V&S Elmwood Lanes — Local services in Philadelphia

Epic fail when trying to support a black own business. My family was just there yesterday. We found out when you reserve lanes on Sunday you end up paying more than general admission on Sunday. The establishment does not have a bar or kitchen to order food or drinks. We had to have pizza delivered to the place and run across the street to the corner store to purchase cheaper drinks. The snack machine is not operated during normal business hours. The vending machines you have to pay $2.50 for a 20oz bottle. The game area the owner was using profanity, saying our children were messing up their sh$$. You will have to bring outside food and liquor inside the establishment. Mind you they don’t card you but allow outsiders to bring liquor inside make it make sense. Where is the liquor license? The owner used more profanity about those cheap a$$ bowling shoes going outside the building. Our shoes cost more than those bowling shoes NOBODY wants them. The lanes were broke…out of 26 lanes only one lane has bumpers for kids which was broke as well. The establishment is outdated..the owner was too worried about his pool table and games..didn’t want kids to touch them. We had 30 people with us who decided to stay since we drove from DE. We had six lanes out of the 26 lanes. Never will recommend this place to anyone. And from the poor reviews the owner Steve doesn’t take accountability or own up to the TRUTH of the place or himself or his ONE...

I really do love this bowling alley. The prices are amazing and the Friday night DJ bowling event is so much fun. However, my only problem/concern is the behavior of the adults during Friday Nights. This past Friday, 2/15/2024 around 9:45pm, we were placed next to a large party, I believe the group was Black Philadelphia. However, the bowlers we were next to were drinking(spilling liquor and juice), dancing, falling and laying on the approach part of the bowling lane. You don't need to be a professional to know that this is dangerous and could lead to someone else falling and possibly blaming the bowling alley. This is especially dangerous when handling heavy bowling balls and just inconvenient having liquor and juice on the bottoms of our personal bowling shoes. I didn't complain to the front desk because...it's Friday and you're supposed to be a good time...right? When someone from the front desk finally noticed it was a little after 12. They really need to crack down on the behavior of some of the adults and have someone from the front desk be a little more attentive to what's going on on the lanes, especially...

Great find!! My son picked this for his 26th birthday. Went on a Saturday afternoon. Our group had a blast! BYOB and BYOF.

The place is deceiving from the outside but inside is clean and bright with great lanes! Plus they have a parking lot.

Lorraine and Steve Sr were nice and we accommodating. Even provided a banquet table to put all our food and beverages on!

And they have an awesome air hockey table!!!

Will definitely go back!

We went back again this year for my son's birthday again!! Just as fun! They had a table set up - we did a brunch bowling thing from 10am to 12pm. Brought in breakfast foods and mimosas! This place is really great. Fun vibe nice patrons - all around...