go back.

There is so much that can be said about this place but I am not sure it is worth stating everything that is wrong with it. Read the recent reviews and believe every word of it. One of the little girls in the party came running to her mother and said «Mommy it is raining inside the tubes!» This place has water leaking in from the roof and going into the tubes where the kids played. They have leaks everywhere. Broken Games, Bad Pizza, Overpriced and terrible prizes at the ticket redemption counter. It needs major repairs! It should be shut down by the health department! You have been warned. If I could give ZERO stars I would.

I basically agree with most of the previous reviews. The place is dirty, the machines are old, and most are not well maintained. We lost a dollar in one game, but we opted not to hunt anyone down, instead we chalked it up as a loss and got out of there. I say stay away!

This places is a joke. DO NOT COME HERE! Everything is broke and dirty. Do not waste your time.

Went here for my nieces birthday. This place is gigantic.
The first thing you see is the prize counter, which seems empty and sad because most of the prizes are on the opposite side. Word to management: merchandising.
In searching for our party, we were told they hadn’t arrived yet. 20 minutes later after standing around at the front, I found out that they had. Ooooohk.
But all the kids had an amazing time at the huge climbing structure. The security was great. Everyone had to be buzzed in and out. No kids were able to leave without an adult that was verified to be within the same group. Our bin of shoes was lost momentarily because ours was G16 NOT 16. My bad (not really tho).
The pizza was good. The party host they provided was pretty helpful even if he did suggest we get 3 pizzas too many. He was attentive and let our family into the room early. That was great so some folks could sit down and chat away from the joyous noise of children.
As for the games and rides, they are a little old but in good shape. The «AHHH Real Monsters» game really took me back. My 2yr old had a jolly old time feeding coins randomly into machines and ended up winning 907 tickets with a little help from grandpa.
So. This is the reason for the 4 star review. My 2yr old graciously gave my 4yr old his tickets to pick a prize (and by graciously I mean he couldn’t care less about the tickets AT ALL). She, of course picks a glittery pink prize that’s 1200 tickets. She. Would. Not. Back. Down. I tried, I really did. Our kids are really not that insanely spoiled. Mostly. The Disney princess of a lady (graceful, lovely, probably has a way with forest animals and small children) who was working the prize counter let her have the prize anyhow. –293 tickets be darned! She really made my 4yr olds day, and mine too since it was 1 less argument I had to have with a preschooler that day. Thank you for that. Seriously. Big ups.
But I must end this review with a stern warning. They have those SCARY singing robots from Show Biz Pizza in the cafeteria area. They barely work and shake in a most unpleasant way. The kids seemed interested in them, but they are frightening beyond belief. I’ll be avoiding this area in the future.

My son wanted to have his birthday party here, after considering 4 – 5 similar destinations in the area. For me, it really only mattered that he and his friends enjoyed their party, which they did.
This place is huge with lots of running room. That’s a bonus for large groups. The service for our party was good. Our assigned party room was clean and prepped and the food, drinks and accommodations were all as ordered and served on time.
My son and his 15+ friends chose to do the Exploration Adventure and video games (each child received 20 tokens as part of the party package). Between those two items and the party room we had a full two+ hours of entertainment.
The Exploration Adventure area is cool for the tykes but can be intimidating for children under the age of 3. I appreciated that OFW made the entire group enter together, with identifying bracelets, and does not allow children to leave this area without checking to ensure the correct parent/​guardian is there to accompany the entire group. Matter of fact, the gate remained locked until this confirmation is made. That’s a warm and fuzzy feeling for adults. Speaking of which, since adults aren’t climbing around in this thing, there are plenty of places to sit and soda vending machines. If they had an adult ‘juice bar’ back here it would have been perfect. :)
There’s a good selection of video games on both floors (main floor and upstairs). The games upstairs are geared towards older kids/​young adults, but there were some that my six yr old and his friends where able to play as well (including bumper cars).
One of the nice things about the games is that they distribute tickets which the kiddo’s can trade in for prizes at the end. In their minds, this makes them winners.ie.happy.
If you’re considering a children’s party here I’d highly recommend having it on a Friday night. I believe it’s about half the price they charge for Sat/​Sun with only a quarter of the foot traffic!
One final word. My sons party ran until closing time, forcing many of the kids to select their ticket prizes as they were trying to shut everything down. The staff was very patient with us and allowed the kids to take their time making their selections. Very cool of the staff to do. thank you!

This place is a long way out from Chicago. I had no idea it was that far away. The drive seemed like it took forever.
My friends and I came here to play paintball after purchasing a deal on Living Social. There were four of us, and we had a private game, which was nice for most of us that are beginners, but it was also a little boring. I also learned that I much prefer paintballing in cold weather as opposed to warm weather. I could have worn more layers then.
We played in two different fields, and I find them both boring. I think it would have been much more exciting to do away with the can barrels and hide in bushes and behind trees.
The nice thing about our Living Social deal was that we got some tokens to play in the arcade. The not-​so-​nice thing was that most of the arcade games bored me. I swear my boyfriend and I walked around multiple times trying to find an interesting game to waste our tokens on. I was surprised that they didn’t even have a Capcom fighting game. Really? I wanted to play Street Fighter! Haha. I also felt a little too tall with all these little kids running around. Strange… (I’m a petite woman at just under 5 feet). Also, I fail at little kids’ bowling games.