Let's Bowl / Splitsville Calgary Meridian

Felt a little worn in some areas. I was disappointed they wouldn’t sell me shoes to play. I refuse to wear communal shoes.
Pizza wasn’t very good.
Won’t be back with my family to this alley.

Parking was great.
Bathrooms are so so.
Lanes looks well kept, but again didn’t get to play.

We love coming here, the blacklights on weekend evenings are so fun and they just upgraded all of their software and lane displays. Great staff and good food. Love Karen and the whole team!

Great Group Fun at Let's Bowl on 5 Avenue!

My friends and I, a group of nine, recently visited Let's Bowl on 5 Avenue in NE Calgary, and we had a blast! Taking up three lanes, we found the establishment to be a perfect spot for group entertainment. The atmosphere was lively and inviting, and despite the crowd, the facility maintained a high level of cleanliness, especially the toilets, which is always appreciable.

Service was courteous and friendly, enhancing the experience. The only snag during our visit was the longer than expected wait for our food, which might be something to keep in mind if you're bowling with a rumbling tummy. However, once the food arrived, it didn't disappoint—especially the chicken wings, which were a savory delight!

Let's Bowl on 5 Avenue offers a wonderful mix of fun, food, and friendly competition, making it a recommended destination for anyone looking to strike up some excitement in NE Calgary. Whether you're planning a casual outing or a celebratory event, you're likely to find what you're looking for here. With great amenities and delicious eats, it's a place we'll surely visit again, even with a bit of a wait. Four stars!

Bowling is pretty bleek here. Lanes are okay, and balls are quite bad. Whatever you do, don't get any food. It's all just frozen food, and you'll be paying more than double for it. We had a fairly large group, with vegetarians and nonvegeterians and they would just bring the vege and meat food in one plate. Horrible experience and will never go back. The staff are also very rude. I just wanted a pitcher of water for my group and they made me wait 5 mins to get it.

Fun place, love to go there and spend good time with friends and family.

100% recommend this place to everyone

Awesome fun time! Havnt been bowling in about 2 years and totally loved it. Staff was super friendly and the atmosphere was very nice.

My family has been coming here since I was a child, and now MY kids get to enjoy our love of bowling! The staff are always amazing and very helpful. They are very accommodating and understanding. We were celebrating a birthday on Monday, and they allowed us to adjust our reservation last minute and gave us some additional add-ons to ensure our party enjoyed our time! Never a disappointment, very clean throughout the entire facility and I can't say enough about the staff! 100% best bowling alley in the city!

Unfortunately, my experience at this bowling club was as disappointing as a gutterball! Everything started off well, but when problems arose, the management seemed to think that rolling my concerns to the right wall would solve them. It appears that the only thing more colorful than the balls here was the lack of responsibility from the bowling alley manager!

I've come here a few times with my friends and family. Service here is a hit or miss. Usually they're not the most friendly. I'm not going to lie. The food wasn't too good either but who's expecting high quality food here? Haha
But seriously the service worker here renting the shoes can be so rude sometimes. It's off-putting.
Other than that, it's a fun place to be

I had the best time here. The fun and everything was so lit. I can't wait to come back for more bowling

Always amazing! I've been coming here for legit years, beers are cheap, wings are good and bowling is excellent! Clean, non-smelly shoes, well maintained lanes, and tonight they extended 15 mins so we could finish our game for free! Stellar customer service, always highly recommend!

The place was packed, and it was fun, but poor ball selection and a dirty washroom definitely hurt the experience. The staff could have used a bit more help.

The venue is great for bowling and the service at the food counter is top notch. However, the building is FREEZING. It's like they don't turn the heat on at all, which is exasperated by the fact that you're not wearing shoes while you're in there (if you're not bowling), and the water in the washrooms is freezing. It just makes the experience very uncomfortable.

I am on a bowling league on Thursday Nights at Let's Bowl. The alley is always clean, there is a lounge if you want an alcoholic beverage and a concession serving Pizza Hut pizza.

The individual who runs the till (bald man) was snobby, pretentious, and outrageously rude, the food and bowling make up for it but I will not be taking my family here if this guy will be working. 0 stars for his service, 2 stars for everything else.

