Markham's Dino Drive

It's a scam don't go. We bought tickets to the Hamilton location way back in May. Due to lockdown it was closed. We got an email saying they would let us know when they reopen. They reopened other locations but never sent an email. My friend and I kept emailing them to ask for tickets to the other location since the Hamilton one was cancelled. We still wanted to go. After 10 emails of requesting the manager gave us a promo code to use to go to the other locations. Silly us felt good, thinking it was fair. We went to the website to buy tickets using the promo code. But there was no place to add the promo code to get tickets. We emailed back never replied until this day, we kept calling and leaving voice messages no one would return our call. Finally one day a lady picked the phone, tried to explain what happened, before finishing the sentence she started yelling and shut the phone on my face. After reading on the news and other reviews I am realizing this was a scam. And looking at other people's picture I am glad I didn't take the kids but its sad money got wasted

I have seen the reviews and people seem to forget this is for kids. It was great my almost 4 year old loved it! He had so much fun I am happy we went. It's obviously not going to be universal studio standards but it did the job. As for the time it took to get in we were probably in line to get in for 15 mins and the drive throughout the park was around 30 mins.

TERRIBLE YELLED AT MY FAMILY AND THREATENED. DONT GO

It was not meant to impress adults. My 4 year old grandson loved it! Seeing his joy made it all worth the 2 hour drive. We were fortunate to have beautiful weather and it went very smoothly!

I bought tickets for this before reading reviews, but thank goodness I read them before actually going. You need to manage your expectations, and even then it will only be as good as you make it. We pumped it up with my 3yo daughter weeks in advance and made an outing of it, so she loved it. That in itself made it worth it, considering that as a typical pandemic family we're just starving for an outing. Having said that, it was quite terrible. It was ALMOST so bad that it was good, given the amount that we laughed, but still... We got out of it what we put into it, nothing more. It was NOT the high-quality museum-style or even theme-park experience you would expect from the ads. It was a bunch of model dinosaurs spaced about 30m apart, some with signs displaying the name, others leaving you wondering what you just saw. Some dinosaurs moved semi-realistically, some had roaring noise, but some were the blow-up variety you would see at a used car lot. 4 of them were actually dragons from a haunted house. This thing was quite obviously slapped together using random props purchased from God-knows-where, with little-to-no effort given to hide the fact that you're on a fairground/farm in Markham. The staff holding hand-puppet dinosaurs left me feeling uncomfortable. The sound track on the radio was somewhat enjoyable but there was only enough material for about 15min of driving so most songs played twice. The "tunnel" (I.e. Canvas car shelter) at the halfway point with boas and random rags hanging from the roof that dragged across the car was the high point for me. It was ALSO the reason for the car wash that we went to immediately after leaving.

We were excited to go and found it is mehhh. Sound effect through outdoor speakers didn’t work. Not many people want to open windows during this chilly weather to hear the random roar. Dinosaurs were small! Only last a few at the end maybe up to scale. Radio stations was playing jungle music which didn’t add much value. Wish it was talking about some dinosaur facts with dramatic music. Over priced for what you get. Not recommended for the price. It will get by with $30 or less maybe.

Went in Jan 2022 for Dino Holiday experience. The idea is good: moving dinosaurs, lots of rides, pop corn, etc. The execution is terrible! Lots of industrial noise, no music, the wires under dinosaur are covered with some white bed sheets, posters in walls are wrinkled. Everything looks sloppy and cheap. All rides are min 2 tickets ($3.5). We had a 2 yo and he needed an adult with him on the rides, so we had to pay for an adult and also for a 9 month old with us, all same price. All rides are very short too. The total was $59 for a family of 4 (groupon), which felt like too much for this experience. We also were there on the last day and staff was packing all decorations right in front of attendees, there were piles of trees on the floor. In terms of age, lots of babies and 2-5yo, but generally I wouldn't recommend, not worth it.

I don't know what's more sad, the fact that I paid for this or the workers who wait around holding dinosaur puppets. My husband said a zero would've been more appropriate and my 2.5 year old just wasn't into it either, saying "bye bye" after 15 minutes.