so I don't know what I expected from a bowling alley in a mall in the basement by a food court. This place wasn't bad, but it also wasn't great. Not a huge part to the owner. But the one adult with what seems like 17 children next to us taking up 2 full lanes, and half of our lane, somewhat ruin the experience for me. I will say everything in this building is original. I don't think that anything has been upgraded other than the employees and I upgraded. I mean it's just new people working here. It seems to be a trend across all bowling establishments in the Anchorage area. I know that they didn't buy a bowling rink to get rich but they have definitely gotten their moneys worth out of the buildings. It's time to sell or time to upgrade What I mean by this is you had four lines that were completely unusable and blocked I'm pretty sure that the lanes them selves are somewhat concave from the mount of you from balls incorrectly down the lane. The scoreboard is so old school that you can't even put your name into it . I'm going to stop here as I have not much more to say other than if you want an inexpensive bowling for me to go but unfortunately I have put more effort force in this review than the owner has been cleaning up the building . read more

Dimond Bowl - She beat me by one! - Bowling Near Me - Anchorage, Alaska

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Terrible lanes, terrible customer service, surprising they're still open. Go to center bowl instead

I guess being in a bowling alley is nostalgic as is which made it had for me to decide how to rate this. I enjoyed my time bowling - because bowling itself is fun but this place was pretty outdated, more outdated than the average bowling alley. They don't serve food which I thought was strange, the game screens keeping score kept freezing and the guy who worked there was very blasé. It seemed like we were inconveniencing him as we *~paid~* for our time for the bowling lane and rented out shoes... Either way, bowling is always a fun time with the right company! read more

Dimond Bowl - Bowling Near Me - Anchorage, Alaska

Saturday, 3pm. Two adults and two kids. Shouldn't be a problem, right? Guido behind the counter with the sleeveless shirt and axe body spray is a little put off by us even being there - all he (finally) asks is: You guys are going be done by 4? Wat. All lanes will apparently be tied up - ALL THE LANES ON A SATURDAY AFTERNOON will be used for a party. HUH? We decide to bowl anyway, under pressure and in order to fit in someone's party schedule. No shoes available for the kids. Wth. Sure. The only part that wasn't a pisser was watching the guy get a headache while struggling to figure out my refund change. (I had paid with a $50, got a twenty, a five, and a one back - when I asked for the refund I slid the money back across for him, I HAD NEVER ACTUALLY TOUCHED IT - and watched him count with his fingers, finally handing back my $50.) Never going again, went to Center Bowl and OH WOW SO MUCH CLEANER. read more

The guy who worked there limited us to one game with the reason that neon bowling was about to begin. I hope next time he would've let us known that we could've had more bowling for a cheaper price if we came back 20 minutes later. They need to wax their floors and I swear I could see the floor flex when a ball would hit it. A side note... he gave us the wrong size of shoes. read more

Told the attendant there was going to be more people coming so we would like to have 2 lanes for an hour. He looked at me and rolled my eyes and said "so you want 2 lands for 50?" I said yes and under his breath he said "okayyyyy rich girl" then when more people showed up, he separated our party in two lanes far from each other so we couldn't even bowl together. He had a huge attitude problem and was wearing a muscle tank with no muscles. Come on man. Any task we asked from him seemed like the end of the world. The lanes weren't oiled, and the lanes reset super slow so it took four of us 1 hour to finish the game. Definitely not worth my money, and I don't recommend this place to anyone. read more

Dimond Bowl certainly isn't the best bowling alley in Anchorage, but you have to admit, having a bowling alley in the mall is pretty cool! It's small, but it's never crowded. The lanes are well maintained. read more

We asked to play two games and the he repeated back to me that we wanted two games so I said yes. We paid for two games, got our receipt and continued to go play. After we finished our first game he came out and told us we were done and needed to go. We were confused because we paid for two games. We were gonna ask him about it about it but then he just disappeared to the back room. We waited their for about 10 minutes and none of the workers came back out. We were the only people in their so it wasn't like they were busy. All around bad experience. Not ever gonna go again read more

Pretty much same experience as the reviewer on 6/15/16. Showed up with kids, got sent to a lane that had an obvious curve (despite many open lanes), computer didn't keep score score, staff wasn't too worried about it. Wouldn't bother to mention it if my kids hadn't been completely frustrated. Instead of an enjoyable night out, turned into a teaching opportunity to kids on how not to be frustrated by small things...even as the two adults were similarly frustrated by them... read more