Reviews of AMF Gulf Gate Lanes (Bowling Alley)

Keith Gagnon

Technology is newly updated. Staff was very friendly and helpful. Alley appeared very clean. Had a great time with the family!

DONNIE DEWITT

Like how they remodeled the lanes better improvement than 6 years ago

Joseph Ramon

Great Summertime offer. $50 gets you 3 games a day plus includes shoe rental. 3 games every day (time restrictions) pays for itself after your 3rd visit & kids price is $40! Good, healthy summer activity for the kiddos.

Jokshan Priester

The staff was awesome

Collin Murray

Great place to have fun and beat you're coworkers at bowling

Alex

Good but expensive... Very expensive, $75 for 4 kids, including shoe rentals and 4 games

Jerry Banter

Lots of fun with friends for a fairly cheap night out. The snack bar prices are a bit steep though (medium soda $4). I like the scoring system and graphics.

richard leffler

Nothing special, reasonably priced.

Jarrad Truax

Went on a Friday night and the bar was closed. What's bowling with out beer!

Roger Larrison

Great staff very helpful

Bob Kahns

Decent bowling alley, outdated electronic scoring system and old school manual bumpers for kids

Albert McMullin

I took a group of young people. None of us were regular bowlers. The place was clean and well maintained. I am not sure what else one would expect. As far as I am concerned I am very happy with the experience and would recommend it.

Antonio Miragaya

Very nice staff. Our lane broke down and the mechanic came right away and didn't leave until he fixed it. A little hard to see from the road but none the less a nice establishment.

Chy Kuyper

Prices are great, but the facility itself is pretty grungy.

Bill Enslen

Recently upgraded equipment, attractive graphics.

Kino Kino

Very nice place to have fun, family friendly, good atmosphere and nice staff.

Peter Bogacz

Lanes are fun, overall very nice.

Amber Mesik

Had a blast. Clean and affordable.

Christopher Taranto

Typical AMF sarasota why cant you keep items in stock out of mozzeralla sticks again. Lets see how many times the lanes break tonight. Instead of slapping on paint fix the lanes get new tables etc.

Tiffany Yoder

Fun place to hang with family and friends. Pretty clean for an older bowling alley. It could use some renovating. Staff was nice. Prices seemed pretty high though.

John Hughes

Updated, but still not as good as Sarasota Lanes.

M

It's a bowling alley ... I get it! Nothing fancy to see here, just overpriced bowling! Ordered a pizza and half an hour later they hadn't even started prepping it. Cancelled the order. Our group of six had no where to sit because another group of six was next to us and they also had no where to sit. Half of the place was empty but they squashed everyone together. Glad everyone is good spirited! * Much better experience at Sarasota Lanes up on Fruitville.

Jesse Powell

Place was really dirty. Alley had like 3 lanes besides ours occupied but they made a big deal turning up the music so we could at least hear it. Ordered a pretzel and it took 13 minutes...and it was burned. Seemed that none of the employees care about anything except getting a paycheck. Sad considering amf was my first job and we had much higher standards all around. Wont be returning.

John Broadfoot

Whoopin' good time!

Margo Anne Stalker

Now we had an awesome time here didn't we guys!!

David Awesomenes

Antiquated scoring system...no video pictures like Sarasota Lanes, but still a good family fun time. Go online for once a month coupons.

Aunt Flub

My husband and I love coming here. It's always a good time. We bowl. Drink. Play darts. Always cheap too!

N H

Great fun place, staff helpful and accomodating pizza was good too.

Lance Wiegand

Typical bowling alley. The equipment is all in good shape and staff is very friendly and helpful.

Nikolina Djilas

Very nice place, clean and friendly!Had lots of fun!

becky cain

Had an 8 year bday party. Amazing staff. Fun time

Caleb brown

Most lanes these days have the availability of bumpers that automatically come up for one player if needed. This alley does not.

PresaCanario's Rule

Fun but gets expensive fast ...

Anthony Tabeek

I enjoy being there as well as the bowling. Tony

Marina Diner

The bowling alley is a lot of fun. Some of the areas are outdated, like the score tables- they could use some love and resurfacing perhaps. It also helps to find a good deal to come bowling or for the summer, use their passed, as it becomes pricey very quickly:)

Amy Chapman

Everything and everyone was amazing. I hosted my son's 5th birthday party here. Booking the party was easy, Brian did great follow up. Gary greeted us upon entering and check in was easy. Gary checked on us many times, then the manager on duty catered to our every need the entire party. My son had a great 5th birthday. Thank you to all the staff!

