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    Wheel Thing Skate Center

    5.0 (1 review)
    Closed 7:00 pm - 9:00 PM
    Updated 2 months ago

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    Sk8 Zone - Nice clean sealed floor; staff helped keep the traffic flowing and we're very attentive to skater safety.

    Sk8 Zone

    3.6(5 reviews)
    57.3 mi

    We had some time to kill before meeting up with family so so we stopped in to skate around. Our…read morelittles loved the smaller area while my husband and I enjoyed the main floor with our older two. The clean sealed wood floor is nice and I was happy to play some familiar games and relive some memories; I even won a free soda playing the number elimination game! The arcade games looked fun but we'll check them out next time as were too busy skating. The staff was very friendly and helpful with the skate renting process. They also carry skates and have catalog available for those looking!!

    We have only been here once so far. We are from out of town. It's 100 degrees and we wanted…read moresomething indoors to do. My son plays roller hockey so we skate a lot. This rink is really nice. Has a big open feeling as there are no walls. You can enter or exit the skate floor from anywhere. That's a big plus for public skating! (No good for hockey). We got two pretzels and cheese. A hot dog. Two Gatorade's and a Mountain Dew fountain, oh and cheese fries. It was priced great. Think $12.50 for it all. I love when places would rather sell quantity at a fair price than price gouging the ones willing to pay. It's great for them with increased sales. And great for the patron with lower prices. We went on a Friday night. No hats were allowed. Kinda weird. Maybe there's gang issues round here? Put my favorite STL Blues hat back in my truck. No biggie. That seems only on Friday making it more interesting. But I'm sure there's a reason. The employees were all really nice at the snack bar. Then we also went to the place they sell skate stuff at. They are raising money for there speed team. My son got some cool tattoos for a dollar each. The girl that helped us was super polite. My son and I have our own skates. My wife got rentals and said, "They were fine." The dining area had ample seating and wasn't crowded even though it was Friday night. They had lockers for 50¢ but we just threw our shoes in some free cubbies. They had an air hockey table. A foosball table and a couple pool tables. Think they were all quarter operated. A kid told me air hockey was 75¢. They also had lots of benches to put on skates. Or for skaters to rest. Parents to watch. Etc. they had many rooms to have birthday parties in as well. There were a few games with prizes during the session too. Like the lucky wall game. And speed skating. We really enjoyed the place and will be back if we are in the area. If we were local we would be regulars for sure. Only downside is no roller hockey. That's a small percentage of the population though. For a place to skate this place is great! (Had to drop a couple stars. Went Friday. It was great. Tried to go back Sunday and it was closed. A sign on the door saying closed Saturday and Sunday. No warning posted a day prior that we seen. Also said it was open during those hours online. A Saturday the 11th of June 2021 would be closed online. Making it more misleading. You expect a place to be open when they say they will. Not waste your time and plans. I read a review that said the only way to know if they are open is to call the day of and listen to the voicemail. I'd recommend that before driving here. We will be back if they are open when we are around again lol. I'll definitely call first and have other plans in case.)

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    Winnwood Skate Center

    Winnwood Skate Center

    4.1(24 reviews)
    77.5 mi

    Nice clean place. We really enjoyed it. The music was good. We're not from this area but my…read moredaughter always ask to come here when we are in town.

    This was not a good roller skating experience, and I've been to a lot of different rinks. 8? 10?…read more This was the lawless rink. I've never been to a rink where they didn't have one or more staff members skating on the rink to ensure safety and enforce rules. They didn't have any staff members anywhere near the rink. And they needed them! I hope they have good insurance! (though they had us sign a waiver before entering, which is the only time I've experienced that at a rink.) It wasn't crowded on the Sunday afternoon that we went, but it was really hard to skate. One kid going the wrong way around the rink, kids and *adults* cutting across the rink instead of going in an oval. One young teen stealing the skate assist device from his younger siblings and then zig-zagging across the rink while they tried to chase him to get it back. One guy doing his dance moves across the path of traffic - dude, go in the middle or a corner! One man standing in the path of traffic doing things on his phone. And then the usual of kids cutting across. The rink also doesn't have a wall around it, which means at any moment someone might decide to cut across as they enter or exit the rink. I'm a good skater, but multiple times I had to skate off of the rink to avoid crashing into someone behaving badly. It made it so not fun. And when people fell down, there was no staff to check they were ok or help them up like at other rinks. I would have given it one star, because I really just didn't want to stay (and I often stay for multiple hours at rinks), but there were some good things. The floor was good, and the price wasn't bad. There were plenty of places to sit. Music was decent though loud. There was a separate little rink for beginner skaters. We were there for the second half of an afternoon session and there were no games or couples skate or anything, and I didn't see any way to request your favorite song. I had to try 3 times to get a decent rental skate (first time they gave me the wrong size, second time one skate had a wheel loose), and the laces were messed up still. There are rinks that are more fun.

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