Let’s Bowl

Clean neat and all that jazz. But wouldn’t let me use my CAA discount after I’d checked in. Large onion rings are same as small– buyers beware!
Would I come back — sure it’s bowling. And ill remember to use my discount next time.

Was in the city over the weekend and came here to spend some time with the family. Place is big with and has lot of lanes. It was busy on Saturday but we didn’t have to wait. Staff is super friendly and prices were great. There are some pool tables in the back and a lounge to enjoy a few drinks after the game.

The best reason to go to this alley is the price. The reason why you shouldn’t go to this alley is the staff. If you can bear the low motivated attitudes of the staff, then the low price might be attractive enough for you to bowl here.

My friends and I have been here for both neon and regular 10 pin bowling in the last few weeks. The staff were very friendly, the prices were awesome, and there are lots of lanes and a variety of balls. There is also a small arcade and pool table room, as well as a lounge. You can bring your food and liquor to the lane which is nice.
The music has some issues because it’s streaming from the Internet so it cuts in and out sometimes. Also the seats at the lanes can be a bit annoying in how they function. The website doesn’t work on my phone (didn’t check on a PC) but the staff told me they were under new ownership so that could be why.
Ultimately we love it here and can’t say enough food things about Let’s Bowl. We will be back again soon (I need the practice).

This is a standard bowling alley. I’m not really sure how else to qualify it. There are shoes, lanes, balls, ok food, and decently priced beer. There are enough balls for a variety of groups and the price is pretty standard for this sort of thing.
I believe there is also cosmic bowling on Friday? nights but I am not sure so definitely check before you go. If you like bowling, this is a pretty standard place to go and it’s not far from the C Train, so it seems like a convenient spot. The food is ok and the beer is decently priced — I don’t expect much else from bowling alleys. There is also a shop to buy bowling gear, but you can also get a lot of that online these days so I’m not sure how the value compares.
It’s hard for me to say much else — if you want to go 10-​pin bowling this is a decent place to visit.

This deserves no stars.
I tried to have an intelligent and humane conversation with the rep behind the counter and it went no where.
Scenario — we were 10 mins late for our reserved lanes (from 2 weeks in advance) and the woman behind the counter screamed at us for being late and indicated «I’m not taking your fucking criticism! You’re late and I gave them away! Deal with it!»
To the Manager (Dean) — you just lost a $ 2000 tab from our group this evening. Food, booze and game. All lost.
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Sometimes when I’ve had a hard day at work I like to walk over with some friends, drink Richards Red and have fun. It’s super easy to get to: 3 minute walk from the Marlborough Ctrain station.
Even though its in a sketchy part of town it’s always been a nice expierence, you’d never know you were in forest lawn.
The lanes are nice, well kept and there’s no paper counting! Not in the Northeast — it’s all computerized and on screens and stuff for all you who care :) easy to use and I recommend taking a trip back to grade 5 and writing dirty words as screen names — - — - or is that just us? ;)
Cheap beer — $ 15 a person per lane. Kinda pricey I find, back home you can rent a full lane for $ 20 /​/​but its close and we always have fun when we go.
However, that being said the staff always act like they hate their jobs. When you approach the lady to buy another lane she acts as if your bothering her. I always send my husband up —
Just don’t go into «let’s bowl» hoping to strike up a conversation with the employees.
BYOF (duhh … Friends lol)
I like it! 3 Stars —

Probably the best bowling alley I’ve ever been to. It’s in a sketchy part of town, in what appears to be a very nondescript set of industrial buildings, but don’t let that fool you. It’s everything a bowling alley should be!
They have 10-​pin and 5-​pin bowling, a pro shop where you can buy shoes, bowling balls, wrist braces, whatever you want for bowling. They have an arcade that has pool tables. They have a cute little lounge with lots of tables and chairs, and they have a separate food counter.
It’s pretty much everything a bowling alley should be, and is clean and well-​kept. A lot of thought went into it, I think. A must-​do is the glow bowling.
Check the website’s schedule for league nights and avoid those — you can’t really manage to get a lane during league nights. This place is generally always busy because it’s nice and good.

