Great bowling facility. It has been years since I have been in here and it looks amazing. The lanes are clean and it looks like newer furniture and tabletops. The house balls are a bit rough, so look for the smoother ones. Our group orders up a couple of thin crust pizzas that tasted good and hit the spot. Though, I felt like I need to wash my hands between bowls. The service was great in the beginning but once the "League Players" showed it was really busy. So if you have an issue with your lane it might be like pulling teeth to get it fixed. Overall, this is a beautiful bowling facility. Did I mention they have a full service bar? It can be a great place to watch a game or a grab a drink during play. How to be back soon. read more

Valley Center Bowl - Looks like a major upgrade since I have been here. - Bowling Near Me - Salinas, California

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I had a good time! Went with a group from my church. Handful of adults and a dozen high schoolers. We paid for a group package with pizza and soda which was a smart idea. No hassles with ordering and they brought it out on time. With the package it's by time not by the game, you can get in around 2 1/2 games in. After we finished they came out and cleaned up the tables. Overall a good couple of hours. Last words...good fun. read more

The guys working the counter were nice. The girl with the disgruntled eyelashes needs more customer service training. Be approachable, not closed off. It's in your job description to answer questions from customers. This place gets busy regardless of the day and it has an old school style. A good amount of tables. Separate bar area closed off with a door. Drinks are not strong so you're better off with a beer read more

Best bowling alley on the coast ! It is clean, with super friendly attentive staff! On the coast you have two choices one in Monterey and one in Salinas. This one shines between the two . We will go out of our way to come back here! The facilities were in great working order including all the screens and lanes. We were impressed to see things running so smoothly with excellent customer service ! Way to go Valley Bowl! read more

Valley Center Bowl - people playing a game of bowling - Bowling Near Me - Salinas, California

My friends and I have been bowling on and off here for the past couple years and have come to love it so much. This past Friday, I forgot my phone after walking out and ran back in. The crew behind the counter had kept it safe and even answered an incoming phone call from my mom to let her know that they had it safe and to try to get a hold of me so I could come back. Thank you Valley Center! :) read more

I came here to meet up with an old friend LA. There's a bar inside the bowling alley. It's no frills. Ordered a blood orange hefe out of SLO which was quite tasty. The bowling alley was rocking. Bar area pretty intimate. Like you can have a conversation with friends. Totally would come back to this place. Great for friends and fam. Service might be hit or miss but don't worry it's a small town place. Order the pizza and fries. You won't be disappointed. read more

Valley Center Bowl - Bar - Bowling Near Me - Salinas, California

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First time visit, pleased to see people enjoying themselves! Bowling lanes were busy with people enjoying bowling and time together over the holiday time. The fun center has a lot of options. As one walks in, the food area is to the left with counter seating. Next to that is the entrance to the bar. It was lit well with sports on the television. Some seating available. A well stocked bar. Bartender was pleasant sort. The front desk had three people that were busy and seems to be engaged in helping make the place run well. Good to know they are keeping things clean but it might be a good idea to keep the several bins for clearing not on the side counter but put more out of sight. Parking is close by. We walked from the froyo place a few doors down to check out the center. Bowling is one of my favorite activities. This place was inviting and I will return. read more

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This is a great bowling alley. Always clean and friendly staff. Plenty of balls to loan out. My son celebrated his 5th birthday here. They even gave him a new ball for his birthday. They also gave him a lesson on how to bowl.. I have entertained here at many North High Sober Grad parties over the years. It's a perfect venue for large parties. The seniors all had a great time. read more

Valley Center Bowl - 5th birthday party - Bowling Near Me - Salinas, California

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Great family spot, old school but everything functions very well, food is ok, custom service is good and we had a great time every time we have gone. Bar service great greats and has great customer service read more

