Joyful Day OutJoyful Day Out Limited
84 Thames Street, Oamaru 9400, New Zealand. NZBN 9429048761358. Owner-operated and registered right here in Oamaru.
The fine print, minus the squinting
Terms of use,
Terms of use,
the plain-English version
How this website, our bookings and the poker room upstairs all work. We wrote this ourselves, no law firm involved, so it should take about two minutes to read and it means what it says.
18+ card room
strictly
strictly
01 / The website
What this site is for
Joyfuldayout.info is our online front door. It tells you what's cooking, when the kitchen runs and how the poker nights work. Anything you send through it, a booking request or a question, lands with the same people who'll seat you when you walk in.
A few ground rules about the site itself:
- Use it to find us, book a table or join a poker night. Please don't scrape it, copy the text for your own site or pretend to be us.
- Menus and hours change with the season and the odd public holiday. We keep the site current, but if you're driving from Timaru for a specific dish, check before you leave.
- Where we link out, Google Maps for instance, those pages belong to someone else and their terms apply there.
02 / Tables & seats
Bookings, and what to do when plans change
A booking through the site is a request, and it becomes a booking when we confirm it. We answer every one personally, usually within a few hours on service days.
kitchen wed–sun, 5–10:30pm
1
Send the request
Use the book-a-table buttons, email us or ring the venue. Tell us the night, the size of your party and whether you're after dinner, a seat at the poker table or both.
2
We confirm it
Nothing is locked in until we've replied. Three poker tables and a small dining room fill faster than you'd think on a Saturday, so earlier is always better.
3
If plans change, tell us
That's the whole ask. A phone call or a quick email the moment you know. We hold tables about fifteen minutes past the booking time, then a walk-in may get the seat, because a no-show on a busy night costs a small room real money.
the decent thing
Running late? Ring us.
Same number you booked on: +64 3 366 2941. We'd rather shuffle a table than lose the seat altogether, and we'll do our best to fit you in later.
Big groups and whole-room nights need more notice to change. We'll tell you exactly how much when you book.
thursday night, first orbit
03 / Upstairs
Card room rules: read before you sit down
The poker room runs Thursday to Saturday from 7pm. Three tables, a caller at each, and a short list of rules that keep the games good.
- 18+, strictly. Photo ID gets checked at the stairs every time because our licence depends on it.
- Social, in-person poker only. All poker games are social and played face to face in the venue. There is no online casino or betting here, and nothing on this website lets you place a wager.
- Play within your limits. If the night stops being fun, take a break or have a quiet word with the caller. Skipping a week beats chasing one.
- The caller rules the table. Disputes go to them, and their call on the night is final.
Please note: Joyful Day Out is not an online casino or betting platform. All poker is in-person, social, and venue-based. Card room entry strictly 18+.
04 / In the room
Conduct in the venue
Most of this is what you'd already expect. It's written down because a shared room runs better when everyone can see where the lines are.
Treat the room well
Staff, other guests, the furniture. Rowdy is fine, the poker tables get loud and we like it that way. Abusive isn't, and we step in early.
Our call stands
If we judge someone's had enough to drink or is spoiling the night for others, we can refuse service or ask them to leave. It rarely happens, but the call is ours to make.
Photos & privacy
Snap your dinner all you like. If other guests or players are in frame, ask first. The poker room runs on trust as much as cards.
Be the tablemate you'd want to draw and you've got the idea. Families are welcome on the restaurant floor at dinner hours; upstairs stays 18+.
05 / The legal bit, kept short
Website content & liability
Everything written and photographed on this site belongs to Joyful Day Out Limited. You're welcome to share links and tell people about us. Lifting the text or photos for your own commercial use isn't on.
We work to keep the details accurate (menus, hours, what's on this week) but things change faster than a website sometimes does. If a specific detail matters to your visit, confirm it with us directly before you set off.
On liability: we take care, but we can't promise the site will always be up, always current or free of errors, and we aren't responsible for losses that come from relying on it. Nothing on this page takes away any right you hold under New Zealand consumer law; those stay exactly where they are.
We do our best; check the things that matter.
The site is a guide and the venue is the truth. If something on here disagrees with what the crew tells you on the night, the crew wins.
Other people's pages
Maps, review sites and the occasional link elsewhere are run by their own owners under their own rules.
Feb 2026
updated
updated
06 / Keeping it current
Changes to these terms
When something real changes, new hours, a different booking setup, an extra poker night, we update this page instead of burying it in footnotes. The stamp on the left shows the last time we touched it.
Keep using the site after an update and you're accepting the new version. If a change would affect a booking you've already made, we'll contact you directly. You shouldn't have to spot it here first.
The other fine print
How we handle your details lives on the privacy page, and the cookie rundown sits on this one.
07 / Questions
Anything unclear? Ask us
Email suits anything you want in writing. We answer between lunch prep and the dinner rush, so give us a day. For something urgent on the night itself, ring the venue.
we're usually at the pass or the bar
08 / Enough paperwork
Right. Dinner first,
Right. Dinner first,
cards after?
The grill's lit Wednesday to Sunday from 5pm, with the poker room open Thursday to Saturday at 7pm. Book a table for the grill or ask for a seat at the felt.