Reviews of Silva Lanes (Bowling Alley)

Sarah Schindler

Older bowling alley, could use some renovation. Highlights here are dollar bowling nights every Monday, all year long. Also, during the summer sign the kids up for free bowling. Well almost free, you do have to pay $2 for shoe rentals. Your children get two free games, any day of the week. There are set hours each day so check for times when you sign up. It's really a bargain. Also, you can buy additional bowling passes at a great discounted price. It's a one time payment that goes with the kids bowl free summer program. You can bowl anyday, every day, with your kiddos, with in the hours allotted for the free summer program.These passes are not interchangeable. Additionally, there is a full service bar with Karaoke and pool tables, mini arcade area and a snack bar. My family comes for the bowling and enjoy a pizza, drinks and green Chile cheese fries.

brian jacobson

Nice local bowling alley staff and pro shop are friendly. The bar is expensive as you would expect. This alley is showing its age as things are out dated and starting to break down.

Reanna Schultz

It was a good time

Mary ann Vasquez

Great but not a lot of help, only 2 people working both the front counter and the food service

Sabrina Montoya

We had another awesome night! Love the fights and Karaoke!!!

Aaron Melad

I went there today. They have a great deal on Mondays. The bar is good and they have pool tables. The lanes and food are also good. Shoes can be improved but they at least have fresh laces.

Timothy Jenson

They have great unsweetened tea.

cody armijo

It was so fun had my birthday party there awsome time manager was extremely nice!

karla marley

Bring your own ball but great price and decent snack foods.

michael mcaulay

Nice bowling alley.

Ashley Oglesbee

This place was very accommodating for birthday parties.

santia sosa

Really cool eviroment loved the retro experience I felt like I was back in time

Chad Johnson

Great staff, great pricing. Customers can be a bit obnoxious but that's expected at any family location. The pro shop is also extremely helpful and competitively priced. Weekdays are a great time to go but even a 20 minute wait on the weekends is well worth it.

Dillon Miller

My favorite place to go bowling

Jeri Keller

Won Double and Galaxy Championship. Thanks Silva Lanes for great hostess.

Roberta Cunningham

Very nice place, friendly employees

Timothy Martinez

Called to reserve lanes, clerk advised me they weren't taking reservations due to the open availability and it was first come basis. When we arrived, we were told that that had a few leagues coming in and other lanes were reserved after. If they didn't want to do their job, they could've been honest about it.

Joe Gabaldon

Best bowling alley in town, hands down. Clean, well maintained, lanes. Friendly, helpful staff. Best pro shop! Best bar! Great food. There are also pool tables.

Jeremy Oliver

This has been our go to bowling alley in Albuquerque for years. Good prices, good food, and good experience

Gwen Sund

As far as local bowling alleys go this is a nice place. The night I went was a black light night with a dj playing the music. The place was incredibly busy and very loud. The lanes were nice and the inside of the building was clean. It wasn't hard to get shoes or a ball and all in all it was a good time. From the outside I never would have thought it was that nice on the inside. It looks very dated from the outside. Cool place though!

Michael Tucker

Great hometown bowling alley. Good selection of bowling balls and plenty of lanes. Shoes were a bit worn down and approach was a little sticky but the staff was great in switching out shoes and even have me a rosin bag to help the shoes slide. Cold beer on tap and onion rings were great.

tfamilia always

We have tones of fun every time we go

Gabe Grace

This place is awesome! Fairly inexpensive and well maintained with a great atmosphere, vibe, and staff. On Mondays they $1 bowling!!

Ally Wiesel

Good equipment for amateur users like myself. Fun music and atmosphere. I'll definitely go back again.

Angella Aragon

Typical bowling alley. Perfect for getting together with friends for some friendly competition!

Thomas Vaccaro

This bowling alley caters to the league. Impossible to bowl after 5. Not fair to other people that can't bowl until after 5. I rate a 0!

Sage Badweather

Just good family feeling. The people there treat people like people. So go have good time with the kids its must if you visit and looking for something fun to do.

