Crestview Lanes

This place was all ways busy when I went. Sometimes there would be a wait. Sad to see they are closed.

This place closed down to make way for a new shopping complex.

a classic old divey bowling alley, with all of the features and characters you’d expect. yes, that means pros and cons. pros — super cheap and fun. cons — crappy equipment, outdated scoring, and sketchy people. hey — it’s bowling!

their lanes are the best, but goodbye crestview i will miss you!

This is my favorite Sac area bowling alley. The prices are by far the cheapest and the staff is very friendly.
The décor hasn’t changed in years and it’s totally laid back. It has the best mix of serious bowlers, families and young people just out to have fun.
I don’t drink, but my friends really enjoy the bar here. And they have karaōke and pool tables.
The biggest downside is that it’s smaller than a lot of bowling alleys and you can have a long wait on the weekends. Also, they have a lot of league nights, so you can’t just show up randomly during the week and expect a lane. Always call ahead. And bring your own socks, socks are really expensive here.

I have been coming to this bowling alley since I was a little girl. Yeah, it’s not the best, and yeah its probably never going to get better but it’s a constant crappy bowling place you can count on. The help over the years has been great to good to crappy, and last night it just went to dirty douche shitty. I went with some of my friends. The place wasn’t very busy yet the guy working behind the front desk Floyd ignored us for about five minuets to talk to his buddies. He clearly saw us, but decided talking to his friends was more important. When I finally started getting louder with my comments he rudely asked us how many. We had to ask him everything, the price of games, the price of shoes etc. And he answered like we were inconveniencing him. Then we asked if they were still serving beer because a sign posted on the saloon door said beer in coffee shop. He said as rudely as he possibly could, is the door to the bowling alley open? I said no, it says to get beer in coffee shop, he then said NOPE interrupting over what I was saying. I then asked if the coffee shop was still serving soda since no one was down there when we went he pointed to the soda machine (dollar soda in the can. ridiculous) So needless to say he was an ass. He wasn’t doing anything and every time we looked in his direction he was never doing anything but picking his nose. Wow so busy you can’t even be nice… Then the topper, the reason we got our money back and didn’t continue to play. the bowlers next to us who were all around the same age as my friends and I had the bumpers up. Since we were playing for fun (and we all suck at bowling) we thought wow we might actually bowl well if the bumpers were up, so we asked the jerk if we could put the bumpers up. He said no, have to have a kid then turned away. When we pointed out the other people had the bumpers up he said they aren’t supposed to. then left it at that. We were so sick of this guy being so rude, we wanted to spend our money elsewhere. Although I have been going here forever, I cant think of going here again and dealing with this ass again, too much of a hassle to be ignored, and basically say please serve us! we want to give you our money!

Well it’s a decent place — not the best but it has good prices and the machines seem to be maintained well (I don’t seem to see an inordinately high number of malfunctions). The guy in back seems to respond quickly to trouble calls.
On the managerial side they need some work. They are cash-​only in the bar (and snack area?) and don’t have a fall-​back plan for dealing with their ATM machine not working. This is beyond stupid. I can understand having a cash-​only policy to save costs, but when people are out of cash, have a card, and are thirsty/​hungry why would you lose even more money by refusing to serve them? Just have some $ 1 drink/​food chips up at the front to use for times like these and sell them in minimum quantities of 10 or so up at the front where you take cards, and people can bring them back to the bar and get their drinks or food. They lost hundreds of dollars worth of sales that night because of their shortsightedness.. . Oh well.

Came here with a few friends for a birthday after dinner. It was a laid back place to bowl and hang with friends.

I’ve been coming here for at least thirty years on and off. My brother and I used to be involved in the kiddie bowling leagues when we were young. Needless to say, the décor has changed very little since then, heh. You feel like you’re back in a time warp when at Crestview. Too bad they got rid of the huge video game arcade that used to be where the bowling shop is now — it was awesome! They should really take down the sign on the front of the building that says ‘arcade’, and also take down the ‘arcade rules’ sign that is still up years after the arcade was closed. Lazy management I guess.
But other than that, the place is still a great venue to frequent. Good prices on the lanes, decent, normal crowd, quiet. Great programs for kids.

We had fun bowling here on a trip up to Sac Town visiting friends. It was good fun and the fact that they were doing Disco Bowling made it even that much more enjoyable. It was PRICEY, though… perhaps because of the disco part. BUT, it was fun and the Heineken pitchers were cold! A good time was had by all.

I approve! I’d give them 4.5 stars if I could. Unilocal desperately needs to allow half stars. Reasons Crestview rocks: dirt cheap games on weeknights, reasonably cheap games any other time, dirt cheap pool, cheap and stiff drinks, and friendly staff. Reasons Crestview does not get five stars:
1. This has only happened once, so I’m not sure it’s a trend for them, but the bartender wandered away and left the bar unattended. I had to wait awhile to get a drink, which is of course completely unacceptable. As if that weren’t traumatic enough, I then had to wait indefinitely to pay for the drink because I went to the ATM, got cash, and returned to find the bar deserted yet again. (Yes, they only take cash. Take heed!) I figured, hey, apparently you don’t want me to pay for my drink badly enough to be physically present and collect payment, so I’ll consider it on the house and make a run for it. Thanks, incompetent bartender! Making me incur an ATM service charge for nothing is not cool. Not cool at all.
2. Of all the bowling alleys in the area, it seems to be the busiest, particularly when school’s out. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that there’s very little to do in Carmichael other than drink and smoke hookah, so as an all-​ages venue, I can see why the place is bouncin’ bouncin’ more often than not. About a third of the times I’ve gone there they’ve had a wait of a 0.5 to 1.5 hours. Um, thanks but no thanks, we’ll be taking our business to Mardi Gras now…
3. One of the cashiers was a chauvinistic pig to my friend, but then again, she was drunk, belligerent, and being a militant feminist, so I’m not really counting this one. I’ve never had a problem with them personally.
The food has yet to be evaluated and it will likely stay that way. There is something inherently wrong with charging $ 5 for stale chips and processed cheesestuff. Gee, captive audience much? No matter how bad the munchies get, I suggest you boycott the food in principle and make the more economical choice of hitting up Taco Smell on the way home. Hellllllz yes.

This place is cool at times because of the prices =)
They have a small selection of arcade games… bleh… you can see them as you walk in. They do have a bar with pool tables in there too =). The lanes are decent to good. The staff is okay, not the best though. The prices are wicked awesome. $ 1.50 per GAME =). Well, it is only $ 1.50 at certain times of the week and all of august. My friends and I come in packs, and spend hours here for about $ 30 for all of us. Sometimes they have the idea of glow bowl during some nights. They also have a café where you can order lots of fried stuff =).
I would recommend this place for a cheap thrill =). (Call ahead though)
Pros:
Cheap/​cheap for groups
Bar with pool table
Cafeteria…
BIG parking lot
Cons:
Old technology
Some balls are worn out.
Chairs
No music?
Neutral:
Not a loud place
Notes:
Gaining in popularity
August is 1.50 per game =)
3.75 stars