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Academy Lanes

3.6 (17 reviews)
Open 9:00 am - 10:00 pm
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My first score after 4 consecutive gutter balls.  This got me 3 pins.
Tony U.

As I was once an avid bowler, I had to give candlepin bowling (a variation of the classic sport of bowling) a try. To secure a lane, you can pay by the hour in the glow bowling are (about $16/hour) or you can bowl at the regular area for $3.50 per string (1 single 10 frame game) on weekends. The place is a bit of an eye sore and old but the staff are friendly and helpful. Candlepin bowling is different from regular bowling in that the ball is half the diameter of a normal bowling ball (slightly bigger than a bocce ball). The ball weighs around 4-5 lbs and moves like a knuckleball and is very hard to control. The scoring is similar to bowling but you get three rolls per frame to get a spare. If you get a spare, you have two throws. I played three games and scored 45, 40 and 88. My first three rolls were gutter balls because I was overpowering the ball. The pins are also thinner than bowling pins and when you knock down the pins, they stay there as "dead wood" and can be used to hit pins on your subsequent roll. I didn't like how I had to reset my pins after every frame. Candlepin bowling is much more challenging than regular bowling. If you score 120, that's really good and if you score over 200 in a single string, you're a pro.

Sharon M.

Not many candle pin places left ...family owned and operated. Spoke to Ted, his father built this place and it's still running. Leagues and open bowling. Winter leagues will be starting. More lanes were added due to area ten pins having to close.

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5 months ago

Nice old-school candlepin bowling. Plenty of parking. Great bar food. What more do you need?

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Fun place. Candlepin great for the kiddos and the place is not unreasonably priced. My daughter loves going there.

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Went to a great party with great snacks , pizza, fries and chicken fingers, and a fun time bowling with automatic scoring!

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Fun and Games

4.0(60 reviews)
35.3 mi

We had an awesome time here for my school-aged kids' birthday. While we love coming here in…read moregeneral, the birthday party was particularly fabulous and the focus of this review. It's well organized and there is a small area and a large area right by the entrance, flanking the ticket redemption area, the drink counter, and the employee desk. Great location for it. There's two flatscreen TVs in the large area and one flatscreen TV in the small one. Ability to turn off/on lights. We were able to fit high 20's number of kids in the small party area. Service and coordination was particularly great. Megan was our lead person, and she provided excellent concierge service. We were frankly surprised how great she was and attentive. We just assumed we'd be in for some chaos but nope, guided us, paced us, and was very attentive. You bring your own drinks and cake, and they have pizza baked in house. The pizza is really good. Wow. Move over boring kid birthday pizza. They take the cake back for you and cut it up and serve it. They clean up. They help with pizza distribution. They wheel in and out the carts with gifts (and coats this time of year) into and out of the party area. So if you want to stay around longer after the party area reservation, you're welcome to and they've got multiple carts to keep your things. The distribution of some of the credits on cards before and after was great. And the A or B on the cards of the kids to divide up the laser tag was great. And our kid got to do both times since it was their birthday. The area and place/setting is fun. Lots of different types of games. Everything was working -- a rarity for an arcade. There's better or worse use of credits, of course, as there is everywhere. I loved the variety though. There were electronic games, claw games, multiplayer games, violent and non-violent, physical sport/skill games (basketball shooting, ski ball, drop ball), and both ticket earning and non-ticket earning games. The redemption area has a large variety of choices and they're displayed well to enable kids to make choices without long queues. The laser tag area is surprisingly large and very fun for the kids. It's gotta be 2-3x larger than the rest of the arcade. The price here was great. Lots of folks will seek outer suburbs of Boston for good prices but all in this was a steal compared to some other options. And the other families loved it. Kids were raving about it through the school week, and multiple people said they're going to bring their families back here again soon and many for birthday parties.

Is it just me or is the pizza here actually pretty amazing? i have only been here for birthday…read moreparties but I am realizing that the pizza here that is made in house is different from other places and for birthday party pizza it is way better than delivering it into wherever the venue is. It's rectangular and super thick and i didn't think much of it until my son wolfed down two slices so fast i was not believing. so I had one. and i tried another weird pie called CBLT or something and it looked scary drizzled with ranch but crazy good! I think im just going to make excuses to come here again to try the pizza...the arcade games are definitely not really for little kids but pretty fun for older kids and grownups but it's nice that even if you have teensy kid points you can still get decent toy prizes and candy.

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XtremeCraze - Londonderry

4.1(15 reviews)
14.8 mi

What can I say besides "wow!"…read more X-treme craze was a really cool place! Our family members recommended it for our son, and we're excited to take him on the bounce-house Nerf gun wars. I believe we visited on a Tuesday or Wednesday, whichever night it was they had a special an hour of Nerf wars for $20/pp. Our son had a great time in the HUGE (HUUUUUUUGE!!!) bounce area ( it is so big they have CCTV in the back for parents/non-participents to watch from the seating area). They also had a variety of games, which require a pre-paid card, but were all very reasonably priced (0.25 cents to $1.75). The pre-paid card also came with certain deals (load $10 receive $12 credit) and there were a variety of games for a variety of different skill-levels. They had the "play until you win" claw machine too, which is great for kids of all ages. The prize wall was expansive and the prizes were "priced" fairly. It ranged from a few points for candy to thousands of points for larger items. My son was able to get a stuffed animal for around 700 points, and he loves that thing. The area was clean, it was not crowded, parking was plentiful and staff was friendly and approachable. We really loved Xtreme craze.

This place is so fun to bring your kids. You could actually win arcade prizes that are decent not…read morethat much games but the jumpy is epic you could jump in there for like over five hours. The laser tag is epic too. It's still controls the people telling you what to do that were there so it's very organized Frozen lemonade delicious

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