My son's joint birthday party on May 30, 2026 was fun for the kids, and that's almost entirely thanks to our party host, Aidan. He was engaging, helpful, and kept the energy up throughout the night. The food was good, the skating was fun, and the boys had a blast. However, there are serious management issues at this rink that potential customers need to know about. First, we were double charged. I paid a $200 deposit online, then paid the remaining balance of $422.18 at the rink on the night of the party, May 30th. An hour later, I received an email charging me another $395.38. The rink told me they switched credit card vendors but their system is still processing charges through the old vendor -- meaning your card information is being charged twice. When I went back on May 31st to complain about being double charged, I was told to dispute it with my bank -- meaning I'm out the money for ten business days while my bank sorts it out, because the skating rink isn't issuing a simple refund. It was only during that conversation that I was asked if I had received my skate passes -- which I had not. This is unacceptable, especially for families who might not have that cushion. Do not book with a credit card online until you confirm this is fixed. Second, the party package advertised glow bracelets and necklaces for every child. We didn't receive them, and as compensation we were offered free extra pitchers of soda instead. Fortunately we brought our own glow accessories for the kids, but other families might not come prepared. That's not acceptable when you're spending over $600. Third, the party package lists skate mates at $10.00 -- but what they don't tell you is that's $10 per hour. For a 3-hour party, that's $30 per skate mate per person. If you have kids or family members who can't skate and need one, this adds up fast and is not clearly disclosed. The listing is misleading. Finally, our party host Aidan was working alone on a Saturday night as the party host, DJ, game coordinator, and server. He managed so much on his own that night -- the fact that anything slipped through the cracks is entirely a management failure, not his. Aidan deserves a raise. If you book here, go in with eyes open about the billing issues and missing items. Aidan will take care of you -- management won't. read more

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What a throw back. Haven't been In years but it still has that same feeling but this time the place smelled clean. The place really had a make over which is good! Rugs were clean, bathroom was decently okay. But crowd was low and played a great variety of music. Who ever is in charge of the music really did a great job. read more

HoneyBee & Hoss - Skating Rinks Near Me - San Antonio, Texas

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Adult night on Thursdays is where it's at! Especially when Dj E pulls up he makes the rink LIVE. BYOB and lots of diversity and inclusion in this rink. The owner listens to her customers and genuinely wants to hear us out on ways to make the skating environment better. Really amazing, beautiful skaters coming in every week and you can connect with a lot of new people. By far my most favorite rink in San Antonio and the owner absolutely deserves her flowers. My only suggestion would be to bring back a lot more theme nights! read more

We rented this place place out for an old school hip hop birthday celebration. We had a great time, they were very accommodating and helpful. The DJ also did a good job with the music selection. We would definitely visit again. read more

HoneyBee & Hoss - Skating Rinks Near Me - San Antonio, Texas

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I came here with my girlfriend to skate, and I can very easily say that I had an amazing time there! The snack bar was really good, the place was very clean, the atmosphere was amazing, and just about everything was the absolute opposite of disappointing! read more

Coming from Dallas to meet up with friends we accidentally went to the wrong car vel not knowing there were 2 of them. We paid, went in and realized no one was there. The Lady at the reception told me she couldn't give a refund and we'd have to call the owner. Called the owner and he said I could get a refund. Now they're saying they don't do refunds. Luckily a local helped pay for 6 kids read more

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Great place for b-days. We have 4 kids and this is now the 3rd time we celebrated a party here. I feel for the price, value and not having to clean up afterwards is money well spent. For the party they include a soda and ice cream for all. You can then bring in your own cake. I wish they had more than CiCi's pizza as the only pizza offering. Super lame. The host that tended to the party Samantha was superb. read more

HoneyBee & Hoss - Skate center - Skating Rinks Near Me - San Antonio, Texas

Let's roller skate! Car-Vel Skate Center is such a cool spot. I really need to come out roller skating more often. This is a break from the ordinary and an awesome workout. We need to keep the roller rink alive. This facility is huge so it's perfect for social distancing. The staff is so cool and welcoming. As much as I love having the rink to myself, it's sad to think that more people are not skating these days. read more

I think three stars is being generous but we will start there. The facilities need a major upgrade. When you walk in you get taken aback with a horrible smell. I would describe it as teen body odor that has lingered for decades. The restrooms look trapped in the 1970s and there are no sinks in the actual restrooms. The skates themselves weigh at least 5 lbs a piece and horrible for the ankles. What's the redeeming quality? Nostalgia. Not of this location but skating during younger days. The DJ was solid and they try to make it a fun experience for those celebrating a birthday. The rink takes up so much space that there's not much room to walk to the other parts of the facility. I didn't have a horrible experience but it was average at best. If you are COVID precautious then it's a superspreader location. read more

