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  Booked a package for my 14 year old daughter's birthday. Her and her friend did the ax throwing, smash room, and threw a ninja star. They had a great... read more time! The staff went out of their way to make sure we had a good time. Definitely would recommend this business and would come back again.

  This was so much fun!! We did the smash room and the paint splatter. The smash room was such great stress relief! And the staff was super nice, very accommodating,... read more and made sure every safety precaution was taken. They even gave us helpful tips for how to best transport our paintings once we were done (you can take off the staples and roll it up once it dries).
Overall, highly recommend if you're curious about this type of thing

  I booked a smash room for one because I just found out my husband has been unfaithful during the majority of our relationship (goodbye, 20+ years). It has completely destroyed... read more me, and I needed to find an outlet to get out the anger, hurt, and devastation I was feeling, because expensive talking-heads therapy just wasn't cutting it. I researched Yelp and found Sin City Smash, and let me tell you: this was the best therapy in the world!

It doesn't come cheap, but my experience was worth every penny. I opted for the Signature Smash for One ($59) that gave me a too-short 15 minutes in the room. My table had a lot of beer bottles, a few liquor bottles, a VHS tape, a computer printer, a flat screen computer monitor, keyboard, a few skeet pucks, and a couple of DVDs. At first it didn't look like much to smash, but there was plenty of stuff! I wish there had been more glass bottles, as those were super fun. For the price, I think there should've been a few more items on my table.

I checked in early for my reservation time, and the friendly employees got everything in order and they were able to take me right on back. Pro tip: fill out the waiver online BEFORE you arrive, it saves time and is so easy.

I was encouraged to stretch, directed towards a free locker to stash my bag in, and was given a safety briefing and a pair of coveralls, shoe covers, goggles, a hard hat with visor and earmuffs, and gloves to put on. (I wore a pair of bulky Doc Martens boots to protect my feet, but it was difficult to get them through the small pants legs, and the shoe covers were hard to put on and take off as well -- you may want to wear non-bulky footwear if you can). Once I was dressed, I was shown to my room.

I was able to pick a soundtrack to smash to, and they had everything from rap to classical and beyond. I wanted something super angry, so I went with "rage rock." It was perfect. The timer was set, and off I went to smashin'!

I started with the liquor and beer bottles, which were oh-so-fun. I hit them like a professional MLB baseball player and watched them fly! There were some dvds (yawn) and a VHS tape (which was really fun to smash), but the stars of the show were the computer printer, computer monitor, and keyboard!

The room had soft baseball bats that were easy to swing and not too heavy. I also had a sledgehammer that was perfect for extra heavy duty smashing. I got the hang of it very quickly, and I would whack the items so hard that they'd end up across the room. You can pick up larger pieces and put them back on the table and smash them again.

One good swing of the hefty sledgehammer and all those keyboard keys went flying! It. Was. AWESOME! I would probably upgrade to the better weapons package (called the Ultimate Weapons Upgrade, $20 more) because you get a variety of fun things to choose from (check out their website) to wield. I never got tired of the bat and the sledgehammer however, and I would frequently swap one out for the other. You can really get a feel for which weapon does the most damage to which items. I used both the bat and the sledgehammer on the printer, and it was phenomenal.

One cool thing is that before I went in the room, the guy working the desk gave me a skeet puck and a sharpie, and said that usually when there's a woman there alone, she has a name she may want to write on the puck and then smash it all to heck. Yep, he was right! I scribbled He Who Shall Not Be Named on that puck and smashed the ever living heck out of it. THAT was the best of all.

The room is soundproof and private, so you can smash in peace. There's a small window, but nobody was looking in it. I added in some primal screams and a few good obscenities as I screamed and cursed my likely soon-to-be ex-husband's name. This is a very female-friendly business, and I highly recommend it for women in similar situations as me. I'm telling you, this helped me in such a different way than traditional coping methods have.

I had plenty to smash and not enough time. How I would've loved another 10 minutes (I booked the 15 minute package), but it was quite the workout. Appointments are by reservation only.

Afterwards, I took off my gear and was given a bottle of cold water and was encouraged to hang out a bit to let the adrenaline wear off. I felt really strange after this experience, I was so amped up and hyper, and I needed some time to cool down. I was super sweaty, too. You really get worked up, and my emotions were all over the place. When I got in my car, I just sat behind the wheel and screamed as loud as I could. I did it again. I felt good. I felt relieved. Then I just started sobbing uncontrollably. Then I screamed again. Then I felt a lot better. This is serious therapy!

If Sin City Smash had a monthly smash program, I'd probably sign up. This was a fun and satisfying experience, and it's a really effective and cool outlet to get out all those feelings that you have bottled up inside.