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My son attended two of his friend's birthday parties here so we decided to have his 8th birthday here. Even though they were packed, they still fit us in for a Saturday in September. The staff are so nice! He even got everything set up with our Super Mario decorations snd balloons. He made sure all the pizza and drinks were timed to come out right on time. We brought ice cream sherbets and two cakes. The staff stored it for us and brought it out along with any requests for more ice tea and water. My son and all his guests enjoyed everything about this place! Bowling was great with all the guests including adults playing along with us too! We definitely want to recommend Valley Center Bowl as one of the top venues in Monterey County for a kids bday party! read more

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check-in was quick & easy! It's was just two of us and we orders food & drinks and everything was great. We went on a Friday night around 7PM. read more

Valley Center Bowl - bowling alley - Bowling Near Me - Salinas, California

Had my son a small birthday party here, and it was great. Customer service was excellent. Liam and Ashley made it a great day. You can tell they have high standards for who works here. Great place to have a kid's party. Not too pricy either which is a huge plus. Would come again. read more

Terrible bar service, literally was sitting at the bar waiting to perchase a round a beers and bar tenders are literally going to every other customer (5 to be exact) and serve them before me. While i have been standing at the bar before each of them. read more

Amazing service all around!! The food was amazing! Nick is an amazing bartender, literally went to the other room to get me water! His grace and kindness was so pleasant! Dorris from the food area was so kind and informative to me. I never ended up ordering food from her area but her kindness and sweetness should not go unmarked! Amazing experience! 10 read more

Managament is very friendly and welcoming. Service and pizzas were a 10/10 and will definitely be coming here more often!

fun spot to hangout and have fun.. chill vibe with lots of friendly people. read more

Valley Center Bowl - crazy 8 champions - Bowling Near Me - Salinas, California

So disappointed that the customer service here is so bad. Many of the young woman at the front desk have a bad attitudes. Ive been here 3 times in the last couple of months for birthdays and family time and I'm over the bad service. Most of the employees are not helpful, rude and brush you off when asking for assistance. During our last visit, we bowled with 6 hungry kids and ordered pizza, chicken strips, cheese sticks and a picture of soda. 25 min later 1 game is almost at an end and still no food. My sister from out of town went to check on the order and they said it would be 20 to 30 more minutes. They obviously forgot about our order without admitting to it. I asked for a refund since our game was already over and the kids were too hungry to wait. The woman who refunded my debit card said I should see it within a few days, which I did however they refunded the amount minus the $2.00 tip. ?? I called the bowling alley on 3/6/19 regrading this. They gave me to a young man who said he was the manager. I'll do him the courtesy of not putting his name on blast. He said that I should have told the worker to refund my total plus the tip and that I should have crossed out the tip during the refund process. ummm? 1st, I was never informed that I needed to ask for a refund of my tip for services/ food I NEVER received. 2nd: I was never shown my original receipt during the refund process. Was I supposed to guess that this is how they "REQUIRE" you to get a full refund?? I advised him to avoid this happening to other customers by training the staff to inform their customers that they need to "cross out" the tip when requesting a refund (on food /services never received.) Ridiculous? He was loud, talking a mile a minute, talking over me, and failed to take any accountability of the matter which in my opinion is that what they did was just wrong. He even was as rude to say, "it's only $2.00." WOW- sorry young man, but please don't think for a second that this is about the $2.00 dollar amount. What this is to me, is that it is wrong to assume customers need to go through this. How many customers has this happened to that have not caught it? We got forgotten about, we didn't receive food yet they felt entitled to keep my tip and not refund my full debit amount? Then, to be treated in such a rude manner to be made felt that it's the customers fault/responsibility to "cross out their tip" during refund process... all unknowingly? Bad, bad customer service experience. read more

Amazing customer service, really nice and helpful, our lane was having technical difficulties and they made it right. Thank you!