Had the unfortunate opportunity to visit this place last night for a kid gathering. It reeked of weed and is truly non kid friendly. Dj sucked with ghetto music and employees have an attitude. Please save yourself the time and effort and NOT come here. Eeew. read more

I sent my teens with the 2 for 1 coupon on line. They were turned away since they didn't print the coupon. Nowhere on it does it state that it must be printed. It just to bring it with you which they did on their phones. This made what was supposed to be anice afternoon for them ended up with disappointment. To top it off when I tried to call the number on their site, it was a wrong number. Super disappointing. Would not recommend . read more

This spot was my favorite for their adult nights on Thursdays/BYOB night. However, this year they hired a team to do more promoting, which is understandable but it has changed a lottttt. They're now allowing 18+ customers for the adult night (used to be 21+ because of BYOB) and jacking up the entry fee. It's already a crappy thing having to pay the full entry fee which includes the rental fee, when you have your own pair of skates (other rinks don't charge you for skate rental fee if you have your own -- as it should be). Price before was $10 and now it's $15. I used to go every Thursday but after the changes made, I'll probably start going to the Carvel on Goliad for their adult/BYOB night because this rink just isn't the same anymore. I also think the money coming in should be going towards ways to improve the rink itself. Improving the rink such as: fixing the uneven floor, purchasing new rental skates, hiring a consistent dj, etc. read more

My daughter went today with her dad to skate. He was charged a $4 spectator fee- literally the stupidest thing I have heard of. It cost less to leave your annoying teenagers unattended to do whatever they want. Does that make any sense? Last time I went the soda I bought was flat and the nacho cheese was cold. There are kids skating in the wrong direction with no one telling them anything. Seating is uncomfortable. The birthday games they do are the same they have done for 20 years since I was a child, and guess what - they were lame then and they're lame now. There are just so many better places to go. read more

On 12-18-21 the manager, Scott, stole my son's backpack, which had $30 & a monster drink, and refused to return it unless my son gave him $400. He said my son CAUSED a power outage and I owe him $400. He admitted to having my son's bag in his office and refused to return it. He said it was "collateral". Mgr stated that the outlet was broken, and when my son plugged in his cell phone charger, it caused a shortage. He said there was a metal piece stuck in the outlet, and that my son plugging in his charger caused it to short....luckily my son wasn't harmed when he plugged in that charger!! There were NO signs or covering to warn customers that it was broken....so how would anyone know? I asked for my son's bag and he replied in a very sassy and sarcastic tone with head shakes and all, "I don't know where it is, go ahead and call the cops." I did call them. The officer had to explain to Scott that stealing personal property from customers is illegal. Scott admitted to the officer that he knew the outlet wasn't working, and admitted no signs or coverings were posted, but still wanted his customers to pay for it. When the officer was then escorting us out, Scott yelled at my son and his friend that they're "banned forever". Even when I  did not press charges for the theft. I reached out to the owner, Kopricia, to ask if she was going to allow this insane ban to hold up.  After a week she said she'd like to speak under the rouge that she wanted to hear my side and work things out. We met on Dec 27th, 2021. At first she seemed sweet and respectful, however, within 2 whole minutes she had the nerve to try to shake me down for $200! She stated that she did NOT have a bill to show me,  but if I didn't pay her,  then my son could  not come back. (!!!!!) That was obviously the only reason she asked me to come talk to her. So when I  respectfully refused and reminded her that a company must fix safety hazards that they knowingly have, she became irate and very aggressive and at one point slammed her fist against the wall like 3x. The irony is that she probably would have recieved thousands per year from my household if she hadn't banned my kid! He attended so often and spent every spare penny he had there, and I have 2 others that attended as well! She did not want to admit that her manager stole either- she preferred saying the bag was "picked up". "Picking up" an item and refusing to return it when you identify the owner unless they give you $400? Really? I remained calm but this lady tried real hard to set me off and make me think she was going to attack me or something, which as funny as that may sound - watching a grown woman in her 50's+ behaving like that - it's more of a true testimant to her lack of  knowledge and understanding on how to run a business...from a liability standpoint at the very least. THEFT AND EXTORTION ARE ILLEGAL. I encourage management from Car-vel to look it up. These people are highly emotional, immature, and unprofessional, and to ban children from a place for no reason, and attempt to steal from them and manipulate families into paying for Car-vel's  business expenses...leaving safety hazards unaddressed in order to blame them on paying customers??  Not cool. The way they're trying to shake me down for cash through NO OFFICIAL means tells me something shady is going on here. Honestly, if I knew this was the way these two adults behaved, I never would have allowed my children to attend in the first place! The facility is dirty yes, and they don't seem to have heat in the winter, but it's close, and the kids like hanging there. After seeing management's behavior...whoa. I do NOT recommend. Some advice for management, take it or leave it- If there is an electrical issue, you cover it until repaired. If there is a plumbing issue, you block off usage until it's repaired. If there is a spill on the floor, you best put up a wet floor sign ASAP and then clean it. This is common sense!  Blaming customers for your own poor management skills doesn't fly. Also, voting negative reviews as "funny" Michael A (the manager "Scott" at carvel)on Yelp is another example of poor customer service FYI. read more

