This might be my favorite bowling alley ever. seriously. We stopped in here on a rainy day upstate with my family and had such a good time. One this that differentiates this place from other bowling alleys is that each player takes a a few pictures before playing. Then after each bowl they have funny cartoons that run with your faces inside - honestly we were cracking up. Spare time is a great place to go with your family, and we'll definitely be back next time we're in the area. read more

Spare Time Clifton Park - Bowling Near Me - Clifton Park, New York

Loved the vibes! Drinks were good and food was decent. It was just a little warm inside. We had a great time and it wasn't super packed for a weekend night! read more

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I don't know if he still works here, but my experience coming to this bowling alley when Vince was around was awful! He is awful! never has it been this way as I grew up going to this bowling center. But I just can't shake it off and just thought I would make it known that customer service here has been extremely hit or miss. read more

Customer service is terrible. Vince at the desk is so rude. Prices are getting ridiculous.

They are rude. Vincent was one of the workers that is constantly rude. We asked for our own lanes (we were paying separately). He said because we know each other we will be on a lane together. The manager and owner said they would fix the issues and they never did and won't make any changes. read more

I came here for a kids party but I think everyone is a kid here. So much to do! I got a $100 play card and it comes with $40 free play! That's a great deal! The kids had so much fun. I love this place! I'm glad my nephew's birthday party is always here. It gives me an excuse to play like a kid. So many games and bowling and laser tag. Plenty of parking and the staff is super attentive! read more

We decided to go back because a manager stated that they will fix the problem. When we got there it was the same issue and the manager Tim that said they would fix it and gave us his number if there was a problem had spoke to Vincent (who is always rude to us) and told him to not change anything. So when we tried to contact the manager Tim they would not respond to us. This place has lost my business and hopefully this review will deter anyone else from coming read more

We ran the gamut here and did laser tag, bowling, snacks and arcade games. Everything was fun. For the laser tag it was weird to me you didn't have to go anywhere to recharge, because it lead to people just standing and waiting to shoot. Bowling has a weird photo thing to put your face on the screen, but it ended up being funny. The fried pickles were great. Didn't wait long for anything, at least it didn't feel that way because there's other options. read more

Up to date and modern. 22 we'll conditioned lanes with computer controlled scoring. Comfortable seating areas. Arcade and laser tag. Plus restaurant and bar. Makes for a great rainy day activity for the family or fun with friends. read more

Spare Time Clifton Park - 22 bowling lanes - Bowling Near Me - Clifton Park, New York

We decided to go see one of our good friends who plays with the local band "Home Made" at Spare Time. The venue is very good, nice clean bar & food area. Bar maid was very friendly and was working hard to keep up. There is also bar food available if you like. The location is a bowling alley which also has Laser Tag available. Come and enjoy this venue! read more

Perfectly serviceable bowling alley. A little confusing user interface, easy to accidentally skip a turn. The arcade looked fun, I didn't play it but it had a large variety and the kids loved it. My food experience, though, was absolutely terrible. Everything is overpriced and the quality was poor. I hot Mac and Cheese bites for $9, which had an unpleasant spicy aftertaste. And a small flatbread pizza for $9 that was overloaded with sauce and had the cheese slide right off. I told the food desk guy that I wasn't satisfied with my food and wanted to swap it for something else, and he basically told me "tough luck, I told you what it was." Basically, bring your own food. read more

Came today w son for end of school reward around 12:30. First thing we did was the Photo Booth to create a memory to save. Our pictures didn't print and the screen said see attendant. My son went to the man behind the bowling counter (older, brown hair, porn stache) and he was told "well it's broken." I walked over and guy told me "that's not my area and I can't help you. It's been broken 3 days". I explained we paid $3.50 and there was no sign up. Got a refund but very unhelpful staff and the guy wouldn't put an out of order sign up even after we talked because "he doesn't work in that area and there's no one else here so it's just the way it is" read more

Unacceptable the services . Staff very unhelpful. We order food. We had to go get the food . They will not bring it to us. Don't waste your money . They refuse to bring the food to the line . Common courtesy goes long way read more

