Reviews of BYU Bowling & Games Center (Bowling Alley)

Magnolia Griggs

The bowling place was clean and not crowded on a Thursday night. We paid 6 dollars per person. It wasn't the cheapest, but it was alright. There are other games available too such as arcades, billiards and pingpong. The two latter are free. There is also The Wall where you can eat food and listen to bands. Overall it was good Thursday date night because it wasn't crowded.

Greg Boss

Newer screens, older ball return machine and balls. Family friendly.

Madeline Bethea

I am really impressed with how kind and charitable the staff is. Tom was so helpful and understanding.

Skylar V

It's a fun atmosphere! Prices aren't super great in comparison to other places I've bowled... which is contrary to many reviews. But that doesn't stop me from coming. They do have a date night deal which covers both shoes and two games for $12. The could invest in new bowling balls themselves, as many are chipped. It's always a good time here, and free ping pong and pool are offered. I have experienced minimal issues with the screen/technical aspect, which is uncommon for a bowling alley. The staff is pretty chill from my experience as well.

Kyle Gill

They say the bowling alley was built on the burial site of the ancient Anasazi chieftain. RIP Chief Hanging Buffalo, may the strikes of all the little boys and girls grant solace on your resting ground. Would that America's leaders would match the level of tenacity displayed by one of America's finest.

Cache Staheli

Great place to bowl. Been going here ever since I was a kid.

Dan Carpenter

Fun and inexpensive.

Malika Bradford

Had a great time with my kids and the prices are cheap

Tyler Bennett

Great, clean place to bowl. My group started blowing late and we didn't finish our last game so they gave us a voucher for a free game and shoes. The score board is also really cool, it can show you your bowling stats like the speed of your bowl and a lot of other cool information

Tyler Ashby

Fun place to hang out. Nice scoring system that is interactive. Balls are decent, but the lanes are never oiled properly in front of the foul line.

Angus Bennion

You get to bowl for free once a year if you’re a student

James Finlinson

Just like every bowling alley, it's an awesome place to hang with friends! It's not too crowded and the price is super good.

Lindsay Taele

Affordable, family fun

Michael Hastriter

It was great. We got a special Deal with date night bowling. 2 games for two.

Carson Padbury

Is a good place to go when there is deals but a lot of the balls have chips in them.

Nate Blaylock

Cheap fun especially during the day. Park in visitor parking off of 9th just south of the law building. Don't have to be a student to bowl.

Spencer Tuft

Great activity for BYU students. The service was the usual but the price was extremely affordable.

Graham Oxborrow

Great for kids! There are only 20 lanes so it can fill up fast but is usually available in the middle of the afternoon.

Zinnia Barillas

Great environment for kids and adults. I take my kids here and also go with work with adults that have disabilities. They all love it here. Awesome staff here. Tom thanks for your service. I didn’t get the other guys name that helped us but thanks

Levi Berry

Great lanes! The whole family loved it.

Matt Colton

Great fun, I went went my friends and it was fun, I recomend

Preston Tiegs

Make sure you use your free game of bowling as a student!

Albert Shuxiang Li

We played games here today and Merrily found out that all the equipment has been upgraded and worked more pleasantly. Good venue for a family sports-kind event. Great to be here to spend our time! Highly recommended!

Britton Davis

The oil on the lanes is not kept up and all professional bowlere will notice. The lanes are horrible if you are looking to bowl, but nice to hang at.

Michael Scott

Cheap bowling with a great family atmosphere! There is even a dollar theater upstairs although you may need a student ID to buy tickets.

D M

If you like Valley girls this is the place to go bowling. IPhone in one hand and a bowling ball in the other lol

Bob Jabarbon

The workers are great! They also play great music!

Eric Hedengren

Great hangout place

Rodrigo Marques

Ambiente alegre, pista muito boa!

Austin Alpeter

I took a class here. Don't know how to compare it to other bowling alleys but I liked it.

Clasher Saluja

Not much to do in Provo.. great place for date night for bowling. Cheap prices. And cleaner than other places. I wouldnt recommend archade. Not worth the price.. rather goto Nickel City for that. Def use student discount

Travis Hoyt

This is a great inexpensive bowling alley. It's hard to find bowling balls that are the right weight and finger size and many times they are understaffed but they make it work.

Michelle Wallace

Cheap and bought some old bowling balls for $10

Mark Nielson

Great games! The score boards are broken

Darren Torrie

Great date night special, and the renovations done on the lanes have been great.

Ike Gardiner

For the price, it's a steal. They have so many deals! For BYU students it's $1 during 2-5 every day!

Jake Larsen

Ok lanes. Nice to get good student deals.

Josh Moody

It's never too crowded and it's a pretty good price

Joshua Marx

Awesome bowling alley and fun center. Anyone can play, not just BYUstudents, and it has great prices. There are also some arcade games and pool tables.

Darcell Estes

Great place for family fun!!

