Channel Islands Ice Center

It’s sad to to see this place is closing down in few weeks!
My daughter had so many wonderful memories here, hopefully they will reopen somewhere nearby soon!
Excellent place to have fun if you like skating!!!

Great fun and worthy of a a short drive down the 101fwy. Bring the whole family for a good Olé time! Been coming since I was kid and I take my kids here still. Plus I get some shopping in too

Kid’s had fun, but the place is extremely dirty. Smells bad. Old seats trough out the place. Was there for a friend birthday party, I do not recommend.

This rink is a great place to chill, hang out and catch up on some old skating skills.

During my freshman and senior year of high school I went to the skating rink for my marching band’s annual Secret Santa gathering. As students from Hueneme High School, we live far from the north side of Oxnard, considering majority of us did not have licenses or cars at the time. The rink is on Wagon Wheel Rd. around the area of The Collection, In N Out, Home Depot, and if you go at night like we did, it’s a little tougher to find. My freshman year my dad drove me there and we had never been to that place, so we did get a little lost because the rink is hidden in such an abandoned area by the freeway.
Needless to say, we found the place and I went inside and found my friends from the band getting their skates tied up and ready to go. When you walk in, you take a left and then you see a huge wall full of skating shoes and let the employee know what size you want. I’m a 7 and ½ in women’s shoes, however I suggest you try on different sizes because the skates do run bigger than actual shoes. I ended up with a size 7 that fit comfortably which costs $ 2.50 and $ 9.50 for entry, however they do group discounts of 10 or more people. I highly recommend you wear thick socks or layers of long socks because your ankles will hurt as you skate if you don’t.
As soon as you walk into the skating area, there’s a few games that you can play if you want to rest your feet, and food is also available. This was my first time ice skating, so I held onto the wall that way I wouldn’t fall. I suggest you have a friend with you while you skate because it feels safer and more fun like that. You will probably fall on your butt if you’re skating too fast and have very little experience. After a couple tries I got used to the ice and let go of the wall and skated comfortably. Got home and did feel a little sore, but I didn’t mind because it was worth the fun. Came back my senior year for the same reason and definitely came much more prepared with thicker socks.

Place is a lil run down. Great price for the amount of fun. We took 4kids and 4 adults. I can speak for all 8 of us when I say we had a blast. Customer service a little on the por side. And not a great food option. But as for the ice skating aspects it was fun. We will be back

I love it here!!! You have to visit! bring the kids! Really nice staff, amazingly beautiful skaters in the middle, lots of beginners crawling around the edge and a nice spacious comfortable rink with clean ice. Snack bar minimal or I would give it 5 stars. But to learn, play, train, go ’round and ’round on ice it is great! friendly visitors, no nonsense, play nice together on theice rink. two adults, two kids getting their ice legs on — lots of fun!
Legs felt like jelly after and I was smiling for hours.

I love this place! I remember coming here for a field trip back when i was in 6^th grade when this place first opened. Came back two more times after for my friend’s birthday parties. 10 years later (or more), I came back here with my brothers and cousins after Christmas day and it still looks the same.
We almost went ice skating at the Collection, which was $ 15 for 90 minutes until one of us brought up this place. I’m glad we decided to go here because it was only $ 10, including rental and no time limit.
BF and I tried the outdoor ice skating rink at the Irvine Spectrum and it was $ 14, plus $ 4 skate rental for 90 minutes. I thought it was crazy. This rink is so much bigger and the ice doesn’t melt because it’s indoors. I’ll be back here again!

Pros, Cons, then summary
PROs – Well, the only place to play hockey in West Ventura County. I gave it a high rating for the youth program. Unlike other rinks in SoCal, the league fees are for 3 ice sessions for kids. Most rinks are the same price (simi) or a bit more, and it’s only Sat/​Sun. At CIIC, there is skating on Thurs./Sat/Sun. Well worth it. Also, the adult league is ok.
CONs– Facilities are run down… this place will be closing in the next 6 – 10 months. The adult league has been run terribly the past 7 – 8 years. The current AHL director is good, because he understands and plays hockey, but the people before him had no idea what to do… which ruined the experience. There are other issues, but again, since the place is closing soon, it’s a moot issue to point them out.
Would I go back? Sure, my kids have fun and I love hockey.

Disclaimer: This review is for the open skate only, not the lessons or organized sports or anything like that.
This is a great skating rink! It’s nice and big, so even on busy days I’ve never experienced a traffic jam. There’s enough of a ledge to cling to while you’re getting your balance (for us wobbly, coordination-​challenged folks who have baby-​deer-​standing-​for-​the-​first-​time syndrome for the first few laps every time). They play good music, and there are plenty of benches to sit and rest. The prices are good, too. I just wish they had more hours for free skate.

Broom ball! It’s a ridiculous amount of fun! Get together your teams and play a game of «hockey». Soccer ball as a puck, brooms as sticks, and any shoes as skates!
The ice is there for you to fix any bruises!

I love this place. The adult figure skating group is fun and friendly!

FALSE ADVERTISING. This place advertised «Snow Day» Build a snowman, throw a snowball, ride a snow saucer! Ok Cool, sounds fun right??? NOT. I bundled up my 5 year old for some fun in the snow. Showed up and firstly, they said because of their insurance policy everyone had to wear ice skates. (between friends and I, we had 6 children age 2 – 10 with us) When we told the «manager» that the little kids can’t wear ice skates he then said they could not go on the ice stating, «There’s a three year old with ice skates.» We asked how much snow they had and he told us we could look… in the middle of the ring they had one TINY pile of snow about he size of a trash can barrel. Are you kidding me? Snow day? Super disappointing and the manager had nothing to say for it, hardly even apologetic. I’d give this place zero stars if I could. We had 6 super disappointed kids :(

So fun! We love this place and so affordable! Makes us go even more: D

Great place to go skating with the family. They have two rinks and offer many different activities throughout the week. They also have a snack bar and are offering Dippin’ Dots Ice Cream.

My daughter really likes this place. She has visited several times. It is very reasonably priced especially when you have a buy one get one free. I went with her this time (note to parents that are going as spectators: dress warm and bring blankets to cover yourself with. a pair of gloves and scarf will come in handy too). We went a group of girls from Job’s Dau0ghter’sThis was my first time. I froze most of the time. They had the hard bleachers (metal kind) you can sit on but they are in the same area as the rink. Unless your skating you’re going to get cold. Even the skaters had jackets, mittens, hats, and scarves on. They have a snack bar that is very reasonably priced, hot chocolate was around $ 1. They offered cup of noodles, hot dogs etc. They also had vending machines. They had at least two video games if you are into that. We went on a Friday night it was not very busy but the tweens and teens they had on the rink were very respectful of one another. I did not hear any cussing or see any negative behavior at all. I was very impressed with that. Sometimes we go to places like this and you hear kids cussing up a storm. We end up having to leave places because of that problem. Here we felt ver4y comfortable with all the kids.
They have at least two rinks. When we were there they had ice hockey practice on the other rink. The music was typical to skating rinks. The volume was loud enough my daughter could enjoy it while out on the rink and I could actually hold conversations with others on the bleachers. They offered two different kinds of ice skates priced the same.