Hardwood Palace is a basketball center for youth league basketball. Now I DO NOT like giving bad reviews to a place that's trying pretty hard, so here is my honest review. PROS * Staff is REALLY friendly. You may even run into Harold Pressley (former Kings player) on some game nights. * Snack bar has some good food for a decent price. CONS * Let's start with the elephant in the room. Parking. Parking on game nights is a NIGHTMARE. First off, Hardwood Palace, shares a court in an industrial complex with another basketball facility and SkyZone trampoline center. Traffic on Friday nights has been as bad as it's taken almost 20 min to get down the short Tinker Rd. that has no alternative exit that connects it to the main drag. I've spent at least 20 min trying to get out when the game is over. * Refs. The refs are pretty much like any sport and always considered a con. Some nights they're good, but most, REALLY bad. For the league nights, the games are nothing but a ball-grab, jump ball fest. * Door Charges. On tournament/all-star game nights, they charge non-coaches and non-players to get in. They already charge a lot of money for these kids to play in this league, just seems like an unnecessary cash grab. * Schedule for games. Having a starting game time before or at 5pm is ridiculous for any working class individual's whose children play in the league. While I am glad they are around and that my kids love playing for the league is the reason they are getting a soft 3 stars from me. read more

Place is a complete dump. Take your money elsewhere. The other low rating reviews are 100% accurate. If you enjoy mold, dangling ceiling insulation, a beyond broken air conditioning, trash everywhere, a cluster of a parking lot, then this place is for you!!!!! Throw your 250$ towards buying hoops for your neighborhood and give the kids a better experience. Flea Market Palace is embarrassing. read more

This place is so disgusting, and hot as heck!!! Take your own water, cooling rags and a fan. First they charge $15 pp, no air conditioning. They have 2 buildings next to each other. One has several courts and the other had 3. They had 2 little fans. It's was unbearable to be in there as a spectator, the poor players. There were parents standing in front of the fans so the kids were getting no air flow. There was trash everywhere. Candy on the floor. Players were in their basketball shoes stepping on gummy worms. The bathrooms were absolutely nasty!! Full toilets with seat covers hanging off, old toilet paper on the floor. Gross. The staff are rude as heck. We played a game in one building and had another game in the other building right after. The refs were mad we were late, but that's the organizers fault for scheduling games in different buildings and then not having games start on time. The only good thing about this place is the parking. read more

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They have a good amount of parking. We had to pay when we got into the building. We came for basketball games, but have been here before for soccer. It's a nice facility. They have a snack bar and the bathrooms were clean. read more

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This place is garbage. Staff is rude as f**k. Old lady with sagging boobs working the front counter has no class. Barks at people like they should be grateful they're allowing us in. WAAAAY OVER PRICED. Worst Air conditioning, food is garbage and the toilets are always overflowing with diarrhea. The place is a disgusting hellscape smells like mold and attracts the worst kind of people to work there. Utter trash. read more

We came her for my 3rd grader's AAU basketball tournament. The place is spacious with 8 courts and ample bench seating. The climate was well controlled and felt on the cooler side. read more

Hardwood Palace - Sports Clubs Near Me - Rocklin, California

Parking, ingress and egress and is ATTROCIUS at best. Most youth (8th grade and lower) coaching is HORRIBLE, with no skills development, practice planning or equitable play distribution. Officiating is grossly inconsistent and rules greatly vary between games and who is officiating, causing extreme confusion and discourse. The facilities, including bathrooms, score boards and seating are subpar! It is extremely unfortunate that the local grade schools do not field sports teams and you are left with this being your only one of two options, the other being next door, which has its own issues. After 3 seasons of hoping for a change, we will no longer patronize this poorly run or maintained business. We will travel out of the area to give our child the opportunity to learn and play the game they love. Would give zero stars if possible. read more

What's the point of peeing in their toilets when their bathroom is a big toilet. The floors are filthy and probably never mopped. The bins are full and the smell of dried urine can be smelled outside the bathroom doors. I'm not talking about the men's restroom, the women's! Half the stalls are also broken. I can't imagine how clean the kitchen is so i wouldn't recommend eating here either. read more

Great location--and easy on/off freeway access. my son likes the courts, says they're not too noisy when the referees blow their whistles. Great place! read more

