Hartfield Lanes

I want to start by saying we have spent many hours at Hartfield Lanes and have had a lot of fun. However, after this past experience we will never return and will share our story with friends and family.
My husband and 11 family members meet at Hartfield Lanes around 11am this Sunday 11÷22÷15 for our sons birthday. Some family members did check-​in a little after 11am. We wanted to take advantage of the special posted on Hartfield Lanes website which states: Sunday’s 10am-​Noon $ 11/​per lane. We knew you can have up to 6 people per lane so we only needed 2 lanes. However, due to the fact we didn’t arrive prior to 10:30am the ‘cut-​off time’ (WHICH IS NOT STATED ON THE WEBSITE) we were charged the regular rate per person. So what should have cost closer to $ 61 (clarified by the owner) was now about $ 91! I know for a fact that we have taken advantage of that special rate WITHOUT being there prior to 10:30am. I understand that a business has a policy — that is not what I take issue with, my problem is on website it just states «10am-​Noon $ 11 per lane».
I would suggest that the website states that there is a check-​in time of 10am-10:30am. Again, I completely understand needing to have limitations on this special however, it was never stated and that time limit was NOT enforced our past times.
We will not return to Hartfield and me and my entire family plan to share this very disappointed experience.

I love meeting up with friends here. The drink prices r pretty reasonable. I like coming to chat with Brian (someone who works there) he’s good people. I don’t like how the lanes are usually so dry. It’s pretty nice to Bowl there if you just bowl leisurely and decide to use a house ball. But if you come with your own professional ball or reactive ball it’s not very good for practice.

Okay, so this place is an absolute dive and other eyes may legitimately give it two stars. But this place is unique from a different era right in downtown Berkley. Others can bowl at Emagine, but this place feels more like home. Regular bowling upstairs and glow bowling downstairs for a small premium. Bowling and beer prices are fair, but not a bargain. They usually have more open lanes on the weekend than Thunderbird. Again, nothing classy or hip here. Still, it feels right.

Very crowded on the lower level, also the some of the staff was rude in my opinion. (Except the man & boy working in the upstairs. I thank them for not getting annoyed & waiting so long for us to finish up our game.)
Overall, I have to say this is not my 1^st choice to bowl.
It’s a bit outdated & some of the bowling balls were in bad shape.

Had fun with friends bowling and singing karaōke at the bar. Clientele like Ricky make this place a gem. Some of the most entertaining karaōke I’ve seen.

I meet family here and it seems like a rip off !! My fiancé paid for 2 games and got to 8^th frame of 2^nd game and they shut off our lane — I won’t go back and will tell friends not to go here! Meet the family and they paid for two games and already played one when we got there so my fiancé paid for two games for us… the family went downstairs and paid to play one more game with us and we made it to 8^th frame and shut it off claiming games are for 6 people when the scoreboard allows for at least 8 maybe 10 between the 2 lanes. and not that it matters because we all paid to play … sucks no wonder it was over half empty on a Saturday night

When we came in we had to walk through a cloud of cigarette smoke. We waited several minutes at the counter to pay for games/​shoes before the guy we passed outside finished his smoke & finally came to help us. By the way, for anyone interested in eating: the grill was on the other side of the shelf that housed the bowling shoes. We ended up upstairs and the older man up there snapped at us about trying to get lanes next to one another and then came over to us & told us we couldn’t sit at a table because it was for another lane (even though there were no bowlers in the next lane). And considering we rented 2 lanes for a party of 7 people, and the small size of the tables, it isn’t ridiculous that we would need 2 tables. How would we know that specific tables were for specific lanes? and why didnt he say that to the family who were sitting at the table that he said we were supposed to be at? Overall I found the place functional to bowl but will never spend another cent in an establishment with such poor service. Every person we encountered seemed annoyed and like they didn’t want us there. Everyone in my party agreed that Hartfield Lanes would not EVER have to worry about us coming back again.

The bowling was great but the girl cooking took 45 mins and then was a total jerk when I asked on the status of my food. Never again will I go here! The owner needs to get rid of the kitchen staff and reevaluate their service of kitchen staff.

