Ron-A-Roll

Wayyyyy toooooo expensive and you can’t use credit cards, cash only. The service here is bad. Workers are mean. Don’t go here. Pretty annoying and rude.

I have been here lot’s of time and it’s an amazing place. It’s never to crowded and it was easy for me to get my skates every time. Ron-​A-​Roll has an amazing caring staff that makes sure to look out for their customers.
I wish Ron-​A-​Roll the best.

Great rink! Floor is wooden, the boards are uneven and buckled in a few places. It’s a bit slick compared to most other wood floors. Hartford Area Roller Derby who practices out of here is wonderful. Open skate is also a lot of fun, with modern music and fun lights. This rink offers skating lessons, artistic skating as well as speed skating. :)

This place doesnt deserve the time of day or your business. Insensitive, rude, disrespectful, and discriminating staff and mangement.
I wonder if managerment knows that their staff apologized to children all night over the mistreatment of their mom, a recent breast cancer survivor who was not allowed in because of their rules on head gear. This rule needs to be reviewed with sensitivity and intelligence.
I wonder if they would treat their mom, sister, aunt, friend in the same manner. I think offering someone who has spent the last year fighting for their health, a dirty flithy helmet to wear to watch her kids and their friends skate is disgraceful.
Go somewhere else… we as a people need to stand up when something is truely wrong and this is wrong,

«No hats» How can it be a safety issue? No explanation is given, no justification to discriminate. Maybe you have the unfortunate experience to have to support someone with cancer and watch the same happen to you. The people who made this rule should be wearing there own special needs helmet with a chin strap and face guard. Your mom would be disappointed in you for not «treating people the way you want to be treated». Enjoy your hardship running your business into the ground. Shame on you!

I came here with a group of kids from a camp and had a good time. They gave us a notecard with the rules of the place. One strange thing is you can’t have anything on your head. No head bands, no sunglasses, nothing. Just odd to me. But it doesn’t matter, we obliged. Some kids brought their own skates and others used skates from Ron-​A-​Roll. The snack bar had lots of choice and the kids loved being able to buy snacks. The arcade was small, but it was still fun for everyone. I thought it was air conditioned but it didn’t feel that way. Staff of Ron-​A-​Roll were all nice.

Roller skating is so much fun. I love coming here. The skating floor is excellent and sound system is okay. But the carpet needs to be changed, and some corners are very dusty. But I would recommend it to friends. My only other complaint would be cash only?!

Owner of this place is very nice and a great guy. I have been coming almost two years but the MUSIC needs to improve! My goodness! Too many slow songs, no music requests, old songs or non skate songs and there are even times you cannot hear the music because it’s not turned up! Now I know they know I love this place but it’s getting pretty ridiculous and I am not the only one who thinks this but the only one to say it. Hire me as a DJ and I bet my list will have this place rockin like never before! Sorry but as much as I love it here… I have to be honest.

I guess since I go to Ron-​a-​Roll once a week it’s time I write a review! For me roller skating has become very addicting and something I really enjoy doing with my little sister. It’s also a fantastic workout. We come so often that I just wish they had some sort of frequent patron deal card, but if you’re smart sometimes you can score a deal via certain websites or those little coupon books you get in the mail. They play pretty good, top 40 type music. The only reason I’m giving them a ⁴⁄₅ is that their rental skates are VERY old and gross. We bring our own. Definitely the biggest and best place to skate in CT!

Ron-​a-​Roll definitely fits into the «throwback» category as roller skating rinks are certainly more or less a thing of yesteryear. Sad that they have pretty much died out but truth is kids are too busy playing with their numerous gadgets to be bothered with physical activity.
Anyways, since I am not from Connecticut, I didn’t grow up going to Ron-​A-​Roll, but rollerskating was my all time favorite pastime. Heck, if I had a safe place to rollerskate now or lived in Miami, I would definitely still do it regularly.
Enter, Ron-​A-​Roll, which is easily walking distance from my house (and for those that don’t live so close, right off I-​84, exit 66). I had to check it out… so on the day before my 291^th birthday this winter, my sister and I stopped in. I had the time of my life! At times it was hard to skate at ease with little kids and inexperienced adults dropping left and right, but that is to be expected. I did find out there are different days that are adults only, kids only etc, so that was good to know for the future.
Even though the place could use some updating, I think part of it being stuck in a different decade adds to its overall charm. I would highly recommend checking it out!
I am definitely am interested in looking into roller derby in the near future thanks to my awesome experience here and realizing I still «have it in me».

1.) Just to warm you up:
If you are young, have young ones, or are feeling young… go to Ron-​A-​Roll. A place to let loose, skate and hear some loud, club volume level music.
2.) What your eyes may see:
Definitely has an old retro vibe. It doesn’t look like they updated much in here. You feel like you’re in the 1970’s.
3.) Prices:
They charge you an admission fee, and a skate fee. Fortunately, my daughter has her own skates. They allow you to bring in your own skates, but they do check them.
4.) Extra Info:
It was interesting to see the Roller Derby adult women hosting their events there. Tats? Yeah, they look pretty bad a**
5.) Impressions:
Another place for a kid to have fun.

We went here for my daughter’s 12^th birthday party, although we didn’t opt for a «party package» since she felt that was a little too «young» for her. We had a good time. For a Saturday night, it wasn’t too crowded, and our group of girls had plenty of room to move around the roller rink — and fall, repeatedly — without getting run over. The kids liked the Top 40 music selection and the fact that they could request songs. Service was fine. All in all, a fun experience, and a lot of the girls said they wanted to go back for their parties.

I was here on 7−21−11.
Yay I finally got a vacation! So where do you go mid-​day when you are with little ones? Ron-​A-​Roll.
The place feels like it’s in the middle of nowhere. Alas my sister was doing the driving so I basically wasn’t caring if we got lost coming here. I did like the idea of skating though.
The place is huge! Like any roller rink should be. It didn’t look bland at all. You could tell that alot of people frqeuent this place. The place is clean, & has everything you’d expect the typical roller rink to have. Huge skating rink, snack bar, skate rental booth, arcade games, tables, party rooms, etc.
The customer service is basically non-​exsistent though. The employees look like they honestly could care less of what concerns, needs, etc you might have. Family owned syndrome possibly?
Last but not least they’re expensive. I’ll just conclude by saying that you come here for the huge skating rink, & music. Not the customer service.