I needed a place to take the family for some fun for a couple of hours. I had the kids at home for the holidays and we needed to get out for the morning. The place was clean, not too busy, the service was friendly, and we paid around 30 bucks for an hour and 4 shoes. It was our first time bowling as a family, and none of us bowl regularly so I don't know if the lanes or balls are regulation or how the facilities would compare to other alleys. But I'm glad we came here. We all agreed we need to come here more often. read more

If you have any allergies and plan to do a party or group. DO NOT GO HERE! they do not have any gluten free options and do not allow outside food even for allergy's. read more

Bartender Stevie was very rude, snatched my ID out of my hand, and gave an attitude when asked if they served pitchers of beer, and was rude, scoffing when asked pricing of 16oz and 22oz beers on tap. Do not come here if he is bartending. He will treat you like you, the customer, is a burden. read more

Night staff is always being attentive to their customers! Especially Peter, always making special requests. read more

Valley Center Bowl - Peter makes the best chavelas! Never disappoints! Bomb.com cheers! - Bowling Near Me - Salinas, California

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The manger here tried to pretend like "he's the owner " and replies to the comments. It's sad because we don't know who the owner is and if he's being taken advantage of by this rude unprofessional guy who really shouldn't be running a business. This place doesn't have the highest stars here in Yelp and it speaks for itself. Replying to my previous experience by lying and exaggerating just proves to show what kind of person is running this business. It is very unfortunate Because Salinas Valley bowl is nostalgic and a piece of history here in Salinas being ruined by one person. Even the police officers who have came out agreed that the management is poor and they wouldn't bring their children here. They also advised that maybe the news would like to know about it and make a news report about the specific horrible service that was given and how it ruined a young kids birthday party. However , the manager here can continue to lie and make excuses all he wants for his miserable attitude being projected onto others. But he can't take away that people love bowling and as long as he's not around , people have a good experience here. read more

I remember when this place was hella whack back in the day! But now they remodeled EVERYTHING!! I like what they did with the place. Bowling balls are well taken care off, compared to back in the day. They remodeled the back area to be family friendly. A lot of arcade games for the kids. Bar is nice for the adults. Large TVs and really clean. One bartender is really nice. Really friendly and cater to your needs. It's a little pricey but they have deals throughout the week. Pool table are actually the same as it was before. I used to just play pool since there were no pool halls in town. Tables are okay, but should be better taken care of. Limited pool sticks and no chalks! LOL! Overall, the place is great for family and friends. Since they remodeled it, it's actually a good place to hang out. read more

Horrible service for parties. You practically have to be on them every minute to get things done. read more

Valley Center Bowl - Bowling Near Me - Salinas, California

I came here to have a great time but the customer service was terrible. I ordered two pizzas but they only brought one to my lane. I told them they were missing one but claimed they had already delivered which they hadn't. Plus they don't hand out receipts so they completely robbed me. My lane also did not work mid way so they wasted thirty minutes of my time and later they didn't want to recompensate the time. Lastly no specific people stood out although the Caucasian Male with black hair and female with blonde hair along with the lady at the food counter all three presented a very hostile and negative attitude when I requested for my other pizza, time, or an exchange in prize when the teen male did not understand or hear the color I wanted. Great food and bowling but mean staff. read more

I know the owners of this establishment, and they are very nice hard working people. But, there are a couple of issues, and I would be doing them an injustice to not mention them: First, the arcade games are always down. Any given visit we lose an average of 10 tokens because machines don't function. We have also experienced problems with the ticket counter, when my son put over 50 tickets into it and it failed to give him a receipt. The staff was difficult to find to get assistance, and when we finally did talk to someone, he seemed very indifferent. On the bright side however; the bowling lanes are great! Newly refreshed, with new seating. I would like to see a larger variety of ball weights though... 12 pound max just doesn't work for men. All in all, if you are looking for a fun time bowling and having a few drinks with friends, this is the place to be... Just stay clear of the arcade. read more