Kristie Mata-Chavez

We only come here to bowl!!!

janet epps

Better than holiday bowl in my opinion

Jette Edwards

Clean, good food, and courteous staff. It feels local and always a blast ☺️

Rock On Dude

Even if you are 65 years old, don’t you forget your ID! Check group on, pricing are good.

LaughingSeraphim

Three weeks in a row I have paid for multiple games and received only one. The girl at the front desk clearly doesn't want to be here. the lanes are warped and the balls are as ghetto i have since since Singapore. They are cheap, bit that does not matter when a business steals from its patrons.

Fox Mulder

I was only there for a birthday of a friend of mine at the bar. I dont drink, dont sing karaoke, enjoyed the food.

Stephanie Ortega

Have been going here for years. It needs upgraded. Old lanes old balls old shoes. We still have a fun time.

Kyle Sprosty

Not the nicest bowling alley, but always a good time....especially for galactic glow in the dark bowling

Jason Ulibarri

Super fun. They turn out the lights and everything is fluorescent great music. Full bar. Lots of fun!

Martin McNamara

Went to the bar and Karaoke was awesome!

Spring Locked 87

Very fun place to come and bowl

Audra Ginan-Cook

Great place to watch sports for free no cover charge

Carrie Chavez

We had a blast made a reservation and was Told we would wait for 5-6 minutes because the lane we reserved wanted more time. After 30 minutes we asked the front desk...they apologized and got us the next available lane In about 15 minutes. We purchased an extra half hour and had a great time. I saw an attentive staff wiping down tables between families. Bar could have used one more server:)

Martin Sharp

Favorite Bowling Alley in town for BOWLING! Pretty sure they have the most lanes in town now, since it’s a bowling alley... They have $1 games once a week, and they even honor the special on Holidays when kids don’t have school. They can get really busy sometimes, but they seem to care about their customers ahead of making money! I asked Barbie why they don’t charge more on school holidays, and she said because they want everybody to be able to bowl affordably! Good prices on beer too, and good specials! Also, They have the BEST patty melt in town! Make sure to add Green Chile!

Rayona Holmes

Always call to make sure you can get a lane or when the time opens up

Leonard Jones

Its eas fun. For me and the family at a reasonable price so over all

david minnitti

Good old fashioned bowling alley

Martin Barber

Great prices on Sunday afternoon. Snack bar has good food and the pro shop is well stocked.

Jamie Douglas

Good bowling. Friendly folks. Overall fun! Met my husband there, some years ago... So how could it be rated less than 5 stars when it brought us together? ;)

Bobbye Lewis

Lanes are well maintained but the carpet and scoring equipment are dated.

Brenda Morales

Great place we had a blast. Great help...and I bugged a lot. :) we will be back.

Don Gadomski

Best Proshop in town. John Young is great.

Rebecca Griego

Good place to spend time with family Love It.

Jessica Turner

Had a blast.. prices good.... Disappointed that tournament s they kicked you out..

James Tickerhoof

Great prices, not as nice inside as some of the newer venues in town but about half the price.

Terrell Alexander

Had a great time the people who worked there were friendly and helpful.

Aggie Lyons

Fun bowling

Robert Chall

If you like to bowl then this is a great place to do it. Well maintained by friendly competent staff. Special shout out to Steve Drake for going over and above the call of duty!

Jace Townsend

Good place for bowling but a little small for PPV shows.

glen elliott

Awesome and wholesome fun for any and all families...

Daniel Sullivan

Saturday karaoke is awesome. Full bar is nice. Great bowling spot.

Tulay White

Very affordable and nice place to play for a family. The outside was somewhat sketchy though....there was a guy laying on the floor right next to the side entrance close to the parking lot...so we had to park our car across the street where we felt it was safer. The ladies were a little pushy rude and very short with us that night, even though it was a week night, and not much was going on. But the price was right and we still had a good time

Estrella Avila

Always fun. Awesome bar staff. Cool karaoke jockey. love the vibe.

J G

So much fun to be had

daniel einfeldt

$32 for 3 games for 3 people. Good drinks. Ordered a pizza, was not expecting much, but it was actually pretty darn good!

