Recreation Lanes Restaurant & Lounge

This place is now called Gearhart Bowl. We took kids there on a Thursday afternoon. Very reasonable at $ 3.50 per game per person, and Thursday is ladies day so it’s buy one get one free. Three dollars for shoe rental. The place has recently been remodeled and is really nice. Fultano’s pizza is there and it’s great. Much better than your typical bowling alley food. We had a great time!

This place was a blast for the whole family!
it’s very nicely remodeled (we never had been here before, but it’s beautiful now). Nice long, comfortable cushioned benches to sit on while bowling.
The bumpers only come up for bowlers you assign them to — perfect for kids, without impeding on the adult bowlers in a group.
The pizza was VERY good — go Fultanos! We also had hot wings and nachos. I prefer cheese sauce to shredded on my nachos but they were still good. Service was great, friendly. Prices are affordable — we had a Groupon as well which made it even better!
We would definitely go back on our next stay in Seaside.

We are on a family vacation staying in Gearhart for about a week. We passed this bowling alley several times and then out of town during our stay. On the last day we decided to take the family bowling. It was a very very very good experience.
The staff was very friendly and the food was excellent. Their pizza had a crispy crust cut its wasn’t thin or over cooked. We enjoyed the bowling as well. It helped that we were the only people bowling but there are several other people eating and enjoying themselves.
I’d recommend for everyone in and around the Oregon coast.

The service was excellent. I ordered the boneless chicken wings with the cranberry bbq sauce and they were just the right spice for me. My husband made up his own pizza. THe server seemed to go out of his way to make sure we were happy.
I would recommend this for large groups and families with kids. There is a game areA and of course a bowling alley. I noticed a small walled off area for adult gambling machines. They also had a nice bar. I thought this would be perfect place to have a drink and chat while the kids go bowling.

We live nearby but don’t come in often. We tried happy hour tonight. The staff was friendly and efficient. The food choices were good. The wine is ok. I was frustrated because I was charged regular price for wine even though my last glass was ordered fifteen minutes before it ended. The bartender was apologetic and pulled a dollar out of the tip jar but that wasn’t the point. I like to count on the staff to charge menu prices without my having to check on them.

This place is lightyears beyond the stagnant abyss of Lower Columbia Bowl. The renovation came out great and the staff actually acts like normal human beings, as opposed to that awkward creature-​of-​the-​night that runs the show at LCB. If you prefer to bowl in a clean, organized environment, this is well worth the drive from Astoria.

The bowling alley has been closed for about six months and is undergoing a major renovation. We here in Seaside are really looking forward to seeing it open again. Looks like they have really improved the food and beverage areas and the bowling lanes are completely new. Should be a great asset to the Gearhart/​Seaside area.
My understanding is that they will be open before July 4.
I gave this a rating of four stars because Unilocal would not let me post until I gave it a rating
Obviously I don’t know how the new digs will turn out but I certainly hope they are up to a four star rating

A week in Seaside is relaxing, but sometimes you need something to break up the monotony of the beach – especially when the weather isn’t cooperating. And for us, bowling is just the thing. We’ve gone to this bowling alley (do they still call it that?) for a couple of years. Yes, it’s run-​down, and not a place where a tournament would be held. But it’s completely adequate for a family outing. We went on a Wednesday, unaware of their Wednesday deal: 4 games for $ 8 per person including shoe rental. What a deal! For most of the time, we were the only group, but the workers were always available to help with the sticky resets (only a few, considering 5 of us bowled 4 games).

