AMF Saxon Lanes

This place sucks. Service is slow. Long wait for lane even when there’s unused lanes. Last resort to go bowling.

Worst bowling alley ever! Five open lanes and still have to wait. Don’t waste your time on this dump.
This place is lucky Unilocal doesn’t have zero stars. Otherwise it would’ve gotten a zero star.

To just flat out say «what a dump» would be a gross understatement.
I’d rather throw a bowling ball down a dark alley in north Minneapolis at 2:00 AM while sporting a platinum chain with a diamond studded emblem that reads «rob and kill me.» Yea my chain hangs low… but Saxon Lanes is lower.
I’d rather lick the ass of an ass after it overindulged in KFC and diarrhea’d on hot dessert sand during midday in July than eat the food that this shithole has to offer.
Management? What management? Your employees are more impoverished than those poor kids in Africa on the Christian Children’s Fund Foundation commercials.
For the love of God clean your tap lines! They’re worse than the silt ridden ducts of a fucking industrial plant! It’s a Mich-​Golden Light… why does it look like a goddamn Guinness?! BRILLIANT!
To compare this place to a toilet would be an insult to the toilet, I wouldn’t even piss on it with an enlarged prostate after chugging a pot of coffee, nor would I shit on it after engulfing a White Castle Crave case for that matter.
Word on the street is that all AMF run bowling alleys in the twin cities area are closing their doors in the near future… rightfully fucking so! No offense to any of the other AMF run bowling alleys that are managed a bit better than this location but let’s get a real bowling alley up in this bitch! An ethical one with some goddamn morals!
Fucking corporate leeches! I’m tired of you using a goddamn measuring cup to pour my drinks, I’m sick of watching your employees develop wrinkles and gray hair while trying to pay their way through college, fuck having them have to swipe their goddamn employee badge at the register after every order… I can’t even trade a solid buck for quarters to shoot pool unless I buy a beer for fucks sake, fuck your menu that’s been branded with the logos of every mainstream food and food accessory providing company, your already fried frozen and then fried again come in a plastic bag garbage piece of shit cuisine is dog food! It’s jackwagons like you that bring out the East Side boy in me when I speak of your bullshit businesses!
Fuck it… I’m about to go Mel Gibson in Braveheart on that ass!
They can take our money… they can insult our taste buds… but they’ll never take our freedom to choose never to step foot in their establishment again!!!
PEACE!

Meh, it’s your typical bowling alley but I guess it works. We had a company event here and they got a buffet spread for us. It was a few types of pizza which were edible but not worth blowing my diet for… sorry I’m a bit of a pizza snob. They also had some chicken wings and something else fried I don’t remember. The big draw was the fried pickles which I guess is a MN thing but it was my first time, they were good but more a novelty item than anything I’d make a full meal of.
The lanes seemed okay but I rarely bowl. One person did cut their finger inside a rough ball and was bleeding all night. I broke a nail but that’s not AMF’s fault. They also had these guiding ramps you could use if your a kid or really bad a bowling that I’ve never seen before. They made for some fun photo opportunities :)
It was clean and the service was fine. The boards seemed to work but check the ball beforehand and make sure the grooves are smooth. For a local spot I think it’s fine and gets the job done!

Well this alley was interesting to say the least… The bowling experience was fun yet the scoring was glitchy… One example of this was when i bowled a gutterball and yet it still scored it as a strike! The alley itself was somewhat dirty but not insanely bad. The atmosphere was ok until about 9:15 when cosmic bowling started and then it had somewhat of an 80’s arcade feel to it. Overall it wasn’t horrible but it wasn’t good either.

Are we in a clown car?
I would never bowl here again.
I pulled in the very large parking lot and walked in. The place is cramped!
*The tables up top and way too close together and there isn’t enough room between the table and the walk way.
*The desk is gigantic and in a weird place.
*There are not enough chairs for more than 5 people to sit while bowling.
*The completely unnecessary chair in front of the scoring machine was similar to chairs in an elementary school.
*The lanes felt like we were bowling on plywood.
*The restrooms were G-​R-​O-​S-​S! They smelled icky and didn’t have enough stalls.
*They served one of the people in our group a pop without a top which is a recipe for disaster — it was easily spilled and got all over our bowling shoes.
If they want to attract more bowlers and have tournaments, they should really do a remodel.