Lil A

This is my favorite place to practice bowling, because of the food and staff.

Anthony Romero II

Dirty old place with ancient shoes. Bar has kareoke but the sound levels are always off and the procing for drinks is asanine.

Rachel Sanchez

Mondays are dollar games. The service is astounding!

DapitenOSoChurroSarge Channel Ese!

Its ok. Old equipment, too many kids running around and mistreating the facilities. Did not eat the food because it looked awful ,pizza made lil ceasers pizza look gourmet lol ok place to bowl

Jonathan Sherwood

The lanes are a bit dilapidated but got a nice vibe, cheap lanes, bowling ball selection leaves a bit to be desired but all in all it's a good place.

Riley Taco

It's a great place for bowling, and it doesn't cost too much. The bowling shoes have clearly not been cleaned too much, the food is not great and the screens are worn down. Although it's great for bowling, it is rather unsanitary.

Hugene Swisher

Needs updating. Lanes, machines, desk help, snack bar, KARAOKE ALL OUT DATED!

Maira Ajiz

Had a good time here with friends and family

Bee Vozza

My first choice, pretty cheap, good food.

Queen A

Love it here nice staff good music

DeAndra Wilcox

I held a birthday party for my son this weekend, and I cannot say enough good things about this place. They made planning so easy. I literally didn’t worry about anything. They made sure my lanes were ready, food and drinks were ready at the time I ordered it. She made sure each child had an appropriate sized ball. Everyone was so friendly and the price is unbeatable. This was the most low maintenance birthday party I have ever had for my kids; yet one of the most fun and memorable. I will definitely be booking here again.

Matthew Jaramillo

Awesome cant wait to go back my daughter and I had a blast

Gloria Gonzagowski

Bowling east good, the staff is awesome, especially Stephanie in the bar.

Troy

They're a fun place to spend time with friends, good affordable prices especially if you pay for a lane by the hour.

Mike Crawford

Nice "quiet" bowling alley. They have good technology to score and control the games.

Adam Smith

Had a good time and the people were nice. Equipment is a little old, but everything worked fine. All and all, will definitely return

Sean G. O'Mara Sr.

Bowled in a tournament there today. Nice house, machinery operates as expected, good staff. Bar was busy. Food is pretty good, But They charge for a pitcher of water. Grew up bowling in this house. Good place to go.

Craig Davidson

Silva lanes was a place I went to many decades ago with my father. Later, I bowled in a sanctioned league myself. Now, after a couple renovations, it still serves our community well. I bowl in a weekly league there. Silva is popular with young people. One of the remodels enlarged the bar, and all the staff there, in the snack bar, and the pro shop are very friendly. The main desk people try to deal with all the craziness and somehow make it work out.

Nicholas Martin

Love this place inexpensive and not over populated. Games if you're not a fan of bowling. It's great overall

Content 5000

Always a great time to be had here.

Fill Jeantete

Needs a serious update but still a great time!

Therese Garcia

Very welcoming but restrooms were not clean.

Knives Millions

Best bowling alley in town.

kerri trobaugh

Karaoke is great, the bartenders are quick. Friendly atmosphere. The only negative is they dont have waitresses

Andrew Minero

A bit pricy . need better value perks, and was charged for a child to bowl should have been free. Many lanes open .

Neale Carter

Service was great.

cassandra Harvey

This was my first time coming here and the Workers here are very nice and helpful. It's very clean here. Extremely fun! Fair Price. The food is good and fresh! Really good music .

Lorrie Loomis

Good old place to bowl and a great bar.

