The Rink at Campus Martius — Attraction in Detroit

Huge waste of time and money. Date gone wrong. I will never return to take part in these festivities..

First and foremost, I always add that I am a very patient and nice customer (I worked customer service many years) and I was on the receiving end of some rude behavior from the staff. I tried on a pair of size 9 skates and they were very tight so when I returned to the desk to switch sizes and quickly explained they were too tight, the man tried to argue with me, so I explained further that I just need a size up because there’s no wiggle room and they aren’t wide enough, to which another man very sarcastically replied, “oh no better get the heat gun out...”

Funny? Yes. Rude? Very.. Totally uncalled for.

After paying 30$ for admission for two with skate rental, I proceeded to the ice where there were so many people skating that I couldn’t even hold hands with my boyfriend because there simply was not room to comfortably skate alongside one another, which wouldn’t be so bad if admission wasn’t so expensive. I was on the ice about ten minutes before I was grabbed by 3 different falling people and ran into once and I finally called it quits and thought to myself what a ridiculous waste of money It was.. I wouldn’t recommend this activity to any of my...

Great fun at the rink although it's quite small. I am sure they had no idea how big Detroit was going to be today. I hope they can eventually reconfigure it as there is plenty of space for more. The outdoor shops and the Parc restaurant are on the rink and were bustling and there was quite a bit of holiday cheer. I don't recommend skating too fast or being too great at the sport, because you will likely run over some child or relatively bad skater like me. As a beginner, I was happy to be with like-skaters, but I also managed to almost run down a little girl. My only option was to pick her up before taking...

I really think it's great that detrot has this but it u.s poorly done. Extremely crowded. That in itself is not a problem, rather the line is huge and slow! No separate lines for people who bring their own skates so everyone waits in the same slow line in which you have top wait for everyone to rent skates. Also, there was no one in the rink monitoring the idiots acting recklessly. My 6 year old nearly got run over multiple times from drunk fools. Add to that it cost 40$ for my group of 4, all with their own skates, this was a disappointment. We will not...