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Right now this firm receives a rating of 4 out of 5 and the score has been calculated on 127 reviews.
As you can see it has an average rating is quite good, and it is based on a large number of scores, so we can be quite sure that the rating is quite credible. If many people have bothered to leave their score when they are satisfied with the service, it works.
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This Bowling Alley is included in the category of Bowling club.
We had a group of 20 plus adults n kids for a birthday party taking over 6 lanes. Everything was fine up until we decided to order some beer for the adults. To not mix it up with where the kids were having food in one of the private rooms, we decided to keep the alcohol outside in the common area by the bowling lanes. We stepped away to attend the cake cutting for a few mins and by the time we came back, approx 5 mins, the beer had already been cleared off the table! Really?!? A near full pitcher removed when you know we just bought it! We approached the staff about this and all they could say was "oh well, you should have taken it with you". Good to know what to expect for customer service when you have just spent hundreds of $$$ in rentals, food and drinks! Shameful!
New(er) place, neat and clean.......ok for the price ...........overall good fun to bowl. Will visit again. Do avoid last three lanes as have awful lighting......some thing to do with LED vs Whatever.
Such kind employees! Made it feel homey & old fashion (like bowling should). Toonie Thursday is an awesome deal!
Quite family friendly, clean facilities. Easy to reserve lanes and courteous staff. 5 pin bowling ONLY
Great place for 5 pin bowling. Very open lots of space and lanes. Wheelchair accessible.
I didn't even get through the door to this establishment. However I did call to ask about reserving a bowling time and I can honestly say that I will not ever step foot in that place based on the horrible customer service I got on the phone, up to and including hanging up on me without even finishing the call. I definitely would not give nor recommend giving my or your business to such a rude business. From my short conversation with whichever woman answered the phone I can tell that they definitely do not respect that our dollars support their lives and business. Horrible, I wish I could give less stars
Friendly staff, reasonable prices , Snacks looked good but didnt try any maybe next time ! Was a fun experience !
It was a lot of fun to bowl especially when they turn the lights off. it is pricey if you're just going to bowl for fun for a couple of hours.
Nice bowling lanes bu not setup well for tournaments for having spectators.
Good people and place
A very nice facility. We enjoyed it immensely
Mini bowling... Who knew it was a thing. For families with small kids it might be fun? Maybe?
I had so much fun, the lights were amazing, and the. Pizza was also great. I would recommend if you have a family or a planned birthday I would recommend this place to you. It’s an enjoying, fun place for family and friends.
Decent bowling alley, brightly lit and great for kids. Didn't try the food but the pizzas I saw being served looked ok.
It's fun, mostly for kids. Eat elsewhere before or afterwards.
It was quiet for a Friday night. Really enjoyed the experience.
I hated it because your kid needs to be under 10 years old to have the bumpers and I would not recommend this place and there food is so cheap
Good place for family to have fun. There are 25+ lanes. The Staff are friendly, good options to have snacks, pizza, etc...Family can easily spend 2 to 4 hours easily, especially in winter it's a good venue to have good indoor fun.
Great for the price.
Love this place since I was a child
Nice place to just enjoy with friends. Staff are really accommodating and friendly. They also have enough parking spaces outside. They also offer pizza and some other food.
Great place great staff, and sign up for kids bowl free, kids with disabilities more than welcome.
Not sure how the prices compare but this is a nice clean new facility. Would be nice if they upgraded their old shoes and had some more healthy food choices but this is a bowling alley after all.
Great family fun place!
The bowling alley is ok. We had seniors with us so we asked for the rails to be put up. The old guy at the counter said he can't because I don't have a kid with me and it's only for kids. He justified saying that I might damage the rails as I bowl harder than a kid. Then in the lane next to us they had a kid but the adults were still hitting the rails. I asked the old guy at the counter how this made sense and he said "well you just need to have a kid with you" I would recommend they revisit this policy for seniors.
Great service! Friendly passionate bowlers run this place so it's a great low-key date night spot.
Overall, manager was great. They have a good Friday night special, and there were lanes available despite "Let's Bowl" further south having a 45-minute wait time.
We did a team event of 15 folks at their new location last month. The staff was very professional, the location new and clean, and the pizzas ordered for the team tasted great. We highly recommend Bowling Depot if you are looking for cheap, quality entertainment, especially with kids.
Staff was great on thanksgiving weekend! Coffee and mini donuts were fresh when ordered.great place for a company event and awesome place for family fun day or hour.
