We visited the Prince William Ice Center for a New Year's Eve family skate and had a wonderful time! We live close to the Fairfax Ice Rink so were not expecting too much of a difference, but we were impressed as soon as we pulled up into the parking lot. The lobby is expansive with lots of space to walk around, sit down, and put on your skates. The girls at the front desk were SO friendly and helpful -- even volunteering to help us lug in our snow penguins from the rental area to the ice rink when they realized we were outnumbered by little kiddos There is a dedicated hockey rink as well as an Olympic sized rink that we utilized for public skate. My sister did not partake in skating, but was able to watch on the stands. Everything was well maintained and I saw tons of staff cleaning, supervising, and just overall doing an amazing job the whole time I was there. Seriously, color me impressed. read more

Horrible ice, don't care about paying customers, stick and shoot on weekends or evenings is often monopolized by lessons and junior players, between the two of them you get about 10 square feet of ice and no net to shoot on. Sick of it and after years of gently suggesting some possible alternatives, like use your many hours of dead ice for just lessons, and allow mid level and beginner players to have the entire ice and you might actually get more of us to come out. Segregate small kids on one side and adults on the other with no lessons if you want to mix ages. read more

Dual rink ice skating center, with a second floor with viewing bleachers and a friendly staff. Super crowded during competition (they run the Cardinal Classic each year) so parking can overflow to the commuter lot down the hill. No outside food allowed, they have a little cafeteria style food space. The bathrooms between the rinks and by the team changing rooms. Not too cold inside compared to some other rinks. read more

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This place is a mad house on skate nights for teens, so pack your patience and enough time to navigate your way through the parking lot. In addition to teen nights, they also offers lessons for various ages during the week. My daughter loved the classes she has taken up to this point. The staff is super friendly and patient with the kiddos. Make sure you pay attention to the ages when you sign up to ensure your child is with the appropriate age and skill level class. The facility is huge and very nice and well maintained!! If you are not one to hit the ice, you can sit and watch all the action behind the plexiglass that surrounds the rink. You can tell they put a lot of effort and detail into keeping the facility clean in all areas. read more

Large ice plex with two rinks. We often go on the weekends and it is ALWAYS busy with lessons, hockey games, etc. Public skating is $10/person and $3 for skate rentals if needed. There is a little cafe where they serve snacks and beverages (alcoholic too.) Service there is always pretty slow, so beware. There's also a small skate shops with essentials. I do recommend PWC Ice for skating lessons through the Learn to Skate USA program. The coaches are great, especially Coach Philip and Coach Lucas at PWC Ice. read more

This is a very nice facility, but be careful not to go when they have their teen nights. It gets overrun with kids who cut in line and basically make you question your own sanity. Good outing for even little kids--once you hit the ice, people are actually very courteous and helpful. You can rent a locker or leave your shoes out by the viewing area. There are plenty of staff members everywhere and I didn't mind leaving my things under a bench. Another tip, dress in layers! It's cold at first, but you'll get hot after a couple of laps. read more

This is the nicest rink in the area by a good margin (with the exception of Kettler Iceplex, but since that is the Caps practice facility it's not a fair comparison). There are two sheets, one NHL and one Olympic, as well as a snackbar and a decent-sized pro shop. The sheets are both generally good quality, and the lighting and ventilation are good. When they rebuilt, they did a great job! read more

Drove 3 1/2 hours from Philadelphia to the ice rink just to arrive as the game was ending. Our game was supposed to be at 4:20 pm just to find out the rink screwed up and scheduled the game at 3:20 pm. read more

This is such a great facility! It's fantastic to have a great rink with two sheets of ice. One is NHL-sized and the other is a larger Olympic-sized. Both sheets of ice are excellently maintained. They work hard to keep this place clean. I've even seen an employee cleaning the plexiglass surrounding the ice on a daily basis! As a military family, my kids have skated in rinks coast to coast. The professionalism found at the Prince William Ice Center is among the best. The figure skating program is extremely well-run with many high level coaches available for private lessons. The hockey program is similarly impressive with on-ice and off-ice coaches available who care about the development of these kids. This rink is such an enormous step up from the previous rink my children skated at. If you have a child interested in figure skating or ice hockey, this is the place to come to! read more

