University Lanes

Incredibly rude staff. Cheats, thieves. Wanted to play two games with the family, front desk guy Updike us to «all you can bowl till 11 pm» machines turned off 15 minutes early and when we went to ask about it they said they didn’t care and we should not be worrying about the 15 minutes. Would not give money back and made fun of my kids.
$ 5 for 4 cheese sticks that were worst I’ve ever had. Rude food lady gave kids a hard time ordering.
Lane equipment old and broken.
Avoid this place at all costs. Cannot believe they are still in business. Drive a little farther so your night is not ruined

Too expensive for a old smelly rundown place. Needs paint and clean restrooms.

Went on a Saturday to enjoy some family time before school started. Called up here ahead of time to make sure they had lanes open. The man on the phone said they did and told me it would be about $ 10 for a game and shoes. When we got here the same man I spoke with told me he didn’t have any lanes open. After telling him that I was the one on the phone and he was going against his word he got my family and I a lane and told us we needed to leave by 5. Rude and ignorant this place is dirty and the only thing good here is there beer. Service was terrible! I WILL NOT COME BACK GO TO BRUNSWICK INSTEAD.

I never write a review ever, but I think people should know about this bowling alley. The staff is so rude and lazy, the manager as well. They’re inconsistent in their specials and hours. Even if you call a few hours ahead of time to confirm. Never coming back. Ever. Ugh I only put one star because I had to, but they deserve NO STAR whatsoever.

I’ve been to this a few times and while small and run down i believe that is were the charm is at in this place. And that’s about all there is to this place. A whole in the wall for bowling and dirty bathrooms.
Staff here has always had a hard time figuring out groups and given away our lane once on accident. After a few times you would think they had a better system down. The crowd here has always been less respectful of other bowlers than other places as well. Like i said before this might be some of the charm in it if you are the type that wants to let loose a little more
If you around the area and want to do more parting than bowling then i’d say this is your place. If you want to do more bowling than partying i’d say go to a different place. Matter of fact when it’s getting slightly later i would almost put this in the not kid friendly category.

Cheap but DISGUSTING. The alley is out dated. Spend your money somewhere else. Never going back. If you value price over quality and wouldn’t mind risking a foot fungus, be my guest.

University Lanes is a clean, well kept place with a friendly staff and good drink specials. I’ve been here several times and have always had a blast. It’s a little dead sometimes though.

I’m with a University group and twice now we’ve reserved lanes for a recruitment event. Both times we made the reservation, confirmed it and then arrived to be told it was league night and we’d have to wait at least an hour and a half. If you don’t take reservations, that’s fine. Just don’t take the reservation an then act incompetent when we arrive. The last time it happened, we called Brunswick, and they had us up an running within 10 minutes. Terrible customer service.

Bowled here on an early Friday afternoon. 1 hour of bowling for 2 people came to slightly over 30 dollars, which included shoes for one of us. Big surly guy working the counter was not pleasant at all. If you could make money frowning he would be set for life. As far as I could see, he was the only person working there. Although it did sound like an amateur blacksmith was pounding on an anvil somewhere behind the pinsetters.
The lanes themselves seemed to be lightly oiled, and the ball returns are very dirty. Every 3 frames or so you will find slightly less than dime-​sized grease spots on your bowling ball. The computer scoring system is fairly modern. The selection of house balls consist of some pretty beat up conventionally drilled balls, with a few fingertip balls as well.
There is a coke machine where you can get 16oz sodas for two bucks each. I believe I saw a pool table in the back of the place. The bar area did not appear to be open. Or maybe it was, and the sourpuss working the front counter also served drinks? Hard to say.

I was really excited to come bowling tonight but once we got there it was kind of confusing. We ended up having fun but mainly because of each other not because of the place.
First, the website does not list prices but they had a coupon for a free game of bowling. So we brought that in.
Then when we arrived at the bowling alley the prices listed on the wall were not the actual prices that were being charged.
My husband was told that shoes were $ 4.25 per person and that the games were $ 2.50 an hour. I guess they have specials for different nights but we didn’t know about these till we arrived. Also we wanted to use our coupon for the free game.
When we paid after we bowled our total came to around $ 26.00. I didn’t ask my husband about the price till we got home and I thought that sounded a bit high considering we had the coupon for the free game. I thought it should have been more like $ 17.00. I think the guy at the counter still charged us for the one game we played even though we brought in the coupon and no one at the bowling alley seemed to know about the coupon and acted like it was suspicious.
The bowling alley itself was clean and pretty quiet. It smelled kind of musty when we first walked in but it was not filled with cigarette smoke which I remember being an issue before when it was Holiday Lanes.
We were able to have bumpers for our 2 year old and they had one of those metal slides for young children to use to roll their ball down the lane. (but they only had one) Our son loved it! The bumpers would come up and down during and after his turn which was really nice. (I could have probably used the bumpers myself)
It seemed like our lane had issues picking up the pins. At one point I had to push the reset button like 3 times before it actually put the pins out.
Overall, I think the customer service could be improved upon and they should be familiar with what is on their website. I don’t know if the equipment is just old and that is why it didn’t always work properly or what. The bowling balls also seemed a bit old too. Lots of dings and sometimes the weight of the balls were hard to read.

I went on a Friday nite recently and had a pretty good experience. I only wished it could have been a little more affordable, but of course they weren’t running any specials on Fridays. The drinks were cheap though…
The place was fairly clean and well maintained. We didn’t have any issues with the equipment. There was alot of smoking around the bar and pool table area, but it didn’t fill up the place, the air was still pretty clean. Clientele was mixed, younger, older, rowdy and not so rowdy. The music was mediocre, and only occasionally got annoyingly loud.
My only complaint was that it cost a total of $ 63 for 6 people to bowl 1 hour (w/​shoes).

One of the things about Denton is that comparatively to other college city areas, its dead. Unlike Austin, Denton is pretty quiet so finding things to do here is limited.
However, if you’re at the Texas Woman’s University (go pioneers!) you will find a quiet little bowling alley down the street from Stark and Guinn Hall (dormitories). If you drive to it, it looks run down and old. Abandoned and closed in fact. In actuality the place is a great go to place for students. It is open at great hours. Late nights and on Sundays until midnight.
The place is really clean and the people are friendly.
The bowling atmosphere is awesome. Go on a Sunday where there is no one. That’s the best.
Their bar is awesome too. Only in the sense that it is cheap. Its a $ 4 dollar minimum with beer cups of $ 1.50 each. The total cost of my shoes and two games was $ 7.81 — that is waaaaaayyy better than Plano Super Bowl which charges you an arm and a leg. On Wednesdays, they have $ 10 College Night where you can play all night for $ 10.
Bowl here. Enough said.