Poor management.... Me and my kids went bowling. Me had lane 25.. We were in the middle of a game. Were asked to moved lanes.. So we moved to lane 26 .. We had about 4 problems with that lane.. System frozen, balls getting jammed, pins fallng down.. .. We spent most of time going to the front desk than playing... When the game ended. We asked to speak to the manager. I thought he would compensate for all the trouble... All he said he doesn't understand why he had to do that... And if wanted to play I had to for it... Really bad service.. And poor management decisions.... read more

the place is unclean. the microphone and stereos were too loud, approaches were not clean, machines broke down multiple times across the bowling alley, it looks like they put more effort in there arcade than the bowling alley itself. the arcade is the highlight of the place, although I don't suggest getting any prizes cause non of them are interesting. it's 20$ for an hour of pool which means 10 dollars for an hour of pool. really. the bowling alley smells bad and is hot inside. it just looks bad to. I do not suggest to go here, or from valley center to ever hold a tournament as there is hardly any room for bowlers to move around read more

Had a Birthday party there last night, and the staff was very nice, food was ok, lots of kids running through the bowling lanes, preventing folks from bowling, spoke with parents about, their answer was they are kids, that's what they do! Staff also was told along with security, and nothing was done read more

Cool place to hang out with friends and family. They have a food court , bar area and an arcade for kids. 2 pool tables which are pretty cheap.and not levelled. Place is big. Staff is friendly. They recently upgraded their screens and seats so its nice touch read more

We went bowling friday night and had the best time ever. Thank you to the employees that work there they were very friendly and helpful and nice i can't wait until we get to go again read more

There's always one guy with long hair in a man bun who is always such a sweetheart and has nice service for us every time we come in. I wish I could remember his name but excellent service! He even gave us an extra 5 minutes for us to finish our exciting game! Love this place!!! read more

It's one of the best places to hang out in Salinas. However, for both bowling and pool this place charges way too much. For bowling: There are always lanes open and there are several days with great discounts to go. For pool: Charges way too much! Pretty crappy tables and crooked house cues. If there were more alternatives for entertainment in Salinas then I would have rated this place 1 star lower. read more

The people that work at this establishment are horrible. We came to bowl from Manteca with the Junior Adult Travel League. Prices were super inflated, the lanes were oily, the staff was rude (especially management) they let people bowl on the lanes on both sides of us. Rude, condescending, inconsiderate, disrespectful, and lame. $5.25 per game, $29.95 to bowl per hour. If you want to come bowl where you will be treated with respect come to Manteca. Don't waste your time here. read more

Valley Center Bowl - Two buffer lanes between league bowlers and recreational bowlers is common courtesy, and standard practice. - Bowling Near Me - Salinas, California

Awesome bowling alley the lanes are well taken care of as well as the arcade. I highly recommend this place the prices are very cheap. I don't however recommend eating here Maybe plan to eat before or after coming here the food is very generic nothing special but a fun place to bowl read more

This place has some stiff competition with round one but I think this bowling alley is still dope. They definitely got round one beat on the food it's a lot better. The arcade is good and they ha good prices for your tickets. the alleys are always working and in good condition. read more

Have gone here about three times in 20 years. The last time a few months ago with my 18 yr daughter. It was an ok evening. It was the first time I went in a week end night. There was a definite unsavory element here in the later evening. When we went to the parking lot we smelt pot burning and saw more of the unsavory element. It's just Salinas I guess. It what we have to put up with here. We usually do nothing in the town and go to marina or monterey. read more

The bartender is a rude bitch. And threw my wife's debit card at her after charging our drinks. Will never return

This place gave terrible service! I've had so much better at other bowling alleys! The workers gave off a lazy mood & the food court opens at 5 yet nobody was even working at 5 and I had to wait an hour to get food that was nasty and put together lazy! They served food that was loaded with sauce when it should of been limited and they offer no refunds. Overall, it was just horrible service from the employees. I would recommend looking for another local alley for all who decided to go bowling. read more

Valley Center Bowl - Bowling Near Me - Salinas, California

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