**This is a mixed review that covers the facility, as well as their food and drinks.**
I will be the first to admit that ten pin bowling isn’t my thing. Being from rural Ireland where road bowling is all the rage and ten pin is a more recent attraction, I was never really exposed to this popular pastime. I had been to two other bowling centres in my life (one in Las Vegas and one in Orange County California) with both of them being very state of the art, somewhat posh, exciting, and fun. Ironically, I had only been an observer at these places and had never held a ball. Knocking down imaginary pins in my throat with the nectar of the gods was sport enough for me on those visits.
Last night, we attended a small company gathering held at Recreation Lanes. My lovely lass has bowled in her past and much like riding a bicycle, had sufficient muscle memory to kick arse and stay above water. I lost my bowling virginity with much of it left sobbing in the gutter, but had a grand time with my now famous «Irish Side Arm». I got a few strikes, spares, and showed much grace by not knocking down anything at all. Fun times with nice folks. Being an arm chair sociocultural anthropologist, I noticed that the true mission of coming here is to (for adults) get intoxicated, socialize, laugh at yourself and others, and be covertly competitive. For the youth, it seems to be the place to watch your elders get intoxicated, wish you could try it publicly, giggle, impress the opposite gender, and dance about to crap music.
The building itself is old and could use many updates. Like a lot of businesses in Clatsop County, it has seen better days and is just trying to stay afloat in these tough economic times. It is clean and run by nice folks (the lass that was assisting with shoes was very cordial, sweet, and always smiling). Word from the bowlers that we talked to all agreed that this place was better than the Astoria bowling centre, but in the grand scheme of things, was far from being decent. Lanes needed work, some balls were in need of a junk yard (mis-​drilled holes, jagged holes, chips out of them, etc.), and the entire place was stuck in the early 80’s.
I will give them credit for Rock N Bowl night, they did keep the music volume down (thankfully, because most of it sucked — how many songs does Lady Gaga have for Christ’s sake??). The bang for the buck just wasn’t there, as a multi-​coloured light, a weak IPOD mix, and an old pool table with adjacent arcade does not a party make. If it wasn’t for being there with mates, I would have been bored out of my mind. Just a very uninspired scene like you would see parodied in a Coen Brother’s Film.
Easily some of the worst pizza we have ever had (this was echoed by many around us as well). Best served in dim light. Imagine if Chuck E Cheese & Little Caesar had an illegitimate love child… It is obvious that they make their main profit from drink sales, as fountain drinks were very overpriced with no refills. They made us fresh brewed iced tea that was easily the worst tea that we have ever tasted. Even that powdered Lipton crap is better flavoured. This was not even recognizable as tea in flavour; just bitter, and disgusting. After hearing a few of the other lads lamenting their $ 9 shots from the bar, we didn’t even venture in.
So if you must… go for the company and maybe a game of ten pin. Skip the food and be sure to refinance prior to your visit to pay your bar tab. I am not privy to their books, but judging from all of the drunks on site, the amount of people, what they charge for everything, and the obvious lack of upgrading… the money is going somewhere… obviously not back into business improvements, nor food service quality. Sadly with a business model like that, if they ever did remodel and spruce the place up, one would see an immediate spike in all of the prices. It is a very sad state of affairs that so many consumers are so ignorant that they will continue to patronize a place that uses them to that degree. Notice how so many places on the Oregon Coast are kept alive by their bars, lottery machines, and the local drunks? Crowded parking lots at every Chinese place in town, but suck food at all of them? We for one (actually two) won’t be going back to be a co-​dependent cog in their machine.

You’re on the Oregon Coast with the kids and it’s cold and raining.
Like that never happens.
Through the new Wii, my young daughter has come to love virtual bowling. It was an easy sell this week at the beach to suggest doing the real thing. Recreation Lanes is right on Hwy 101 just north of the Gearhart intersection and only minutes north of Seaside.
There are 12 lanes, reasonably well maintained. The guy running it on the Tuesday afternoon we visited was great — making sure we got the right size shoes, offering to put the bumpers up for our daughter. When he saw her struggling with a 6-​pound ball, he brought us a special pink 4-​pound ball she could throw properly. The only caution was that bowling lane returns are not designed to send back a ball that light, so we had to keep following with heavier balls.
There’s basic food and beverages available, including microbrews on tap. It was a great, low-​key, low-​cost place to spend a few family hours together on a rainy day.