The good: it's clean, plenty of parking, serves beers and pizza hut pizzas, bowling is good.

The bad: they don't allow groups to pay individually and so if you're in a big group someone will have to pay and then get the money from everyone else. Pretty tedious in 2019. The staff at the counter were extremely rude.

We'll be looking to try another place next time.

Fun place, lots of lanes with bumpers for the kids that turn off for the adults to even the playing field (would have been more even if my 7yo and I switched). Had fun didn't wait long for a lane can't ask more. Staff was very nice too. If you go with little ones, ask to set up the bumpers and they have 6lb barrels for them too.

Very nice place. We always go here if we ever want to bowl. Weekdays after 9 or 930 *depending if theres a league or not* is always pretty cheap. Staff are usually very friendly, some staff are a bit aloof and condescending at times but, it's worth it. Very clean, pro shop is awesome if you're looking in to getting your own ball.

DO NOT COME HERE. The workers are rude, disrespectful, and racist, especially Amanda. She shouldn't be able to work there. Apparently she is the supervisor, she doesn't know anything about customer service or about just being a human being. I came here for my birthday, I was playing pool, and when I inserted my money in the machine to get the balls it didn't work. So I went up to Amanda to ask if I could get my money back, and she refused to give me my money, even though they have cameras and could see I was telling the truth. She believed I was lying, just because I am of color.

Recently went here for a ladies night, which was a Friday. Totally didnt realize it would be so busy, because honestly wasn't thinking about bowling leagues. The staff was super friendly and made room for us which was great. I personally can't bowl for the life of me and didnt realize the difference in weights which I think the staff could tell and came to help right away. I will definitely return amd hopefully improve on my bowling skills.

Love this place! There is tons of lanes which is awesome because there is lanes for everyone even on league nights! You can easily book your group ahead of time online as well. We love the plastic bags at the front door so you can take your shoes to your lane with you, great little touch. Best place in the city to bowl, highly recommend!

Fantastic little bowling place. Nice lanes, has some pool tables ($2 to play, 2 loonies), and some arcade games.

Great place to hang out with the friends.

Had a good time here, and the staff were friendly.
Edit: when I came the second time, I would say that the staff were less friendly the second time. It was still fun.
They do have gutters and 6 pound balls, helped with the little one we had!

Would like it if the rates were posted somewhere or made visible.
I couldn’t really see these. This would help!

Tried the poutine and waffle fries. Their fries are really good! The size was decent for $7.

They have a small pool room where it is very small and poorly lit and you can't properly plays pool because the machines are broken and requires your ID for a $2 pool game. The machine eat my money twice and the supervisor on site Amanda was annoyingly rude and unhelpful about our problems.

Love this place, don't love that they have so many lanes for teams on Friday nights. We went and they had a 45 minute wait time, so we went to 5-pin at the Bowling Depot near the airport instead.

We had a good sized group and a wonderful time. The only slight downside is that the lanes are timed per hour and not per game but it wasn't a big deal. I would definitely return again!

They should get zero stars. Very poor customer service. I have been going here for a while and always play billiards before pool. The new manager was very rude and would not do cash back so I could get coins to use for the game. Each game is $2.00, I am not going to pay a $2.50 fee at the atm just so I can play a $2.00 game. Very rude.

The worst place for any kind of fun. Not only you don't even see the prices when you get in (the tvs showing the prices were turn off and you just have to listen the staff give you your total without giving you the prices). Also the supervisor on site Amanda is super rude and disrespectful beyond any doubt. She doesn't even want to listen to your side of the story because she doesn't give a damn about it. I don't recommend this place for anyone at least not when Amanda is working.

Worst customer service by cashier. I totally get sometimes you have a bad day and find everyone annoying but still if you are working in a retail environment you have to treat customer. All lines were full we weren't even close to line she turned us away
"lanes are full till 9".
I nicely asked if we can get after 9.

She again replied everything is full.

I kept calm and asked smiling can i please have it after 9 then and if you can write our name somewhere.
She rudely replied there is no point didn't even though to give us any explanation other than first come first serve. E.g. We were ready to pay in advance or i guess this is called reservation.

