Ice Centre At the Promenade

Nice arena for sure. It’s no APEX but it’s a great place to watch Hockey. I really don’t mind this venue at all. I’ve seen CSU collage hockey here and it’s cool. Just make sure to eat before you go. The bar here Benders just sucks

I’ve skated here sense I was a kid. Including lessons and just hanging out with friends. Every coach I’ve had here has been amazing and I love going there. I’ve forced boyfriends to go before and made them love it. I’ve been to other rinks and they’re okay but this place seems more professional then any others in the area. I can’t say much for their hockey program but I’ve been in their figure skating program for years and it’s amazing! If you’re looking for a private figure skating coach, I recommend Colette.

Just witnessed the biggest crock of crap at the Ice Centre at the Promenade I have ever seen in a sports game… One of my boyfriend’s teammates got tripped, went feet up in the air, and landed on his head/​neck. While he is laying there, not moving, a player from the other team is swatting at him with his stick to try and knock the puck away, which wasn’t even there. The Refs did NOTHING!!! Then, the next play, the same guy got tripped AGAIN, yet again, NO CALL!!! These refs are ridiculous! They get paid to come out and watch their friends play, and NEVER call anything on them. This follows a game several weeks ago where, again, the refs called nothing. The captain of our team e-​mailed a complaint to the director of hockey and the guy never even acknowledged the email. The hockey director at the ice center at the promenade is WORTHLESS in his position and needs to be fired before someone gets seriously hurt! Please share this, so that something can be done!

Came in on a Saturday night for a free skate. The price was really good — under $ 10 for the whole time including rentals and a locker. The place was clean, and had an adjoining bar to get a drink afterwards.

This is my favorite sheet of ice to skate at in Denver. I’ll drive the distance until another place pops up. Until I save up enough for a hockey season, i will continually come here for public session to skate and clear my head on weekends. i like the ice and its not so crowded either. I just put on a pair of headphones and do my laps. Wish I could live close to here though. Tons of families come out here and I see a bunch of dads and their kids on the ice. Fun place to walk around too even across the bridge. You have places to eat and a movie theater as well. Keep up the good job guys!

So very torn about the Ice Centre
On one hand, it is an amazing facility. Three sheets of ice, lots of programs and leagues. A good pro shop on site. A functional Bar and restaurant on site that looks down onto one of the rinks, that is a great way to watch a game, or to go to after a game. It is in a good location, right off the highway, with tons of other amenities nearby.
On the other hand, the leagues they have can be incredibly frustrating. Crazy late times for starts of games, You can sign up for a Tuesday league, and have games changed to a Saturday for no reason. You can even have playoff games moved. The league levels have a tendency to have very little correlation to the actual skill level of the league. For instance, if you are a C1 player and you want to play on Tuesdays, and there is only C7 leagues on that day, guess what, you are a C7 player. There seems to be little to no policing of this.
This place is so close to being very good, but they just seem like they are on autopilot and don’t care that much.

This is the nicest ice facility in Denver. Not the best ice but pretty good.
For the most part the people that play in the adult leagues here are not a bunch of goons, which is nice because we all want to be in one piece at the end of the game. The refs seem pretty fair and even for the most part, although I have run across some bad ones. Everything here is clean and well maintained.
One thing I’m not overly happy about though is that they are really strict during rec skates about aids for the kids who are learning. They don’t allow them. I understand why that is but it’s still irritating. Their main reasoning from what I can tell is that they want you to put your kid in a class. Understandable from a business standpoint but irritating as a parent who can actually teach his kid to skate.

Rink is very nice for viewing events. Staff is always rude. Hockey leagues are ran below average, and usually unorganized. They try to run everything electronically which is great, but on a sub-​par infrastructure. I had to submit payment multiple times because of a «network error», and the stats they claim are live updating typcailly take a week to update. The kids skating programs have the potential to be great, but they cram them full, so you typically have 40 – 50 kids on the ice with 10 – 15 kids per teacher. Not great for 4 year olds, especailly when paying $ 80 per session (5 lessons).
But they do have a nice facility with three rinks… could be worse I guess.

Ice Center (formally Sun Ice) is a really nice rink. The glass is not scratched, the ref’s are fair, the seats are plentiful and they give you free water when you play.
Minus one star as Jackson’s Hole service is very, very slow.

One of the best-​run ice rinks I’ve seen, period. I thought I saw it all while skating and playing over some four years at the a2ice3 in Ann Arbor, another of just a handful of facilities with three year-​round rinks. But the ‘Cube sits alone a few miles outside of town, surrounded by parking lots, marshes, and the interstate.
The Ice centre, on the other hand, is within a complex of restaurants, a cineplex, comedy club, a decent thai restaurant (see future review), all just a very short stroll away. And attached to the ice rinks is Jackson’s, not especially noteworthy (other than the very sweet red-​headed woman who tends bar on w/​ends and some very nice servers, e.g., Tricia), but a totally convenient locale just upstairs to have a few microbrews with the boys and girls after the game.
Hockey player that I am, I especially like the year-​round adult co-​ed leagues: really well organized, well officiated, and lots of skill levels to suit nearly everyone (and luckily only a handful of a-​holes who take the games and themselves far, far too seriously). Game results and team and individual stats are updated weekly on the Centre’s website (
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The 21-​game season has just ended and it’s all playoffs through the end of the month.
And just because the locker rooms are clean, doesn’t mean I use the showers. There are limits.

Three sheets of ice with decent locker room facilities make this the nicest public rink. Playing hockey here is deluxe. Having played in MDC rinks in Boston, this place kicks butt.
Jackson’s Hole bar overlooks the Green rink so you can showboat. Blue rink is the center stage one though. It is best when you have spectators for your game. Red is dungeon-​like.
At least the showers work and aren’t too nasty or crowded.

They have very nice ice but are a little far from town. Overall the arena is fun because they have stadium height ceilings and big open ice, but this place is usually crowded. The shop here is helpful and friendly though their selection is pretty limited. If I lived in the area I would frequent this rink.