Skore Lanes

The date and I were going to take the kids to the street fair last night, but due to the rain, we decided to come here instead. We’ve been talking about taking the kids bowling for a while, but we’ve been so busy we never had the time.
In all honesty, I don’t know that I’ve ever been to a «nice» bowling alley. Most seem to be dirty, outdated and lack a lot in atmosphere. I know there’s lucky strikes, but it’s on the other side of the earth, so we came here instead. I generally keep my standards low and in check for bowling alleys for this reason alone.
On the bright side, the guy who helped us was super nice and friendly. I loved his personality and he really made our rainy day better. Greeted us with a smile, offered us bumper bowling for the kids and gave us the run down to the place of where stuff was at. (things like bathrooms, the bar, etc.)
The prices were fair and we were able to bowl 1 game, rent shoes and play for 1 hour for the 4 of us for $ 25. Not a bad price for a Saturday night. No reservation needed, with plenty of lanes open. On the down side, a few things caught my eye.
For starters, the bar was not open. Not that I needed booze, but I would have liked to have gotten a coke. I found out later that there’s a grill in the back, but I had no idea it was there. I spotted the bar as I was surfing for balls and no one was there. We ended up getting drinks from the vending machine for $ 2.50 each. Secondly, I admit I’m not the best bowler, but I think something’s wrong with the lanes here. I can’t put my finger on it, but it seems like maybe they aren’t even or something.
Overall, we had a good time here, and this place is like everyone else. If I was on this side of town, I would probably come back here in a heartbeat because it’s in a strip mall, close to some smaller restaurants and not far from where the BF lives.

Ghetto is the word. Terrible balls. I refused to wear the shoes. You can see the damage on the poorly oiled lanes. Terrible food. The bar was okay, but the the staff is terrible. I wouldn’t go here again.
Went for a friend’s 21^st birthday, she was given a golden shit glass necklace and for her it was open bar all drinks free. Which for a 21 is not the safest, lol.

I really like this place. Good prices on bowling and good times on open bowling. I wish the drinks were better and they had pizza but all in all. Good staff as well

A review of a bowling alley — you probably think, what could be bad about a bowling alley? Well, should I start running down the list? I have been to Skore Lanes many times since being a child. I never really had an opinion seeing I just looked at it as «Ohhhh bowling, cool!’ Well, after my past few visits to open bowling as well as participating on a league — I will probably never go back again.
With open bowling, the pricing always seems to be different even for the same amount of games on the same nights. Plus, they actually charge a tax on the games which I have never seen at a bowling alley before. I’d said the worst experience with open bowling thus far was going on a Tuesday night which they were not busy and lane availability was awesome — but they did not tell us that there was a work party there for a local restaurant. Everything was fine and we were just about to finish our 2^nd of 3 games when all of a sudden the bowling alley switched over to cosmic bowling. We went up to the desk to inquire about the change. Well, I guess the work party had requested cosmic bowling. It would have been nice to know that before we had started bowling.
Probably the worst experience had to be on a league I was recently on there. Not only did half of the teams quit but we were almost screwed out of our sporting event tickets at the end of the league. We had to deal with someone on our league trying to talk as a representative for the bowling alley each week. He would give us false information or get mad at all of us for skipping a week of bowling for the Super Bowl which he blamed the mixup on us for it. On a certain set of lanes that we played on quite frequently, there was something wrong with the camera or sensors which would miss-​score especially when it would say you hit 3 pins after getting a gutter. Here is the kicker though, a team mate and myself had just gotten new bowling balls a few weeks before the league started, and about 2 or 3 weeks into the league our balls were chipped and messed up from the lanes.
However, I will say that the pro shop is awesome. The people in there are very nice and know what they are doing. Also, it is very kid friendly especially on weekends when it is smoke free. Honestly though, I don’t think I will be back for a very very very long time.

After the Elite event, I knew that I needed to brush up on my bowling skills. My friend suggested that we go bowling and it sounded like a great idea.
I really liked the idea of open late night bowling at 10 p.m. I mean there’s really not that much going on in the dead of winter in the burbs’ so why not head to Skore Lanes for some bowling and cheap swill, I know I will!

I’ve been bowling here for open bowling a few times, most recently I went a few weeks ago with a couple friends. Open bowling on Saturdays doesn’t begin until 11 p.m., but we didn’t know that so we had about 30 minutes to kill before we could get a lane. So we put in our name to reserve the next open lane, and we headed to the bar. The bar had fairly cheap pitchers of domestic beers, so we split a couple pitchers throughout the evening. We also ordered french fries from the snack bar, and they were very potatoey and good. The bowling alley has a lot of lanes, shoes you can rent without having to turn in one of your own shoes as collateral and plenty of bowling balls to choose from. The cashier and staff were all very friendly and tried to get us the best deal for our dollar. You can pay by the hour or by the game, I believe.