Ice Complex

This is a great place for a fun family activity. Open year round and the staff is helpful and friendly. I agree with an earlier poster that the ice should be more supervised. Parents: Do NOT allow your children to intentionally pothole the ice! The bathrooms and other facilities need some upgrades and attention, but otherwise it is wonderful.

I’ve been skating here several times. The staff is always really nice. I’ve also been to a Havoc hockey game here. It was really crowded but it was still enjoyable to watch the team play.

Let’s start with the skates: since I don’t ice skate often, I depend on rented skates. These things were worse than the worst pair of bowling shoes I’ve ever seen! They were beaten up beyond belief and they had no hockey skate over size 11. I’m still not sure what to think about that, much less what to review about that facet. Perhaps an update coming later.
We got there about forty minutes after it opened on a Sunday afternoon, and the ice was already ripped to shreds. Let me give some suggestions on how this may have happened: unsupervised little brats who wanted to throw snowballs and or knock people over. Yes, I did yell at an eight year old chump who was scraping the ice with his skate to make a snowball. Could I have caught him when he skated off with it later? Not in any good way. Surely there was someone there whose job was to supervise. I know the Decatur/​Pointe Mallard ice complex has this feature, and so should Huntsville.
Another possibility is from the even more annoying but less ill-​intentioned ankle biters holding onto giant plastic stands. More to the point, several little ice rats scraping and dragging along on these things with their heads down.
There must be a better time to go, but I was almost tempted to try to bribe somebody to let us go onto the other pristine rink, which I suspect was being used for ice hockey or some similar pursuit.