AMF Davie Lanes

No person up front to take our payment. Was told to just play and pay after by another employee. Did not see anything at front desk that show costs so we figured it would be hourly as we have been here before and that is how it used to be. After me and my one friend are done playing for about 1.5 hours we go back up to front desk and still no one is there to take our payment. Once someone arrives he tells us it is actually by game and that we owe $ 40 each! I asked for something showing where these costs were like a brochure but they don’t have anything like that. He walked us to the front door where they have an A frame showing the prices. But they have two doors on each side of the building by the parking lot so you will never see the prices unless you walk in the front. Don’t know if i’ll ever go back. But i do enjoy bowling.

Modern/​Old (90’s and early 2000’s) music that plays in the background while you bowl, free WiFi, and decent/​normal bowling alley food.

Can I give negative stars? Just left without my birthday bowling game because they booked all the lanes. We called yesterday to see if reservations were needed and were told no and that the best time to come is 6pm. Needless to say we show up and to our surprise all the lanes were reserved for league play (even though they do not accept reservations). Me and my party were told that everybody knows this and there’s nothing they can do.

Teach your staff some manners. Your employee Andrew had just closed the front door. As soon as he closed the door he sees me coming with my ball carrier leaving the center. I am no more than 3 steps from leaving. The proper behavior would have been to hold the door open for me as I left. He literally closed the door in my face and walked away. Total lack of class. Time to teach him some manners before dealing with the public. Other items worth mentioning, try to have the floors and tables clean when your leagues come in. Your housekeeping is quite poor. It is also disheartening when you run out of basic supplies such as tops for cups, soda cups and misc. condiments. You have Costco across the street and Restaurant Depot a few miles away. We all run out of product from time to time but to be out for several weeks, C’mon. All the signs say you are on credit hold or you have poor management.

Leaving 1 star for the super nice bartender. That’s it! He tries, but is overwhelmed!
Getting a soda or food is mission impossible! No manager around to help or inquire. Employee at snack bar literally ignores you! Bad attitude, obviously doesn’t what to be there.
Our bowling league meets every Wednesday evening. This is now becoming ridiculous for the third week in a row. No paper cups for soda for the second week in a row. Yep, if you order a soda, they don’t have anything to give it to you in.
Tonight they didn’t have hamburger buns for burgers or chicken sandwiches, no hot buns, and over a 30 minute wait for a bag of popcorn. No well Vodka at the bar for mixed drinks. And this is at 7:30 — 8:00pm! Not midnight after a busy evening. A grilled chicken wrap with fries took 1.5 hour to receive and they still made it wrong!
They kept saying «we“re getting cups». But by 10pm, still no cups for sodas. What a joke! I will be bringing my own to-​go cup with soda for now on, regardless of their sign on the door «no outside food & beverages». Customer Service is severely lacking and management leaves their employees out of dry.
They need more kitchen employees and more importantly FOOD!!!

Under staffed on a Wednesday night. Chicken sandwich took an hour to come out after complaining twice. Was missing lettuce, tomato, onions and pickles because, according to the only and quite lustered cook, «I’m out of everything». Manager assured a refund — too busy to really help.
Dear owner/​GM — don’t be such a cheap c*nt. Hire more people for your busiest night of the week.

Don’t support this alley; kids from tropical are waiting to bowl, and the manager won’t let them play because someone hasn’t paid yet. Entire place full, waiting for 30 mins. No cool! To think a public school wouldn’t pay their bill is simply dumb. Now the kids have missed out on 30 mins of play time, and the manager got his payment, but refuses to extend the play time.

Had fun for a Sunday night. And also very affordable! Great music and fun environment overall.

My experience here was less than I anticipated. I honestly don’t think I will be back.
Don’t let the exterior fool you, this establishment is clean and although the alley itself is small, a lane was available for us — and we came on an extremely busy Saturday night. So that’s a plus.
Here’s why this AMF just doesn’t do it for me…
First off, I came with my 6 year old nephew and was surprised to find out that they charge the same price for a child as they do for an adult. I don’t get it. When we asked why, the woman helping us simply did not answer and just shrugged her shoulders. Okay…
Secondly, since we were bowling with a child, he did not want the bumpers up, so when I asked a staff member to put them down, he just looked at me and said «Uhhh…Okay» — as if I was inconveniencing him. I’m sorry to ask you to do what’s in your job description.
Thirdly, the music was obnoxiously loud. Yes, I understand it’s a Saturday night but the music was so loud I had to yell to speak to people in my party. Not to mention the disco lights made me dizzy — a little bit of light wouldn’t hurt.
Fourth, the food selection sucks. I ordered chicken wings, and when they brought the food over, it was chicken tenders. Not to mention that the prices were a little steep. So after ordering my chicken wings that decided to turn into chicken tenders I walked over to the bar and ask for a beer, and they were out of the one I preferred. Out of a specific beer on a Saturday night?
Okay…
Regardless of these annoyances, I had a great time with my family and friends. The music playing was good music and the price wasn’t bad for 2 games and shoe rental for one ($ 15.00).
However, I feel that the employees here are generally unhelpful, unfriendly and simply do not know what they are doing. It seems they were just trained to take our money without having a personality or a friendly demeanor.
But if you want to know If I will be back to this AMF? That’s a definite no. I would suggest checking them out for yourselves though — just don’t come on a weekend.