Roger w Mcdonald

Great place to bowl the staff is great. Have a real nice snack bar. Thanks bar is real nice and safe place to be.

maria castro

Thank you Silva lanes #t-mobile #AreYouWithUs

88M8A88R8K88

Great place to bowl, friendly staff and reasonable rates

Nicole Marion

Had jojos 6th bday party here and it was alot of fub! We ALL bowled. Even. Y 1 year old. She did such a good job lol we'll do it again sometime ❤

Lawrence Safley

I know it's one of the oldest in the city and it shows the balls are all cracked. The building looks dilapidated and dirty. Surprisingly the bathroom seemed to be the nicest in the building. The bar was absolutely disgusting. Looked like rat droppings behind the bottles of liquor and that had been there for decades. You can clearly see the kitchen is just as disturbing. The grill was dirty it's like the staff have and do not ever clean the place. Honestly they need a professional cleaning company to go in and fumigate the place. If you've ever seen bar rescue. Jon Taffer would absolutely loose his mind. Come on honestly how hard is it to have your employees clean and respect your business. How hard is it to get rid of bowling balls with cracks and hole in them the size of the grand canyon and for the love of got clean and sanitize the places food is prepared and served. Not to mention the bugs I seen floating in the bottles of liquor. If u do go I advise eat first and if drinking get bottled beer. I would be shocked if people haven't got sick eating or drinking there.

Michael Marrs

Very hospitable, family friendly, good security. Depends on the day but always a first choice

J J Sell

Very friendly place my family had a blast

katie bethell

Love their karaoke nights !!

Julie Burgess

I took 112 7th graders and the staff was amazing! They are helpful, pleasant, and attentive. The kids all had a great time!

Craig Ingram

Good place to go bowling

Jay Justice

Sandwiches, snacks, and a full bar. A fun night out with friends.

b bock

Staff great place clean but music could be less loud

J M.

Could use a little shine, but still a safe fun place. $2 games on Tuesday night.

skyler bardon

I used to like this place a lot. Monday bowling is fun. Tonight, in the middle of our session, management told my boyfriend and I that we had to leave to make room for a league that was coming in. They shut our lane down with 2 games to go and refused to give us our money back.

M.J. Smith

Love this place. Great hourly prices.

Tamne Robinson

This is the second time I have been here with my venture crew. They lost our reservation the first time and gave us replacement lanes on opposite ends of the place. Our crew had to be split up. The second time they gave away our lanes and again if everyone had shown up we would have been split up as a group. We are coming from an hour out. We have a very large family and invested a lot of money on white soled shoes that we only use for bowling to help keep our cost down cause with 7 children it's too hard to find affordable family entertainment these days. We could use them last time but not this time as they were not "leather soled bowling" shoes. I currently see 4 kids in regular shoes because they dont have shoes small enough for those kids. It's ok for them to bowl in black soled shoes but not us in white soled shoes that we only use for bowling? Wow what hypocrites. And this bowling is bowl in the dark. I cant see in the dark and it makes me sick. If I'd known we would have reserved lanes for a different time. However 2 strikes I'm out. I'll bowl isleta which is 2 hours from my home before I'll come back here. Cant wait for holiday bowl to be finished with their construction. I really have had nothing but bad experiences at this place. I won't be coming back.

Logan Rowlett

Friendly and helpful staff, interesting music and a DJ, and good drinks.

D. Gray Senior Manager of Security Operations

We had a blast with our friends! Great place to have a good time.

Rlme Z

We previously went to Santa Anna bowling. Never again! Wonderful people, has available open lanes even with league bowling. The lanes are smooth and the balls well taken care of. Food is reasonably priced and if food is not your flavor is located near other food places. My daughter had so much fun she went back the next day to take her friends bowling.

Paul Frie

It was fun, but little on the expensive side even with free half hour.

ShadowBorn Gamer

Its over priced and lots of the machines dont even work and end up taking your money

Gingeruption

Fun interior design- colorful, current music, they have a bar and snacks. Had a lot of trouble with the lanes quitting on us for no reason but the atmosphere was fun

Jacob Carpenter

This place is a pretty nice bowling alley. The lanes are straight and free of any warping from what I could tell. They could definitely stand to update their facilities, as the touchscreens they have for setting up the lane and such is pretty broken and hard to interface with. I didnt gwt anything from the snack bar, but their vending machine prices were reasonable. Overall, a good experience minus a few minor things.

Marcus Anderson

Good prices and good food too. The lanes were in great shape and there where no problems when I have gone.

