Kent Valley Ice Centre

Fun place, just don’t let them sharpen your skates. Ever. I was warned (by multiple people) and suffered my fate.

Booked a birthday party for my 13 year old. KVIC was great to deal with from beginning to end! The staff was very attentive thru the entire party! My kid and her friends had a great time! And the price was very reasonable. The pizza and salads from the café were awesome! The miniature golf is nothing to brag about but it’s an ice rink first anyway. I would highly recommend this place for birthday parties!

Reminiscent of a backyard putt putt… Nothing fabulous at all. It looks like no one really takes care of the course. We paid $ 8.00 for a Groupon for 2 players so I guess you get what you pay for. We had to pay tax in person too, which was about 50 cents.
I’ll probably come back but only because it’s so cheap and nearby.

I bought a groupon for my family to use on mini golf. The pics looked nice and we were excited to come to an outdoor course. It was not as expected, we were highly disappointed first by the small size of the greens and course itself but mostly by the sad state of overall upkeep of the course. There are weeds and trash throughout the supposedly landscaped areas. The lights are not working, the fountains have no water in them and the ponds that do have some water are full of algae and mud along with trash. I would not recommend the mini golf to anyone and we won’t be coming back.
And to top it off I had to pay sales tax when I presented the groupon which I’ve never heard of before with any groupon and it wasn’t in the fine print.

This used to be a much nicer rink it keeps progressively going downhill. The skating prices are expensive, facilities are constantly in disrepair, the café which was one of the last remaining high points has now turned to crap it used to be you waited forever to get your food, but it was at least very good, now it takes forever and it’s not even worth the wait

Batting cages pitch super inconsistent. Takes forever to start, had to push the button over and over. Lights don’t work so you don’t know when pitch is coming. Difficult to just watch the machine hand. Wish there was a better facility in the area. Felt it was quite expensive for the poor quality.

I have skated at 2 other arenas, and I am very pleased to get my ice time here.
Sure there are some snags, but those are small compared to the big picture. Great ice good (enough) restaurant, and a pretty good pro shop.
Yes. This place is cold. It’s a real ice rink. If you’d like your ice time to be heated, then feel free to check out the rink in Everett. Ice quality == butter.

My daughter wanted to go ice skating with a friend and I figured I’d pay the $ 7 and use the «fitness centre» while they were skating. First all the equipment is in a state of disrepair, that I wouldn’t feel comfortable using it.
next the forms they want you to fill out to use the fitness equipment wants keep keep my CC on file… for a DAY PASS!!! I was able to get her to not have me fill it out, but then they also wanted other personal info. I asked how they protected my info and they lady said she didn’t know. I asked her if she could find and she told me «NO».
General rule in this «day and age» if someone wants personal info and doesn’t know how they protect it STAY AWAY!

Icy ice!
This is one of the bigger/​better ice rink in Seattle area. It has a restaurant/​bar/​café upstairs. It also have miniature golf outside. Thunderbird country!
As you frequent the ice rink in the areas, you’ll notice the difference on how they are maintained, seating areas as well as locker rooms and rest rooms. This one has an actual arena like seating and they are cement seats! Dress warmly!
It is also very family friendly. I come here for hockey games and seen kids running all over from previous public /​free skating session. It gets distracting at time but hey, it’s a fun zone. Everyone can go nuts!
They also have few arcade games like air hockey, ladder tags and so on. Another distraction! :) it’s also one of the colder rink. You better dress warm if you come here. Or if you can’t take the cold, go upstairs and watch it from the café. You won’t hear anything or won’t be able to yell out. Where’s the fun in that! No fun going to the games if you can’t hear or cheer like no tomorrow!

I so agree with Janet below. She spoke my mind. I took my kids there to get humiliated, they played with their emotions. I quit on the first day. No one knows what they are doing. So glad I quit.

Last Saturday as we were leaving my daughter told me she would rather go to another ice rink because of how the older lady with the black hair is really rude how she talks to customers. As if she’s agitated. I would like to say this place could be decent if every Saturday when I walked outside to leave after the first public session with my daughter I didn’t look over to the right side by the batting cages and see the girl with curly hair from the office and the young teenagers on the ice helping the kids out smoking and listening to loud cursing rap music. ONE if you have a business you should really watch how your employees are showing your customers how you really run your buisness. My first thought it would be that what they’re smoking and how they’re acting that it isn’t cigarettes but I don’t know that for sure this place had four people outside smoking cigarettes that were employed there once before and one of them was the manager Rena. No wonder why the employees can do it. This will be my last learn to skate program

This is the worst run ice rink in the Pacific Northwest. The staff hates this place and their attitude towards the customers show it. I finally decided to stop going there after dealing one too many times with the rink manager, Rena Sullivan. She is rude, mean, nasty and belligerent. Why anyone would put her in charge of anything is beyond me. Our kids constantly were shuttled between coaches in the learn to skate program because so many coaches keep quitting. With this buffoon running the show, it is understandable why. I heard through another family the owner of the rink is near bankruptcy and gouges the public by splitting up the Saturday afternoon public sessions into two to get more money and the hockey program is twice the cost of the program at the old Cascade Ice Rink in Renton.

