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Kiara Musaja at the F1 Arcade was outstanding! Attentive, friendly, and incredibly knowledgeable about the menu and the arcade. She made my experience even more enjoyable. Highly recommend!

F1 Birmingham. Wish we’d have read reviews and no doubt you’ll still go. Frustratingly setup to ripoff. 7 of us on 2 machines, 25 minutes in half of us still hadn’t had a go, £25 each! Manager didn’t want to help either, suggesting we knew what we had signed up for. Over priced flatbread pizza. Spoilt the night, I wouldn’t bother.

Disgusting customer service! Complained about the format of have 7 people waiting 1 hour 45 mins for a game…after spending £280 on food and drinks waiting to play for an hour…the beer and cider tasted off. So raised the complaint only to be told I don’t understand the game format & the they didn’t not understand the fact the beer was not nice. Repeatedly asking what was wrong with the glass or taste, without trying themselves! Manager walked off in the huff when raised!

Awful rip off, 6 went in pre booked and the clowns couldn’t get a set of race places….told us for 4 races it’ll be an hour & 45 minutes!!!! Keeping us in to buy beer & eat!!! The food & beer was over priced & poor. Late sitting is down & allocating. Whole things a sham

F1 Arcade is a must-play for F1 and racing game fans, delivering an exhilarating experience that's both thrilling and immersive.

I went to the F1 arcade in Birmingham, walked in and as a F1 fan I was in my little element, simulators are amazing and nice when braking, turning and when going high speeds, awesome lights and a real F1 car on the ceiling of the building, great buzz and atmosphere, loads of people having fun and wearing their favourite drivers or teams merch, felt welcomed and because it was for my birthday they put a message on the screen of my SIM for me and said it to me in person, screens to watch real and past F1 races with real telemetry which was fun, my wife came with me who is not a big F1 fan and she also enjoyed it, really nice food but expensive and has to get a steak recooked as was a bit chewy but other than that it was great food but a little bit on the expensive side, overall a great experience and will definitely be going back.

Been twice in London and had a great experience each time. The staff are all polite, friendly and happy to help. The simulators are great quality with good feedback. The bar is quite noisy so it's hard to hear the instructions but the atmosphere is very good.

Went for a day trip out with 2 others to London and this was the worst part of the day! Over crowded and over priced for what it was. Had 5 races booked so when it came to our time to race, we were taken to the simulators (which were still being used) and had a briefing on how to set up each player. Couldn't hear what was being said as music was too loud and didn't have the chance to ask the girl to repeat what she had said as she walked off after she had finished. After managing to work out how to set our profiles up we realised that we were in the wrong seats. Ideally you have to set up one by one as whoever sets their profile up first will be in the lowest number sim (we had sims 27, 28 and 29, I was sat in sim 29 but as I set my profile first I was automatically allocated sim 27). We weren't sure if there was enough time to change seats before the first race so played the first race as not ourselves. One of us didn't even manage to get their profile set up as an error message popped up and then the time ran out so they were known as player 3. After the first race we managed to swap seats in time so for the final 4 races we were racing as ourselves. You don't get to choose the circuits, they are already pre selected. The 4th and 5th race was at the same circuit which spoilt it. You do get to choose your level of experience, from rookie to expert. Being a novice driver, I chose rookie which meant all I had to do was accelerate and brake, I didn't have to worry about changing gears etc. However, on all five races, even though I was staying on track and following the racing line my sim didn't get out of 3rd gear even when pressing my foot flat to the floor on the accelerator pedal, yet looking across to the other 2 sims they were getting into higher gears and going faster. After your alloted time has finished, there is no one there to help you out of your sim, if needed, or even ask you if you had an enjoyable experience, it was a case of just get up and either leave or go to the bar. We chose to get up and leave as it was so hot inside we needed to some fresh air. I'm leaving this review anonymously as I didn't have to pay for the 'experience' and don't want to upset who I was with if they see this review, but if i were spending nearly £100 for 45 minutes of 'fun' I'd be spending it elsewhere.