Capitol Bowl

I have visited the Capitol Bowl several times both before and after the recent remodel. That does not make me a bowler by any means. I do appreciate a good bowling center, and this is one of them. Filled with history, cracking pins, and good bowling alley food and drinks.
I have seen the gamut: from seedy small-​town 8-​lane bowling alleys, to bigger facilities including the UCD Memorial Union, the student center at Kansas State University, and the legendary (of Kingpin fame) Bowling Center in Reno. None of that helps me to string strikes together.
That said, Roy Munson would not be ashamed to be seen here. If you need to get your roll on, this is as good a bowling alley as any. Have fun. Prices are reasonable, and the staff are friendly. I will visit again.

I haven’t bowled in ages. Then my husband organized a bowling outing with friends. We had a great time. Capitol Bowl is not just clean, but updated, warm, and friendly. It’s a convenient location for us. Since we had about 8 people, we called ahead and reserved some lanes. Everyone was impressed on how great the interior was and the electronic score keeping made it easy to just bowl. Maybe that’s the norm, but I haven’t bowled in ages!
We didn’t find out about the digital juke box off to the side near the restrooms. Next time we’ll be sure to plug in some tunes to keep the rhythm going.

This place is great! Don’t let the area it is in fool you. Though, the area is improving. Came here Saturday night with a bunch of my friends for my bday. They were extremely prompt on getting the 3 lanes I had reserved ready for my scheduled time.
The service. There was a miscommunication with some of my friends and I so some people pre paid for their shoes not realizing that I was going to pay for all the shoe rentals together. So basically we double paid on some of the shoes rentals. The staff refunded the money without a hint of irritation. Also originally reserved the lanes for two hours. After an hour we were all tired of bowling and we asked if we could get out money back for the second hour. Again, no questions asked, they refunded the money. Top notch customer service in my book.
The place. Very nice and updated inside. Really well done alley!
I would recommend to anyone. Can’t wait to head back with my family sometime!

Capitol Bowl was surprisingly nicer than I had expected! I must say that it is one of the better bowling venues in the Sacramento area. We were able to seamlessly reserve 3 lanes for a party of 12. We were accidentally charged twice for shoe rentals and the mistake was easily corrected.
Sacramento has done a pretty good job about making the surrounding area a lot nicer than it was in previous years. And inside the bowling alley is very clean and well kept. It seams to be on the small side for a bowling alley (20 lanes), but that’s what reservations are for! They have a nice bar/​snack bar area and the décor is pretty up-​to-​date unlike some bowling places who haven’t made any changes since the 60’s. I would recommend Capitol Bowl (especially over Strikes in Elk Grove). I shall he returning!

I received an email asking about my experience at capitol bowl. First off i want to say i usually don’t take the time to leave any reviews bad or good but the i just couldn’t let this go and how dissatisfied i felt and how my whole party was treated by some of the staff. I reserved 4 lanes on January 4 or 5^th for my birthday get together at Capitol bowl for January 23^rd for the 8−10pm time frame because your online system was convenient. I was contacted right away and the lady that assisted me was very nice, she took my deposit of $ 25 for the reservation. The day of my reservation, January 23^rd my friend gets there early and tried to check in but was told they needed to speak to me which i understand but the rep was rude about it. The rude rep that assisted us was the person we dealt with the whole night and he is the one that caused me to write this review. We didn’t get our lanes or get to bowl until 830ish but our reservations were for 8pm, why have a reservation system when you still have to wait? In between the time we were waiting my friend Jenn tries to check in again and was told that i only reserved 2 lanes and not 4, so she told me that i needed to check to be sure, i than asked the rep and he told me i had 4 lanes reserved, why would you tell me one thing and someone else in my party something else? Was it just to piss us off hoping we would leave? We finally get our lanes than asks me how many bowlers and charges me for bowling shoes for everyone but some in our party had our own bowling shoes as we are season bowlers. We started having problems while we were bowling on two of our lanes, the balls were stuck in the back so my friend went to advise the front desk of our problem and was told help will come. Did help come, yes after another friend went to the front desk again and 10 minutes later. Our game was moved because the lane was broken and that more minutes would be added. We were finally moved after 15 minutes and when the game was finally transferred over, we were not given more time, the rep try to say he paused the time he came to assist, he came 10 minutes later, i wanted to argue with him and say to check your cameras because you paused it at 33 minutes left in our game but the lanes broke down at 42 – 46 minutes remaining of our game. I spent $ 370+ on my reservation for the 4 lanes and Spent $ 215+ on food and not to mention how much my party spent on alcohol at the bar only to be treated rudely. I know everyone has their bad days but you don’t treat a paying customer rude ever! I will say this i will never go back ever to capitol bowl neither will anyone from my party. I had other options as far as booking my get together, i should have went with AMF or strikes, they both costs more but i know i would have gotten good customer service for what i would have paid there. I’m sure im just another customer to you and you probably don’t care but i just couldn’t let this go because my party was treated so badly. Oh i did want to mention that Diego from the bar/​food counter was nice and provided good customer service, maybe he can give my rep some pointers about what good customer service is.

