Splatter Room Iowa- Merle Hay Mall

I set up this adventure for my women's adventure group (7 women in our 50s and 60s). Our adventure was right after the election and before Thanksgiving. Great time to smash away any frustrations. Online booking easy. Appointment reminders and directions were helpful. They were ready for us when we arrived. Instruction video important and the teen supervisor did a good job giving us our protective gear. Having protection was good, but know that your neck and ears are exposed (although nothing really touched those areas). They had several sizes of crowbars, a sledgehammer, and a metal baseball bat. They need to replace their bat because it was missing the top part - so it was only half a bat, so wasn't very useful. They had 20 beer bottles for us to break. Wish there was more variety for glass breaking. Throwing plates would have been satisfying. I also wish that they had something higher you could place the glass bottle on, so you could bat it to break. You mostly had to throw the bottles or swing at them at a low level (Perhaps it is a safety set up). They had a printer and keyboard to destroy. A stabbing area where you could take your aggression out by using screwdrivers to stab a foam slab. A padded dummy to punch. 30 min was about the right amount of time. We were satisfied with the experience in about 15-20min. Interesting concept. It certainly is freeing to give oneself the pleasure to destroy something when in everyday life, that isn't really an option to vent. Might be fun for them to have an area with foam nerf balls to have a Nerf/foam ball "snowball" fight. I thought the price was rather high for the amount of satisfaction, but can imagine they need cash to make sure there are things to smash. I probably would not go to this again unless they upgraded somehow. Also, I have nothing to compare it to as this is the first time I have been to something like this. Novel experience and funny to watch others destroy things. Worth one trip.

Nov 24, 2024

This place is absolutely amazing, I took my girlfriend here for her birthday. We had the smash/splatter combo and it was absolutely worth it. We painted some portraits and each other 😄. The smash room is also super amazing nothing like taking out some pent up anger out on a wide verity of items. We had a absolute blast time goes so quickly when your smashing aeay. The owner is super amazing guy who's super willing to work with you. Provided the best possible experience my girlfriend and I. Will definitely be coming back to smash room Iowa!

Dec 09, 2023

This was a lot of fun. My 10 year old nephew had been asking to go so that was his bday present this year. A little pricey for the amount of items you get to smash.... we had 1 printer, 3 keyboards and a small landline phone along with 10 glass bottles. Not a lot for 2 people when it comes down to it. I added on 10 glass bottles which helped but the larger items are definitely more fun. We were the only ones there which was great. Overall a fun first for both of us and we'd definitely go back

Nov 30, 2024

Went for my Bachelorette party and all 4 of us had an awesome time! The owner was super nice and it was such a fun and unique experience. Highly recommend doing this and I will definitely be going back.

Nov 13, 2023

Great idea to relieve stress. But we only had like 10 bottles to break and 1 thing to smash. We had nothing to destroy after 3 min there. You get 30 min in the room. The only barrel we could hit was already smashed. No head on Bob to punch, nothing left. Total waste of $80. The others before our time destroyed it all and they didn't add anything new for us.

Dec 01, 2024