Hmmm. If there were half stars, I'd rate it at 3.5.
Nice enough (better appearance inside than outside).
Pros:
Bowling lanes in good order,
Kids catered for fairly well,
Not too expensive (£5/person/game OR £25/hour for a lane with unlimited games & up to 6 players). Shoe hire is £1/person,
Nice staff,
Reasonably good music (even if it is far too loud),
Not too busy,
Toilets were clean.
Cons:
Food is terrible - we tried the burger, nachos, tuna wrap & onion rings. All were fairly hideous; (imagine if Iceland had a sub-budget range & sold off the stuff that didn't pass their slack quality control & then some half-drunk, semi-reformed delinquent, trainee chef from one of Jamie Oliver's exercises partially heated it through & threw it all in the general direction of the plates, left it sitting to cool for 5 minutes then served it to you). I'm still suffering the nasty taste of the burger, 5hrs later,
Pool table baize is the worst I've played on (extremely bobbly & uneven)
Not very clean in areas (seating & floors needed a good vacuum & clean),
Some equipment not well maintained (some shoes scruffy and falling to bits & most of the commonly used buttons on the keyboards for the lane displays have the symbols worn away completely, so you have to guess what they do),
Bearing in mind it's a bowling alley & not a restaurant or cafe, I've gone with 4 rather than 3 stars. The bowling-related issues weren't bad enough to spoil the bowling. read more