Hardwood scammed our team - not trustworthy! They changed the tournament schedule at 8:00 am the day of the tournament and did not notify the teams or coaches of the change. Our opponents did not show up for the 10:00 am game because the game was originally scheduled for noon. They made us wait around for 3 hours and promised us a game in the afternoon. When the time came, they said they double booked the court, and we could not play. Our tournament fees were wasted, in addition to the $25 entry fee for each parent and fan. No accommodation was made by the facility and no apology. I'm very disappointed in this operator. They are either incredibly mismanaged, or they are deliberately scamming people. read more

Went there last week and was not as bad, but do bring a towel or blanket as their bleachers are torn up and covered with tape that is crinkled up and coming off. Sat down not realizing how bad it was. Upon getting up the tape stuck to my pants and ruined them. read more

How do you have a tournament with hundreds of athletes and parents in attendance, charge 15 dollars to enter, yet have no functioning drinking fountain or facilities to fill a water bottle... but charge $4.00 for water?? btw.. its 100 plus degrees outside. Water should not be monetized like that. These are children athletes. read more

I am deeply disappointed with the customer service we received. The staff member we dealt with should not be the face of the establishment. She was condescending, rude, and completely unprofessional. To make matters worse, she berated our children, which was not only uncalled for but downright unacceptable. Instead of making us feel welcome, she made the entire experience unpleasant. No one deserves to be spoken to in such a disrespectful manner. I highly recommend the management address this behavior, as it reflects poorly on the entire establishment. Until changes are made, I cannot recommend this place to others. The owner was called and he was a nice person named Steve. He said he's going to work with her. I'm hoping he takes this review into account and gets her some customer service training or moves her to another duty away from the front. read more

We really enjoy this place My son has had a lot of great experiences playing basketball with his friends. Grant , the coordinator for youth basketball goes above and beyond to help out with questions really appreciate his patience and help with youth basketball. Highly recommend Hardwood Palace and Grant . Thank you so much. read more

A lot of action for youth basketball! The refs are good! The courts are clean. Staff was quick getting everyone in. They are organized.

I'll start by saying it's a busy sports complex with lots happening. Refs are great. Courts are nice. It's $15 per person entrance fee. They seemingly dont have AC or aren't turning it on. Spectators are sweating in their seat and they're not running on the courts. The kids are swearing their faces off. It also lacks ventilation...a bunch of hot sweaty people crammed into a hot building = stinky. I left feeling sticky and it was more fresh outside even though it was 80+ outside. Turn on the AC please. read more

No problems with the staff. All of the staff members have been normal when ever I've gone. The entry fee is pretty high in my opinion. I think it was like $12 for adults. Bring some back support, there's only bleacher type seating. Sometimes you may find a random chair in there. The snack bar closes before all of the games are over. So if you have a late game, you better go to the snack bar first. And sometimes the lights at the snack bar will be off, and the "closed" sign up, but they will still be open. Not sure why that is, but it's very confusing. The bathrooms have been clean and stocked when ever I have gone, so that's good. The air conditioner seems to never work. It's so hot in there. I know I've said a lot of negative things about this place, but I gave it 3 stars because as far as the actual reason we are there (to watch our son play), I don't have any problems. The courts are nice, the hoops/nets are good, and the games are on schedule. read more

Pricey spectator entrance fee. Obnoxiously rude staff that did not give you the time of day when asking a question. Will not be returning!

I think this place is great to have these boys & girls compete in basketball. Glad to pay the entrance fee of $12 per person but my only issue is that the bathroom were not well supplied. Some stalls don't have toilet paper, some don't have toilet cover & no paper towels. This was at 10am. There were already players playing & friends & families watching. When I mentioned it to the front desk they were aware but waiting for the janitor. Well I think if you know then you should already try yo supply the bathroom & not wait for the janitor. The bathrooms should have been ready to go first thing in the morning before everyone comes in. Otherwise it's fine. read more

HORRIBLE! Do NOT let your child play sports here! They had a "coach" that knew absolutely NOTHING about basketball and even admitted it to the boys. The "coach" yelled at the boys, had his 12 year old son "assistant coaching" the 16 and 17 year old boys on the team. Never a good idea to have a 12 year old coaching 16 and 17 year old boys. Esp. when several dads volunteered to help coach and were told he didn't need their help. The last game of the season, "coach" put in his 12 year old son to play the game, while benching his own team players...UNBELIEVABLE! This is NOT ok and rude to the actual boys on the team. When it was brought to the youth league director, Grant, all he said was "ok". The youth today need positive role models, and they definitely are not getting it here. Do yourself and your child a favor and go somewhere else to play youth sports. read more

Be aware, no covid19 prevention in place nor enforce. Even the sign on the door says "Consider wearing a mask" a group of 8 people chatting with others without wearing a mask, even handshaking going on with players of the other team to congratulate read more