Its a humble request to specifically that person please try to be nice with people.

We booked 2 lanes for a glow bowling bundle, we had 3 kids each lane for 1hr total bowling. The ages were 12yr, 7yr, 8yr, 5yr, 3yr and adult helper. The balls are big and heavy if you have little ones I reccomend the bowling helper, which is a ramp that an adult sets up and the child pushes the ball so it goes down the lane. We did not know you had to request the gutter rails, it was part way through our game that we found out from the shoe attendant. I feel this should have been asked when we set up the lanes.
The cool feature about the gutter rails however, is they can set the rails to come up based on the player name, so if you have younger playing with older who dont qant the gutter rail it can be programmed to be up for the ones who want and down for the ones who dont, on the same lane!
The front entrance is nuts, there should be a shoe cubby but instead the shoes are just willy nilly and a terrible tripping hazard.
In our bundle we got 1 pop, 1 hot dog and 1 fries for each kid. The pop was a good small not a lame small, the hotdog was a standard small beef hotdog with a plain white bun. The fries were curly cut, they were extremely boring flavoured, you need ketchup for these because they are so tasteless. We also got an order of onion rings and chicken strips, both of those were very good, not overly salty rings and decent sized strips.
The place was clean and the lights were fun, they were not a black light though as almost all of the white and neon green we wore did not glow at all I would guess a uv type light, but the music wasnt too loud and the kids had a great time.

It is a fun place and for a group of 7 well worth the price; service was prompt and friendly. Only downfall was that our game glitched 5 times and would cut peoples turns short and move onto the next player too early, the guys at the service counter were quick to fix it but still a bit inconvenient to have to stop our game and walk over there to get it sorted. The last 8 minutes of the game the pins froze and at this point we were okay to leave so didn’t mention it but still inconvenient, would still come back!

I wanted to book a reservation and I went online to check and it said to call the number. I phone and I ask if I could make a reservation and the lady says no you have to do it online, I told her it does not give me the option to book it online. And she just kept saying no you can so I check again to make sure, and sure it tells me like before to call let’s bowl to book a reservation. I call back and I spoke to the same lady and I told her you cannot book online, she said okay what day we’re you wanting, and I said the day and time to her. The lady rudely goes oh no I have a party coming in and all the lanes are booked for it, which in my mind you guys have so many lanes and one party is taking up all of them, okay.
I just think it’s ridiculous that we can’t book reservations online, and being lied to that you can. Not coming here again.

This is a great gem, frozen in time. Reminds me of when I was a kid and would go bowling with my grandma or have a birthday party at the bowling alley. Which is great. This is why you come here— for that nostalgia and a specific ambiance.

The only disappointing thing is that some of the lanes, and supporting technology, haven't worked well the last couple times I've been there. Glitches, needing employee help to fix things, that sort of thing. But the employees have been awesome, funny, and very helpful every time.

Good pizza, cheap beer, fun times.

Was fun place. Went to get a water and the service was very slow they would rather talk to her friend then service the three people standing in line was about 5 minutes before she even notice us.

Wait an hour for a table in the lounge, to find out it's only pay per hour. For a date night, not ideal. Let us pay for a couple games. Left without playing anything

We visited Let's Bowl on 17th March with a group of friends. First issue is they don't let you take shoes with you to your bowling lane so its always a theft risk. Our fear was realized after we were done bowling. Somebody took off with my wife's shoe. When we went in to report this Bart at the front desk seemed very friendly and said this is a regular occurrence and not to worry. He answered my call couple of days later to confirm the shoe hasn't been returned and to give them couple more days. Its been 10 days now and he stopped taking my call or replying to the text messages. The issue is not about the shoe but the principles. This is pathetic and unforgivable customer service. If they know this is a regular issue why don't they fix it.

Rudest lady ever at the register absolute horrible attitude and the worst is that we were not doing anything wrong, last time we will ever come here for a work event.

Great place to 10 pin bowl, play pool & darts!
If bowling especially Fridays and weekends, call first and make sure no tournament is on. Lanes can be scarce.
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We went to a non neon light night to save money. Got there, and a company paid for the neon lights. So when we paid we were informed we had to pay for the neon lights too.