I live about half a mile away and both my partner and I love to casually ice skate. The skating rinks are nice - two full rinks, wow! You’d think that with all of this rink space, the Crossover could offer convenient public ice skating times for people who don’t play hockey or take figure skating lessons. I check public skating times every week and if you have a full-time weekday job, you can forget about skating Monday - Friday. You might get lucky with an hour or two on the weekends but expect the rink to be full of small children and very little room to skate around. Both of us have nice skates we want to use and we feel like we have nowhere to use them. Between 2 ice rinks, it would make sense to offer public skating on at least 3 weeknights from like 7-9pm or at least something after 6pm.
On a side note: the rental skates here are pretty bad so try to bring your own if you can. Frayed shoelaces on rental skates are a...
   Read moreIf this is what they call "best ice rink" around Austin Area it's very sad. Watching how the rink is ran and the desk workers are very rude no experience really with hockey, customer interaction. Over all maybe a hand full of workers our good at there jobs. The rest really need to look into jobs away from the rink. Money is a huge thing with the rink prices keep going up and people are getting tired of it. Adult league set up is sad and listening to players and parents around the Rink about everything is very sad and the stories are wild to hear. All I can say is they have people in places where they shouldn't be coming from up north and seeing how huge corporation ice rinks work and some family owned rinks, it's just a huge changed. All I can say to this ice rink is it's not about the money and your past in a sport doesn't make you a good coach or manager of ice rinks. Hopefully the rink success grows and...
   Read moreI went for public ice skating. The cost is $12 to skate and $6 to rent. They only give two hours of public skating depending on the day so if you show up late you won't skate for long. They also charge $5 every 30 minutes for the plastic skate helpers.
They do not smooth out the ice during those two hours so you are skating on uneven ice making it easy to fall. There was nobody monitoring skaters to make sure they were skating the same direction which results in kids skating right in front of you and doing hard stops. It's generally dangerous especially for younger kids.
A skater fell hard on the ice and was laying down while others tried to help. I didn't see an employee offer assistance and it was other skaters trying to help so if you fall or get injured, there may not be anyone to help you. I think it's too expensive for skating up to two hours on uneven ice especially if...
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