Fort Hill Bowling Center — Local services in Lynchburg

It was early in the evening and my cousin, brother, and I decided to hit the lanes to work on our game, even though our game hardly needs any work. (We consistently bowl 200+) . Upon entering, we were greeted with the repulsive combination of cigarettes, dirty pits, and freshly donated plasma. Despite the fowl odor, we decided to stick around due to their solid deals. We of course started extremely hot, my cousin rolled a turkey early to set the tone, but soon after my brother rolled a rare gutter ball. We didn’t roast him too bad for it, we haven’t played in months, so hey it happens. However, his ball unfortunately got stuck, (I kind of got the idea that this happens often at this alley, given the ancient/rusty lanes) so we decided to gently toss another ball down the gutter to push it out, this is very standard procedure in the beautiful game of bowling. We pushed it out, and began to adjust our scores accordingly , when suddenly an employee who resembled a character you’d see on Beavis and Butthead came waddling over telling us to leave. We were speechless, we were kicked out for playing the game the right way. The smell of cigarettes and dirty pits will haunt me forever after my first and last experience in the...

The system was extremely outdated, and the lane that my group used kept breaking down or failing to return the bowling balls. The staff had bad attitudes when we asked for assistance when the lane jammed. By the time we got through our first game, we could have easily played two. We'd initially payed to play two games, but decided the frustration of waiting and talking to the staff wasn't worth it. We asked if we could have a refund for the second game that we didn't play since the lane needed to be fixed, and we were just told "no." The prices may seem cheaper than other places, but I would have happily payed a few more bucks to have a...

Friendly stuff but that’s about it took the kids out for the evening and everything was messed up the lane we was on constantly messed up took us 2 hours to bowl one game had pre paid for 2 games after asking for a refund because it would take forever for them to fix was told they don’t give refunds.They tried to off us 2 free games for our next time but after learning we had pay for refills on fountain drinks and $1.50 for tap water we won’t be back place is severely rundown. My favorite thing I was told was they were getting ready to do a remodel and that’s why the cost of everything was high. I visited this place a lot as a kid but I will...