Thank you for making our time here very enjoyable,. the place, the food the drinks it is all good. they really make you feel good. We had a blast when we here!

Before the remodel I would have given 1 star at best but since the remodel it is worth 5 stars. Customer service is good at least when I’m there and the good is good enough and the beers are awesome. What else do I expect from a bowling ally. The juke box has a bunch of great songs and the songs are cheap. On Fridays and Saturday nights they have glow blowing which is an added benefit. This is now my favorite bowling ally in the Sacramento area. Great for kids, couples, everyone! Look forward to many more nights here!!!

Fun Bowling Alley. A little expensive. But clean and everything working properly. Music was way too loud at first but they turned in down for us.

Capitol bowl needs some major renovations.
The lanes are just standard and the bowling balls have chips and scratches all over them.
The bar is very slow and they do not have a great selection of liquor. The employees do their jobs for the most part but don’t provide a memorable experience by any means.
The place smells musky and there are a lot of beggars in the parking lot that approach you when you get out of your car. It’s uncomfortable. I won’t bring my family back here.

Needed a place to hold a team building activity for a work group meeting in Sacto on a Tuesday night. Bowling was one of our few options but upon reading the Unilocal reviews about Capitol Bowl I was hesitant to book our event there. After making several phone calls and having conversations with 3 managers I booked it.
We reserved 5 lanes and made arrangements for a dedicated server for food and beverages at the lanes. We were all pleasantly surprised at the outcome. We were greeted by Diego at the front desk who issued out shoes without a hiccup. We had our group pre-​select the menu items so that list was given to our fabulous server Anna. The kitchen was shorthanded but everyone chipped in to help and our food was delivered in a timely manner. The drinks kept coming and everyone was happy.
My thanks for a job well done. The interior of the facility is very clean and bright. It does not have the usual «bowling alley» smell or feel. The bathrooms were impeccably clean. All in all our group had a great time and I would recommend this place to anyone; contrary to other reviews that have been posted.
Thanks to everyone that worked to make our visit great!

I came here with some girlfriends and really enjoyed ourselves. It’s your standard bowling alley, nothing fancy.
The nachos are wings were surprisingly good! You have to go up to the bar to order food and drinks. I was hoping that someone would come to our lane to take our order. Not a major complaint, but it would be a huge plus if they had servers.

My coworkers started a monthly bowling night, second Thursdays. I was finally able to make it to one and try this place out. Previously we would bowl at the AMF Lanes in Sacramento off of Freeport Blvd, but this is closer to Davis for most folks.
Super easy to find the place, right on West Capitol off the Tower Bridge/​Raley Field gateway. Parking in the front can fill up fast, parking in the rear can look shady as it’s sandwiched in between two motels but that’s West Sac for you. There is a security guard that monitors the front and back lots. That particular night we only had enough people show up to use one lane, and there were a lot of other leagues going on around us for sure. $ 5 a game, plus shoe rentals. They have an ATM machine inside if you need cash, bathrooms clean. We bowled two games and called it a night, lots of fun. Had a few pitchers of beer for everyone. The animations/​graphics on the TV screens after each bowl are kind of dated, but in a cheesy way. Music came on a little after into our second game (must depend on who’s on shift) and it was a nice mix of Michael Jackson and Outkast, to name a few.
Will be back next month!