Nice/New/and ready to play fun for the whole family and then get some ice cream
Went here for a previous bowling tournament with Shamrock Lanes. The alley itself was really modern, and had a good atmosphere. The employees are decent at this location. The lanes were in great shape to bowl on. The only thing I didn’t like was how the spectator area was lower than the actual lanes. It didn’t make sense because most of the time your view of the bowlers were obstructed by coaches.
Our son loves the 5-pin bowling, there are lanes with bumper for beginners.
They turned us away abruptly due to a school field trip coming within a couple of hours. This visit was about a month ago. I had looked online before visiting to ensure it was a "public bowling" time. It was in the mid afternoon in the middle of the week. I am always thorough about these things as I assume there are at times potential senior leagues during the week. I had my two kids with me and we were looking to play one game. I was put off due to being told the school was not coming for a couple of hours and yet we could not be accommodated. I have raised my review to three stars as I realize it is not fair for me to judge the entire business after my interactions with one individual, and I will probably check them out again.
Some of the equipment looks in disrepair, which is certainly a bad look for such an autonomous business as this. However, you can't really get the pins and the lanes wrong, so it's still a good experience, just not the best.
Great place for an afternoon outing
We came in for our work Xmas gathering. The younger male that works there was extremely rude, when we kindly asked him to take our photo. He abruptly answered “no” and walked away. We spent almost $300 and you can’t even take one photo of us?! He for-sure shouldn’t be working in customer service. We’ll remember that for next time and spend our money somewhere else.
Absolutely Juicy, Food is expensive though, staff are pretty cool.
Fun!
Love this place!!! My kids have been bowling league here for 11 years. Staff is always friendly and the we always have fun when we go. We have also had several birthday parties here as well for kids and adults.
Brought family here to watch kids. Nice place but insanely expensive. Not sure how families can afford to go regularly.
We had so much fun here! The two ladies working the desk were both super nice, the place is licensed if you want to have a beer and the people beside us ordered pizza and it looked so good! Totally gonna try it next time. Also if you buy socks you get a coupon for a free game next time so that's extra sweet ????
The staff here are not friendly and are never nice. I avoid this place when I can.
Great family fun. My kids love the Glow in the Dark Bowling.
Fun for all! Clean, newer establishment, food and drinks available. Quite large and plenty of lanes.
Pleasant staff. Clean. A little pricey.
Unpleasant employees
The best 5 pin in the city, super friendly staff, clean facility, great snack food!
Organized but need more ramps for people with disabilities
My boyfriend and I go here for date night often, great people, great place! I highly recommend it
Bowling shoes are in bad shape. Like the glow in the dark bowling. Pizza is good.
Nice open space with plenty of alleys. Could use a little makeover
Awesome place to take the family for some good old fashioned fun. Greasy hot dogs, used shoes, and flat beer. Fantastic!
Super fun and not too crowded. Bowling in the dark while glowing is fun if you're wearing white. Excellent service.
Not bad but expensive
The staff were super friendly and allowed us to bowl at a discounted price. The whole establishment was super clean and we had a lot of fun. I'll definitely be back.
Lost of fun, just a little pricey
Customer service is really bad .... no one attended to us and we had to leave because we felt unwanted
Celebrated my sons birthday here and it was a great, stress free experience. I arrived early with cake and decorations and the room was all set up and ready for us to use. We had everything needed to order the kids personalized pizza and drinks. The staff assisted us in entering the kids names and they were able to play as soon as everyone arrived. Once we were done playing, the food was in our room. Food tasted great, drinks were full and everyone was very happy! Thanks for the great customer service!! Will definitely come back!!
Love this place. Been bowling here for a few years now and always have a great time. Amazing people as well!
Staff are great, very accommodating. Food was decent. Reason I'm not giving full marks is we had my son's 5th birthday party here and was disappointed that the party room looked more like the interrogation room in a cop shop than something to celebrate a birthday in. I called to ask about decorations and was told they have white plates so will go with any theme we choose. Yeah, they were white plates all right - white styrofoam! For the price charged we were hoping for something a bit more upscale than that. We will definitely return to Bowling Depot for bowling itself but won't do another birthday party there.
Machines couldn't keep score. Wasnt the cleanest place I've been.
Poor planing makes this place frustrating. Not enough places for coats and shoes, not enough seating for family during events. Staff not always friendly or helpful. There are like 5 other bowling places all about 30 min or less distance from here. Just saying you have options if you want.
Nice place for kids. but not very well designed seating area.
Cozy
Busy and fun, overpriced. Lanes and alcohol seem pretty expensive, but right in the range of their competitors
Full of exciting action and great family fun this is a wonderful place to take friends and family of all ages out to for a good afternoon.
Great place for kids to learn to bowl.
