Brunswick Zone Lowell Bowl

Usually come here on a Wednesday or Thursday night for the unlimited bowling deals, never had a complaint. Went there last night on a Tuesday for a change and it felt like all the screws had totally come undone. There was a new bartender it seems and the line to wait for a drink was always at least 4 people deep at a minimum. The blonde woman who usually works the bar is always fast, kind, and efficient. Never any complaints from her. This newer older man was horribly slow, to the point that it took me at least 20 minutes to get a beer the first time, and I left my group waiting for me to take my turn. Never had an issue with grabbing a drink before last night. The second time I tried it was so slow I just gave up and continued bowling.
Most people we only ordering draft beers, something that doesn’t take much time to prepare at all. At one point another waitress yelled «you good?» to him in my ear as about 6 of us waited in line and he replied with yes. Not sure why nobody else jumped in or tried to cut the line down. There was nobody else in the actual lounge, just a couple people who wanted some beers. No excuse why it should have taken that long to be honest. I usually love this place and their prices are good and it’s a fun environment, but tonight was a real bummer.

Great place for family fun, but I agree with a below commenter, expect the staff to be… surly, perhaps they just don’t want to be there.
Get past the front desk and you can have a TON of fun, children and adults alike!
Food can be ordered from the café, vending machines with food and drinks and televisions everywhere!
Super clean and plenty of parking, and easy to find!

Fun place, cheap prices, $ 4 beers, great for bringing kids! Customer service? What a joke. I called because I had a question about a certificate I got for free bowling with up to 6 people (very old certificate and has no expiration date I must’ve gotten it when I was 7) I asked if it would still be redeemable and the lady over the phone (didn’t get a name) was trying to tell me there was an expiration date and sounded rude and In a hurry like she had more things to do and didn’t wanna put up with my question and said frustratedly «I’D HAVE TO LOOK AT IT» which made me write this review. Why are your employees rushing people on the phone who have an actual question? All the front desk people do is take money, set up your lanes and give you your shoes. That’s not hard nor stressful so idk what her problem is but don’t bring it into your work environment towards customers who don’t deserve it. I didn’t wanna make a bad review on Brunswick cause this place is a very fun and cool place but the attitude I got on that phone call too me was unacceptable.

I like that place very much people who Work there are very helpful I had a lot of fun overthere and its not as expensive as other bowling centers and it wasnt crowded

Cool place to hangout. Cosmic bowling is fun.

My friends and I bowl here, but only because we enjoy bowling, not because this is a great place to bowl.
Much of the staff is down-​right surly. The equipment is often faulty: pin setters that don’t put down a full rack of pins, ball returns that either don’t always return balls or manage to return balls with an additional layer of sticky gunk, foul line sensors that buzz when no one’s standing near them… the list goes on.
It’s pointless to complain to the general manager, because she doesn’t really seem inclined to do anything about it.

Food hasn’t arrived yet and I’ve waited half an hour bowling system got screwed up and is really buggy.

+: updated bowling lanes, lots of flat screen TV’s, cheap good food
make sure to bring socks…

Brunswick Zone is huge. Their Cosmic Night Friday Night deal is a great way to get in a lot of bowling — $ 10 gets you shoes and as much bowling as you can get in for 2 hours. Almost all of the 44 lanes were in use. Unfortunately, there were some problems which prevented us from enjoying it as much as we would have liked.
The layout of the tables and chairs for the alleys is a bit awkward. The tables for each odd-​numbered lane — including the automatic scorer — are on the alley level for the odd-​numbered lanes, and the tables/​scorer for the even-​numbered lanes are on the next level up, behind a rail. Since the automatic scorekeeper can accommodate up to 6 players, and the tables only hold 4, there’s a lot of people standing or sitting at each others’ tables.
The automatic scorer for our lane got screwed up about 6 turns into our first game. It marked someone as having a strike before he bowled (of course he didn’t think that was a problem, lol). When we manually input his score, the program would then copy the keyed-​in score into the next player’s frame. It did this about 6 times, and we finally had to go to the front desk to ask them to make some kind of correction — which worked.
At a later point, we had a situation where the pins were reset and the 8-​pin fell down. When we tried to manually reset it by the button, it did nothing the first time. On the second push, the sweep bar cleared the pins and then never moved. We had to have someone from the desk fix it from behind.
We certainly had a good time and got our money’s worth, but with the layout and the problems we experienced, we’ll be checking other places out as well the next time we bowl.

