Carousel Family Fun Center of Whitman

This place is a solid roller rink straight out of 97′. They have plenty of floor space, a convenient snack bar, and a killer disco ball.
Facility was clean and well-​kept, skates felt clean and didn’t smell (specifically saw attendant disinfecting returned skates, which is always a good sign).
They have plenty of space for skating! There were probably 25 skaters on the floor at a time tonight, and it just barely felt crowded (and this was mostly with kids who were flinging themselves on the floor for… fun?).
Which brings me to my next point: the mean age of the skaters there was probably 15 years old. Tons of 12 – 16 year-​olds, some elementary age kids. Very few adults (except for those parents who were sitting off to the side watching), and no 20-something’s. Needless to say, my friend and I felt just a tad out of place.
The music is loud and creates a fun atmosphere. Overall good music was played, mostly top hits but some 90’s Linkin Park was tossed in.
I didn’t get anything from the snack bar, but their menu looked fairly extensive, offering pizzas, wings, cotton candy, slush puppies and the like.
One star docked because the staff didn’t make much effort to contain the tweens who were intentionally flopping on the ground and smashing into walls, which took away from the otherwise fun atmosphere.
I think I’d come back???

It’s a skating rink.

The Carousel Family Fun Center has found it’s way into the endless rotation of kids birthday parties recently among my sons classmates. He actually had his party there as well and I have to say I was very impressed with the job they do.
The place is a little old and needs some updating, but they do a nice job running their kids parties.
The pizza is great, I think they make it in house fresh which is good.
Games are sometimes broken and run down, but you’re there to skate, not play games (as I tell my son!).

Great place for us novice skaters to learn and have fun. It’s spacious, clean, affordable and kid-​friendly. I like that adults can choose between roller and in-​line skates. My daughter took a break from skating & played in the arcade area. Cafeteria serves pizza, fries etc. (what do you expect, people? It’s a roller skating rink).
All in all a fun, neighborhood place. Can’t wait to go back.

I have been happily skating at this rink for a number of years. It is clean, family-​oriented, and well maintained. My adult children loved coming here, and I was happy to bring my grandchildren.
Unfortunately, this year when I brought my 5-​year-​old granddaughter, I was told they would no longer tighten the wheels so that she wouldn’t keep falling. How handy that for an additional $ 5 we could rent this contraption to help her. It was unstable and she couldn’t skate more than 3 feet without falling — wasn’t like that last year when her wheels were tighter. She ended up crying, bruised and very unhappy.
I think this establishment is putting the buck ahead of safety.
I will not be bringing my grandkids back until they know how to skate, rather than bringing them here to learn.

Just recently had my daughter’s 7^th birthday party here and there were no complaints from the party-​goers! But of course they aren’t paying 15.95 per kid for skating, pizza, & soda! Ehhh worth the $$ the kids had a blast… That being said watch your shoes! The birthday girl had to leave in socks bc her shoes disappeared, only to turn up 3 days later in the lost & found, which I am grateful for. Overall the kids had fun we would definitely come back for a pizza night or another child’s party, we won’t have another party here again a little too stressful!

Over the last few months as my girlfriend becomes more involved in the world of Roller Derby I’ve been there to lend moral support. Joining her when I can to experience the fun! If you have read any of my recent reviews of other skating rinks you’ll find that I’ve enjoyed most of the places we’ve visited. But tonight I think I will say that this was the best location for my personal taste.
Roll-​On-​America and Skateland were both great but most people who go there are above average to very advanced skaters. Usually you’ll end up getting lapsed by 4-​year-​olds who can spin and twirl like a pro. Here I felt among my peers watching as they too stumbled, fell and had the occasional face-​plant.
It’s hard to compare one rink from the next because most share the same characteristics: a rink, rental skates, arcade, galactic snack shack and loud music. Here things seemed a bit more organized that any of the others. During the 2:00 — 4:30pm «Open Session» three birthday parties, I think, were occurring. Either each party didn’t have a lot of people in attendance or Carousel did a great job of rotating floor time for each group. A large portion of the «open session» the rink had more than enough space to move around. Sure you had to dodge the one kid that couldn’t stay up for more than two-​seconds but it was great for a beginner like me to feel like I wasn’t going to get in anyone’s way.
Another great thing here is that during the open session two games were played: a freeze game and «lucky spot» game. Each game would have 4 winners who would get a cool keychain! Rock on! It’s mostly for the kids of course but it was nice to see adults participating as well. In addition, if you have a birthday here more than likely you’ll also get to do the hokey-​pokey with «Buttons the Bear.»
Prices here are about the same as any of the other rinks I’ve gone to: $ 7.00 admission, $ 3.00 skate rental. Concessions are pretty inexpensive; However, I overheard a customer complain that there was no free water in the rink. In addition, earlier in the day I heard the same man say, «I got 19 french-​fries for $ 2.50?!» Of course you cannot please everybody but I think that this is the best place for your buck.

This place is attractive due to the location, friendly employees, frequent customer card and parking. Now that all the good has been thrown down i will explain the rest. I find it false advertisement when you call Wednesday nights «All you can eat Pizza» and then only set certain times pizza will be available and hence making people wait. As an emotionally fat person who cant get enough pizza this puts a real cramp on my style. Its hardly all you can eat if there has been nothing supplied to you. I also understand its winter and heat cost big $$$$ but lately i go in there and people are wearing snow hats and gloves. I actually envied them. This place is so cold that it actually made my entire body hurt. All in all the place is still OK, but with a few things changed i could be great. So PS remember to bring your hats and gloves to keep the young ones nice and warm!
6÷20÷11 UPDATE** all you can eat pizza night has changed to 2 free slices/​drink

I’m not a big roller skater. But if I’m going to roller skate, this is the one place in greater Boston I’d consider. It’s clean, the crowd isn’t rough. Easy parking. Frequent customer card is nice, 5 visits and the next one is free. The DJ plays the usual music you’d expect. Roller World in Saugus and Chez Vous in Dorchester are actually closer to my house, but I still prefer this place. Better crowd here than you see in the other places.