Swing out with golf in Amazon treetops
THE mini-golf craze is continuing in the city centre.
Visitors to The Printworks will be able to play a few rounds at a new Amazon-themed venue.
Treetop Adventure Golf will have two different 18-hole courses to choose from – Ancient Explorer and Tropical Trail – which are packed full of interactive holes and surprises.
Inside you’ll find a giant fig tree, huge carved faces and animals, and a flowing waterfall and stream that separates the two courses, all set against a soundtrack jungle beats and tweeting birds from in-house radio station Canopy FM.
Motion sensors will trigger surprises as you pass through the course – and some of those statues might just have something to tell you.
As well as this, there’s a fullystocked bar serving a range of themed cocktails and beers from Manchester’s Runaway Brewery, a cafe serving hot drinks from Ancoats Coffee Company, and a street food pizza restaurant.
Cocktails come under five categories – sweet, refreshing, fruity, spicy and mocktail. A house favourite is the tropical smash, which is a mixture of gin, coriander, fresh lime and pineapple juice that is then topped with a fresh blackberry and a custard cream.
There are also twists on classic Tiki cocktails such as mai tais, mojitos, and caipirinhas.
The Market area has seating booths for groups of all sizes, with some areas available to be booked out for private events.
Even the toilets have been carefully designed to match the theme of the venue, labelled the Creek & Leak Boat Repairs and filled with the same coloured wood that takes over the main bar and café area.
This is the second site for Treetop, which also has a branch in Wales – but the Manchester site is significantly larger at 20,000 sq ft.
Once you have played your way through whichever course you have selected, you will have the chance to play a bonus 19th hole. If you manage to get your ball in, you’ll receive a free extra round of golf, which you can redeem at any time.
Opening hours will be from 10am to 10pm on Sunday to Wednesday, and from 10am to 11pm Thursday to Saturday.
Visit adventuregolf.com/ manchester to find out more.