AMF Windsor Lanes

The restaurant here sucks so bad.
Over done fried pickles, Cold nachos, soggy sandwiches. The cook and the girls behind the counter should be fired or retrained.
I won’t go into detail but I will say it would be 1 star if the front of the house bowling service wasn’t so great.
Fix your kitchen.
I Tried to bowl again on Feb 25^th at 6pm. All the lanes were reserved (40 lanes) for teams. Apparently this happens a lot. The people at the front do not give two fucks that people drive here to play and they have no lanes open for walk-​ins. Never going back.

Came in around 700pm Sunday night. Place was starting to get busy. Dipshit at the front counter wouldn’t let us have two lanes side beside b/​c they already cleaned them. Had to get the manager involved and once she realized we were spending big money she obliged. There is also a guy with pink hair working the bar who is an ass. Won’t come here again.

Dont ever never come here, the lane broke down 5 times during two games. They dont even want to fix it when you are in the second game, so you can leave early.

Starting bowling here in a summer league, first for me. The bowling alley is really well kept, bathrooms clean and staff pleasant. The food that I’ve tried was actually pretty good, pizza, beer, popcorn, nachos…
Now why not a five star? Staff. Or lack thereof. They had one in the snack bar and one up front but when everyone shows up to check in for the league that just isn’t enough. I’ll keep updating the review in hopes this improve but until then, give’em a try.

It really seems too soon for an update, but I’ve gone in too deep, guys. Something happened and now I have my own balls, shoes, and bag. But in bowling more often, I have a few more things to say about this place!
I’ve been here at least 8 times in the past two weeks. Why? Well, I really like bowling. But they also currently have a summer pass (starting May 18, ending September 7) that costs round about $ 26 (which includes the price of shoes if you need them) that gives you 3 games a day (Monday-​Friday open-​8pm, Saturday/​Sunday open-​4pm). So really, it’s super easy to get your money’s worth. It’s a good deal for the boyfriend and I because there are just days we might be tight on money, but… hey, as long as we have the gas for the short distance to AMF we at least can bowl three games to practice and pass the time. I mentioned in my previous review there’s daily specials and those are on their site, so go there to look at ‘em.
NOW. The service is pretty good all in all. Everyone has been real nice and I think we’ve built a rapport with a couple of the guys. Do we go too much??? Ah well. Even when an employee first encountered the summer fun pass, they didn’t seem frustrated or put out at all when they couldn’t figure out how to make it correct in the system. They apologized, told us they would go get their manager, and did so in a timely manner. Now that they’ve all gotten used to it, it’s a smooth one minute interaction and off to bowling we go.
Jim who runs the bowling shop in the alley is a super nice guy. He’s been in the bowling biz for 40 years or so and has plenty of knowledge that’s accessible to newbie folk like me. My boyfriend and I bought our balls from him and we also got our bags and shoes there. He’s really good about drilling the balls and genuinely wants to make sure that they’re perfectly comfortable. Good fella!

They’ve remodeled the place… so using the scoring is easier. But in doing so, they took out the tables by the scoring — which were more for convenience than anything else. They also took out the jukebox, so you have to listen to whatever they play which is a mix of country, hip hop and rock.
The food from the snack bar is actually pretty good… we’ve always had fun here so get your game on!

Need more counter help. Only one guy on a packed Saturday night. It took us 20 minutes to get service.
Short of shoe sizes. Had to take a half size larger.
Prices. Yow. Two games. $ 13.

AMF Windsor Lanes provided a good night’s entertainment during the post Thanksgiving Holiday. The lanes were busy but not too hectic. There was a bit of a longer wait to pay and rent shoes. But I was able to rent shoes and bowl unlimited games for $ 13 ! The lanes were clean and functional. Scores were accurately tracked by the computer.
Pitchers of beer can be purchase if of legal age. I was even ID’d to pick up a beer cup. We bowled the night away without a hitch.

