“We’re looking forward to installing the project in the New Year, ready to welcome guests looking to escape the January blues.” “It’s only right that the lighting adds to this experience, highlighting key areas of these facilities to direct and delight guests. “These indoor games for kids, families and couples are only increasing in popularity, as well as becoming ever advanced, with glow in the dark themes, interactive animatronics and quirky course designs. “We’re really pleased to be enhancing the lighting experience at yet another Monster Mini Golf outlet,” said Ventola Projects founder, Mick Ventola. We’re interested to know what it means when the preacher says, “You man now KISS the bride.The project is just the latest in a string of wins for Ventola in the Monster Mini Golf franchise, with the business already a trusted supplier of its trademarked Ventola VAvR LED range in Frisco, Texas and Bally’s Hotel, Las Vegas. It’s the first wedding chapel of its kind.
It’s a tricky hole, and you can thank the designers for all the tongue in cheek comments you’re bound to utter while playing.Īlong with the mini-golf course, the facility has arcade games, rooms for special events, a KISS gift shop, the “Rock ‘n’ Roll All Night” Café and the “Hotter Than Hell” wedding chapel. For the final hole players get to shoot their ball down Simmons’ outstretched pink tongue and into his mouth. The course wouldn’t be KISS without Gene Simmons’ legendary tongue immortalized somewhere, and this attraction doesn’t disappoint. In the back corner players can rock out with an Animatronic KISS band. Other effects in the course include laser lights and exaggerated pieces representative of the band like a platform boot tall enough to graze the ceiling, two larger-than-life guitars and what looks like jack-in-the-boxes but the heads are portrayals of members from the band. It also coincides with when the group first rose to prominence. The course’s ’70s-style slant creates a fun setting for players of all ages.
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The funky wall art has a psychedelic vibe that looks like a scene out of “What’s New, Scooby-Doo?” KISS was featured in an episode of the cartoon series in 1978. If you’ve ever wanted to see a painting of the Rat Pack as cartoon KISS fans, this is your chance. Brightly painted wall murals of KISS and Vegas-themed characters and scenes surround the course.
With black lights hanging from the ceiling, the mini golf course is defined by glowing orange dividers that look like a maze of short of flames. Her vision caught the attention of Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley and KISS: By Monster Mini Golf was born. Her inspiration expanded to more than 30 themed miniature golf courses across the country. Pucker up, you’re about to be surrounded by KISS.Ĭhristina Vitagliano founded Monster Mini Golf in 2004 when she wanted to create an enjoyable yet affordable amusement facility. Located inside the Rio, KISS: by Monster Mini Golf offers 18 holes of glow-in-the-dark decadence inspired by all the black-and-white-painted faces you can handle. Then your rocker status is a hole in one. What’s more rock ‘n’ roll than mini golf? Well, a lot of things, unless the course is themed by one of the most iconic rock bands of all time, KISS.
KISS: By Monster Mini Golf is at the Rio. If you want to “Rock and Roll All Night” and test your golf skills, then you’re in luck.