Very fun, Friday is cheap night
Kids bowl free is such a great idea. Children under 12 and up to 4 adults in the family bowl free for 2 games per session all summer! The whole alley is clean and well maintained, shoes off at the door is a great policy! Washrooms are clean and not stinky. After 6pm is blacklight bowling which is great. Easy to get to and ample parking because all the other businesses in this area are closed during peak bowling times.
Nice and clean place, good family fun
Fun! Wow! I scored 71! They told me that a perfect score is 450. So, pretty close, eh? There's our lane, #19. That's what's called "Aces." I asked if i get extra credit for that unique pin configuration with the high falutin' name. Turns out I don't ♥️ Staff there is wonderful and friendly. Great looking bowling shoes too. ????Recommended!!!
Huge alley, the owners are often there and super friendly. Very accessible for disabled
Whole family loved it!
Great place for families, or just a night with your friends! Nice and clean facilities great pizza!
Pizza isn't as good since they moved. Location is very much out of the way, how do they still get business? We went for glow bowling and there was no music, no glow, it was just a little dark. Then the drinking crowd came in and we couldn't hear a thing, and THAT'S when the music came on. Not a great experience.
Super clean, beer was cold, pizza toppings were fresh, great with kids and staff were friendly.
Glow bowl was awesome my daughters birthday turned out great!
Glow bowling the recent friday was nothing to be excited about. No music the entire 2 hours we were there PLUS it was quite expensive. Although the older gentlemen cashier was very nice. Will be trying other bowling alleys.
Nice place, great bowling. They serve alcohol here. It definetly made me bowl better!
Was a fun place to go, some larger groups can make the place quite loud though
Wasted my money on music because they shut it off before our songs played. Nobody told us. But I mean bowling is fun so 4 stars. Edit: they did refund me and as a result 5 stars
Great staff, fun time, good food
Love bringing my kids here to bowl, we always have a great time!
Fun!
Great place to bowl. We had a large group, the staff was accommodating and friendly. We will be back.
This place is pretty great! It has a nice high ceiling so you feel like you have lots of room and there are plenty of lanes. I went monday night and they had an excellent deal after 6 pm that saved me a bunch of money. I would definitely go here again.
Was fun, haven't bowled in 30 years. I didn't know it was so pricy
So fun
Fun and lively when you go with a group. Food options are the typical bowling food options at the food concession inside: cheese strings, pizza, etc.
Haven't been bowling in a while and it was really frustrating. Asked if we could get the bumpers put up but were told that it was only available for children even though the teens near us had them up. It is not fun when the ball is always in the gutter. Next time I will go somewhere else.
Need more variety at the bar.
I don't give a five star unless the company does beyond expectations. The price is great, the service is great, and the staff is friendly and a bonus the place was clean.
Not kids friendly
Not the best bowling place. It was freezing cold. There was no music. The pop was flat and it was hella expensive. The staff seemed inconvenienced by people and not super stoked to help out.
Large bowling centre with over 20 lanes. The kids bowl free program is great and bumpers and mini bowling are available. Includes a pro shop and food store. Shoe rental is mandatory. Great place to hangout with friends and family.
Its nice bowling lane to play especially for individuals with disabilities, very affordable and lots of room! And the pizza was good! ... Very recommended! ????
Little crowded clean nice place
You guys should really learn to update your website, so people don’t drive half an hour to find out their is a league that take up all the lanes until 2 o’clock, when the website says it’s public starting at 12. Will not be coming back here again
Clean bowling house. I went for a really well run tournament.
Management needs to hire more staff. Long line and only 2 ppl at counter. They are not prepared to take a large crowd. I would recommend going to Bestbuy purchase yourself a wii and play bowling at home and save yourself from the misery of playing here. OR go to a actual bowling alley who are more organized!
The service was absolutely amazing we go there all the time and it's always the same way
Good prices took the family out for a couple rounds we are not professional by any means but if your looking for a fun and inexpensive way to get out of the house you should definitely check this place out.
Great to have the open again.
First time there nice facility for family gathering and stuff only draw back the person's in the food section were actually doing their hair were food and other stuff is served
Loved it!!
Great service with a smile! One if the best 5 pin alleys in the city. Our lane however was a bit glitchy and had to reset a couple of times.
Pepperoni pizza was horrible the pepperoni was grey and tasted sour. When i said something she just kinda laughed and said maybe it's because it just came out of the freezer this morning. Our lane wouldn't register a strike a lot of the time. The screen would get stuck a lot and after using the help button it still took a while so we went to ask for help and they cut us off and were rude about it. will not be back
Always a good time.