Looks can definitely be deceiving because when we first pulled up to this place, I thought it was going to be a dump. Much to my surprise, this is probably one of the cleaner bowling alleys that I’ve been to. The customer service is far from great, but you’ll have a good time bowling with friends and family. The only downfalls that I found was their ball selection (small, medium, and large as opposed to the traditional ball weights– 8, 10, 12 pounds, etc), and the darkness. Yes, I’m aware that it’s dark with disco ball lighting on a Saturday night to create the atmosphere, but if it was just slightly brighter it would be easier to see the small triangles approaching the pins to help inexperienced bowlers with their aim. Other than that, it’s a decent sized bowling alley. We didn’t have to wait for a lane although it was pretty busy. They even had these metal sliders to assist children with rolling the ball down the lane. Personally, I find this place much less of a hassle than Sparez and would visit this spot again.

great place to go to spend a good and fun time specially with the family.
the place is nice. i will go back and would recommend.

Really disappointed in my recent visit here. Online it was advertised that this place has «College Night» every Wednesday which would be bowling for $ 11 including shoes as long as you showed college ID. It also said on College Night that they have $ 2 PBRs and $ 10 pizza. Well it turns out when I got there that College Night doesn’t exist anymore and in fact has been gone for months! My friends and I decided to pay more to get an unlimited bowling session with unlimited pizza deal. We got there at around 9 and were expecting to stay till closing time past midnight. What the bozo at the front counter didn’t tell me was that the restaurant and bar close way earlier then the time the bowling alley closes, so the unlimited pizza wasn’t unlimited at all since they close so early. Not to mention they don’t make the pizza unless you ask, meaning you have to wait 25 minutes for what seems like a frozen pizza you could get at Publix. Never going here again, the false advertising really pissed me off.

This bowling alley was PERFECT! I booked a kids birthday party here and the service was exceptional!!! The manager helped with everything and everyone left happy! Couldn’t have gone more smooth. The prices were also decent, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend this bowling alley.
Overall, great experience! Thank you for the amazing service! It was actually the best service I’ve ever gotten at a bowling alley.

For the Davie area, AMF is the best. As someone who is not a fan of bowling at all, AMF is a fun place to go with a group. Growing up in the area, I have seen AMF almost go out of business, but the past ten years they have grown and expanded to my knowledge.
I thought bowling was done for in the ‘90s but I was wrong. AMF has maintained a stable community of bowling advocates and offers a fun smoke-​free bowling environment.

Went there last night and had a great time. The wings are great. I’ll be back to try the pizza.

It’s really your typical bowling alley, but ups for being cleaner than others I’ve visited. What really pushed me to give 4 stars is their music selection on the Friday we went. The songs ranged from old school hip hop to Top 40 to Jonas Brothers, all of which I am a huge fan. PLUS, an employee was the one who told us about the Groupon when we got to the counter.
I guess I’m also biased because I bowled my PR there. Yes! ;)

If it weren’t for the Groupon deals, I’d think it’s overpriced without any bait to reel in patrons who want to bowl for cheap. Like me. (I have no shame in admitting it either.) However, it’s clean but not pretty. It serves beer but limited to 4 taps. & I don’t think I’ve seen those 100oz dispensers either. I’d say they have a few areas to make it stand out a little more. But it does a solid bowling alley very well. No frills to it. I guess this is where you’d go for that.

This place doesn’t look like much from the outside, but what a pleasant surprise this bowling alley turned out to be!
I haven’t been bowling in years, but I’ve been to enough places to be able to say that this is one of the cleanest, friendliest alleys I’ve ever visited. Every single employee we encountered had a genuine smile on their face and were happy to go out of their way to help. I was honestly surprised by how nice everyone was here… that alone earns them the 5 stars.
We opted to bowl for two hours rather than by the game, and rented our shoes, which were brand-​spanking-​new. Bowling shoes are notoriously gross, but these were lovely and had not one scuff on them. Once assigned to our lane, a girl came up with a menu and asked if we wanted anything… no need to order from the snack bar? Sweet. We got some chicken strips and fries for the group, and a bucket of beer. My friends wanted Heineken, but I wanted Blue Moon (yeah, I have to be different), and they kindly let me have one Blue Moon in the bucket.
After an abysmal first game (we briefly considered the bumpers), our skills started to slowly improve. Let me put it this way: our first game’s scores were 62, 61 (mine) and 52. Our final scores were 116 (mine), 96 and 76. Talk about a turn-​around, eh? Perhaps the beer helped :) During our second game, the lights went down and we got to bowl with black lights and music. It was an eclectic mix to be sure, ranging from Ludacris to Luke Bryan. The employees were happy to take requests, and boy did we ever bombard them!
This bowling alley is nowhere near me, but I would truly consider making the drive here versus any of the options in my neck of the woods… it was that enjoyable :)

Out of all the bowling alleys within a 10 – 15 mile radius of Fort Lauderdale, I choose to go to AMF Davie. They play good music, the staff all seem to enjoy working there and the lanes are in great condition. I have been to other bowling alleys where the lanes mess up your ball! I don’t have kids but if I did this is a great place for your little one’s to burn some energy. They have your typical bar type food with pizza, chicken fingers, fries, pretzels, etc. The drinks at the bar were just right and their beer selection is good enough. If anyone can give me tips to improve my average of 170 that would be great!

They recently redid the inside seating and lanes so it looks great. Very clean with lots of lanes and fairly new shoes/​balls.
The price is decent especially if you go after 9pm. They also have a full service bar and have decent prices on all drinks. I got two rum and diets and a full pitcher of beer for less then $ 20.
If you are looking to have a fun time and not spend that much money I would recommend going.