Came here a month ago (June) for glow bowl with my family (husband and 2 kids) for my eldest daughter’s birthday. Had a great time so when my youngest asked to have a glow birthday party I thought sure, it was fun and food wasn’t bad.
Called and made reservations with the manager Chris for a 7pm Saturday glow bowl birthday party in July. Chris was nice and explained the process (or what I expected) and pricing.$ 250 for 12 bowlers 1 hour of bowling, 3 pizzas/​3 pitchers of soda and a private party room. Sounded good and like a typical party package for a 7 year olds party. Deal!
Party day: Arrived about 15 minutes early and checked in with Sebastian at the front counter. He said they had an area for our party ready to go. Went to the designated party area and expected a staff member to come host and guide us through but no luck. So I went back to the counter and ask Sebastian what happens and he tells me when we are ready we can get bowling shoes and start bowling. Ok, so then we go get our shoes, he tells us our lanes 9,10,11, he takes my pizza order and drinks and says it will be ready once our hour bowling is up.
Off to bowl, now on the website it said they would «help set up bowlers names into system, set up bumpers and make Sure lightweight balls were at our lane»…none of that happened. ended up searching for balls and hitting the service button for assistance to help with the screen (didn’t know how to add the rest of the names). About 10 minutes into bowling 1 of our lanes messes up, so they move us, now our party is split and we are now lanes 9,11,12. No biggie but then halfway into our game a party of 10 – 12 are assigned to lane 10, which is now apparently working. So I have 4 bowlers ages 3 – 9 separated from our party at lane 9. Top it off the bowlers who are now at lane 10 kept hogging the balls we found, not even sharing but trying to keep them for just their lane. Wtf! To top it off, they were playing music very inappropriate for kids! My older niece asks me, are they really playing this song! I had no idea what song it was and she said it’s very crude, dirty and not good for young kids! Do they not monitor the music, there were many young kids there besides our party. Thank goodness My daughter didn’t notice what was going on and was too busy enjoying her friends and cousins.
After an hour of bowling, no staff come get us so we make our way to the party area and again no staff. So my husband goes to the front and he’s told the pizzas are coming. Pizzas arrive and again no host or staff designated to help for parties, so we start passing out pizza. The kids have been eating and no drinks arrive so off my husband goes again and he’s asked what our drink order is. Um I gave it to Sebastian when he took my pizza order. 5 minutes pass and still nothing. my husband ends up at the restaurant asking for the drinks since no one was gonna bring it to us. At this point, I’m frustrated and go and ask for a manager. I have never booked a party and had no staff designated to assist or even check on you. After 5 minutes of waiting for the manager working, Juan comes and I explain our situation. If I had known paying $ 250 did not include any type of staff assistance or even food brought to you, I would never have booked this party and just came and rented lanes and did our own party, which we ended up doing. Juan ended up compensating our extra 2 pizzas and sampler appetizer but after still paying $ 268 plus $ 26 for tip (which I didn’t stiff them for and which was NOT deserved) almost $ 300, I was very disappointed. I am fine with paying full price when you receive quality service but this was embarrassing to my quest and horrible service. The least they could’ve done was given us a 50% discount for the bad service.
When it came time for cake, my husband again had to track down a knife, plates and forks which Juan ended up bringing over.
When people book birthday parties they typically come with some type of staff host/​assistance (Chuck E Cheese does, Johns incredible, bounce places, Etc). That’s the whole reason people book birthday parties. I was very disappointed with Capitol Bowl and will never book a party there again. The only good thing was my 7 year old had no idea and had fun with her friends and cousins. I wasn’t gonna let the bad service ruin her day.
If your looking to book a bowling party, definitely go elsewhere because you will not get what you pay for and won’t get any service or assistance.