Spence Jordan

Accidentally had our lane shut off in the middle of a game. Management was super helpful and understanding. Turning a minor inconvenience into an enjoyable time

Nelson Urquiola

Me and my family loved it... we loved the old school feel........ cold beer and good food.....we are from (miami)

John-Paul Legutko

Nice place had a really good time with my kids. Price not bad for games or food.

Sam Kostov

This place is too old and outdated. Like I was back into 80s. Needs a remodel.

Jewel Moon Nagy

Fun, nice clean place. Very friendly staffs.

midnite toker

Outside lighting non existent ... can't even see the building from the road ....

RandomHalie

honestly the food took way too long and i’m disappointed.

Danny N

Good

Lena Schimmoeller

Typical bowling alley, very crowded tonight, but great for business. Great place to hang out with your friends and family. The food is okay.

Gabriel King

Fun for everyone, great staff!!!

Captain Hook

Super fun! Read Groupon's carefully! Didn't realize that Groupon deals didn't work after 6 on saturdays.

Andy Gerberich

Nice place. Friendly environment and good prices.

Jewely Magooly

Best place to bowl

Kyle Dykstra

An older bowling alley with old machines. The place was clean and they have good deals

Chris Bellissimo

The manager Gary and his staff are great. I recently decided to compete nationally again, and they've been very supportive. The consistently oil 6 days a week, so you don't ever have to practice on the super burn. Appreciate it.

Javier Garza

The lanes are in bad shape. The mechanical rack kept puting out racks with missing pins. If you have kids and ask for bumpers they stay on the whole time no mater whos turn it is. Their prices on food and drinks is a bit expensive. And if you buy a groupon you cant redeem it till after 6pm even tho it does not stipulate that when you purchase one.

Malin Parker

I have been taking my boys here to bowl since they were about 4 years old. Back then, they had an awesome bowling camp for kids, and was a great activity during the hot summer months, and they really did become good bowlers. One of my sons was consistently bowling in the 130's without bumpers when he was just 4. Nice place to go...clean, pleasant staff.

miguel rodriguez

Fun place

Pete Llerena

Terrible for league bowlers. Oil pattern never the same. Scoring system out of date. Bar out dated. No Wi-Fi

Scarlet May

Great service, fun for everybody.

Chris Yoder

Super nice staff, very clean facilities; )

Steve Polanski

Nice Bowling Center, with a Grat Pro Shop

Tiffany Rocco

Fun for the kids but could definitely use a good cleaning. Staff was very nice food was good

Chelsea Bobet

Meh. People aren't nice. It's expensive as @#$+. Had fun but not really worth the price..

Daniel Voronin

Had an awesome time with my sibling and cousins here! Played multiple games for a good price.

Rachel Sullivan

We had lots of fun

Ed Vervane

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Ed VerVane and Ana Thristino

Doug Smith

Great place to take the kids for fun and food.

Todd Guberman

Fun time

Jay Simon

Great fun.

Blake W

Needs an upgrade or facelift. Otherwise good bowling and food.

Ann Weishaar

Good time

jaycie chapman

Very clean the staff is very accommodating wheelchair accessibility snack bar and a full bar, must be 21 or older

Louis Evangelista

Great bowling! very clean facility and cant beat the $ 7 per person unlimited bowling

Ni8htFyre

Good bowling, service, and food

Sher F

We had my son's birthday here and had the best time. Ensure you hire a dedicated lane attendant. Well worth the money.

Taylor Armstrong

Experience and ambiance is four stars, food and beverage not so much. Places an order for chicken fingers and fries at 6:09 pm and received them at 6:47 pm. Many other orders (nachos, pizza, pretzel) ordered at same time fell under this scenario. It seems however that they were severely understaffed at the time of our arrival (6pm was start flow $2.50 games) and it wasn't until about 6:30 they caught up. Even though I received a double order to make up for service, the fingers were still burnt. Bowling was fun as the lanes were great, no errors in scoring or mechanical wise! Zach (shift leader) did what he could to make up but he's only human. Thank you Zach for doing you let best to rectify the situation. There's a game room with basic electronic games and claw games, a full bar and a decent amount of quick food. 40 lanes if I remember. Will be back thank to Zach.

Martha

Fun experience, would have given a 5 star but our pitcher of beer tasted skunky.

Sergio Caballero

Great attention from staff, nice place, clean and good ambient. We get fun with family and friends. Recommended

David Clayville

Went for the Tuesday night $2.22 deal. Front desk staff were friendly and got a lane right away. Lanes are amazing and the scoring system is very easy to use. Beautiful facility and well maintained lanes. The only stumble of the night was the snack bar. They have $2.22 tacos and who can resist a good taco. Ordered two tacos for each member of my party (3 of us so 6 tacos) didn't receive them til after an hour later. They were delicious and I ordered 4 more which only took 45 minutes to get. All in all a good time as long as you come from already eating.

