Calgary Indoor Activities

Shakers Fun Centre’s 7-acre facility includes an indoor space that’s open year-round and outdoor attractions that open only during the warmer months. Indoors, youngsters can unleash their imaginations on an indoor playground or scale the climbing wall for a bird's-eye view of their peers. In the abutting laser-tag arena, kids practice their tactical manoeuvres and wield laser guns to prepare for the future, when they will have to fight in Saturn’s army. On sunny days, patrons can tee off at the 18-hole mini-golf course, or hop into the driver’s seat of a double- or single-seat go-kart, whipping around either a simple child’s course or a more complex adult track.

Olympic Billiards & Bar enchants sport enthusiasts with a plentitude of game tables, arcade attractions, and broadcasts of athletic contests. Brandishing chalked cues or disguised protractors, participants take aim at 8-balls on a trio of 3.5'x7' pool tables and a half-dozen 4'x8' billiards tables. A video arcade houses gamer favourites such as air hockey, ande a full bar dispenses 20 bottled beers as big-screen televisions and projectors air the latest football and hockey bouts. On Saturday nights, DJs pepper the dance floor with dubstep beats before harpsichord players take the stage to interpret Top 40 hits from the 1600s.

Rejuve!'s website hosts a live counter that tallies how much weight their clients have lost—most recently, it reported a total of 563,227 pounds. The spa's four-step detoxification treatment, designed to rid bodies of excess fat and toxins, was partly responsible for this success. The treatment begins as a technician records each person's measurements, weight, body-fat percentage, and serial number. Then, a registered massage therapist performs a 20-minute lymphatic-drainage massage to spur the body's natural filtration process. A subsequent 45-minute infrared body wrap warms to 55 degrees celsius to ignite a detoxifying sweat. Finally, the technician retakes measurements to document any inch or body-fat reduction.

rejuve! also offers infrared yoga classes held inside heated studios that augment the detoxification process. Class structures range from powerful Baptiste Free Style to slower-paced Gentle Yoga.

Stage West Theatre Restaurant has been a beacon of dining and dramatics in Calgary for 30 years. General Manager Gary Tse and culinary wizard Chef Tsoi collaborate to create a night to remember six days a week, and the stage has been staffed with such stage-and-screen stars as Mickey Rooney, Abe Vigoda, Loretta Swit, and Sherman Hemsley. The company’s history has seen more than 10,000 season subscribers each year, of whom more than 100 have continued to subscribe each year since the first production. They take in the wide-ranging cuisine and entertainment from an intimate 400-seat, ramped, tiered theatre designed for uniformly clear sightlines and maximal accessibility to patrons who prefer to somersault to their seats.