I’ve been to the Kent Valley Ice Centre several times, either to watch the little league hockey games or go ice skating.
Every time I’ve gone I’ve had a pretty good experience, but that’s mostly because I haven’t had to have much interaction with employees. The employees are kind of snarky though, but that was just the experience I had the last time my boyfriend and I went ice skating.
They have a little café here, offer ice skating sharpening, and even have a mini golf course. If you’re looking for a new date night idea, or even something to do with your family, Kent Valley Ice Centre is a pretty solid, affordable choice.
Only reason I give it a three is because the employees, as mentioned, are kind of snarky, and the facility itself is definitely outdated.

Decent facility and is quite roomy. If you’re looking for a nicer ice rink, this place has the bells and whistles. They have arcade games, a pizza place, hockey store, outdoor mini golf, batting cages, etc.
My kids learned to ice skate here when they where 4 and 6. That’s when I realize they are only good with what you see on the outside.
When you dig in deeper to enroll in a complicated program like hockey where USAA membership, birth certificates, uniform sizing, questions about opting out of thefund raising, the e-​mail trail goes cold.
We contacted this gentleman Danny and his brand new assistant for about 2 years.
However, they are never unreachable. I even attempted to drop off the paperwork in person but this gentleman doesn’t even have a mailbox.
Keep in mind the program is not cheap. This could easily be the easiest income for the facility if they follow through.
My husband also told me that the kids hockey program is not that great. It seems they have diffuculty looking for volunteer coaches. Should you attempt to enroll your kidsin the hockey program, they might not ever get in at all.
We tried. We really did. However, it was pointless. We ended up in Renton.

Today i had a date night planned for me and my husband her at the rink. Previously i had purchased a groupon for 2skate rentals and a $ 10 café credit. About a year ago i borough our son here to redeem the voucher but that day the only thing open was putt golf. The women at the counter apologized and offered to exchange our $ 10 café voucher for golfing instead. She then gave me a receipt to verify this and a hand written note on the printed out groupon voucher i presented. She told me we could come back on a future date to redeem the skating –the food amount. I said awesome! I have kept that voucher and receipt for over a year… Today when i went to redeem it i got the worst customer service. Not only did they not honor the receipt and voucher but the lady made me feel like it was my fault cause i used the $ 10 food portion for a round of golf. I left in tears and our date night was ruined! We have kids and we will never come here again! So upset and disappointed in the service we received. Would it really have been so bad to just honor $ 20 worth of skating? We are honest people who felt like we were made out to be robbers.

On a whim, I bought a Groupon for this place on Black Friday and visited here because it was about to expire. When my boyfriend and I arrived, we were funneled into a line where the cashier deals with one party at a time before you can enter through the gate. It wasn’t too long of a wait to speak with her, but I felt bad for the long line that starting forming behind us. She was very helpful. We just had to pay sales tax (never had a Groupon deal make me pay sales tax when I arrived, so that was a little weird).
The staff member at the skate rental place was super friendly and nice. Quite frankly, these were some of the worst skates I’ve ever put my feet in. I used to skate competitively as a kid, so I had my own skates and unfortunately outgrew then. The skates felt like stiff plastic containers for your feet. It was so painful to skate around, so I went back to the skate rental counter and asked for another pair. The guy said he only had that one type of skate but could help me find another pair or a slightly bigger size. Neither one did the trick, so since it was so painful on my feet, I just put my shoes back on and let my boyfriend skate around on his own. Even those temporary skate rinks that go up in parks have more comfortable skates!
Anyway, the facility seemed really nice. There’s ample viewing areas and an upstairs café. It was off putting that the only restroom was upstairs at the back of the café. I would think there should be one more accessible near the ice rink.
The café upstairs was absolutely horrible. I very rarely give low ratings to places because I like giving people the benefit of the doubt and have worked at a restaurant before, but this place was ridiculous.
The cashier was extremely rude and very slow to take orders. There was only one person in front of us, and she had to call someone else over to help her figure out how much change to give back to the customer. It took forever! Then, she wasn’t very nice to my boyfriend or me. We wanted just mozzarella sticks without a pound of fries, but they can’t sell it by itself… So we just ordered tacos instead.
The tacos took about 20 minutes to get to us, and they were horribly over fried. I would be better off going to Taco Bell (and I really dislike Taco Bell). It was $ 10 for 3 tacos and a soda, and it was definitely not worth it.
All of the food on the menu was pretty over priced, but that’s what you get at these types of places. Just really horrible service.
I tried connecting to the wifi using the posted password in the café, and it never worked. There was barely any cellphone reception inside.
Overall, pretty negative experience. I’ll be skating at the Renton ice rink from now on.

I am rating this facility 3 stars because I LOVED their miniature golf course. It is clean, well maintained, and offers some challenging holes. You can bypass the 18^th hole and take your ball inside to try your hand at Plinko. If your ball lands in the designated slot, you win a free round of mini golf! I won and will be back to use my coupon for sure. If you are looking for miniature golf in Kent, definitely come to Kent Valley Ice Centre instead of the Riverbend Golf Complex. RGC’s mini golf course was poorly maintained at the time of my last visit.
I have only been here once to ice skate and found their skates incredibly painful to wear. They may have improved them since, but because of this reason I will drive to Renton to ice skate from now on.

