Raymonds Bowling

We had our sons birthday party here yesterday, and it was by far the worst birthday party experience we’ve ever had. Upon arriving we were informed that we would be sharing a larger party room with another party. We told them that we didn’t want that and ended up instead getting a private room that ended up being tiny and couldn’t accommodate everyone so half of our guests had to sit outside the room. We had 15 children, plus parents. When the children started arriving at the scheduled start time, our party room still wasn’t ready so there was nowhere to put gifts. There was absolutely no direction what so ever so nobody knew if they were supposed to get shoes or wait until our party host told us to do so. I finally just started getting the shoes for the children and had to find our party host to tell her to get the kids started on bowling 20 minutes after our scheduled start time. They did still allow us our full 2 hour party time, however when you have 15 5 – 6 year olds waiting to do something they don’t keep their attention very well. The party host was clearly overwhelmed and management should highly consider scheduling more help for larger parties because she could not handle it all on her own.

Been bowling here for over 25 years since they were at the original building on the river! The bowling alley is modern and very well kept. The staff, including the front desk, snack bar and bartenders are also outstanding! They make your visit very plesent!

Phenomenal place to bowl and drink. Staff is always friendly and courteous, leagues are always packed. If you looking for a league to join they have it. Great program during the summer where kids can bowl free everyday, love it there.

I often frequent here since I’ve bowled in a few leagues at Raymond’s over the years. The staff is outstanding and friendly, atmosphere is upbeat and family friendly, and the bar is superb. Also love the live entertainment (bands, karaōke, etc) on the weekend.

Nice lanes, good bar with a decent selection. But when we twister requested a second lane for six people, we were told the others next to is were reserved. An hour later, and only starting our second game, the two adjacent lanes remain empty. Basically, they’d rather tie up a single lane for two hours and probably hope we keep buying food, than letting us play on two lanes when there was absolutely no wait.
Note: Everybody Does Not Love Raymond’s

This place lacks in many ways, but its about what I expected given the area.
The bar is ok, and the bowling lanes are ok too. The thing that really lack here is customer service. With the bar– expect to get ignored because you aren’t a local or the bar tenders friend. Drinks are okay and food is edible. Music is pretty loud in the middle of the day…
With the lanes, expect to wait and be put on the back burner because of all the leagues. The prices are good though!

Well, there are plenty of scary and dirty bowling joints in the Midwest. Raymond certainly does not fit that category. As far as facilities go, it is clean and well kept. It is a bit on the smaller side.
The bar is packed with locals who don’t appear to be there to bowl. The bartender was very friendly and made a great G&T. Drinks were cheap, too!
Unfortunately service at the bowling counter was lackluster. Mr. Smiles could use a few lessons on customer service. He seemed to be annoyed and was not helpful. Telling us the 6 of us couldn’t get 2 lanes because of a league would be fine… if a league was actually taking up those lanes next to us. Instead we spent a long time trying to get through the games on one lane, while watching the lanes next to us go unused.
Perhaps they wanted us to hang around longer to buy more food, perhaps they wanted to get even more people in on that lane. Whatever the case, perhaps I’ll pick a different bowling place next time we go out.

I’m a fan because it gives the burgers something to do :)
Not only does the bar have darts but the «wild side» is way fun. Biggest problem? The wait is FOREVERRRRRRRR… but send me to the bar to hangout and mingle with all my old high school chums and have some cocktails – you won’t hear a complaint outta me.
Cheers to Raymonds for sticking out like a sore thumb in the town, but providing another place to drink aside from ½ X –AND for something else to do… while staying in the «village»
:)

We went here for a friends birthday the other weekend and we just had the best time.
We wanted to bowl in the wildside area and there were two lanes open – but at different ends. So we decided to wait. It was about a 45 minute wait and we did that in the bar. What a NICE bar for a bowling alley. Some people were just there to drink – no bowling at all! We ordered some shots ($ 2 special – not shabby! and some appetizers). GREAT food and service.
We also found out that they have a special called 2 for $ 20. It is 2 games of bowling, 2 beers, and 2 appetizers for two people. Not shabby!