I am apart of a skate community in San Antonio, TX we try to support all the skating rinks in our community. The owners and employees are racially biased. The address to Car-Vel Skate Leon Valley is 6807 Bandera Road San Antonio, Texas 78238. I was teaching a group of people a skate move so I put my phone down in the middle of the rink where it was no people and out of the way to help. About 45 minutes later a security gaurd walked onto the rink and began to threaten me he put up his hands up towards me as if to hit me. I was afraid for my life and safety. I am a young women who is 5'5 and 160 pounds the security was about 6'2 and 300 pounds. Afraid that I was going to get attacked a Military Vet stepped in to protect me. He told the security gaurd that he should never threaten a woman and he then began to verbally attack the vet. Later on in the night a man was on the floor texting on his phone he stayed on the floor in the way of the skaters for about 30 minutes. The vet walked to the security gaurd and asked him why he did not say anything to the other skaters that are causing safety hazards? The security gaurd told the vet that he did not work at the skating rink. The vet went to the manager and reported our mistreatment. The manager assurred us that he would talk to the security gaurd he hired, another employee who witnessed everything also came to my defense and told the manager I did nothing wrong. At the end of the night I asked the manager if he talked to the security he hired and the manager said " I didnt see anything so I will not talk to him and we hired him to handle certain kind of people sorry I can't help you". I want to take this moment to point out that I am African American and the other hazardous skaters were not. I pulled the security to the side to ask him why he treated me differently from the non blacks customers and told him it felt like a racial attack. He got in my face and put his arms up again as if to hit me and called his uncle over to chastize me and block me in a corner with my back against the wall, at this moment I knew they were going to hurt me. The Military Vet came to my aid again and stepped beside me. Thats when the security started making racial refrences to us and began to be disrespectful also threatening to throw me out. I walked away and sat down with friends. The security walked behind me and stopped a distance away and made a phone call I was teriffied that he was calling more people to try to threaten and attack us but to my relief he called the police instead. I thought the police department would protect me but they didnt. They racial profiled another skater who was not involved in what happened and didnt even know what was going on so they came and left. As I was walking to my car the security called me a rasict slur and then said "dont want to see you next Thursdays cause if i do God bless you". While I was discussing this incident with another skater to encourage them not to go there anymore due to my treatment he told me that one of our skate members who is Mexican has been warning people not to go to Car-Vel Leon Valley because the owner got upset with her and called her out of her name refrencing Hispanic Racial Slurs. This incident happened Thursday December 19th 2020. read more

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Next time I come to a skating rink I'd like my kids to be able to actually enjoy skating instead of having 3 people on the floor at a time to do a chicken dance, stop wasting our time, thanks. read more

First time here for my daughter's birthday and we had a blast! Customer service was pretty good. The prices were fair considering the amount of time you have to skate. The music was good too. The skate floor was clean and hardly had any chips in it lol. The lights that decoarate the floors are cool. And skate rental is cheap and skates we're pretty comfy and clean as well. Surprised myself on how good I was after all these years. I would definitely come back to bring my kids again. read more

HoneyBee & Hoss - Skating rink - Skating Rinks Near Me - San Antonio, Texas

This location is tired and needs a change in attitude towards all customers from various walks of life. I have been going here since I was young and it's only gotten more disappointing. I went here for an event with my university and I had a friend turned away at the door due to her disability and need for a service animal. read more