Marcia Archer

Needs better lighting for parking lot

Randy Dixon

Cool place to hang out & blow

Monique Hogan

Pretty good for karaoke, except towards the end when we kept getting skipped and other people sang twice... Not a cool thing to do just to please regulars that drank alcohol I guess... Kinda a let down

Kevin Kidd

The staff was very nice.

Sarah Harvey

When here with my friend for their birthday, pretty cool

Whitney Mignon

It was so packed, but it's Friday night. Next time we will pay by the game becuase we felt rushed through the hour. Otherwise, pretty decent.

Dan Troy

This is a decent bowling alley for some fun with the grand kids. It's cheap to bowl there. But don't expect much. This is a tired old facility that is understaffed in the afternoon. The same person running the cash register and checking shoes in and out also has to run over to the bar to serve adult beverages. The balls available are old. The scoring equipment is at least two generations out of date. They did have a robotic lane polisher that was fun to watch.

Brackish C.

We decided to take my son here for his birthday. The pricing is comparable to other bowling alleys. So it was fairly inexpensive for us as a family of five. The lane we were assigned to did have some issues however an employee was super quick to fix the problems. I will say that even though we were pleased at how quick the employee fixed the issue I would like to point out that this place needs a serious face lift! Some new paint and a good scrubbing would go along way. I really wanted to give a better review however I was super put off by the concession stand employees. When I went to order the fries and cheese sauce the girl that took the orders was extremely short with her responses and had a fairly bad attitude. After I paid for my purchase she turned around to one of the employees that was also working the concession stand and immediately started talking about her personal problems which included a ton of foul language. For me as an adult, I was mortified because there was a young kid behind me coming up to buy an Icee. It is bad enough that I was subjected to this language but to subject a small kid was beyond unprofessional. We received our order and after our fries with cheese sauce were gone I decided to go back up to the concession stand counter and purchase some drinks. While standing at the counter waiting for my drinks the same girl who had taken my order opened up the cheese sauce machine and I was mortified that my children had eaten cheese sauce that had come out of this dirty, dirty cheese machine. The inside of it was absolutely disgusting! On top of the fact that this cheese machine was not well-maintained I again was subjected to a ton of foul language. I made it a conscious effort not to go back up to the concession stand however this was not the last time I was subjected to the foul language and unprofessional behavior. Before leaving we wanted to use the pinball machine, which was poorly maintained. We also decided to use the Fast and Furious racing machine, which was also poorly maintained. As we were using the arcade games the same girl who had taken our order at the concession stand sat in a booth right next to us right next to the arcade stuff. She proceeded to put her phone on speaker phone and curse out whoever was on the other line. The unprofessionalism that went on at this facility was enough for us to not go back.

Kathleen Brown

Family can go and enjoy

Raymond Ortega

Enjoy bowling here come everytime I can with the family have a great time always great food great prices today there was two men bowling in two lanes over and they were staring at all the young women inappropriately there was five of us and we can all see it are foreign so they don't know we told him what was happening we told management what was happening hopefully they did something about it I was unable to bowl comfortably due to them I have kids of my own so I know Silva Lanes always have my business this is one in a million time stuff like this happening nowadays you never know or we could all see

Tad Stevens

I realy like the pro shop. The guy that runs it i have bought alot of stuff from at different locations. But now that i know he is running this pro shop it will be the only place i go from now on.

Preferred Maintenance

Always a great place to take our seniors to have a good time!

Zeke Zenitram

Place is awesome for everyone that loves bowling with a few drinks from the bar. Monday night is $1 a game and karaoke at 12am.

Gerald Klein

Love these lanes! Great place for casual bowling or for more serious events! The house oil pattern makes for an interesting challenge. The control system, all though old and out-dated is still in great working shape and is easy to navigate! 10/10

Steven Smith

Silva Lanes has been around as long as I have been alive. It's kind of old-looking inside, but that is part of its charm. Countless people throughout the decades have learned how to bowl here. I don't see any reason why Silva Lanes wouldn't keep doing the same business it has for ever and a day into the foreseeable future. If you want a no frills bowling location, give this place a shot.

