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3-hour all-you-can-bowl including shoes for $12. Ginormous--at least 100 lanes straight across! Fairly clean. Large enough to accommodate multiple big groups with plenty of room to spare. Renovated, spacious bar area with tables, darts, billiards and TVs. 11-bottle domestic beer buckets for $5 and a decent mainstream beer collection. Well-stocked arcade for the kids, including skee ball and DDR.
CONS:
No air conditioning, just clunky ceiling fans (not enough to cool off a facility this big, an issue in the summer). Super dry lanes (eek, put some oil on that). Grimy balls (shush) paired with the dry lanes, will do unkind things to your hook.
AMBIANCE:
The enormity of this place is impressive but also creates a perpetual half-empty ghost-town feel, even when a decent number of people are around. Unless you come during a league event of massive proportions, you're not going to quite get that quintessential dive-y, grungy Lebowski/classic crowded bowling alley feel here.
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Came with coworkers on a Friday night and it was pretty dead. Don't know if it's because it's Wickliffe or bowling just isn't a Friday thing. We had a waitress checking up on us regularly--she was a real sweetheart. Some of us ordered food later on, which smelled and looked pretty good--the usual barfare: burgers, fries, etc. The scoring displays and machines were well-maintained--we got none of the infuriating lag between keypad and display or unworkable keypads that we're used to at most alleys. Everything ran very smoothly, except for the lanes themselves, unfortunately. The lanes were super dry and the balls were rather grimy--I don't throw any hooks but even my straight throw kept going awry. Bringing your own ball might make a difference. Altogether a fun venue but I probably won't be back; it's all the way across town and there's plenty of other options, including other Freeway Lanes branches closer to me.
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