The best answer to a bad business is not to step foot on it anymore and to go elsewhere. From the jacking up prices to charging those who have their own Roller Skates a rental fee (Ridiculous and pure theft). The lack of scheduled hours for kids with an instructor on the floor is another downside, and finally charging parents for watching their kids is outrageous (1 parent free, what about the other parent???) If you have a business and start adding restrictions on top of restrictions instead of improving the service, adding features and lowering the prices to gain more loyal customers and solid repetitive business, then you might end up with an empty building that you can enjoy skating by your self in it. My advice, do not go to this place, go where you are valued as a customer and not cheated and treated bad. Not honoring a coupon that they issued to attract customers is just unacceptable and illegal. read more

My kids begged me not to say anything, but i just cant this is suposed to be a safe place for children. The bathrooms were fiflthy, so i used the managers bathroom, the employee let me use it. I was looking for soap i looked under the cabinet and found drugs. I the owner was there that day because her phones were on the charger in the bathroom, i did see the short chubby old lady with blond hair come in and out the office alot. l So i will never let my kids come to this business. If i were you id never let my kids in here. Im hearing that her sisters own all the rinks in san antonio. I feel like they need to check on this. Im contacting leon valley police department to see what steps need to be taken. read more

HoneyBee & Hoss - Skating Rinks Near Me - San Antonio, Texas

Don't recommend this place. So this will be a short and sweet review. First some of the staff was rude. Won't too friendly...we had our 3 younger kids so it was 5 of us getting skates and the girl behind the counter almost started and argument with the Mrs. The skates seemed old as hell. Bathrooms were dirty. It's looked like a real "hole in the wall" type place, and I don't mean that in a good way. This is a place we WILL NOT be back to. Oh and they had a few birthday parties there and they stopped everyone skating for about 10 to 15 mins to let the birthday people get on the floor and sing happy birthday to them. Ummm no do that on the side. Then you had people trying to stay on the floor and take pictures while you skating. So hated this place. read more

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It's absolutely unacceptable not to have any diet sodas this day and age. My daughter got to watch all her friends at a birthday party drink sodas, but if you are diabetic, it's water or nothing. Management would not compromise and let me bring in an outside drink. read more

Here for my niece's bday. As soon as I walked in, the DJ barked at me to spit my gum out. Still had a decent time. The kids got hungry. I paid $24 for 5 plain hotdogs and 5 1 ounce bags of chips. 20 minutes later they announce a lunch special: hot dog, chips, AND a drink for $3. Really??? Rude.... The clerk at the snack bar just shrugged her shoulders... read more

Car-Vel Skate center reminds me of the rink I used to go to when I was a kid. No frills here, just a rink, a few menus at the concession stand, and in beverages. They do have a few arcade games. Definitely hasn't been upgraded since the 90s but that's ok, it's part of the charm. On Tuesday nights it is $6 dollars from 6 to 9 pm. read more

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Skating here is a good thing. This is a very civilized throwback kind of place. The music has changed a bit from ELO and ABBA, but the newer more frantic music was drawing some kids out of the 100+ degree weather along with me and three grand kids. $9 per ticket, open 3 hours from 1 pm to 4 pm. One adult seen working booth, three to four teens handling the rest of the joint operations with respectable customer care. The kids out number the adults about 15:1 and there are no problems. This place could really benefit from local advertising I feel that some pop-dance, or dub step would be easier to skate to than some of the disjunct tunes they were playing offset with a right said Fred " I'm too sexy" thrown in every 25 minutes. read more

So, my daughters friend just asked if she could go skating at Carvel skate center in Leon Valley. I called to ask about their COViD Precautions and was told the following: Their capacity is 500 people, then oh no, it's 50% of their capacity. Then I ask what's the capacity and I was told " None of your business"! I asked are you sure it's none of my business as a customer? The young man then hung up. People stay safe, they obviously are not abiding by safety precautions, and how would I have known any way? Would have been smarter and kinder to just make up something reasonable. They lost this families business forever! read more

i would not recommend Car-Vel staff is rude and disrespectful staff are immature and rude. I went with my 6 year old and he was excited to go skating about an hour of being there kids kept pushing him down and when the manager saw this he advised his staff member and they went up to my son and told him if he can't skate get off the floor which made my son upset when i tried telling the manager about this incident he told me my worker is right and if you don't like it leave. Not a place i will be back DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY HERE. i took my son to rollercade and skateland east and they where more professional and a lot better experience and they helped my son. DONT WASTE YOUR TIME GO SOMEWHERE MORE PROFESSIONAL AND CLEAN read more

Super fun time with my family. Haven't roller skated in forever. I was nice to see so many others having a good time. My kids loved it.

