This was my first ever paintball experience, first of all we bought our IPG tickets from a seller in a supermarket promotion, paid our money thought that’s that then we booked 6 months later only to find we needed to pay a further £10 per person which we did (not much choice) not the venues fault but be aware.
The venue at Knowsley Safari Park was amazing to look at, you really felt the atmosphere, we found bd the experience quite frustrating our opponents they were constantly cheating for the duration of the day and this was mostly due to a obvious lack of Marshalls, I lost track of how many people complained from our team, the Marshalls seemed either intimidated by the group or powerless to take control of the situation, they had addressed the issues by the last game when they split the offending team but by then many people had left so the damage was done, Due to the nature of the game I only played the morning sat out the afternoon as did a few others, if this is what paintball is grown men intimidating people, cheating, and generally being idiots taking it far too seriously, I’m not sure wether it’s for me I just wanted a fun game.
As a side note I would say be prepared to spend as soon as you get there, the amount of up selling is ridiculous more paintballs, gloves, fun upgrades, even £2.49 for a pot noodle !
