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| - Maybe I'm biased because I don't actually like bowling that much. Or maybe it was that it was only ok anyway. I did get to hear some old school pop music though, which took me back to my teenybopper days in highschool. It has a pretty typical bowling alley atmosphere, nothing too exciting (except for maybe the glow bowling). I'm a bit of an idie kid at heart and so I prefer a bit of atmosphere with my nostalgic activities... although I never really chose to go ten pin bowling as a kid either.
We were booked for three lanes as part of a work outing, which included the shoe rental, a $5 credit for the casino, one drink each and food. The shoe rental was easy, although a few colleagues with small or larger feet seemed to have a bit of trouble finding shoes to fit. We each received a drink voucher to redeem at the bar, but it was only valid for certain beers or house highballs. Their drink prices were really reasonable from what I can see ($5 - $7 ish), but I'm not sure I saw any decent beers that I would have picked and it looked like there was only one choice each of white and red wine. The disposable plates looked like they might be recycled (or at least slightly eco friendly) which was a nice touch.
The food came out on time, and the plate of fried stuff was pretty good (I recommend the fried chicken), followed by pizzas and a plate of veggies and dip. The veggies were nice and fresh (cauliflower, broccoli etc) but the pizza was pretty average, or perhaps just what you would probably expect to get at a bowling alley.
We had issues getting started, and needed the operator to come over and fix it, and then go back and fix something at her computer. We also had issues with the balls being returned to us, which happened at least three times where both our lane and the lane next to us didn't have any of our balls returned to us and we had to keep raiding the shelves and then report this and wait for it to be fixed.
Once we got started and during the times we had bowling bowls to use, it was pretty fun (for bowling). By the time we left (just after 7pm on a Monday night) glow bowling had started which was fun, and all of the lanes were pretty much taken. I even saw one family with several pieces of luggage that brought all of their own gear so apparently serious bowlers go here too!
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