The only reason I didn't give it a fifth star is because the floor has some rough spots. Otherwise, this joint is a great hang out spot for the kids. It's cheap to get in, the skates are decent and they keep the music going. They played the normal games like limbo and they switched the direction you can skate in. Overall, we had a great time and met some great people. If I'm ever back in SA, I will return. Side note: we were informed that they will be redoing the floor very soon. So go check it out. read more

First off... Don't trust hours on the website. They seem to have changed, but aren't posted/updated. We were there on a Tuesday evening, and it wasn't crowded at all which was great (because we learned we ARE TERRIBLE at ROLLERSKATING) Skates are included in admission, however they only have roller-skates that have seen better days. I really wish Rollerblades were available. Overall it was a fun way to kill an hour, and we will probably do it again, but it wasn't an all day activity read more

HoneyBee & Hoss - Vintage - Skating Rinks Near Me - San Antonio, Texas

Floor may be broken up and place may be older but it's run by people who truly love what they do! Family had a blast. Customer service went above and beyond to accommodate us read more

Before you go in they take your temperature. If it's above I think 99.5, they don't let you go in. My friends and I were all too hot because we were in the car with no AC, so they let us wait in the reception area to cool down. We all cooled down and went in. The skates were good enough and I could tell the laces were newer than the skates, so that is nice. I strongly recommend bringing your own insoles to put in the skates, it really makes it more comfortable. There were very few people rollerskating on the floor. I haven't been here pre-corona but I imagine it was lively. Sad what the virus has done to the place. The only other thing I can think of is the music was weak. The speaker system is good, but the song selection is not great. Music is subjective though so whatever. I didn't try the food but I got a water bottle. I didn't use the bathrooms either. read more

Loved the flashback to my childhood while skating at this location. Our girl scout troop used some of their cookie money to go roller skating. We purchased a party package and were able to hang-out with pizza and ice-ees in a princess-like party corner. The girls who were still learning to skate had access to PVC skating aids. They also advertise classes for beginners and a club pass to get in all summer long. We had a wonderful time skating on a Tuesday night and plan to come back. The staff was welcoming and helpful. The kids also enjoyed the snack bar. read more

I love to skate! I want to support my community I know skating keeps you in shape if done on a regular. It seems like a nice facility. I have never been in there but passed it by a lot of times after hitting up taco bell next door. lol I'm thinking it was closed due to covet, now that their open I plan to come this week and get my roll on. read more

This is my third time at this skating ring. Its very clean and I also like how they have some tables away from all the craziness. Only this is there parking lot sucks. read more

HoneyBee & Hoss - Skating Rinks Near Me - San Antonio, Texas

Horrible!! I'm only giving it a one star because I have to.. I'd give it a negative star if possible.. we PAID to get in for a birthday party and we went to sit at two tables in the birthday section.. I mean we are a birthday and there wasn't any signs or block off that says you can't sit there if you don't pay to reserve a party.. So while waiting for a reserve skate time to finish, a worker comes up to us and in a rude tone say " Yall need to move, this isn't a mall where you can hang out".. we were like.. wth?! We asked for the owners business card in which he replied "The owner doesn't have business cards, find her on Facebook "... We were soo upset.. and reasonably so.. we then tried talking to the manager and he was worse!! He yelled and was rude and told us to "Get the hell out then".. since we were complaining about the worker. When asked for the owners number, he then said " Well I'm living with the owner so I'm like the owner." We looked at him in disbelief that he would say something so unprofessional!! We told him to give us a refund then and we would leave and in a sarcastic tone he replied " how about no and u get the hell out of here or I'll call the cops and they will arrest you".. the whole party decided to leave after this and while we were sitting down removing skates and getting the gifts together he walked by me again and said " your still here? Get out now!" Then he laughed and said " I'm calling the cops and they are gonna arrest you haha"... DONT GO HERE!!! TAKE YOUR MONEY TO A PLACE THATS PROFESSIONAL AND RESPECTFUL.. We just wanted our money back since we were told to leave for their unprofessional behavior!! THIS PLACE ISNT WORTH YOUR MONEY OR TIME!!! read more

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Def sooo fun. All those other comments gave to be old. They upgraded and updated so much. We love to hang here on thursdays

Pretty solid place. Smooth floors, average food, nice staff. I've been going to this rink for a long time and it's usually half price on Tuesdays. Hardly anyone comes to the rink and there's always room to skate at your own pace. 8/10 recommend. read more

We had a birthday party for our 14 year old. We had nothing but genuine help and caring the whole time we were there. Our host was always there asking us if we needed help even though he was the only one hosting and there were several other parties there too. We had a blast and will probably return for our other daughters birthday!!! Good Job Car-Vel! read more