I haven’t been bowling in ages. But there are still plenty of folks out at Let’s Bowl keeping the lanes busy on a Saturday night. Be prepared for about an hour’s wait for a lane if you’re there around 9pm. Thankfully, there’s a bar area to hang out in while you wait.
Once you get a lane, it’s as fun as your group makes it! Let’s Bowl has well maintained lanes, it’s clean, and it’s got automatic scoring so you don’t have to remember how much each pin value is worth (keeping score was the one thing I always had the most trouble keeping track of!).
Games are $ 6.75 a person (plus shoe rental) and you can fit up to 8 people per lane. Glad to see that an old staple activity like bowling is still a popular thing to be doing on a Saturday night!
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I think this is my first time at Let’s Bowl but when I strolled into the place I got a familiar feeling that I have been here before, at least in a previous life where I was Torturo’s inspiration for Jesus Quintana.
Let’s Bowl is a great alternative to after dinner bowling especially if you are heading from the downtown area. Just drive into memorial drive and you are well on your way to finding the place, which is tucked away in the industrial of 28^th street.
On a busy Saturday night, the wait wasn’t too bad. I called ahead and they gave an approximate wait time so I went ahead of the group to book a lane. The attendant was fair in letting me know how long it would take and that it would be impossible to book 2 lanes. He did offer a compromise that by the time we play our second game, he will offer the lane beside us to play on.
The prices were fair for bowling. 6.75 pp with $ 3 shoe rental. I made the mistake of paying for the second game so everyone didn’t have to get up, which made things very chaotic. Like my approach and release, it was poor party-​host form: S
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Ahhhh bowling! Inspiration for a number of excellent comedies over the years. There is Kingpin. A movie worth watch just to see Bill Murray’s comb– over flap in the wind. And there is The Big Lebowski where you don’t f@#k with the Jesus! Anyways, after some explosive Thai food I found myself at Let’s Bowl as a part duex to Angelo’s T’s Thai if I want to UYE. Good choice my friend!
Honestly I had a blast here. From the cheesy dark lighting and the constant low-​tech lazer effects show to the random high-​pitched bursts of celebratory excitement from those that get a strike, I think if I had to show aliens one of the best things about humanity it would be bowling (along with weddings). Everyone here looks happy and like they’re having fun! Nobody bad-​mouthing each other save playful jest among friends, no egos that are tainting our collective consciousness (R.I.P Bill HIcks) just pure light-​hearted concentration on knocking over those pins! Fun times!
$ 6.75 a game, $ 3 shoe rental.
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It’s funny, but every time I’ve ever gone bowling in Calgary, it’s been at Let’s Bowl.
I don’t know why that is, but there you go. I mean, I can’t complain. This location has everything you need. From a Pro Shop to pool tables to a bar and to a reasonably priced concession stand with a Pizza Hut Express, it’s a one-​stop shop for everything you need to enjoy a nice night out bowling with your friends.
It’s been around for as long as I can remember (I recall going on field trips here in. junior high), so they must be doing something right.
If you’re looking for some place to bowl, there’s no need to look further than Let’s Bowl.
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When organizing a staff holiday party, it might not be a good idea to leave it to the new person in town. I had reservations about a bowling party in the middle of nowhere in the NE, but it came together well. It actually turned out to be located pretty close to the lights of Marlborough Mall (though it was still quite dark by the time you got to the building), and the majority of the staff made it for an evening of pizza, beer and bowling.
It was clear that I had the worst (or alternately the most professional) form in the group, and my patented leg movements were imitated to great hilarity, but not much results. I bowled a 164 (my second best score ever!), and soon people realized my technique is that of a seasoned pro. I didn’t make many friends that night! Very far from home, but it was good for an evening out with fantastic co-​workers.