I usually bowl every weekend and come here about 4x per month unless I’m bowling at another alley. It’s location isn’t the most convenient for me as I live further east towards the center of the city but it’s the closest alley. One great thing that this alley has is a $ 12 all you can bowl for 2 hours which is a great deal. This alley is a lot busier than you’d think for a 40 lane venue. One thing that’s a negative about this place is that it’s very understaffed. If I’m lucky, there’s one person working the front desk and one person at the snack bar. I’ve seen times when there’s is only one employee that is running back and forth between the front desk and the snack bar. I’ve waited 10 minutes at the snack bar before someone finally noticed me. The food is ok but overpriced. WARNING: These lanes are very oily so your all will not spin much. Granted, I have a plastic ball so it doesn’t hook much anyway but I bowled with my cousin last weekend and he bowls two handed with tons if revs and his ball couldn’t get around to the pocket a lot of the time. Overall, this is a good bowling alley and you get what you pay but I recommend you eat somewhere else before you bowl here.

I’m not too fond of writing reviews and more of a lurker type on Unilocal unless something really stands out. This place stands out, for all the wrong reasons .
We came here on a Sunday at 1700 for the all the wrong reasons.
There’s forty lanes at Windsor. About ten were occupied and when we walked in, not a single employee was at the front desk. The two working it were outside smoking it turned out .
Next the «unlimited» pizza comes slice by slice, not by full pizza even though we had a group of five. And each slice took about 30+ minutes to arrive. With about twenty customers here, I can’t imagine why. They’re completely rude when we ask about ordering a slice a little early to compensate for the slowness. I don’t think I saw the employees smile once, unless they were off talking with each other .
Because so many lanes were open, we asked if they could open up the lane next to us so we weren’t just sitting there pizza less and bored for an hour per game. They told us they couldn’t do it because the system would tell them that there were more paying customers present than just us. Yeah, no.
Super rude staff and unkept lanes. I’d literally drive an extra thirty minutes to never come near this place again. Stay away.

Bowling was good, but everything else was terrible! The worst service I have received anywhere in years :/​When we first arrived we were told by Nikki they didn’t have two lanes together, and it would be about a 10 – 15 min wait. We were totally forgotten until 20 mins later I went back up to to the desk and asked why the people just walking in we’re getting lanes! I was furious — absolutely unacceptable. But it got worse because the food & drink service was so slow we had to take turns and relay to stand in line to get our food and drinks ordered and not miss our turns to bowl — every single time! Don’t waste your time or money — go somewhere else.

Went here last week with a group of 10+ people. Finally answered my wife’s question about the sings that say you can bowl all day for one flat fee.
The price was $ 10 and included shoes. My wife was annoyed they didn’t have anything smaller than a child’s 8 or 11. Whatever it was it wasn’t small enough for our 2 yr old daughter. Honestly wasn’t that big a deal to me since my daughter had to be held and helped to push a ball down the ramps they provide.
The place was way more busy than I expected. To be honest, the place could have used a bit more cleanliness. It took probably a good 30−45mins before someone came by to clean up some of the surrounding messes.
They could probably use a little more enforcement of safety rules as well, unless I’m mistaken. I’m used to the rules stating that food/​drinks stay OFF the lanes and on the counters behind the bowling lanes. While there, a group of 20−30yr olds left probably 6 glass beer bottles under and around their seats by the lanes which I had to stop my 2 yr old daughter from playing with.
We also had an altercation with a very rude family who allowed their young child to run around dump a cup of liquid all over our belongings. The issue arose when they didn’t say anything to us, choosing instead to pretend it didn’t happen. Then when they overheard one of our party letting everyone know she saw their kid dump a drink and realized our shoes/​purses/​phones were potentially wet, they chose to pitch a holier than thou fit and start name calling, trash talking, and making threatening gestures.
My wife immediately notified the employees who grabbed their managers and quickly came to our aid to ensure nothing got out of hand. The scene was fairly loud, but the family was ushered out and the staff apologized repeatedly to us. Prior to the other family leaving the manager offered to move us if we felt our children were in danger.
Overall we were pleased with the reaction of the management and staff. After the irresponsible and rude family left we noticed a handful of margaritas and other mixed drinks left where they had been sitting. I suppose for this reason I would say this isn’t really a «family friendly» establishment since they serve alcohol freely which lead to a potentially hazardous situation where we had 3 kids under 9 and they also had at least 3 kids being supervised by drunken idiots who cannot behave like responsible adults.
On a side note: the food wasn’t that great and I didn’t catch the prices. Cheese sticks were good though, and my wife liked the chicken wings. I did not care for the nachos.