This is a really nice ice rink for public skating! My girlfriend and I went on a Sunday in the late afternoon during the public skate session. There was a nice crowd and most people skating were inexperienced so that made things interesting. Halfway through the public skate session the employees resurfaced the ice with the zamboni. They have quarter-​fed square foot lockers for your personal belongings and a change machine for cash. The food was pretty expensive and the quality was ok. The facility was clean and the staff is helpful and friendly. Overall, this is a great ice rink for families and groups of friends, or even someone looking to play hockey.

Fun skating here and they always have Groupon deals for skating and food. Food takes a LONG time to get, just order it 30−40min before you want it, haha!

Their batting cages are a bit wacked. The softballs tend to gather in front of the cage furthest to the left, leaving all the other cages throwing blanks. Had to ask their worker for 3 credits. No desire to go back any time soon.

The good: Great place to skate. We’ve done figure skating and hockey and the instructors are knowledgeable and professional. Open skate is a blast. The bad: They lose two stars for their café. The service is slow, the food is terrible and the establishment makes it very clear that you are not to bring in any food or drink. The ugly: Back to the café. We came in a rush last week. I needed coffee. It took 20 minutes. We ate lunch and split a hot dog and fries. The fries were actually delicious, but the hot dog was rubber. (Previously cooked hotdog reheated in the microwave maybe?) And, it still took 30 minutes to get it.

I purchased a groupon deal and along with the deal was a $ 15.00 voucher for food. Checking out the food menu and noticing it was bit pricey for a 14″ pizza and any toppings $ 1.60 I believe, any who I ordered a pizza and garlic frys at 3:38pm Pizza didn’t arrive until 4:20pm they forgot the garlic frys -.- !!
Skates were awfully worn out and utterly painful for some of my friends. It was an okay experience.

We rented the party room for a small work gathering and the customer service was awesome. We enjoyed our time on the ice as well. All in all, we were very happy with our night spent at the rink

We took the kids here and it was not very good. The skates are really bad, no walker type thing to help the kids. The ice was really rough. Seemed pretty spendy.
We have been to the ice center in Renton Highlands and it was a much better experience.

After reading the ‘meh’ reviews I really didn’t expect much so I was surprised that the staff was helpful. We had 9 kids and we came in with a Groupon, which included ice skating and mini golf. They had us through with front and provided skates in less than five minutes. The café seems a little run down but everything looked clean. Wish the spectator seating was more comfortable.

I decided to come here since it was on Groupon. The service was NOT great. The staff was not friendly nor welcoming.
I took 7 kids. They didn’t have walkers for the kids to use on the ice, so the whole time they went in circles holding on to the edge. The rental ice skates were really worn out.
I did enjoying ice skating maybe because I was with my family.
After we were done we went upstairs to take the kids to eat. The gentleman Josh working the snack store was very rude. The vibe I got from him was «he didn’t like his job and didn’t want to be there»
Groupon gave us a $ 25 credit for food so we ordered 2 pizzas and that was already $ 30. I must have spent $ 40 in just quarters because the food took so long and I needed to keep the kids busy.
I won’t comes here again and I would not recommend this place.

OK I should be nice since this is my home rink for Rec League hockey. The ice rink itself is very nice and has a really good seating area. The locker rooms are a decent size and if the sinks did not have water pressure issues I would say they are the best I have used in the Seattle area. The benches, walkways and penalty box have good rubber and are semi well clean.
The only issue I have is the the actual ice surface. For as cold as this rink is I am amazed at how soft the ice is. Also the Zamboni drivers are worst I have ever seen. I have never seen so many unscraped sections of ice so consistently. It is not like the corners are missed a little here and there. There are entire central sections missed. Whatever Renton does to there ice, Kent needs to take a class from.
Overall it is a good rink and you can do worse… Kingsgate

I HATE to start with an ‘eh’ for a place that I have only been to once… but it didnt blow my mind.
I found it to be a little pricey. 10 $ per person basically… and that doesnt include skates. I paid for 3… and I think it was 34 $. The staff while getting the skates, was… Um. younger, and didnt seem to want to be there. But I dont expect super great service.
The rink was great. smooth and appealing. One thing that would be really nice, if there was another entrance to the rink. It gets a little crowded with the littles ones and the wall huggers. The music was great! All upbeat bubble gum pop… kept the kids happy. AND made me forget how cold I was.
My kids wandered into one game room (we didnt know that there was two)… out of the 8 machines, only 5 worked. and 1 out of the 5 had a really dim screen. We didnt see the other game room until we were leaving. (sad frown)
We didnt go upstairs, but the other parents said it was warm. We left after 2 hours, but if we hadnt had lunch before, I can see going upstairs to warm up and then coming down later to finish out the entire session.
I would like to come back again, my kids had a good time… it would just have to be a payday weekend.