Anandtech Bowlers: I need a price check.

[shortylickens]

13 dollars per person, per game. Every day of the week.
7.30 for a hamburger. 7.60 for cheese.
3 dollars for a hot dog.
4.50 for a beer.
2.50 for a small soda. 3 bucks for a side of fries.
7 dollars to rent shoes.

 

[Wanescotting]

13 dollars per person, per game. Every day of the week.
7.30 for a hamburger. 7.60 for cheese.
3 dollars for a hot dog.
4.50 for a beer.
2.50 for a small soda. 3 bucks for a side of fries.
7 dollars to rent shoes.

No byob bowling alley near ya?

 

[shortylickens]

Oh, I dont bowl. Was bored and wanted to check out the snack bar. Usually these places have good food. But my doggie was nasty, the bun was soft and cold. Soda was flat. Other people had fries and they looked soggy.

Was not surprised that on a friday night the place was only 1/10th full.

 

[Wanescotting]

Oh, I dont bowl. Was bored and wanted to check out the snack bar. Usually these places have good food. But my doggie was nasty, the bun was soft and cold. Soda was flat. Other people had fries and they looked soggy.

Was not surprised that on a friday night the place was only 1/10th full.

Meh, they probably have a tiny fryer, can't recover fast enough to produce crisp fries......fail. Combine that with the 16 year old who deosn't give a damn cooking the food, and you have a recipe for disaster. Now, this place (http://www.splitsvillelanes.com/) has good food, a bit douchy, but, hey, consume enough alcohol, and anyplace can be fun....

 

[shortylickens]

😱

Fredericksburg!

Perfect! Thanks homie!

 

[Nebor]

$4 a game per person. Or $8 per person for 5 hours of cosmic bowling. Free shoes with games.
$2.75 for huge, awesome nachos. (cheese, jalepenos, sour cream, lettuce, ground beef, tomatoes)
And the best part, $8 pitchers of Hoegaarden or Blue Moon.

 

[shortylickens]

$4 a game per person. Or $8 per person for 5 hours of cosmic bowling. Free shoes with games.
$2.75 for huge, awesome nachos. (cheese, jalepenos, sour cream, lettuce, ground beef, tomatoes)
And the best part, $8 pitchers of Hoegaarden or Blue Moon.

Thats a little closer to what it was at China Lake.

 

[coloumb]

holy crow - those prices to bowl per game is excessively high as with the price to rent shoes.

Average prices for open bowling [10am-8pm] are $3-$4 per game with $3.50 shoe rentals

If you don't mind bowling 8pm-11pm M-F and Sunday, it's $8.00 for a 2 hour slot which includes shoe rental.

Friday nights typically have the "glow in the dark" bowling - $12 buys you 2 hours of bowling, shoe rental, music, and a soda [coke, pepsi, etc].

 

[gorobei]

you have to join a league or they rape you.

 

[Eos]

That's ridiculous.

The wife and I bowl three games EACH on Sunday mornings, and the cost is $13. I wouldn't dare eat the food as my hands are covered by lane oil. So I've never even checked the menu. Water's free!

 

[foghorn67]

I would never eat something from a place that constantly smelled like feet.

 

[QueBert]

Damn the cheese costs more than the burger? That's nuts.

 

[BoberFett]

13 dollars per person, per game. Every day of the week.
7.30 for a hamburger. 7.60 for cheese.
3 dollars for a hot dog.
4.50 for a beer.
2.50 for a small soda. 3 bucks for a side of fries.
7 dollars to rent shoes.

$13 per game is insane. $13 for a series maybe.

$7 for shoes is pretty silly too. You can buy bowling shoes for $25 that haven't had 1,000 people wear them.

 

[a123456]

13/game is a little on the high side. The highest I've ever seen is around 11-12/game during primetime at the ridiculously overpriced 300 bowling alleys. Even there, non-prime is around 9/game.

In cheaper areas and alleys, typical price is probably in the 4-6/game range. You can sometimes get specials, like 2 hours for ~15 or so (like with the current/recent Groupon). Cheapest I ever saw was 25 cents/game on like Monday mornings at some random alley but that was a while back and I think it got discontinued.

 

[shortylickens]

OH SHIT!
That 13 dollars a game may have been with food and stuff, I didnt think to ask.
If they include one menu item, a drink, and shoes is that a better deal?

 

[PrayForDeath]

Damn the cheese costs more than the burger? That's nuts.

What I was thinking

😛

 

[bruceb]

I bowl in a league on Sundays at Parkway Lanes, Elmwood Park, NJ and it cost us $21 total for the lineage and prize fund. If I want to open bowl for practice I can do it at that center for about $2 per game since I am a league bowler. Best bargain though, is Mondays at 12Noon at Bowler City in Hackensack, NJ where for $7 you get the Senior Social (anyone over 50), 3 hours bowling time, along with coffee, donuts and fruit. My local lanes, T-Bowl II in Wayne, NJ charges around $4.75 per game for open play. And in all of these centers, they make their money on the snack bar, vending machines and the regular bar. $3 for 1 beer for example.

 

[gorcorps]

no price checks 😛

 

[CptObvious]

This may be useful the next time you go:

http://www.groupon.com/columbus/dea...edium=afl&utm_campaign=4485850&utm_source=rvs

 

[dmcowen674]

Oh, I dont bowl. Was bored

Then what were you doing there???

 

[SooperDave]

snip
Friday nights typically have the "glow in the dark" bowling - $12 buys you 2 hours of bowling, shoe rental, music, and a soda [coke, pepsi, etc].

And all the 15yr old teenyboppers running around acting like idiots.

 

[gorcorps]

Then what were you doing there???

He's the guy sitting quietly to himself, bobbing his head to the music with his coke. 😀

 

[shortylickens]

Then what were you doing there???

And all the 15yr old teenyboppers running around acting like idiots.

:hmm:

 

[twinrider1]

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$4.50 per game per adult
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$3.50 per game per Youth or VIP
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$2.00 per game per Senior until 5pm (M-F)
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$1.50 per game per VIP Senior until 5pm (M-F)
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$2.50 per pair of shoes

 

[QueBert]

And all the 15yr old teenyboppers running around acting like idiots.

I've been to Cosmic Bowling many times and gotta say the drunk adults act far worse than the 15 year olds 😀