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| - Arsenal is a cool, kitschy bowling alley with awesome vintage decor and hidden back bar. Yes, all of this sounds amazing, but you have to put up with a ton of ridiculous behavior when you visit.
My first experience with Arsenal was the Monday night special: all you can bowl for $8, and $1 drafts. I am all for deals, and this one sounded up my alley--until I actually got there. $8 all you can bowl did not include shoe rental, and the $1 drafts were actually $1.50 and limited to PBR (so it should've said $1 draft). The all you can bowl is great, if you get more than 2 games in. But, the lanes are so slow and our lane had to be rebooted. By the end of the second game, we were exasperated, and finished.
So this wasn't so bad, but when I decided to go with friends again last night, it was downright bizarre. We eschewed the 9pm "All You Can Bowl" special (which really isn't that much of a special) and opted to go around 7pm for a single game.
When we made our way up the stairs and expressed our interest in a game, the guy working at the front desk more or less would not allow us to bowl at the time. He asked us to come back in an hour and a half for all you can bowl. We explained we were only interested in a single game, but he insisted we return at a later time. He kept pushing that the all you can bowl was "such a deal". It was incredibly pushy, and as we were shooed towards the door, we decided we wouldn't return later.
I don't understand why we received that treatment. The bowling alley was nearly empty, save a few families wrapping up games. The whole experience made me uncomfortable, and I'm not sure that we'll return again.
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