What do we look for in a bowling alley?
First, equipment and how they maintain their lanes, etc. This venue is A+ and is probably the best in the city as far as their equipment goes.
However, unless you are in a bowling league knowing that your performance will influence your team’s standings, you COME THERE TO HAVE FUN! One of the main ingredients of fun is cutomer service.
I have not had great customer service experience there. NOPE.
But oh well. A pitcher of beer and you don’t have to worry about the staff being frankly rude at times (before the pitcher, lol).
I will still come back there… But I would let my boyfriend to do all the talking. He has much more resistance to poor attitudes.

Bowling is one of those things that you forgot how fun it is until you actually start doing it. Then you instantly become flooded with hundreds of childhood memories and can’t remember why you don’t do it more often.
That’s why, as a way of being more social, my friends and I decided to join a league and bring bowling back into our lives. It is like JT’s Sexy, but with big balls. Wait… that sounds bad.
I actually really enjoyed Let’s Bowl because it was a really great size, the lanes were pristine and the screen above the lanes played fun cartoons if you got a strike, spare or missed the pins all together!
The only downfall is more to do with the league than the actual bowling alley. There are some INTENSE bowlers out there and apparently our group kept breaking the rules. There are rules to bowling?! Who knew? Fun fact: You can’t be in your lane if the person beside you is about to bowl. It distracts them? Really? How do these people drive?
But we didn’t let the leagues keep you away from Let’s Bowl. If anything else you get to throw a ball and smash stuff. What more could you ask for?

Let’s Bowl has been a regular event in our lives for quite sometime. Not having been here for a long while, we went with some friends to rekindle our love for Let’s Bowl.
Glow bowling is a must go. It does get very busy these days and they do not take reservations after 7pm. So get there early. We didn’t, and it was going to be an hour wait. So we put a name down on the list and went into the lounge for some drinks. The servers in the lounge have a history with us, they can be really grumpy, or really nice, it depends on when you catch them. This time, the woman was pleasant. Their drinks are affordable at $ 5 a highball. You can get a pitcher of beer for $ 13.
After waiting a bit, we lined up and payed for our lane. It cost us almost $ 25 per couple for 2 games. They keep this place really clean. The black lights and strobe lights give it a really fun feel. They tend to play great music. We always pick themed names for each player, this time was comic characters. We had a blast, as we have always had here!
Our love for Let’s Bowl was rekindled. It has changed in small ways over the years, but it still remains a fun place to go have some beer, a poutine, be a bit geeky and bowl a few games!

Let’s bowl should be called «Lets bowl in an hour».
The place was jammed packed on a Saturday night, over an hour wait and that’s a good thing because it means they are doing something right… considering this place has over 30 lanes.
The attraction you ask? Well glow bowling of course… the whole place is lit up with lighting so that you can’t see your friend’s face that well but their teeth are sure glowing like a Cheshire cat.
My Nikes look wicked in this lighting!
The cost is $ 50 an hour per lane and $ 5 if you want your bowling ball to glow in the dark; the whole place is decked out really space age too. There are nice lanes and nice seating areas around your electronic score machine.
I noticed that it attracted tons of diverse age groups and ethnicities as well. Last night it was full of families, friends, and couples. I really want to come back when it isn’t so crowded. It was also a fun ride to get here last night, through the thick fog, like a true X Files adventure.

I would not recommend anyone to go to this bowling alley there are a lot of better places to go in Calgary that have better specials. The staff is extremely lazy, you could be sitting in line for at least 15 minutes before the staff realize your there, while they stare off into space. As well the staff is extremely rude and un-​helpful. I went there with my fiancé for an evening and got harassed for nothing. We asked for a smaller ball because I have arthritis in my hands and the other balls hurt my hand. They made it extremely difficult to get one, arguing with us that we are not allowed to use one because we are going to throw it around. When we were playing they had the other staff hovering over our table to make sure that we weren’t throwing it around. Right before we finished our two games they took the ball away for no reason. I would never go back to let’s bowl again, it’s just a bunch of kids running the place with attitude problems and they could really care less about the customer.