Jimmy C

Great memories and fun atmosphere. Date night was perfect

Johnathon Kreider

Bowling was decent, but the students running the cashier were rude and uninterested. I hope they get happier.

Andrew

I spent a few hours here with my family. Not only did I win all the games but we had a blast together. The lanes could use improvement but the environment is very fun. I would recommend.,

Sherry Scott

Fun family time

Joseph Crapo

Great prices for students and fun for the whole family. May it never change.

Amie Leavitt

Great college hangout. ..family friendly, too!

Carl Sarahs

Fun place.

Brittany Wallace

We had a lot of fun here! We forgot our socks and we got a fair price for a pair. It had some fun different games and the cost for bowling was great! We would definitely go back. As an added bonus we always love to walk through the bookstore and peruse all the neat stuff when we go. PS parking wasn't too bad either.

Casey Fehlberg

I love BYU anything!

Adam Norris

They are friendly staff with great prices. The lanes are not in the best repair but who can complain when they charge so little. They can be a bit busy during league nights and Friday nights.

Mahonry Jaen

Great place to have fun

Kyle Hart

Great value.

Will Andersen

I come here to practice getting 300's so that I can be an Olympic bowler

John Hedengren

Family fun, especially on Mondays after 7pm for $1 bowling.

Ronald Francom

Great place to bowl. Helpful staff with anything that goes awry.

N1GHTHAWK

Had fun with friends on Tuesday night at Design Week. The first bowling game was more serious, but the second was mostly spent changing our names on the screens to make funny results. :D

Nathan Cragun

This is a well-used bowling alley. Everything could use an update / refresh, but at least everything was in working order and clean. The prices are dirt cheap (they are catering to poor and cheap students after all). The food sold here is just like any other bowling alley you've ever been to (it's like there's a pact among bowling alleys to only ever serve mediocre food). It's a fine bowling experience. This is slightly above "going to a movie" on the Date Creativity Scale: not terrible, but it's not going to bowl them over.... (sorry)

Logan Custer

Great fun!!!!

David Skouson

Good process during the day

Michael Cannon

Very fun for sports camps.

Kjersten Johnson

I like coming here during the day sometimes to bowl!

Mateo McDonald

WELL w

Daniel Woolwine

Very cheap, state of the art, good fun for friends and family.

Steven Fredrickson

Always a good time

Navioli

Pretty busy but fun.

Jenny Pachev

Cheap, especially if you are a BYU student, but super fun!

Benjamin

Pretty classy for a bowling alley. They play Disney music while you enjoy knocking down a few pins. If you need a date night activity, I would recommend it as a "cheap and fun" date.

Jon Scott

Actually really enjoyed it here. They let us do fun and different ways of bowling like sitting on the ground, holding someone's hand, etc. Atmoaphere was good. Temperature was perfect. My only complaint is that some of the bowling balls smelled really bad and were pretty grimy.

Celeste Erikson

Student deals

Cherlynn Bell

Went to hear the concert,. Nice to have live entertainment along with the game and bowling going on!

Jeremiah Scott

This place is great! If you live in Provo and you haven't gone, I highly recommend it. It's a great opportunity to spend time with friends or go on group days. And it's affordable!

Hunter Hallows

The bowling alley is one of the best places in Provo, and a lot of that is due to the work of Tom LeCheminant. He is an excellent worker, and makes the bowling alley a positive experience for all who visit.

Christopher Morgan

Really good place to bring kids.

Michelle Turner Lewis

Student price from 2-5 is unbeatable $1 shoes & $1 games. Some problems with lanes but the new touch screens are nice.

Harrison Thorne

Maybe the place could use an update, but it's still fun. :)

Kambry Miller

We had a few problems with our lane like the bumpers not working, the screen would freeze, and the pins wouldn't reset! But it was relatively cheap and we had a good time overall! They just need to update a few things!

James Jones

Good place for students

Rowdy Hall

This place was so great. The staff was knowledgeable and friendly. Our lane got stuck once, it happens, I worked at an alley, it can't be avoided. But the girl at the counter fixed it real fast and even credited a few minutes back on to our lane. They have different versions of bowling to play if you get sick of the regular style. They pumped out some pretty solid jams, too. Keep up the good work!

Adam Freeman

Great cheap bowling for any fun activity.

Seth Hippen

Clean, family friendly

Rachel

Needs some renovation - the bowling balls had notches and dents in them, and the lanes glitched up on us several times, messing up the scoring. No hand sanitizer in the machines. However, it is inexpensive and somewhat of a destination, hence the 2 stars.

Nicolay Garcia

It’s a nice place, but a little small. There are not as much maintenance as other places.

Spencer Nelson

Great place to bowl. I like to bring my kids here and tell them about how awesome I used to be at bowling.

Scott Farnsworth

cheap. justlike any other bowling alley. expensive food haha

Steve Solen

Decent bowling. The bumpers never work for the kids (they fall down often in the duration of the game). The bowling balls are completely worn out and in bad shape. The lanes are still in ok shape. Monday nights are cheap and my kids love to go here over FatCats.

