The bowling itself wasn't expensive. In fact it's nice to be able to get out of the heat and do something with friends and family. I spent about $12 bucks for 3 games of bowling. What really brought the the review down was the fact that I was a bit hungry from doing terribly at bowling that I wanted to get a chicken wrap. My friend decided to get fries for the kids while we started bowling. Now for $8 it wasn't bad but it took almost till the end of the second game for them to bring us fries and a wrap? I was hungry earlier not towards the end. Ultimately if you want a no frills bowling and wanna get out of the heat it's not a bad place to go.