Pinz Bowling Center — Local services in Jacksonville

I grew up at this bowling alley. Won Second Place in a Doubles Pool Tournament when I was 7 here. Participated in MANY overnight lock-ins and still have the Green 1:24 Scale VW Beetle Diecast I won as a Door Prize here. For $10 you and 3 friends could play 3 or 4 games, and it included shoes. Best Deal Ever. And kept us away from our parents as they enjoyed the bar across from the Alley called "Hurricane's" at the time. Haha. Growing up on Mayport in the 90's, My Mother was the Ombudsman Chairperson for the Naval Station and most of the MP's knew my sister and me from meetings we were in the audience of when my mom conducted business, working with most of the MP's on the base. So we got away with murder as kids. It was like having an all access pass. Electric scooters had just come out, and it was a few miles from our house in the back of Enlisted Housing all the way to the Pool or the Bowling Alley, still a far ride on a bike. On a bike, by the time you got to the Pool or Bowling Alley, you were already exhausted. And back then you weren't allowed to have electric or motorised vehicles on the sidewalks or street of the base (unless over 16 and licensed, and we were 7/8/9 years old haha). We'd have the MPs chase us down and we'd stop if they knew us, and they'd warn us, make us walk it home as they followed behind at creep speed with lights on, or just take our scooters and have them take them back to my Mom or Dad at home and they'd make us walk back. Eventually they gave up after dozens of times cause they figured our parents weren't allowing us to do it, but didn't know, and we were hurting anyone really. Just being kids. I miss playing "Manhunt" (hide and seek with a twist) in the vast woods and trails we found and made throughout the forest that linked Enlisted Housing to Officer Housing, especially behind Lake Wonderwood. When my dad got a new living room set, I hauled all the old furniture deep into the woods and set up a clubhouse that maybe 6 kids knew about. We had a picnic table, a rug 2 recliners, a couch, a massive tarp roof (I think I took it out of our camping supplies haha) and a battery powered 13" TV. Only a few kids knew about it until some older kids found it and set it on fire. I can't tell you how hard it was to get all that furniture back there when you're 7/8 years old, but I had one of those 3 wheel scooters that had rugged tires, and looked like a reverse Forklift that you would push. I used that to haul every piece of furniture miles into the woods, one piece at a time. It was all right around these coordinates (30.3759173, -81.4045222) cause it was in between our house and the Youth Activity Center cause we would hop the recess fence at the YAC to go to our clubhouse. I grew up on that base at the best possible time, right before 9/11 when security started to intensify and being a kid was still fun. We weren't allowed in Officer Housing anymore, so we had to stick to the woods, cause the MPs knew us. All the Enlisted Housing has a designator, the first letter of an Enlisted Housing Street is "E" like "Enterprise, Everglades, Essex, etc." Officer's housing starts with an O, like "Osprey" and "Oriental" etc. I had a bunch of Officer kids whom were friends, but no cellphones, so if you couldn't hear dad's whistle, you were too far from home. So alot of the times we would have to chance it. Haha. I'll always...

Service is horrible. Employees are lazy, monotone, and have an attitude. The woman who rang us up sent us to our lane where we started to bowl. I tried to put up the bumpers for my wife but the never came up. She tried to bowl and see if they'd come up during her next turn but they didn't. I went to the counter and wait a moment but no one was there. I rang a bell they had on the counter and a woman poked her head out of the back office and told me to wait. Then the woman who rang us up came out and I told her what was going on. She simply replied "oh", went over to a panel and flipped a switch and then returned to the office without even looking back. I was just like, ooook and went back to my lane. The bumpers were up for my wife but the ball return wasn't returning our balls. At this point, my wife was irritated that nothing was working. She went up to the counter and complained to the same woman at the counter. The woman said that she'd get someone to help and went back to the office where my wife overheard the woman mocking her as she explained our complaints to another employee. Then she came out and asked another employee, an older gentleman, to help us out. He said OK and then walked away in the complete wrong direction. My wife returned to our lane to tell me the attitude she got from the front desk woman and how the man that was supposed to be helping us left to another lane to go do something else. We waited a few minutes before the man moseyed on over to us, took one look at the machine, and flipped some flap down. He then told me, "it's because you flipped this up. You can't touch that". I told him we didn't touch it. We had just gotten there. Rolled two bowling balls and neither came back so we asked for help. He then replied, "well you must have or they'd be coming back!" And then walked away. I couldn't believe he'd accuse a customer and argue with them over something so stupid. Especially when it didn't occur to him that anyone could have done it before we got there. At this point my wife was done and we didn't want to spend another penny there. We finished our games and left. Overall the facility was a standard bowling alley. They have cheap food options and a large variety. They have a lot of bowling specials that make it pretty cheap to bowl. It's a fun, cheap way to spend your free time with friends and family. Especially since there's hardly anything to do withing a 20 minute radius of the base. 3 stars because the employees are, by far, the worst part of...

Was our first time ordering food from here. Probably should have asked more questions because the pizza wasn't as large or round as a regular chain pizza. For some reason their pizzas are oval shaped and barely filled the large box it came in. Definitely not worth the little over 19 dollars each one cost. Also one of the pizzas we orders was Philly cheese steak. Now this might just be a Florida thing, but I've never gotten mushrooms on a cheese stake pizza. It doesn't tell you the toppings online and on the menu broad in the building it also doesn't tell you. I ordered the food in store and was very confused that they didn't state the mushrooms with the other toppings. When I came back in to show the pizza they didn't even apologize for the lackluster looking pizza. All in all spent over 70 dollars after tax and tip for 2 pizzas and wings. Which I picked no tip. Definitely not a pizza place, but the wings were fine. Probably just have to order apps from them.

3 stars because the food didn’t taste bad. Just that the pizzas weren’t...