Overview
When the recent spate of jungle-set action-comedies hit the big screen — think: Jungle Cruise and The Lost City over the past few years — they likely didn't have anyone thinking about mini golf. But if you'd like to putt your way through 16 greens that clearly take their cues from such flicks, Tingalpa's The Jungle Adventure Play has the answer.
Given the eastside venue's name, applying a leafy theme to its new mini golf course — all 16 holes of it — was always a given. Open since Thursday, January 5, the putt-putt setup includes snakes, vines, caves, ruins and bullet-riddled trucks, all trying to make getting a hole-in-one tricky.
That said, given that this is an all-ages activity, there's an easy option for every hole. Putters will find two paths for each — spanning holes both indoors and outside — so you can pick between the simplest way to mini golf glory or challenge yourself.
As well as the course, The Jungle Adventure Play has added a licensed bar serving cocktails, slushies, beers on tap and soft drinks — adding to Brisbane's growing list of boozy mini golf spots, such as Holey Moley's three local venues, in the process.
The venue also boasts a giant inflatable bag that you can jump onto, climbing walls, high ropes and an indoor ninja course — plus, dating back to early 2022, a 140-metre flying fox track. Called The Hawk, it's the longest electric flying fox in the southern hemisphere. Take a spin before or after picking up a club and you'll be moving at 22 kilometres per hour, all while strapped into a harness eight metres above the ground. It spans both indoors and outside, too, and runs in all weather.
And, like the new mini golf course, the flying fox takes inspiration from an impressive source. If you remember the Myer Centre's old dragon coaster, which used to zoom around the CBD shopping complex's top level where the cinemas now sit, then you'll instantly know the experience that The Jungle Adventure Play wants to recreate.
Find The Jungle Adventure Play at 31 Proprietary Street, Tingalpa — open 9am–5pm Sunday–Thursday and 9am–8pm Friday–Saturday.
Images: Peter Wallis.