Planet Bowl

Went here on a groupon and was pleasantly surprised. Modern, spacious and clean, including the washrooms. Young man at front of house gave much more pleasant service than the young lady. We received excellent service from the Orbit Café servers — sweet potato fries were tasty, not oily, and they even delivered our food to our lane.
Only faux pas was the big sign saying no outside food — including Tim Hortons. If that’s the case, why do I see an employee eating a Subway sandwich? Just saying…

Let me start it off like this: Planet Bowl is MUCH better than Bowlerama. I prefer Planet Bowl since it’s much cleaner, much bigger and the bowling alley food actually tastes good! The staff could have been much nicer and welcoming, but I don’t blame them for not being hyped up with customers since they work at a bowling alley. Obviously not the best place to work. Some of the brand new leather sofas they have are now ripped, and it looks pretty nasty. But the highlight was definitely the food. Try the nachos and cheese, its my fav. I came here on a Sunday afternoon so it wasn’t busy at all. This place is great for a kid’s birthday party or just for a nice date. And everyday they’re open pretty late (like 12am or 2am). But 100% better than Bowlerama.

Oh wow! I can’t believe how good the food was and how nice the facility is.
The new bigger screen they installed for prepping up for the Pan Am games is nice, and the laminate flooring replacing the carpet makes the place look nice sure. But what really got me were the new leather couches replacing the plastic chairs. They were so comfy!
Only down part with the new upgraded facility was that there seems to be a lack of bowling balls. It wasn’t busy so it was easy for us to find our size, not sure how it is during busy times.
Now the food! I’m blown away at how good it was. The pizza are neapolitan style pizza, the authentic stuff. Thin and crispy crust. So good! And I love the bite size chicken wings, my friend ordered it so I didn’t know what flavour they were but it was a huge order! There were 8 of us and the pizza and wings were more than enough.
Not sure why but the pizza took a while or maybe because I was just hungry!
This is not your old bowling alley. So good planning to come back next weekend with my girlfriend!
Oh and the best part was that I bowl a 122! That’s not guarantee with your visit!
Food 4.5÷5
Service 4.3÷5
Ambiance 4.2÷5
Value ⁵⁄₅
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Overall 4.5÷5

2.5÷5 stars.
A bunch of us decided to go bowling for my sister’s birthday. We all brought our printed coupon so we could get 2 free games. However, when we got there we all discovered that Thursday night games are only 25 cents each. What a great deal! Not really! Let me explain why. The games might be super each but there is a $ 5 cover and shoe rentals were $ 2. Cover to go bowling? I never knew this was like a club or something.
Besides the random cover charge that we had to pay we had a blast. There were no problems with the screen and our lane.
Later that night when I was at home I decided to check out Planet Bowl’s website. Their Wednesday and Thursday «special» isn’t really a special because the rest of the week there isn’t cover charge. You would just pay $ 2/​game and $ 2 for the shoes. It’s not worth it if you play 1 – 2 games.
PS: They don’t split bills if you’re all in a group to bowl.

My company did a late afternoon party here a while back. It was a great time and everyone had fun. We more-​or-​less had the place to ourselves which was great so we could spread out a little and didn’t have to stay confined to our lanes and could socialize in a casual atmosphere.

If you want your Friday night bowling experience to resemble one of David Bowie’s earlier acid trips, then this is the place for you. But seriously, the lighting is your standard fair psychedelic glow-​in-​the-​dark UV experience (not my cup of tea). The food is abysmal, but what can you expect from a bowling alley anyways. The staff are nice enough and helpful. Little children running around the place all the time so watch your step, I nearly trampled a little girl turning around to walk to the counter. Overall a «meh» experience.