Had my daughters party. There was much confusion and chaos, from our side, not their side. The party host was fabulous and patient. somehow managing to tame the three pre-teen boys at the party and keep everyone in one place. I was so stressed about things and the headcount with changes and Kaylee Leavitt was my hero! I emailed her too much with questions and concerns. She was perfect. so helpful. I didn't even stress out on the day of the party. Only negative was how far it is from us. :) Thank you! read more

Neon glow in the dark bowling with lots of fun music. Very kid friendly! the 2 little ones I was with loved it. Not a large selection of bowling balls, I ended up using one that was too small for me and the balls were SUPER greasy, it was kind of gross. My shoes were super comfortable too. They have bumpers and these wood things for smaller children to use to roll the ball. Separate arcade section and plenty of parking! read more

Spare Time Clifton Park - Bowling Near Me - Clifton Park, New York

This is our second year in a row bowing with the family on New Year's Eve. We had two lanes for 16 of us. The package includes pizza and 2 pitchers of soda. They have updated the screens since we were there last year. The new screens made it very easy to add the bowlers into the system. You can even select if you want bumpers for each individual bowler which is really cool. The wait staff was super and very attentive. The two hours flew by. There were prizes for free games if laser tag that were given out. We won 9 free games just in our group. read more

The food is all moldy and they don't wear hairnets and they can't keep track of their orders, I waited 45 minutes today just for some wings, a pretzel, and some pickles.And multiple people who ordered after me got a lot of food that should have Gone to my order. read more

Love coming here for food and drinks along with bowling and trivia. Great little spot in Clifton park for friends and family.

I just want to start by saying I grew up bowling here. A lot of great memories in this place but somethings changed. I recently brought my whole family over for a Christmas Eve bowl. We were treated horribly. I don't know what happened the worker with the mullet I think his names Vince was just nasty. He had a horrible attitude and I just felt so unwanted. I will be taking my family to uncle sams from now on. read more

Food is much better but the prices are thru the roof, 1.25 per wing. 7.50 for a draft beer, no food specials or beer specials for opening day football, sorry cant afford to come back. Only 1 waitress working, she was good and nice but too many people for just her. read more

Here's the deal - it's fine for laser tag....bowling...video games....and cheese fries, but please, do not try to pack the The Refrigerators or the Audio Stars or similar into that tiny bar. First of all, the parking lot does not accommodate the people...the bar area cannot accommodate the band and all the people. Takes all the tables out, maybe, but with the tables and three people tending bar...well, we went up the road to Wicked.... read more

It's really great, but a lot of things were over priced. Lots of cool games to play and taking are bowling pictures was really fun. It was overpriced though, 10,000 tickets for an echo. Nobodys gonna get that far. So, really fun for the family, but it might not be worth the price. read more

I been coming to spare time for 12 years now I come about 4 times a week and bowl a league on Sunday I absolutely love the place great food Anthony is the best really enjoy the bar drinks are amazing and all the girls are the best all around great place read more

My husband and I have been here twice, its a great place to go bowling. Great service, good food and clean. Floors are a bit slippery but once you get going it you don't notice it. read more

There was a birthday party. Patrick met his friends for bowling, cake, laser tag and amusement games. He enjoyed them, so I am happy.

Lots of fun, staff was very courteous and helpful. The pizza was surprisingly yummy! Great pizza at a bowling alley, who would have thought?!?! read more

First time here. Brought the kids in a Sunday afternoon and was told there was a wait....not a big deal. Played some laser tag for seven bucks. Then was able to get a lane in about 5 minutes. The lights and music was great. Would love to come here at night. The game room that they advertise as HUGE..... Was not. But at Least it was a good size. Would come here again read more

Really nice however that is where it ended. So we went on Tuesday. Which is half price and was ended after bowling 1 game. Went to desk to talk to workers. They said we pre laid which we did. However we prepaid for a game each. It was Tuesday and according to the calendar was half price. So asked the guy working. He was very stand offish. I asked for more time since we paid for it with the half price. He said doesn't apply today die to vacation. I asked to prove it. Never could and was a real a joke about it. We never got more then one game and he said it doesn't ally and could never prove where. Wtf is this? It is Tuesday's. No online polar or I. The place post says not today. You wanted to f us and others and you did. I want a settlement by 3 games. You owe us. read more