Hardwood Palace - Sports Clubs Near Me - Rocklin, California

$20 today! just to watch 2 games for my 10 year old! They said it's whomever runs the tournament. Wow! It's usually $12 which I believe to be pricey also! Holliday weekend! Price gouging at its finest! Glad I didn't bring anyone with me. How sad! Do better hardwood palace. Think of the families read more

It's a nice place to expose your kids to the game. I would say that each person's experience may vary depending on the coach. We have had good experiences with my son's two seasons and my daughter's first (and last based on her dislike of basketball which is no fault of the facility or coach). The parking lot is a mad house on game days with too few spots. I have seen people parked all the way down Tinker near Industrial Ave. There is no air conditioning; they use huge "swamp coolers" so on hot days it's uncomfortable just sitting inside, not to mention for the players. I read reviews that mentioned their cars were broken into in the parking lot. I never saw anything like that. read more

Normally this place is normally good, but we just paid an awful lot of money to compete there and they can't fix the AC?! There are kids throwing up because of the heat... irresponsible ownership! read more

My son practices and plays basketball here quite a bit throughout the week, so I spend some time here. The facility is relatively clean considering how many people go in and out on a daily basis. There's also plenty of space for parents, guests or spectators to either stand or sIt. There's also an upstairs area where you can watch the games from. The restrooms are large, but when it gets busy, the facility doesn't refill the paper towels or toilet paper fast enough. They have a large concession area and multiple vending machines, so if you get thirsty, hungry or forget the water bottle at home, you have options. I like hardwood because they have a lot of courts in facility to accommodate many games and teams at one time. The only negative is the parking, but parking is an issue at most youth athletic facilities. read more

Hardwood Palace - Sports Clubs Near Me - Rocklin, California

Their chocolate muffins after a game hit different! I love it here I been hooping here since 3 yrs old I love it

This place is awful. Obviously a money grab without being at all instructional. The facilities are disgusting and leak while it rains. With getting in and out, how is having one road in and out for all these businesses in accordance with city codes is beyond me. It can 20-30min just to leave. This place is an absolute nightmare in every way. Leagues are not organized and with kids, an hour with full court for 30min. I've been sitting waiting stuck in traffics to leave for well over 30 min. I loathe this place and will never sign my kid up ever again. The same type of business next door is just as bad if not worse. read more

3 years since I last reviewed and this place and it's become worse. The entrance fee has gone up and it's Dirtier, smellier, and the front desk employees are very rude, especially the older lady. This dump needs to be bulldozed. read more

Making families pay 10 dollars per person is ridiculous! 10 dollars for my 9 year old daughter to walk into a facility where she cannot use the restroom, and where she is only there to watch her brother - is just greedy. The facility is dirty and the front desk lady is super super rude. If there were other places to go...we would choose not to attend these tournaments. read more

Great place for the kids to play quality competition in the Roseville/SAC area. We are from the east and this is one of the best facilities we have seen for weekend tournaments (the only nicer one I have ever been to was in Lexington, KY). The seats are padded, which I appreciate when you are there for an 8 hour day and they have a full-service snack bar that serves protein shakes (something else I appreciate. Yes the bathrooms sometimes run out of paper-towels but when you have hundreds of people it happens, and they do restock often as I see them doing it. I have never found the bathrooms to be filthy as a matter of fact they are always very clean. The only thing I feel sometimes that could be different is the admission price is a tad steep 10.00 and if you play a 2 day tourney you have to pay again the next day. I feel like a 7-8 dollar fee would be more fair, but hey it is a nice place for our son to play and get experience. All in all, we enjoy every time we visit the palace! read more

Excellent for futsal, crazy chaotic for basketball. If you are disabled, forget about it. There is no seating for you. When its crowded, and for every basketball night it is: there is no seating. They have an upstairs balcony which has seating prominently featured but they do not allow you to sit there "for insurance reasons" The facility is nice and clean. There is a friendly old man selling food and beverage, and a surly tall guy (not) greeting you on the way in. For futsal this is a fantastic place to play. For basketball, I would avoid it at all costs if you are disabled or a family of more than one kid because you will not be able to find a seat. Don't dare sit in the upstairs area or you can expect a hostile manager. If you have kids that are not on a court playing do yourself a favor, do not bring them. This is not the place for them. read more

Hardwood Palace - Parking is an experience here. Be ready for white knuckle driving - Sports Clubs Near Me - Rocklin, California

