Kent Lanes-11th Frame

The staff were all very helpful and friendly. If you are near Kent state and looking to bowl, I’d strongly recommend going here. Not far from downtown Kent.

Come here if you are looking for a good time. Bowling is cheap, drinks are cheap and the bartenders are awesome.

This place is good for some late night moon bowling and fairly decent deals throughout the week. If you’re going to moon bowling, which is pretty solid at $ 10 for four hours and shoes, be sure to get there shortly before or after it begins. This is a fairly small bowling alley and they do sell out.
Pros are the good prices, late hours, decent drink prices and solid black light/​blaring music combo during moon bowling (even if it is kinda a weird top 40 from the last few decades/​country mix.)
Cons are the oldish equipment including shoes and bowling balls (good luck trying to find a well-​suited ball) and how strangely crowded it can feel on a packed night. Overall though, generally a good experience.

It’s a bowling alley in a college town, so you really can’t expect much. It’s very run-​of-​the mill without any bells and whistles. Reminds me of the bowling alley I went to as a kid 20 years ago… and it probably hasn’t been updated in 20 years, either. They do have automated scoring, but it’s the first automated scoring system that was ever introduced to a bowling alley. Very, very low-​tech.
They offer a concessions stand with your typical crappy bowling alley fare (pizza, burgers, hot dogs, nachos), and they also have a bar. You can enter the bar separately, or order drinks through a window in the alley. Heads up, though, you can only get drink specials if you’re sitting in the bar. Drinks are cheap though. A rum and coke and a Bud cost us only $ 5.50 (and the rum and coke was all rum and a splash of coke).
I’m not sure what the average price for bowling is nowadays, but we paid $ 3 for shoes and $ 3.50 per game per person, which seemed a bit steep to me. They do have different bowling specials every night of the week (all you can bowl for $ 6, quarter nights with a $ 6 cover charge, ladies night, etc), but many of these specials don’t start until about 9:00 or 10:00.
At 8:00 on a Friday, there was a mixed crowd. Some «pro» bowlers, some families, some younger people. As 9:00 drew closer, the clientele began to change. A group of very stond teenagers joined in the lane next to us, so we decided to take our leave.
Staff were all friendly, as were all of the other customers who were very chatty with us. Good place to go if you want to hang with the locals instead of the college kids (though maybe they come out later in the evening). I’ll probably be back.