Bowl America Chantilly

I’ve been to this center several times and must say, it’s typically decent; but today I was blown away. I wasn’t even a part of the transaction and was offended. A fellow patron was ordering alcohol for his table and the attendant, Denise, quickly got an attitude, waving her hand and seeming agitated quite abruptly. He attempted to explain he’s ordered alcohol for his party before, but she quickly responded, «I don’t care» angrily. He then decided not to purchase anything, as did I. I didn’t want to deal with someone so rude and unprofessional. The center lost 2 sales in seconds.

One of their staff members was extremely rude, as in should be fired. Otherwise it was a typical bowling experience.

Truly an awful experience. The wait staff was rude and incredibly slow. They have this ridiculous rule that limits your group to three pitchers of beer. We had a group of six, that consisted of four men and two girls. Not enough beer to go around let alone allow you to have a good time. Also, cosmic bowling was a joke and not worth the additional cost. Wouldn’t recommend this location to anyone.

This time around they did better, holiday spirit? Came the Tuesday before x-​mas because AMF Centreville was overcrowded. Although seemed to be in a rush to get through with us, they did manage to accommodate 2 lanes for my group of 12.

Went for my daughter’s Girl Scout event. It was a Sunday afternoon, so only one other group bowling. The staff was friendly and helpful. They have lots of kids’ sized shoes to rent and lighter bowling balls.
Typical snack bar with pizza, burgers and beer. Small arcade with maybe 5 video game consoles, 2 of which were broken.

Not the fanciest place, but what bowling alley is? (Please no one message me any actual bougie bowling alleys LOL).
Located a few minutes from my church, we had an event there where we reserved like 6 – 8 lanes. Sure the place could definitely use some renovation and update their bowling computer system, but the lanes worked pretty well without malfunctioning and they had a variety of bowling balls that tailored to everyone’s strength level. The workers were also very accommodating and informed us of the special they were having.
The place is pretty big– we were able to get three games in given our big group, without taking away from the masses. Overall had a great time with great company!

We went as a large group with advanced reservation. We asked for a couple of extra lanes that were unused but the manager refused to let us use the lanes. They let us all have the shoes knowing well that we don’t have enough lanes, so we ended up paying for shoes we didn’t use.
When the bill came we were overcharged and when we asked them to explain the bill they said its computer generated. It was obviously inflated because we tracked the games played. When we asked them to explain they threatened to call the cops.
Very unethical manager and counter lady. They cheat people and pocket the money personally. Whoever owns this place should watch out.
Strongly discourage anyone with family groups from this place, there are a lot better bowling places in Fairfax and Loudoun.

Went here to celebrate nephew’s birthday. It was last minute decision to go bowling and this place was the only one in the area not on a wait list. Now I know why. They were extremely short staffed, especially at the food counter. There was one lady doing everything by herself. I initially felt bad for her having to run around so much, but she was just plain rude even when not busy.

I’ve come here quite a few times for Monday night all-​you-​can bowl, which is definitely a good deal. However, other than that, this place lacks a lot. The system often glitches (screen freezes, number of pins knocked down calculated incorrectly, the machine that resets the pins freezes etc), and it’s also really hard to get the people working here to fix it. We have to chase them down many times. So it’s definitely not a great bowling place, but if you’re looking to play casually and at a cheap price, then it’s not bad. I’m not a hardcore bowler or looking for drinks and lights and great service here, so I don’t mind just coming to bowl without it being fancy. That being said, I do which the people who worked here were more responsive to when things do happen.

It’s a bowling alley. Which is exactly what we wanted. I had a 4 and 8 year old with me so it was nice for it not to be like a club with loud music and strobe lights. Just a bowling alley… Nothing fancy which is how it should be.

Go to another bowling place! They didn’t let us finish our game and gave no warning they were stopping all games. The employees are rude too. We also ordered food and didn’t receive everything we paid for.

A very arrogant manager with an equally lethargic staff. Not a place to take your family out especially in the night. We had a couple of people coming to blows but no security showed up, the asst manager that night was James whos cheated us in paying more. Will not go there again

Never busy! And there are reasons why.
For me — it’s the fact that the lanes are always sticky. Nothing like almost face planting when trying to bowl. Tried 3 pairs of shoes and had the same results.

So being that we were at CubRun Rec, we decided to have a play date here, never again. 8 adults and 4 kids were in our party. We got two lanes, and since our children are all 3, we knew we needed a ramp. We requested one when we arrived, but a gigantic (30 kids plus) birthday party was going on and they took all 5 of the ramps.
I also had been to alleys where the bumpers were automatic based on the player, but here the ramps are manual, meaning they are up all the time or down all the time.
When we inquired at the desk about a ramp, and we were told to ask the person who was running the party could we borrow a ramp, it took us an hour to get through three frames, hence the need. I went and explained to her that we had four 3 year olds and could really use a ram, but alas she was was not helpful. Hey I get it, it’s your kids party, but all the kids in your party are eating lunch and are 8 to 10 years old.
Anywho, back to our party I went. About 30 minutes later a gentleman from the alley is walking by and we asked him of he would go get us a ramp from the party. The lady relented and he came back with a ramp, :choirs of angels, at this point we were in frame 5.
Once the kids were good with the ramp, we were done and they ready in 20 minutes.
Morale of the story, do not go here if you have little kids. No ramps, crappy service, and semi helpful staff.

No smoking allowed at this bowling facility. Great! Costs 2.99 during day and around 5.35 in the evening.

If you’re planning a family activity or kid-​friendly activity, this is not the place. Our church youth group had an event there on a Saturday afternoon, but the owners put no effort in making sure that lighter balls were available for children. There were no gutter blockers. 99% of the balls were size 12 and heavier. There were one or two slides to guide the balls to be shared among more than 60 kids.
We are not going back to this place again for sure! What a waste of time and money!
If I could give zero stars, I would, but Unilocal requires a min of one star.

Went on a Sunday night where it is $ 9.99 for unlimited bowling plus $ 4 for shoes. I’m not big on bowling so I decided to go because my friends were going. After waiting in a 20 person line to get our shoes, it was time to start. It was kind of lame because the bartender was very rude and impolite. I asked for a liquor drink and she said those were only for «league members» and she was going to start packing up. Then I tried to order nachos and instead of saying they were out, she just pointed to the empty box. Then they limited the number of pitchers we could buy, so that we would have to pay for more expensive single drafts afterwards. Lame place, not stocked. and the «unlimited» bowling ends at 1230 so after waiting in the long line, I only got to play three games which means I saved only a mere $ 2. BLEH! GET A NEW BARTENDER AND KEEP THINGS IN STOCK! OH, and instead of bringing our food to the table she just yelled at us from far away to pick it up… glad i tipped that dumb bartender. (NOT!). Don’t think I will be going back there…

Great place to bowl. The staff are unfriendly white trash and the beverages are horrible. The crowd is a bunch of teenagers. It’s the nicest bowling alley around us.

When I entered the bowling alley, I was immediately greeted by a pudgy little kid who began rambling on and on about the ambulance parked outside. He was talking so fast that even he couldn’t keep up with himself. The bowling alley was fairly quiet for a Friday night (apparently bowling isn’t the thing to do). The service was decent and the beer drinkable. Being from California, I’m not quite used to the smell of smoke in indoor establishments, but it could have been worse.