TomNat Love Review of First Bowl Nottingham
This bowling centre has been neglected for far to ...
This bowling centre has been neglected for far to long,i fear for its long term future when the broadmarsh centre gets refurbished and gets one for itself.
Not a lot (decor wise)has changed since AMF sold this centre quite a number of years ago, the one thing that has changed is the lack of maintenance, bowling with your own shoes (which would be frowned apon by amf) this lacks professionalism by this massive centre which it used to have. Also taking food and drinks down onto the lane area shouldn't be allowed in my eyes which again has only started happening the last few years. Lots of the old AMF equipment is still being used today and you can see great effort has been made to hide or remove the logo around the centre and in doing so has made things look tacky and unprofessional . If you remove a logo replace it with the new name!! Theirs always something going wrong with the lanes and i dread if I'm bowling on lanes 23/24 always a problem... been going on since the early 00's.
The house bowling balls need to renewed
A better menu is needed in the cafe... and equipment by the looks of it... and now you have to get a coffee from a machine yourself not from the cafe area. !!!
The toilets are awful and not had an update...again since amf in the early 00's.
The staff seem disinterested and never tell you deals on prices unless you ask.
Over run by arcade machines, which seems to be the norm for these places now.
I feel sad for the league bowlers who expect high standards, but when you can tell the lanes haven't been oiled properly...what's the point.
Nottingham bowling used to be the place other teams feared visiting but now it's a laughing stock.
The whole place needs a good revamp which at the size of it I doubt will ever happen.
Please please try MFA you have ruined this place.

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