Edie Kaplan

The lanes are old, the scoring system imperfect, the ladies bathroom needs an overhaul, but overall nice, friendly and fun.

Jill Smith

Fun place to bowl, eat, drink and socialize! Birthday parties too!

Frank B Gabry

Over the past 30+ yrs. They have updated equipment nicely keeping up with the times Only food and bar haven't developed & still stuck in the 70's.

Eric Feigin

It’s bowling, what’s not to like.

Amber St Onge

I gave it 3 stars as they've updated their computers & screens since the last time we were here. We came on a Sun night & the "special" was $2.64 per game per person + shoe rental cost. We played 4 games & it was over $75! I don't really think that's a special, it's a rip off! I have paid that much at Head Pinz in Fort Myers - that place is awesome & worth it. We dare eat here as the last we did, the food was disgusting. I don't think their concession area is sanitary. We've never been to Sarasota Lanes but I think we'll give it a try. Bye bye AMF

tom hedge

Very clean and friendly staff. Perfect summer retreat

William G

Great

Grace

Great time, but way too expensive. Everything was clean and well painted, but as a young person I have a hard time getting involved when it’s so expensive. I’ll be going to Sarasota Lanes from now on.

Nicole Rinker

It had been years since I went bowling and it was an awesome experience! friendly staff, good music, great food & drinks, and eventually I would go on to be employed by AMF and so far it's been just as awesome!

Mike Sweeney

Chuck I believe was the bartender very nice guy

richard rutherford

Need better game room. On pin ball.

William Parker

Enjoyed myself here the staff was very polite and courteous

Taiwandra Burks

I had a wonderful time for my son's 8th birthday. Patrice was a great help. Hey customer service makes her a great asset to the company. FYI. Great job everyone! Nice, clean, and very kid friendly.

Brian Chrisman

Place is a dump. Lanes aren't consistent. Its like going into an 80s time capsule

Jessica Gates

We had a great time there. We went with family while we were visiting. I especially enjoyed how all the bowling balls are arranged by weight. It was so quick and easy to find the right weighted ball and didn't have to shuffle through all the bins separately.

Melisa Shannon

Not bad, reasonable prices for the bowling but insane prices for the concession.

Ken Butler

Enjoyed bowling with friends from work. Sunday night wasn't too busy either.

yd75

Lanes are great however it's 7$ per person per game not including shoe rental, very expensive

Dave Kiszak

Nice lanes great time bowling with the family

J Brown

Had my 4 year old daughters birthday party and it was amazing!! They set up everything and were extremely friendly and accommodating to changes. I would highly recommend birthday parties here. We got to the parking lot and my daughter was already asking when we could go back.

Knight

Super fun

Kristi Hagen

Great place to bowl. Kind of spend in the snack bar. Two Gatorade drinks were WAY more expensive than I expected but don't like to make an issue when I was there since the costs are not created by staff.

Aaron Dressel

The bowling alley is nice but the cost is crazy expensive. I bowled three games with my two kids and my total bill without any food or drinks at the end was $75. We only bowled for an hour and 35 min. Maybe I'm just getting old and things are getting more expensive.

Jason Glenn

Clean place, great staff

Oscar Mitchell

Awesome place for a kids birthday party!!!

Gary Ellis

Took three grand kids and they had a ball bowling.

David

We arrived around 3:00 on Sunday for bowling and was pleasantly surprised of no line! It was a calm afternoon with a friendly staff up front. They had a snack bar with pretzels, nachos, pizza, beer etc. I had a corona and a cinnamon pretzel, yum! Its easy to see front the street with enough parking for your tribe. The restrooms were clean and organized.

Grace Calore

It was awesome so many things to do and it wasn't just bowling their was good food and drink selections also.

Koi fishy

Food is good its what you expect when you go to a bowling alley. The people are nice and will help with anything you need. The pro-shop is. It as good as the one more up more up-north AMF.

stupidalien18

Way over priced played a couple games with some friends bill was almost 100 dollars ..

mzvenesia

Great for birthday party and family time.

Ira Feins

Good bowling, fun for all

Billy Hubbs

Kinda a sketchy feel in the parking lot

Christian Gimenez

Very fun!

Kerrie Miley

Place definitely needs to be maintained. Had to be switched 3 times due to lanes malfunctioning. Staff is friendly.

