Andretti Indoor Karting & Games Orlando

Andretti Indoor Karting & Games is the entertainment centre as the Andretti family builds them: 150,000 square feet across from the Orange County Convention Center, opened October 17, 2017 as their first Florida location, built around serious indoor karting — electric Superkarts on multi-level tracks — with laser tag, bowling, VR and a 150-game arcade around the racing, and a full restaurant and bar over it all. Where the Drive’s other karting is carnival-grade, this is the place Orlando’s karting people actually go.

Where: 9299 Universal Boulevard, Orlando, FL 32819 — off International Drive, walking distance from the convention center.

Best for: Kart racers, competitive groups, convention evenings, teenagers, and the office-party end of Orlando social life.

Tickets: No general admission — races and attractions are paid separately, by game card and race packages, with multi-race bundles and memberships sold on the official site. An adult kart race is a timed heat of about seven minutes in current listings; prices and packages vary, so treat the official site as the rate card. Height and age rules separate adult, youth and Mini Mario kart heats.

Hours: Open daily and late: typically 10 or 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. or midnight, to 1 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays in current listings.

Getting there: Free, ample surface parking on site. It’s at the convention-center end of the tourism corridor — walkable from the convention hotels, a short rideshare from everywhere on the Drive.

The highlights

• Track 1 (Green) & Track 2 (Blue) — The two signature multi-level Superkart circuits, per the current official description: Track 1 for long straightaways and off-camber turns, Track 2 the tighter technical course — hairpins and a glass bump-out over Universal Boulevard. Electric karts, real speed, no fumes.
• Mini Mario karts — The youngest drivers’ own karts and circuit, so the small children race too rather than watching.
• Two-storey laser tag — A full arena over two floors, and the natural second act to a karting session.
• Bowling — Spark duckpin lanes in current promotion, boutique-style, inside the same card-and-package economy as everything else.
• VR & simulators — Hologate and Hyperdeck VR, a 7D dark ride, and full-motion racing simulators, all currently promoted — the sim rigs are the karters’ second competition.
• The arcade floor — 150-plus games, the connective tissue of the building and the reason groups can split and recombine all evening.

Making a day of it

Andretti is an evening business wearing all-day hours: the building comes alive after dinner, when the tracks are full, the bar is going and the convention crowd arrives in team shirts. Karting heats are the scarce resource — on weekend nights, book or arrive early, because a walk-in heat can mean a long wait with the arcade as your consolation. The multi-race bundles are the value play for anyone racing more than once, which, given the two distinct tracks, is everyone who comes for the karting.

Drivers should know the house rules before the first heat: heats are grouped by age and height, the Mini Mario circuit keeps the youngest off the big tracks entirely, and the electric karts’ instant torque makes Track 2’s hairpins a genuine skill test rather than a formality.

Magazine tips

• Race both tracks. They’re different disciplines — speed on Green, technique on Blue — and the bundle pricing assumes you’ll want to.
• Weekend nights need a plan. Reserve the karting or come early; the rest of the building absorbs waiting well, but the grid doesn’t expand.
• The glass bump-out is on Track 2. The corner that hangs you over Universal Boulevard is the signature moment — don’t lift.
• Convention groups: this is your venue. Private events are the building’s second business; if you’re in town for the convention center, the Andretti buyout-and-race format is the standard for a reason.

Part of Orlando Citizen’s Orlando Tourism Guide. See also: Dezerland Park for the Drive’s other indoor karting, and Fun Spot America for outdoor go-karts under the sky. This record’s cover is a magazine illustration; photography for this page is in progress under our image practice.

Photo: Go Karting Central London, TeamSport TowerBridge track.jpg by TeamSport · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons · AI-enhanced to magazine grade by Orlando Citizen.

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