This place is terrible. Everything about it is bad. The bowling is decent but everything else is terrible. This lesbo lady kept yelling at my group because we were crouching in laser tag. Don't get me started on the pizza. Absolutely no sauce and it tastes like shit. If I was the manager I'd kill myself. read more

The staff were lazy and didn't help fix problems when I asked. It took them way too long to clean up a table for me to use and when my pizza came in( which by the way was bad and costly) the dirty napkins that were on my table and had yet to be picked up, got on the pizza. He didn't apologize or even acknowledge that dirty napkins were on my pizza. I also had a problem when my bowling ball got stuck and I asked once, but none of the staff got on it. I asked again after waiting 10 minutes and then they did something. Overall, I wouldn't expect much if your planning on coming here. read more

My boyfriend and I decided we wanted to do something different for a Saturday night. We decided bowling would be fun. When we got there it was very busy and they gave us a buzzer like at restaurants. They have a decent bar with live music playing so we did not mind our wait at all. We had a good time and will definitely do it again sometime. We were however shocked at how expensive it was. Nonetheless it was a good experience! read more

Lots of really nice updates. Lasertag was a blast! It was really busy on a Saturday afternoon but there was lots to do while we waited for a lane and the kids had a great time. The staff was friendly and the food was better than expected from a bowling alley. read more

Sparetime has great employees who are attentive and helpful. However new management is ignorant and dismissive towards customers and employees. I've been coming to sparetime for years with my family and have always had enjoyable experiences. Jeff was friendly, helpful, personable, and knowledgeable about any problems we had. As a regular I don't see the new manager often but when I have he's on his phone and being unproductive. Whenever we visit the place is chaotic and understaffed. On one occasion we came there was one arcade employee on a busy day who had to run back and forth between laser tag and the prize store. Disappointed in the changes I've seen since jeff left read more

My friend and I were new to bowling and could not figure out which lane we were in so we asked the girls working at the counter where our lane was. After the second time, one of the girls finally got out of the counter and rudely placed us in the right direction, speaking to us in a tone a mother normally would to a disobedient child who just caused trouble. Please don't speak to your customers that way. Another thing that bother was the explicit music videos being played on the screen while there were plenty of underage kids (pre-teen) around. While there are many people who are okay with that, some people in the bowling alley just looked uncomfortable. Parents should never have to worry about exposing their kids to explicit material when going to a bowling alley. Just keep that in mind. The building itself is clean and tidy, however, the customer service just needs a little improvement. Our experience has discouraged us from coming here in the near future but perhaps someday we will again. Perhaps we were just unlucky to come here at the wrong time. read more

We were from out of town and playing 2 hockey games this past Saturday. We needed something to do between games so we went to Spare Time for some food and fun between games. The food was surprisingly good, although a bit slow to come out. Admittedly we had a very large group. The service was incredible and every staff member was happy and extremely attentive to our group. They provided our group with a play package for games, laser tag and bowling. I thought the prices were very reasonable. Great place to come for a team building event or for a family night of fun. read more

This place is horrible for a number of reasons. First, the new design has tables and seating for each line right on top of the lane next to it. Given this, you would think they would spread people out when it isn't busy, but instead, they put everyone right on top of each other. We actually thought a random family was taking our stuff but they were ultimately moving it because they assumed WE were in their lane (nope, just insufficient space). Next, the staff here is extremely unpleasant. Add to that the fact that their prices are ASTRONOMICAL for a freaking bowling place, and you get a combination of unpleasant events that means we will not only be back, but have taken every opportunity to share this experience with other people. FIVE OTHER FAMILIES have echoed this, which leads me to believe the positive reviews on this site are fake or from friends/family of the owners. IT COST $50 FOR 3 PEOPLE TO PLAY ONE GAME! ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND? IT'S BOWLING! Don't even bother if you plan to play laser tag. And forget free shoe rentals or properly working ball returns and computers. THIS PLACE IS A JOKE! read more