---
type: Video
title: "$18 Go Karting In PAKISTAN🇵🇰"
description: Turned away from a Lahore theme park for not being a family, then $18 for fifteen minutes on a 50mph go-kart circuit — plus an army checkpoint that only wanted the American's passport.
tags: [pakistan, lahore, activities, go-karting, family-only, checkpoints, driving]
timestamp: 2026-08-06T12:00:00Z
resource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAUDtgeuKSc
video_id: oAUDtgeuKSc
upload_date: 2021-12-19
duration: 763
---

# $18 Go Karting In PAKISTAN🇵🇰

The plan was a theme park. **They were refused at the gate for being two men
rather than a family** — Harry notes it is the second time that has happened to
them — and after asking the manager and getting a straight no, he says rules are
rules and they leave.

The replacement is a proper go-kart circuit in
[Lahore](/places/lahore.md): about **$18 a head for a fifteen-minute session**,
karts he is told run at 50 mph and believes it, timed on best lap rather than
raced, bookable on arrival. He has karted in England and says these were
considerably faster than anything he'd driven.

*Obs: this page is based on auto-generated subtitles; amounts and names the
transcript leaves ambiguous are marked unverified.*

## Key moments

- [01:10] **Tuk-tuks would be illegal in Britain** — emissions first, safety
  second — which is Mac's explanation and Harry's excuse for wanting one.
- [01:42] **The driving, quantified**: three or four genuine near-misses per
  journey by his count, and two or three actual crashes witnessed in a fortnight,
  including a motorbike flipped in the road.
- [01:42] **An army checkpoint takes Mac's passport details and not Harry's.**
  Harry's own reading, said on camera: probably because Mac is American. He
  offers it as an observation rather than a complaint.
- [02:12] **Joyland is families only.** They ask the manager, explain they are
  tourists making a video, and are told no. Harry respects it without argument
  and asks his viewers to suggest somewhere else.
- [03:45] The circuit — long, with awkward bends, and enough of a surprise that
  he crashes into the barrier on the opening lap.
- [06:51] **50 mph, and he believes it.** He was told not to take a GoPro onto
  the kart, took it anyway, and says he regretted it: one hand on the wheel at
  that speed was genuinely dangerous.
- [08:53] The result: third, on a best lap of 1:17, from a session scored on
  fastest lap rather than finishing position. Mac's kart failed after a
  collision and he was given a replacement that kept bogging down.
- [11:28] **The practical summary**: about $18 each, fifteen minutes, book when
  you arrive, pay again if you want another run. He recommends it and calls it a
  little bit dangerous in the same breath. He thinks the venue is called the
  Garrison Sports Arena (from video – unverified — he says he isn't sure).

## Extracted pages

- [Lahore](/places/lahore.md)
- [Pakistan](/countries/pakistan.md)
- [Mac](/people/mac.md)