Spare Time Manchester

Spare Time is just what you’d expect: Classic ten pin bowling at decent prices. This place basically hadn’t changed since I was a kid, and now it’s cool again, with the vintage rugs and retro wallpaper.
For the older set, there’s a bar. For the younger folks, a snack bar and an arcade complete wth air hockey. You have to fight for a ball the right size and weight, but isn’t that part of the adventure? Both serious bowlers and casual sporters can feel at home here.
PRO-​TIP: Monday nights after 9 are a flat $ 10 including shoe rentals — super good deal! You can even go watch poker and such in the bar if you need to kill some time before the special begins.

Good time. Waitress kept the beers coming. $ 17 all you can blow galactic bowling on Friday and Saturday makes it cheap. The bar attached was large and looked mostly full. Beer was cheap so makes sense. A friend and I got over ten string in before they closed. Happy with the overall experience.

I went bowling with my family for the first time in a long time. The woman at the front desk, Jess, was so incredibly rude to us. I have never been so disrespected as a mother and I would not recommend this bowling ally to anyone. Service was awful and when we asked for our money back, the woman was still so rude to us. As we walked away, Jess was laughing at us and it makes me question the management of this bowing ally. So much for customer service. Do yourself a favor and don’t go there. There is plenty of other bowling ally’s in NH.

First time going bowling in Manchester and I enjoyed Spare Time, good service, pretzels and nachos from the snack bar were pretty good. It’s nice they put your name in at the desk, she even put my screen handle (Bigg Chee) for me. The dude at the snack bar commented on my wrestling shirt and told me a few things around the town involving professional wrestling, very cool dude. The lanes are very easy to curve, shoes were comfy, plenty of options for bowling balls, good experience overall.

Holy sh*!. That woman who was referred to in an earlier review was still there AND WAS EFFING EEEEEE-​VIL. She snapped at kids, rolled her eyes at us, complained about hating her job in front of plenty of people. I am blown away at how much one person could be so miserable and ruin multiple people’s time. I don’t know if the teenagers working with her also hated their job but they were almost as crappy as she was. Perhaps because they work with her, or maybe because they learned from her.
I’m all about everyone has a bad day and I don’t review about service much, but everyone I spoke to felt she was out of line.
The bowling was great but the arcade was full of broken machines. Guy who ran the snack bar was hilarious and a great boss by the looks of it. Had me and his staff laughing.

The service here is awful. The woman working at the front desk was so unfriendly. When my fiancé politely asked if we could have bumpers up for our kids she literally rolled her eyes. A nice woman behind me asked if she could find something in the lost and found and the woman proceeded to whisper «I don’t know what the hell this woman wants» to another coworker. The woman was still standing right in front of her.
As we left the same woman could be overheard talking about difficult customers right at the front desk. This place was classless and trashy. The materials are in poor condition and the games are disgusting. The only redeeming quality are the wood lanes themselves. Never going back here.

The good: We’ve never had to wait for a lane here. The bad: seems expensive compared to other lanes. Also, the lanes are synthetic and just don’t roll right to me. Staff are pretty good (except for one waitress who just can’t get it together). Food is solid… Not fantastic, but not terrible either, reasonable for the price.
The attached bar attracts hair band fans. It’s Manchester. We still prefer this bowling alley to the newer one in Merrimack.

great times