My favorite bowling alley because it’s the one in my neighborhood that I grew up with and loved going to. Good times!

i feel like brunswicks in lowell, ma is very racist and service is bad. i was there the other day and wanted a 3 lanes for our group of 10 people so we can play more then a few games in the amount of time we have, they told us they dont have enough lanes for us. but when we started to play, about 10 minutes later these two americans kids next to us had 4 lanes between the two. when my friend came in after us and required a lane next to us, they told him, he must have at least 2 people on his lane. i was outrage and told him to just play they cant do anything to you… i go here because i love bowling and its the only one around, so i think they use that to their advantage to do what they like… and this is not the first time that happen, there are many other occasions

Prices are reasonable (especially with coupons, which are easy to find), beer is delicious, and food is not half bad (for a bowling alley). I would give it five stars if there was less WT!

Great place! Lots of fun with their cosmic bowling and an arcade. Newly renovated after the big flood of ’06, it is really a great place to have fun. Tons of leagues from young children all the way up to adult. Leagues for the serious bowler and leagues just to have fun. Having bowled in the leagues here myself for 10 years, I highly recommend this place for it’s great environment.

This place is awesome! It’s been renovated recently (not that it matters because the 70s style is also cool). They have many lanes and it’s all the larger balls. I went here on a date and it was a fun time. There’s a bar/​lounge with a pool table.

Brunswick is good. It’s nice when you want to do something indoors with the kids.
It’s clean and not too expensive.

I’m not a real bowler so when I say that the floor wax they use requires about 3 degrees of rotational offset to accomadate for lack of ball traction then please take me word for it. I used to enjoy going to Brunswick Zone with my friends for weekly bowling. But eventually the crowds, waiting, and occasionally ludicrious pricing (Friday and Saturday night) turned me off. They have a wide selection of balls for you to choose from and classic bowling shoes (no velcro please). The computerized scoring is very convient for you newbs (or basically anyone who isn’t league). Speaking of Leagues, if you happen to go when they are playing than forget about bowling for a while. You’ll have to play DDR or drink in the sullen bar (read: depressing). Fortunately when you are bowling you can drink Sparks and eat french fries. The crowd is usually pretty interesting, a nice mix of obnoxious teenagers and bowling freaks. We used to go on a weeknight and they would play the same 10 music vidoes in constant rotation. On one final note, the Disco Bowling DJ was cool and played Gun’s and Roses.

Fun and entertaining with a group of friends. I agree it was better before the flooding. Now it’s too clean and the old video games are gone.

4 stars for this facility-​BEFORE THE FLOOD!!!
Unfortunatly, this bowling alley sits between swampland, a tributary river, and in front, the Merrimack River.
During the heavy rains of April and May, the water in the swamp area in back of the lanes continued to rise, and eventually the entire neighborhood on Pawtucket Blvd. flooded out, including the Dunkin Donuts next door.
The water was 4 to 6 feet deep in some areas, and since the lanes themselves were a foot or so lower than the floors (you had to step down), once the water came through the doors, it destroyed the lanes and the pinsetters. (Synthetic lanes and computerized scoring had been part of the last $ 4 million dollar renovation a few years back)
Brunswick Corporation owns the house, so insurance claims adjusters were in there immediately accessing damages once the waters receeded.
The lanes are now closed while the damaged equipment is replaced, and they hope to re-​open in September.
League mailers for September signups were in my mailbox yesterday, so it appears that a September reopening is still on target.

This bowling alley is great for those who are on a budget. Being a college student myself, I find this place to be great if you are looking for a fun, inexpensive time. Mondays and tuesdays (9−11PM)are dollar bowling nights where soda, pizza, bowling shoes, and strings of bowling are just a dollar each! In addition, Brunswick also has a lounge with darts, tvs, and pool tables, an arcade, and a full bar with moderately priced drinks. Get there early because waits can be up to an hour for a lane. Don’t worry though, they have the Red Sox games on all the TV sets :) The place is clean, the people are nice, and the crowd varies in age, sex, race, and skill level. EVERYONE CAN HAVE FUN.