Super fun and staff is very friendly
I never recommend this place to anyone. Its boring. I asked to turn on music and they said we need to pay extra to play music. Silent place. Does not feel entertaine at all. System stopped working twice before game over. There are other way better place in calgary to play bowling ????
Clean well run establishment. I'll be back!
Great food and service
Great place to bring the family!
Fun place goog price night blowing
Kids bowl free is a great program during the summer!
We had my granddaughters birthday party at the bowling depot. 20 six year olds, 3 - 3 year olds and the adults all bowling. The place was nice and clean. The staff were amazing. They guided us and made suggestions. It was such a relief that they were on top of things. Really made us at ease. Great experience and would definately go back. My only concern was that the party room was too narrow. I found out that there is a partition between party rooms that can be taken down for the future. But a little more width would be better. KIM OBRIEN. Other than that - kudos to your staff on January 20th
Atmosphere is great & the staff are Super Friendly!
Kids had so much fun here
Fun and clean place for the family
Awesome pizza and great place to meet friends
It was really enjoyable to stay there and play. The place was very big, suitable for all ages. The pricing was a little too expensive compared to other bowling places but there is always drinks and some food. I have gone there only once and I know I’ll be coming back
Terrible service! It was supposed to be thunder alley, but we were placed right in front of the door instead of on the empty lanes where it was actually dark. Then the employees looked annoyed that we asked for a different shoe size. After playing one game, we had asked the get the bumpers out up but were told that only children under 10 were allowed to use them. Which is such a stupid rule! Definitely won't be back.
Very clean place. Great for family & team building events. We had fun.
Had so much fun with my daughter and her friends for her 27th birthday. The staff was great. ????
24 lanes...food is good and cheap..prices for bowling are average
Brought our youth group here tonight and were displeased with the service we received. Though over the phone they were very accomoidating when booking lanes, when we arrived it was a different story. We payed for an hour of bowling instead of per game, little did we know that our hour started before we even received our shoes. We ended up only getting to play about forty-five minutes, and their system wouldn't even allow us to finish our frame. The employees were also quite rude and some of the balls had large chips in them. We will not be coming back.
Great place fairly well done good exercise
Real fun very good place for group or individual LOVE IT
Great atmosphere! I come here all the time with friends and family!!
Expensive but fun. Folks at payments counter overlook weirdly when you play
For a bowling alley in Calgary, the lanes are decent enough and so is the food, if not a touch pricey. The elderly staff running the place tend to be rather overbearing and not very welcoming. I base my low rating on my experience with the staff on multiple visits and feel there are better bowling alleys to visit, if you're wanting a good time.
Great time
Great place to go. So much fun for all. Food and drinks at a reasonable price. The staff are always so helpful and keep the place nice and clean all the time.
Nice clean place. Friendly service. Not very busy even though it was Saturday which was nice.
We had a large group (30 people) and had an excellent time. Great service, excellent food, very clean. For 5 pin bowling, this is the place to go.
Was not very pleased about our most recent experience.. Called at 9:45pm to ask if they were open & if they were busy. Was told that they were open until 11pm and that they had lanes available. We arrived at 10:10pm a group of 5. We were not even greeted with a hello the first thing the cashier at the desk said was "uh we close at 11" he made the five of us split up between two lanes and we finished our games in 15 minutes. We could have easily played another game and his facility could have made another $50.00.. Then while we played our game he stood at the front desk and stared at us the entire time we played. Do not say you're open until 11pm when you're going to treat customers as if they are an inconvenience. Definitely will not be recommending or returning to this bowling alley.
They have great pizza & potatoe wedges
Great and fun with the kids
Not a great experience. Extremely unorganized and didn't honour the discount prices. Food took an hour and was not enjoyable. Definitely not a kid friendly place. No high chairs or booster seats. Not a place I would return to or recommend for the $$$$$
Twoonie night is a great deal and a lot of fun me and my family haven't been bowling in years and decided to try it out again. The workers were nice and helpful when we screwed up on the scoreboard and needed assistance seem like good people. We would definitely come back and play again. Thanks so much
Awesome
Was fun and their pizza was delicious.
It is good place the kids to have fun. Big downside is that prices are expensive compare to any other bowling place in Calgary even with the specials that the owner always refers to. At the end it is just a bowling place and the prices need to be corrected.
The facility is nice and spacious, but the price is steep for what it is. Bowling. We rented two lanes and had technical issues with both. There's other bowling places that give you the same amenities for a cheaper price and no issues.
