Castro Village Bowl — Local services in Castro Valley

Pros: I love the options for setting up your game. You can choose to have a theme, have statistics show up (like your bowling speed, etc.) or something else I forgot. I chose the statistics one so it was cool to see that even though we aren't professionals.

The Cafe has a wide range of foods available and there is a bar (didn't checkout the bar). The French fries were good and I think my brother liked the jalapeño poppers or something like that. The burgers are a really good size.

We had a good time and the staff were kind.

They were able to put the guards up for the kids, but you can't have them switch up and down for older vs younger. We left them up and that was okay.

Cons: There aren't benches right next to where you bowl like other alleys but they did have some folding chairs down there for people.

I had the hot wings and they were not good at all, like I ate a couple and threw them away.

They didn't have the little gator slide thing for toddlers to roll the ball down.

Pro/Con: There are benches for seating but they're oddly far from the bowling "computer thing" lol. The nice thing though is that we eventually sat closer on the folding chairs and used the long counter space in front of the benches to put our...

Definitely needs improvements. They have specials on Saturday from 9-11pm for $20 unlimited games and shoe rental. Sadly you have to wait to get in and literally it’s not even packed once you pass the entrance. We didn’t get inside until 9:31pm and we were there waiting since 8:45pm in their lines. Then, when we got to the lanes 7,8 it was only 3 people on a lane and we had a party of 8 so we had to go up numerous times to adjust because you are not able to yourself. Other bowling’s alleys just give you the option to add as many names as you like and delete them yourself. Then the lanes weren’t even counting our points so we had to go up there and tell them. They should really have a call attendant button on the machines instead of going up there the numerous times. So we finally didn’t get to start playing until 9:50pm. Once it’s 11 they turn everything off and that not fair because literally half the time you are waiting or having them fix something. Also, Since it was a Saturday night you would think they would do fun things like have music on or even have some kind of fun lights. It was just very outdated and seems like it needs a lot of...

If I could give this place zero Stars I would. I went there last night which was a Friday night just to go bowling with three other girlfriends for my 40th birthday. First we were allowed to walk in the front door which is fine then we had to walk we thought through the bar so we did that we went up to the front desk they were going to give us our shoes but then realize we had not been searched by the security guards. So we headed towards the security guards which I might add were fully protected huge men that had metal detectors and the way they spoke to me was absolutely disturbing. All I had to ask was is this where we wait or do we go up to you guys and I got yelled at by a scary big man who was probably packing. The fact that I have to get searched and Pat it down by men that were armed and rude was very disturbing to me and I don't think I'll ever go there again. I'm so saddened by this event that this is what my kids are going to see Castro valley like armed and dangerous. It was...