This place epitomizes all that can go wrong in this great city. The Lucky Strike Lanes brand appears to be trying so hard to be the nightclub it never will be, that it falls short of even being an average bowling alley.
Bouncers, ropes and red carpet make for a hostile entrance and once inside the door it only goes downhill; the entire crew of staff appear to be 19yr old trainees hired in from a temp company 5 minutes before opening.
We arrive at 630pm, without a booking. We are handed a buzzer and told it will be almost 9pm before we can bowl. At 10pm, we still aren't bowling. Now, if it's busy I would understand, however, at a rough estimate I would think 10 to 15 lanes remained empty and unused the entire time we were there???? We just wanted to bowl for an hour!!
Furthermore, we must have opened and closed out about 7 tabs in the time we were there, there were only 4 of us. The girls serving the pool table area get overwhelmed when they have more than 5 people to tend to and so handed us off to other wait staff as they pleased. Then you have to pay for the pool table, the food, the bowling and the drinks as you bowl. What happened to making things easy, taking one credit card and sorting it all out at the end of the night?? Ridiculous.
A few friends of mine had considered using this place for some upcoming birthday parties but on my and my friends' reviews from this weekend they will be getting no business if I can help it. Avoid the hassle, pick any other bowling place in the city.
Don't even get me started on the mink coat, Irish sweater, handlebar mustache, Fedora adorned manager prancing around with a walkie talkie as if he was doing something important!!!!! A joke!!!!
Pros: I swear, I'm really trying to think here....
Cons: Staff. Prices. Wait times. Attitude. Image.
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