Linda Johnson

Such fun. Great place to bowl

Mary Ann Williams

Clean. Good service. Friendly staff.

Ken Allen

Great place to bowl have a bite & a cold beer with league friends

Autumn Byrd

Great service and friendly staff! Love going here with my family.

Rosemary Chapura

Great for kids parties or Cosmic bowls for a fun night out with a group.

Lynda Citro

Called ahead to make sure they had a bartender working and no big events and was told yes on the bartender and no events scheduled. Got there Saturday afternoon at 2 pm with a group of 8 adults - no bartender and 24 lanes closed for an event at 5 pm. The place was dirty and they charged $5 for a domestic bottle of beer no drinks since no bartender. Played one game and left and won't be back.

Anthony

Clean, fun, reasonable prices, $5.99 per game. Look at there websote for daily specials. For example every monday after 5pm is $2.74 per game.

Zack Betke

Clean fun

Socially 24/7

Enjoyed our time at AMF Gulf Gate. All the food fresh out of the freezer but that’s what I’d expect at a bowling alley. Service was fast. Great customer service by Lynn!

Tom Mikolinis

This place has some great deals for family fun. We went last Friday night on 5/31 with a Groupon and everything worked seamlessly. Good beer specials and a fun time!

Aidan McGuire

Clean and fun place, don't pick the prehistoric theme and there's a weird robot if you only get 1-3 pins. Overpriced food, but the lady behind the counter reccomended the soft drink cups as the refills are free. Nice staff.

Ronnie McNary-Willis

Fun place for the entire family

Miriam Bonilla

Nice place, nice staff!

Chris Scott

During early afternoon hours payed $80 for 5 people to play 2 games..... Had fun but not affordable activity for a couple of hours of fun.

Jim Keeney

I'm not much of a bowler, but we took some teens there and all had a good time. They charge about $4 for an hour, and you can bowl 2 or even 3 games if you are fast enough. Plenty of lanes, decent pizza, french fries and ice cream. They have shoes and balls for you to borrow free. If you ask they will put up bumpers along the sides of the lanes which you can use to bounce your ball off as it heads toward the pins. These make it much better for beginners.

Rob Reviews

My autistic son loves this place

M One

Great Alley

Jayne Wallace

Desperately need more staff

Chris Sorensen

Took the family today. We had an awesome experience. We chose to eat lunch and we were all pleasantly surprised at how good everything was! Nick was awesome and whipped up our lunches in no time and when our lane got messed up, he switched us to another all while keeping our original scores! Gee who knew that could be done. Thanks to all the awesome staff at your center and especially Nick.

BUrban Videos

Not much bad to say. Lanes are good, place looks good, the food is actually very good for a bowling alley.

Robert Collins

Fun place, friendly staff, got Lane right away even on $2.64 Sunday special!!

diana teuton

This places is so much fun with family and friends ....and the staff is great

diane mckeever

Good place to take the family for a night of fun. Great management team.

Alicia Graves

A good time perfect for date night or with the kids!

Stanton Barbas

Standard bowling lanes. Decent bar selection.

Sacha Knop

initially we used a groupon bowling with another family and had a blast! the people behind the counter were very friendly and the food we ordered was well prepared and fresh. we ended up signing up for the summer pass for our son and he's really enjoying that. we've gone to both the Sarasota location and the Bradenton location. - good fun.

My World Framed, Angela Kienzle, ABOC

Family had an amazing time! Love it they have specials and arcade area for kids to enjoy after bowling, food and drinks were awesome !

Dead Phoenix

Its a nice place but wifi not so good when your having meetings

Denis Lauzon

Love this place, you can bowl alone if you want to practice or bowl with a group a friends, nice friendly staff, cool atmosphere!

abdullah elalami

Staff were helpful and place was clean

darrenokami

It truly feels like the management doesnt know what theyre doing.

Jim Buresch

Really cool larger area to join a league or bowl on your own

Joann Hawthorne

Great family entertaining

Brandon G

always friendly great family fun

Sharon Litchfield

Always a fun place to take family and friends

Angela Colvin

This place is great! Very nice staff, fun variety of music, and it's clean. There isn't a single shady element to this place. They've got a great selection of food and drinks, too. Definitely recommend checking it out.

Tricia B

When booking a party, make sure you understand that you will receive exactly the number of plates, cups and pizza slices as the kids you say were coming. If you have shortages or extras, let them know when you walk in the door as they don't serve the whole pizza any longer they serve it by the plate. Bowling was fun, lanes were clean. Overall a good job for the kids party.