Jaeus 360

Its a bit of an old place, but pretty good for what it is. It's got a classic 80s-90s feel to it so thats cool, but I guess nowadays the newer things are better. Holiday Bowl recently remodeled their place and it looks more like an adult hang out place with a bar and everything. Silva lanes is still pretty good. Only issues I come across would be some lanes arent working very well. The one I was on ended up shutting off on me during the game for no reason, and it's a hassle to constantly have to notify the employees at the front desk. Aside from that, its not bad. There's a place to order some food like nachos, burgers, hot dogs. Some arcade at the front like a Starwars pinball machine, race car games and claw machines. The parking is pretty good, there's a lot of parking which is nice. Overall this isn't bad.

Patti Branan

The pro bowling shop has all your needs. The food is great! Great place to have fun with or without your friends

Pam Keller

I enjoy coming here weekly, usually three times a week actually. Two nights and an afternoon and I'm not on a league. Very affordable and a great Monday special. The people here are wonderful. Great staff. Scott is a wonderful man at the Deli and I've enjoyed every visit. The alley's are fairly nice and are like any and all other lanes with times where they are better than others, all depends on how busy they have been. Love the fun!

tania dossey

Fun karioke in the bar.

taipie101

A truly local bowling place with an old school bowling vibe.

Ryan Dyxon

Always enjoy bowling here. The people are super friendly.

Perris Ibarra

Inexpensive and great fun

Skudmonkey 2.0!

I didn't bowl this time, I just watched my friends play. I just ate the food here. But the're a couple things that bother me. 1: the food took a long time, 2: they have kids that don't even look like the're in their teens working behind the counter in the food area. But the food tasted great and I like playing the Star Wars pin ball here.

Deborah Coffey

We had a Groupon for 2 hr of bowling and went late afternoon. Many families and a fun vibe. Really enjoyed ourselves.

fiend2234

Fun but somewhat annoying that even though most of us are of drinking age one friend was not so we couldn't all play pool together. If at all possible I would love to see a way to play pool together even if we can't all drink. Otherwise it was a good experience until we were kicked out because the bowling league came and took up most if not all of the lanes. Really quite annoying but understandable.

Nicholas Douglas

my wife and i met here. still just as classy now as it was back then.

Nick W

Fursuiters allowed, 10/10!

Rs J

Best price, friendly staff

Danielle Leigh Billings

We've been to different bowling alleys around Albuquerque and our favorite spot is Silva Lanes. Worth the drive even from the westside!

Kayla Lee

The bowling was great , but customer service at the food bar was terrible. The guy that worked that night (2-17-19) was very disrespectful. He was to busy talking to his buddies to even help out and when he did he had attitude the whole time .

Bailey Hepple

Great atmosphere!!! The people are great.

Ashley Nix

The kids do the Kid Bowl Free program offered, and signed up for. They get to bowl two free games everyday all summer long. All we pay for is shoe rentals. It's nice and clean. A lot of summer camps go there as well, so we try to get there early so the kids can get a small enough ball. The kids have a blast and it gives us something else to look forward to during the hot days of summer.

David Martinez

We guys were staying away from a bridal shower at home. Silva Lanes was a great place with something fun to do, something good to eat, and draft beer!

dprokash

This is probably one of the better bowling alleys in town! They have been in our community for years! So dust off your bowling balls and go have some fun!

HellaJ 84

Always love this place. Great people, great staff and great fun!

Gabriel Santana

Avoid the karaoke talent. Lord have mercy

Jim Mignon

This bowling alley was amazing their ws tons of folks their and the atmosphere wasnt bad at all everyone having fun bowling and just hanging out love this place

Michael Gonzalez

If you want to have fun it's a good place to go

Abby Laakman

Great Karaoke

Abishai Dentrassi

Good times...

Chief Executive

Best kept lanes in Albuquerque.

Nick sauceda

Fun bowling alley if not a bit due for a facelift. Can become quite crowded.

Wes Scogin

Great lane conditions and friendly staff.

Storm Dreamtv

No place for wheel chairs to eat at