Steve B

Great place for a family evening out. And it is accessible with a ramp to the lanes and no steps to the lanes.

Ashley Jones

It's a great place to have a fun time with friends. It's a great price, too.

George Bennion

This place is very family friendly and great for groups! Apart from the bowling alley themselves, there is also a small arcade with games like Galaga, Pac-Man, air hockey, and several others. The only down side to this is that the prizes you can get for the tickets you earn are terrible, mostly just cheap candy and a cheap water bottle. There are also no food or drinks on sale, which was inconvenient. The evenings get pretty crowded.

Andrew Masters

Always a great time here!

Peter Hinckley

Home of family, friends, and fun!

TdogGamer

Awesome

Bryce MacCabe

Pretty good bowling alley. A few things are a little outdated, but overall it's a good price for bowling

William Thomas

Best bowling alley in Provo hands down! My experience at Fat Cats was awful.

Tyler Erickson

Very friendly staff, great family environment

Michael Rowan

The lanes are really bad for anyone other than a straight bowler. I’m not even that good of a bowler, but I took a few bowling classes and learned how to do a hook ball and a curve ball. It’s impossible to do a strong curve on the lanes in the wilk. Even when standing as far left of your normal starting position as possible. The problem is the lanes aren’t oiled well. So the ball just heads right off the lane. It is possible to do a hook ball...but only if you stand like 10 floorboards to the left of your normal starting position. Fat cats’ lanes are oiled better. And UVU’s lanes are oiled really well...but they only have like six lanes. Place is tiny. P.S. This is based off of more than one experience and trying multiple lanes. Also to show I’m not biased, 10 years ago the Wilk had better maintained lanes than fat cats did. But that has changed.

The Black K-Night

I did I this for free time at efy and had fun playing there.

John Dahl

Good place to come if you're a student. It is usually pretty busy. Remember to make use of your free game and shoe rentals once per academic year. This and many other deals are what really make this bowling alley worth visiting.

Elias Wise

Very fun but was clearly understaffed

Gavin Lewis

Excellent prices, particularly for students before 5:00

Bradley Kitchen

Average lanes... Not bad, not great.

Brian Jackson

Nice bowling alley, nothing too special about it. The screens are kind of old school.

Andy Paulos

I love going to the Wilkinson Center but the BYU bowling and games area is probably the biggest eyesore. The bowling lanes feel like they have not been updated, the machines in the back are as old as they were when it was first installed 30 years ago at least and the lobby is dirty and has worn out carpet. The school should really revamp this area because it would attract a lot more students and family. We played a round of bowling and had to move areas because our lane broke down and they were going to charge us because the pinsetter kept dropping down the bar right when we bowled and it would bounce off of it. It was not a good experience

Scott Cryer

Awesome! They are super adorable and it is a fun environment! Come have done fun!

Sterling Campbell

Staff was cool. Had a good time. Food and drink selection essentially non existent.

Steve Hildreth

Ok place

Josh Wadsworth

A fun family environment. Great for the little kiddos.

Alberto Urbina

Good place to be.

Noah Jaussi

Huge game area with lots of things to do for hours of fun. Requires a by student I'd for certain activities but otherwise was great. Pricing was reasonable and staff were super nice.

Ryan Lee

Great place to bowl.

Bryce Berrett

Good special deals posted on their website.

Ryan Johnson

It’s a good bowling alley, and I’m really grateful that students can come bowl here for free once every academic year. They also have coupons out there to make the experience free for non-students. There have been plenty of updates to their system and tons of house balls make t easy to find the perfect ball just for you.

Brady Gibbons

Had a fun time, workers didn't seem like they did tho

Rob Yarwood

Bowling looks good, but the "classic arcade games" are almost non-existent. Time to change your website guys!

Derek Shields

Newly upgraded systems make playing so much better! Don't have to worry about the system crashing mid game.

Ethan Unklesbay

Free for students once per semester!

Karston Pound

Great service and great atmosphere! I love the new system they just installed in it as well!

Xavier Loose

Lanes are old but usable, it was pretty cheap with the student discount but otherwise a little much.

Isaac Nielsen

This place is tons of fun for family and friends and offers great prices! It offers a small arcade, pool table, ping pong, as well as bowling. Great friendly staff and although the place is a bit old, it is very well kept. This is my go to destination for bowling anywhere in the Provo area!

Mardi Sifuentes

It's cheaper than most bowling alleys and a fun family atmosphere. They have bumpers and ramps for kids, a small arcade and a restaurant next door if you get hungry.

Adam Rounsville

Awesome!

jared sanchez

Nice place, very quiet and confortable

Jacob Heiner

If you go before 5 on a weekday, you can bowl for super cheap. I think $2 per game. They also have a pretty good date night deal.

Jake Merrell

Great family place

K Danielson

Great prices for bowling. Looking at about $8 per person for shoes and an hour of bowling.