Unfortunately, this place leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to playing tournaments. My number one gripe is that the schedules are never posted timely, often waiting until the day before (or never). The courts themselves are good but jammed next to each other with limited spectator seating. In the summer, expect to be hot and in the winter, cold. read more

Competitive basketball! Woot Woot! Hot, sweaty, stinky. Heaven. read more

If you like basketball (we do) and you have a son who plays basketball (we do) and you take them to a lot of tournaments (we do) then you will love Hardwood Palace. We moved from the east coast where basketball is king and our son played in a lot of places but none of them had all that Hardwood offers. Courts are nice, well lit with padded bleachers and plenty of seating to watch the games. There are 8 courts in Hardwood and I believe another 6 across the street at Courtside and they are packed every Saturday and Sunday. The competition comes from all over the west and is top-notch. The refs at times can make some pretty stupid calls but that happens anywhere. The restrooms are always clean and the snack bar is well stocked. One of things I really appreciate about the snack bar is that they serve protein shakes, which is great when your kid has back to back games. Located easily off the interstate with a ton of restaurants, hotels and shopping nearby.....great place to watch basketball. read more

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This should be a great venue for youth basketball but it has turned into something quite different. I watched the lady taking money insult a senior that was coming to see his granddaughter play. He stepped up and said, "One player and two adults." She just stared at him and he asked how much he owed. Her reply in a loud voice was,"Can't you read?" He paid and I saw him later and asked why he didn't tell her off. He said he wanted to see his granddaughter play and anything he said wasn't going to change someone who is that mean and nasty. The basketball was later in the day and the snack bar was pretty much sold out and the referees were tired and pretty much useless. Kids were getting hurt because rough play was allowed - this was at the high school level. I don't think I will be back and will recommend to our organization that we don't bring our teams back. Very disappointing. read more

I have had a kid play at Hardwood Palace for several years now, and in my opinion the quality of the refs, score keepers, etc., has significantly declined. Maybe it's that way everywhere with poor employees...however, i care strongly about the safety of children playing, them learning how to play properly, and refs/scorekeepers displaying good attitudes and applying rules fairly. In my opinion, Hardwood Palace is no longer providing a good environment for my kid. I hope the owner can find better employees...as he seems like a good guy. read more

Pay a lot of money for tournament fees and entrance fees and it's summer time and they still refuse to turn on the air conditioning! They say it's broke but it's just them refusing to turn it on because of the expense. It's over 100 degrees outside so you know how hot it is inside a huge warehouse with a ton of people in there? How is this healthy and safe for the kids! read more

The place it self is fine- it allows the children to play which is the point.. however they charge the kids a fee to use the facility and then charge their parents to go support the children. ???? Seems like a bit much right well no - then on Saturday they decide to charge more per ticket and by more I mean 10.00 an adult and 5 for children but on Sunday the is charge 5.00 and 3 for children??? at this point it seems crazy to me considering it's the same tournament right??? Well than they put a NOT so friendly nor professional woman in the front - who instead of explaining, assisting and showing sympathy for the confusion. Is refusing to give me a piece of paper so I can write the website down, so I can later get my money refunded. Well this woman instead wants to laugh at me in front of the other employee and other guest because I looked confused. Well luckily they Nice man got me what I needed. And I went on to try and support my son having paid 20.00 at the door but already paying a tournament fee for my son to play in the first place!!!!! I wasn't impressed at all and decided I would share the experience. Bathrooms clean Food okay but pricey Parking plenty but with all the parents it's hard to find great parking Courts are spacious Benches for parents are available but small. Refs not all fair but that's sports read more

8.5 hrs into the day, still only one match, some of the refs have gone home, and half the mats have been dead for 30 min but they insist on running another round of wrestling. Don't know how to run software? Don't try to run a tournament, especially one of this size, or even a small novice one. The above was about the a wrestling tournament and the incompetent tournament directors. The kids slipping in pools of piss in the bathroom (and then tracking that back onto the mats) is on the building owner/management. read more

Hardwood Palace - Be prepared to sit on the floor. Or bring your own chairs. - Sports Clubs Near Me - Rocklin, California

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This place offers both recreational basketball and training for aspiring young basketball players . The facility has 8 courts, cafeteria and restrooms. As far as I know they offer rental of the place for indoor soccer as well. My 2 boys played with Hardwood Palace tournament before they did competitive basketball. But I love this place. Close proximity to my house. A planned game for tournament , and no need to go anywhere but to this place . Good start for our kids. read more

Hardwood Palace - Sports Clubs Near Me - Rocklin, California

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