I’m no bowling connoisseur … but we had a great time at Hartfield Lanes. We went for a charity fundraiser and had a blast. The drinks we had were of a higher caliber than other bowling alley drinks I have had. We wore busted up old bowling shoes and bowled with bright green bowling balls. Is it a little run down? Sure — but it’s a bowling alley for Pete’s sake. Who cares?! It was a fun night & we will be back the next time we want to bowl.
The attached bar (Hat Trick) has also proved to be fun. I’ve witnessed some highly entertaining karaōke there.

I have bowled here for the last several years with my kids on Sunday’s when you can bowl for 2 hours for $ 10.
Also bowled here 40 years ago when I was my kids ages. The scoring machines have changed (they were even automatic back then) but looks just the same.
There are composite or wood lanes upstairs.

Back in elementary and junior high, I used to come here. That stopped around 1970, as bowling’s appeal had worn off for me.
Some 40 years later, I’m often here on winter Sundays, helping run a bowling league for special-​needs kids.
Except for a few high-​definition TVs scattered here and there, I don’t think the place has changed one iota since my childhood. That’s either really good or really bad, depending on which prism you choose to look through.

This is pretty good bowling ally that is just getting old now and its starting to show its age. Other than that it gets the job done and the lanes always work when I go.

For the shameless (or shameful, depending on your perspective) experience at a divey bowling alley (let’s be honest here: is there really any other kind?) Hartfield is my venue of choice. This may have to do primarily with the fact that it’s only a mile from house, but it’s still the place I choose to infrequent when the bug to bowl bites.
‘Went there to bowl last night with some friends and had a special experience upstairs: we had the entire place to ourselves and bowled on two lanes, which really helped increase the flow of the games. We had a great time. I bowled worse than I ever have in my entire life. That’s not Hartfield’s fault, though I’d like to blame them. I blame Hacker-​Pschorr and also Kirkland’s $.50 beers. And I blame myself for not «just saying no.» So it goes. Alas!
I have been to Hartfield before when all of their lanes are occupied – this happens on days when they have the leagues, but this only happened to me once. For the most part, service is relatively prompt and now that there’s no smoking, you don’t leave smelling like an ashtray, which was always one of the major downers of bowling. ‘Beats the pants off Thunderbird in terms of price too.
Hartfield attracts a diverse crowd in all respects, including skill level. Yesterday, I was definitely at the far-​south extreme in the latter category. But the point is, no matter who you are or what you’re wearing or how terribly you suck at bowling, you’ll find yourself fitting in just fine and having a good time at Hartfield Lanes.

I came here for my friends birthday and they brought cupcakes and 13 people whole howled and bought beer and drinks. And we were forbidden to eat the birthday cupcakes. Bowling was 3 $ a game this night and cheap beer also 3 $. Multiply this by 13 plus people and they wouldn’t even allow us to celebrate a birthday… kinda lame hartfield lanes…
the DJ for karaōke was decent but seemed quite flustered by our medium sized group, but was very polite.

We’ve gone with friends to this bowling alley a few times for bowling and then karaōke in the bar.
When you walk in there are the lanes, the desk, snacks, bar, its all there. Then you go upstairs and there are what seems like a billion more lanes! I like a lighter ball, I prefer an 8 or 9 lb ball, which is a little harder to find here.
The bar has a karaōke night. The people running the karaōke are friendly and entertaining. The bar is tiny. There were times we were there with 6 – 8 people and we took up the whole table section of the bar. Overall this is a fun night out.

Many of my friends are suburbanites, so we met up here for one of our bowling outings. This bowling alley wasn’t too bad. It reminds me of Plum Hollow in Southfield, as far as layout, but this place also had an upstairs. There aren’t many lanes here, roughly 30 – 40, but its a good amount of space if you wanted to meet a few friends here. Upstairs there were more lanes and a bar area, which is where me and my friends hung out for most of the night. The staff was pretty cool, although the drinks could have been better. I suggest giving them a call to check out open bowl times and rates. When I went, I recall it being slightly more expensive than I liked.