Best of 2000: Best Batting Cage

Fun-4-All
950 Industrial Boulevard,
Chula Vista
(619) 427-1840

Fun-4-All has ten individual batting cages, and most can be rented on a walk-in basis, though weekends are sometimes busy enough to require a phone reservation. A 15-minute session costs $8, a half-hour runs $14, and for $25 you can spend a whole hour swatting at balls. Reservations made 24 hours in advance earn discount rates. The balls (either baseballs or softballs) are lobbed by a machine at different speeds and angles, which the batter can set. Players can feed four tokens for 20 pitches or can rent the pitcher for the whole session. The arcade is open 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. weekdays (to midnight on weekends) and also features 18 holes of miniature golf ($4 to $5). Go-cart tickets are $3.75 for those over the height limit, $1.50 for those under the limit if riding with an adult.