Hathaway Driftwood 7-ft Air Hockey Table Tennis Combo Set w/Benches

Just put this together and looks great. Impressed w quality. Love benches and the color. Doesn’t look cheap. Blower is strong enough to move the puck. Wish the power switch to blower was on table and not on cord. Only the score keeper is powered on at the end of table controls.

Title says it all. Got this for xmas for our family and it now sits next to our pool table downstairs. I couldn't be more surprised and pleased with the outcome. First, it arrived early. EARLY. In 2021 "our global supply chain is f*ed early." I bought it late, hoping for xmas but with a promised delivery by Dec 27th. It came on the 23rd. Lucky me! Next, this thing was packed so, so well. Have ordered a ton of furniture over the past few years that arrives damaged. Normally not surprised because the items are packed so bizarrely or cheaply. This thing is padded and tied down in a way that, absent getting dropped off the back of a truck, it should arrive in perfect shape. And it's HEAVY! Talking over 400 lbs heavy. Maybe because I found it last minute, becasue I bought it from Walmart or because it's soo multi-purpose as a 3-in-1, I assumed it would be flimsy MDF. Granted, its probably still MDF under the veneer, but it's thick. Thick like a nice slab of pork belly. The benches feel rock solid. You wind up putting 32 bolts into each one, so they're probably more secure than your online crypto vault. And the closing action on the hinges is smooth. Gameplay is legit. Blower on air hockey gives plenty of lift for the puck. Agree with the other review that the mallet's a little cheap, but who cares. Buy a better one. They don't put a Starbucks in the lobby of the hotel because the coffee in the room is amazing. On that topic, the paddles and ping pong balls suck too. But let's be real. I didn't have high expectations for a furniture manufacturer to make a great table AND great sporting equipment. Count your losses and buy a basic set for $15 at the same time. If you can afford the table... On to the aesthetic. I think it actually looks nice as a piece. My wife was against the idea of the benches in the beginning. "We don't need more seats." But it turns out they're super convenient to just slide out do we can watch the kids play (since they never really give us a turn). I was vindicated and got to use the dangerous "I was right" on Christmas day. What a frickin gift! The electronics on the game are great too. Timer has options for 5, 10, 15-minute and "No Timer" games. Wildly basic and intuitive. So easy a Geico marketing editor could use it. Look, I did my homework and picked this out of a handful of sub-$2500 tables. You could spend $5k and get something that either plays like its Dave