Slick place. Ok, this is only a review for hockey gurus. Public skater punks, figure skaters in stretchy pants and crazy Korean short track speed skaters go to the next review below. First off...you spend a million bucks on the most modern newest rink (s) in the area and you put swing open doors with a vestibule at the entrance?? WTF? Trying to negotiate an entrance carrying oversize bags and sticks and water bottles and other crap is like some homeless dude trying to enter Penn Station with a shopping cart full of everything he owns. I get caught up in those heavy doors everytime. Laugh it up Tinkerbell as we pass in the vestibule with your monogramed skate shoulder bag. Next on the list: Beer league hockey....we like to drink cheap shit beer that we brought AND in the locker room. Not your snooty craft beer from a keg fridge in the snack bar served up by some gum snapper teenager that never went to college and learned the fine art of pouring a draft. We used to (before Snowmageddon '10 when the rink imploded) have cookouts in the parking lot and ...uh....drink cheap shit beer after games. What? no drinky in the lot no mo? It's against the law? .....Lemme check....this is private property and shielded from the road by trees. The beer league action happens late at night...so your Mormon children should be in bed and not offended seeing some sweaty dude sitting on the tail gate of his truck holding a can of Busch. The only crazyness that ever happened in that lot was an occaisonal crushed beer can that turned into a puck was slap shotted into the side of a team mates Caravan. He deserved it after his lack luster performance any way. Locker rooms are ok. The prison sized shower is pretty tight....hold onto your soap or you'll get a face full of your team mates frank and beans picking it up. The double rinks are nice. Ice is well maintained. Zam operators don't leave huge swimming pools of excess water when re-surfacing. The boards are solid and the benches have plenty of room. Lighting is excellent. That brings us up to 3 stars. Bottom line. The penalty box sucks. read more

Brand new facility. They also have a neat cafe where you can take a break and have some rest. The staff are extra friendly. You do not want to come here on Friday night. This is when high school kids dominate the rink and boy, are they not careless and scary... read more

It's a nice facility. They have mostly junk food though. I wish they had a street hockey and roller derby rink as well.

There are a bunch of men's league teams that want to leave due to scheduling mixups, poor management, and make a buck attitude. Our mens league game was two minutes over and the zam came out. We went to talk to the manager and she yelled at us and had a "holier than though" attitude. She said "you were two minutes over so you needed to leave the ice or pay for more". We explained that it was two minutes but she didn't care. Other rinks in the area would make it up on the Zam but not here. The rink also promised us the world to move back but we have had scheduling issues, locker mixups, etc almost every game. The hockey director will say one thing to get your business but the rink will do something different. Little children (speed skaters) are running up and down in the halls like they own the place, bathrooms aren't working, incompetent teenage staff that have no clue what they are doing, and the list goes on. If you are thinking about moving to PWIC- keep your team at any other rink (even Fairfax) as they have real customer service and treat people right! read more

The rental skates are in horrible condition and fit poorly from over wear. I saw, a guy turn in his skate today that had a broken blade! I can never enjoy skating there because my feet hurt in the worn out skates. My son also always complains. We went skating in NY and had no problems. I am not a regular skater otherwise i would invest in my own skates since this is the only gig in town. They should also have some signage or someone advising people on how to properly size skates, the most common reason people are falling all over the place. read more

My husband and I went to the rink a few months ago, and it was such a fun experience! When we fell on our faces, the surveyors (not sure what to call the gents) sped over to each of us and checked that we were ok. The staff was pleasant and the music was good, although sometimes we wished there were more classic tunes like Queen and the Beatles rather than all new hits. read more

This is a great facility and has friendly and helpful staff. My 2 sons are "special needs" guys who love ice hockey but don't have a chance to see or do it when at home in Georgia. This summer, they asked if they could hockey. The staff informed me all the camps had started. But suggested that they could do "stick n shoot" (people in full gear practicing hockey). They offered to rent us the protective equipment even though they weren't in a camp. When we went to pick it up, the young man took his time to make sure everything fit correctly even though it was almost closing time; no rushed or hurried fittings. Thanks the awesome staff, my boys were able to participate in 3 "stick n shoot" sessions. One included them being invited by local HS aged kids to joining them in pick up game; they made sure both had chances to shoot and score. Being able to put on their favorite teams' jerseys and play hockey was the highlight of their 2 week visit. Thank you to everyone at PWICE for giving my sons memories that won't soon be forgotten. read more

Friendly staff, good coaches, usually not crowded. My daughter has been taking figure skating lessons here for the last year. Compare to other rinks in the area this one is the better one that meets our needs. Skating director has been always extremely polite and considerate. read more

Nice facility, friendly staff, good coaches. Excellent skating director. Group classes for kids are small, so everyone gets plenty of attention and practice. Public sessions during weekdays are usually not busy, so it's the best time to come here. I would agree with the previous poster - you do want to avoid being here on Friday nights. We personally had only one trully negative experience here with a rude parent being inconsidered of others, teaching his son to hocky stop using other skaters as targets. The staff could probably do a better job monitoring and preventing this type of behavior but you can run into this type of bullies anywhere, I guess. Overall, I do agree, it's the best skating rink in the area. read more

The place is really nice: big hockey and skating program, helpful staff. We started with public skates and now both of my girls take ice skating classes there. Café has the same junk food as all other skating rinks offer around, but prices are REALLY cheap. This ice center deserves all 5 shiny stars except for their pro shop - those guys have atrociously rude attitude and no skills whatsoever. We ended up going to Kettler to buy skates and outfits for the girls. But other than that, Prince Wiliam rocks! read more