Interstate Bowling Center — Local services in Hallowell

It was my oldest son's birthday and we all decided to go to spare time Recreation for bowling the whole family. We paid $197 for three lanes for 2 hours. which we didn't mind doing. But then we ordered drinks. We stood there for 30 minutes waiting for our drinks. I kept looking in the bar and saw the barmaid walking around talking with people joking with people. So I wanted to find out what was the holdup when I got in the bar there was maybe five people in there. I saw the bartender and I told her that we had been waiting 30 minutes for our drinks. She walks over to the slips and picks up our slip and said oh I have one here for five drinks. Then she crops an attitude and gives me the side eye and starts making our drinks, not saying a word and then fills them so full with ice that I had to ask her not to do that because we were carrying them back to where we were bowling well she ends up jerking the ice off the top of the glasses and ends up spilling the whole glass of ice. Still giving us an attitude with her Grunts and moans. So we had the lanes for 2 hours so all of her Madness cost us precious time. The food was good but that doesn't make up for the bad attitude with a barmaid . We will never go back there again. You really need to find a new barmaid cuz obviously she did not care about anybody else's family time. With everybody there that we brought this was a $600 day over $600 between the food and the drinks. This was 3/4 on sunday...

Ask about the summer program that allows you and your family to bowl 2 games as often as you’d like during summer!

Amazing for a bowling ally! When you set your game up, you can select which players will have the kiddie bumpers, when their turn comes, the bumpers come up, when their turn is completed, the bumpers go back down.

The arcade is a good size with a table in the center. Plenty of games and prizes for the kids.

Plenty of ball choices, with weights as low as 6 pounds which was perfectly fine for my 9 and 6 year olds. For the younger kids, they have a dinosaur ramp where all they need to do is place the ball at the top and it slides down into the ally towards the pins. Fun for all ages really!

I didn’t have food this stay, but it honestly smelled really good.

You can have pictures taken of your game and emailed to you via the tablet like scoreboard.

Overall really great place, will...

This past week my family and I came here to celebrate and we personally did not have the best experience. We had quite a few malfunctions with our lane (nothing we personally did or could have fixed ourselves) and each time we asked for help the two female employees did not seem like they wanted to help us and acted as if the malfunctions with the lane were something we were causing on purpose; but they did fix the problems. Anytime they came over to bring food or beverages they always had something to say whether it was about our bowling skills or if we had a genuine question regarding policy or our lane they’d respond as if we were trying to be argumentative. I’m not sure if they were just having a bad day but I was extremely disappointed especially when we were just trying to celebrate a birthday and weren’t doing...