Spin Alley Bowling — Attraction in Shoreline

I'd rate this no stars if I could. We held our 6 yr old's bday party at Spin Alley last week. We made the booking 2 weeks in advance and paid our deposit. On the day of the party, we show up at 10:45ish only to find out they open at 11. How were they going to give us our full hour of bowling, if they open when the reservation is made for. 10 min before 11, the guy tells us we have a problem. The cook does not arrive till 1pm. Our party is over at 1. The party package includes one hour of bowling + one hour of table rental + 1 pizza + 1 pitcher of soda + bowling pin for the birthday kid. Seeing as to how I had 10 kids with me (I paid for 2 full packages), we opted to move the party to 12, so the kids still had their pizza party. We haul everyone to the park for 45min then make our way back. We get bowling, and 30min in, the kids are hungry. So at 12:30 I order french fries, and mini corn dogs, since the guy can only make us fryer food without the cook. Bowling ended at 1 and for 1/2 hour we had nothing to do!! I had to make a whole lot of change and let the kids play on the arcade games and buy junk toys from the vending machines. Our pizza arrived BEFORE the fryer food. Fryer food was cold. It took 1 hour to dump frozen fries in the fryer and bring it out to a starving party of kids! The cincher…..they charged an automatic 15% tip!! DO NOT HOST A...

Spin Alley isn't worth the visit. I was hugely dissapointed with the outdated bowling alley, their new pricing model, and the employees attitudes towards me. Unless you're truly opposed to driving to West Seattle I'd recommend going to West Seattle Bowl instead, and here's why:

West Seattle is considerably less expensive and offers more for your money too. It has better game play animations, different game play modes other than ten-pin, and automatic player-customisable bumpers.

Additionally as of 01/31/2019 Spin Alley's new pricing feels dishonest. Their prices are advertised as per game, but if you miss scrolling to the bottom of the page for any reason you won't know that they're actually per person per game. I have no idea why they don't just write 'per person per game' when advertising their prices, and as such I mistakenly wound up having to pay $90 for four people to bowl for an hour and a half. When I expressed my confusion about the price at the end the staff were very condesending and it took them a while before they even told me about their pricing model. They also straight out lied and told me they were the cheapest.

Overall I'm dissapointed with this bowling alley and would recommend to take your...

Great atmosphere, low to average equipment. Lane conditions not suitable for high end bowling gear. Floor and approach dirty, lane conditions poor, pin rack and ball return in poor operating condition. For fun bowling with house equipment (house shoes and house balls) this place seems perfect. I'm new to the area and need a new house to call home. I called spin alley and spoke with a gentleman who was well versed in our discussion topic which led me to believe I've found my new home. When I arrived and checked in to rent a set of lanes, I was confronted with a very rude and unprofessional woman. As I waited at the counter for service, she ignored me and continued on with her private conversation. After 6 minutes of waiting, I finally asked if their was another person working that could help me. Her reply was rude. I planned on practicing at least 10 games but the lane conditions were too poor and my ball kept getting stuck in the ball return. I was there for almost 2 hours and only bowled 2 games. Maybe I showed up on a day that this house is not maintained. Maybe not. Either way my experience was less...