AMF Waldorf Lanes

I hadn't been bowling in so long, and the last places I've bowled have been trendier (can bowling places be trendy?) like Lucky Strike at Verizon, or places with special night bowling with music. Well, AMF Waldorf wasn't any of that when I went. It's a regular bowling place that I was used to as a child.

The service is really good and friendly, the people watching is stellar...Most importantly, it was just nice to see a bunch of families out having fun, from grandparents to little cute kids. I was lucky enough to have two really sweet families on either side of my own. We chit chatted with one of them quite a bit, and the kids were very talkative. So cute.

Yesterday afternoon (Saturday), they had a special for up to 6 people to bowl for a specified amount of time, shoes, and pizza and soda for about $83. My older bro, the bowler in the family, said it was better to get that deal that paying for 7 of us in the normal way, so I went with that deal. It was super fun, we got service quickly when the bumper things (this is a technical term, people) wouldn't come up, and everyone had a great time. What did I learn? I gotta go bowling more often, especially with little kiddos.

It's a bowling alley. If you want to take the family out for a night of bowling it's great. If you're a league bowler, bowl the early league. The lanes are burnt up for the late league.

Have been coming to this place since I was in high school. It hasn't changed that much. It's relatively clean. The food is pretty decent and the prices are average I think. The video game machines tend to be not working alot of the time, but obviously we don't really come here for them.

I take advantage of the Kids Bowl Free summer program. Sign your kid up, they get to bowl 2 free games a day, you pay for shoes. I also buy the adult pass (good for 4 adults) each to bowl 2 games a day as well for $27.00. The passes are good from June 1st to Sept 1st (or somewhere during that time)

We try to go early as they have alot of daycare places who show up with BUS LOADS of small children who are loud. There's usually quite a few older people on leagues who gather and play too. (and they are VERY good players. puts me too shame with my under 100 score)  lol

This is the only game in town after Curleys closed down years ago (ahhhh, miss Curley's. It was duckpin bowling and the most run down place ever - but still great) *sigh*