How to go
What: Lazer Kraze
Where: 7082 Columbia Road, Mason
Phone: 513-339-1030
Website: www.lazerkraze.com
Special holiday hours
Dec. 30: Noon-9 p.m.
Dec. 31: Noon-10 p.m.
Jan. 1: Noon-9 p.m.
Jan. 2: Noon-9 p.m.
Jan. 3: Noon-midnight
It was just a matter of time before Robin and Dale Wilcox swapped out their desk jobs for multilevel mazes and wall-to-wall trampolines.
“I was a business analyst and my husband was a vice president of IT, but we both wanted to have our own business one day,” Robin Wilcox said. “We wanted something for families that our entire family could be involved with.”
The entrepreneurial couple that first brought Lazer Kraze to the Mason area in 2004, recently relocated the Warren County laser tag facility to a new, larger, stand-alone location at 7082 Columbia Road. The new facility is 6,000 square feet larger than the previous location at 21,000 square feet and includes the area’s first indoor trampoline park.
“The main thing was that we needed more space but we wanted to stay in the same area,” Wilcox said. “When we couldn’t find a place to rent, we decided to build it from the ground up.”
In addition to the multilevel laser tag arena, the Mason location also includes “Time Freak,” a timed, life-size game of speed and agility in which many as six players race against the clock. Much like the location in Erlanger, Ky., the Mason Lazer Kraze has an indoor trampoline park but the new location also has a basketball jump trampoline. There are also an arcade, snack bar and private meeting and party rooms.
“With the laser tag and the trampolines, there really is something for the entire family,” Wilcox said.
Lazer Kraze is truly a family affair as all four of the couple’s sons are involved in the business from the oldest, Adam, who was the driving force behind the Columbus location, to the youngest, Jacob, who was just 5 when the family opened their first center and is now a laser tag technician.
“They were our target market all along so there was never a time they weren’t involved in some way,” Wilcox said. “There’s not a meal we have together that we don’t talk about laser tag,” she said.
It is that family focus that has been a driving force behind the three Lazer Kraze locations. Lazer Kraze has hosted thousands of birthday parties and has been repeatedly tapped as the Best Away-from-Home party by Cincinnati Family and Cincy Magazine. Giving back to the community has also been a priority as Lazer Kraze donated more than $140,000 in products and services to community organizations in 2012 alone.
And it is just as much for the young at heart as it is for the young as Lazer Kraze hosts corporate team building events and parties for all ages.
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