It's ok. Went there with work and we had drinks and pizza but you can't eat your food or have a drink on the lanes. I'm not a fan of leaving a drink on a table away from the bowling lane. We also wanted to get a group photo and one of the guys were very rude when we asked so another lady took our photo.
Staff can be unnecessarily rude.
I do not recommend coming to this bowling alley, the employees were extremely rude. They kept pestering us about keeping the floors clean and stood there waiting for us to walk away. They also complained that wearing our regular shoes was ruining their floors even though we were leaving and the lady kept saying "you're ruining our floors" as we kept saying we are leaving the bowling alley. The game was fun but unfortunately the employees ruined our experience and I do not recomend anybody to visit this bowling alley and especially do not bring your kids here.
Was well prepared for large groups. Good fun for team building
Had a good family time!
Strange location. Really cheap food. No fun disco bowling
Always a great bowling alley nice friendly staff and lots of well maintained lanes and balls.
Always a friendly environment. Staff is polite, welcoming and helpful.
It was awesome it was my 8 year old daughter first time bowling and she had a amazing time
Thought we would have a family outing and take all the kids bowling for some fun. Well the bowling for them was the only highlight. Dale wasn't very friendly to begin with. With ten of us were looking to see if there was some sort of deal to be offered. Dale said no deal unles you printed it off from our website. And if showing it in our phone was enough very shortly replied nope. We asked if he had a hand printer no problem I'll print it off. He proceeds to tell me they don't have internet at the bowling alley. After all this okay no big deal trying to get shoes seemed to be a chore for him as well. Hey I get it if you don't like you job then quit. At least pretend like you care about the customer. This will be the last time we drop a couple hundred dollars here.
Needs a better food and drink selection
Not a bad place to bowl. Quite pricey to bowl though Lot of cheaper places in the city
Nice & clean . New bowling lanes
A very cheap looking bowling centre. There was a line up out the door, shoes all over the place right when you get in and not enough staff to handle what was going on. The atmosphere in there is not comfortable. The one star is there because it is a bowling alley that you can bowl at.
Bowled with a friend and our kids. One staff member was quite rude and impatient with our kids and yelled at us for our kids behaviour. I felt like they were annoyed with our presence. Yes our kids were not quiet and walked around but they are 2 and 4 year olds and were having a great time. They were not screaming or throwing tantrums just cheering each other on and playing. Made the experience less enjoyable. Maybe don’t have kids bowl free if you don’t like kids?!
Clean and new but absolutely no atmosphere. No music, unless you plug the jukebox and we saw a staff member sitting on the food counter...gross.
Scores did not register multiple times. Would knock one pin down and when the curtain lifted there would be other pins down too. Did not get to finish the game, it was stopped before the last two people took their turns. Looks like it has not had an update since the 80's
Great place to go for large groups
Great place for 5 pin bowling. The staff was very friendly and the price was super cheap (we went on a Monday). Clean place and not too busy.
Clean, reasonable prices. This space is HUGE, and I could see it being a great spot for kids parties with the size. When we were there, draft beer was down, so we had to buy cans, at an inflated price, which wasn't great.
They don’t except bottles
Perfect place !
Bowling Depot is such a nice place. Not usually busy so I’m able to take my special needs clients. What a wonderful bonus that food is also pretty good!
I had reserved and been here once before with a special needs child at which time I mentioned that I have lots of clients and we would be coming back lots. I showed up today with another of my special needs children only to be told if I do not call and reserve a lane I have to pay full price. It's not like the place was busy they were using maybe 8 of 24 lanes. When I told the lady at the counter that I had talked to them last time I was there and no one mentioned the requirement to reserve or pay full price she was indifferent. It cost me 9 dollars for a 6 year old to bowl one game and as his Aid I had to pay for shoes. We left and went to Chinook where the staff was amazing, we played 2 games for 10 dollars and they did not charge me for my shoes because I was only aiding a child and not playing. When we left they gave my little guy a dinosaur tattoo and he was over the moon excited! I am afraid we will not be back!
I booked a birthday party for my son, we had 13 kids in total and 8 adults..everyone had fun. $25 per kid..included 3 bowling lanes, 1hr of bowling, party room, small pizza for each kid and pop, they also provided a lollipop, bag of chips and a balloon for each kid. Everyone had fun, kids and adults. Already I have had 3 moms ask me about the package and they all thought it was worth it. Small issues with a few of the pizzas which they rectified immediately with no hassle and apologized for it as well. It was a great experience all around and I would highly recommend it to anyone. Thank you to everyone at Bowling Depot for making my son's birthday a great success!!
Excellent Bowling alley. We are regular customers every week on Thursday nights . Food is good. Lanes are cleaned and kept . I like this place.