Compton Family Ice Arena Review

We go here for hockey games, I love the energy in this place!

Beautiful and clean building with great seating to enjoy a hockey game.

There is nothing like the excitement of a hockey night in South Bend, and the Compton is a great arena for it.

Every seat is great. Notre dame hockey is an amazing sport to watch. Fun too. Those boys can skate with breathtaking speed and agility. Bring a jacket. The ice arena is beautiful but cool.

The CFIA is a GREAT place to experience all the fun of everything ice! Want to experience watching the highly respected Notre Dame hockey team take on an opponent? This is the place. Want to participate in club hockey yourself at any of several levels? This is the place. Want to LEARN how to play hockey? Then THIS IS THE PLACE!

Maybe figure skating is your thing. This is the place. Want to LEARN to skate? Then the well-managed and highly-skilled Learn to Skate program- associated with Learn to Skate USA- is the place for you. Their instructors, many of whom are Notre Dame students or alumni, are wonderful: highly skilled at skating and instructing, friendly, and understanding, these folks will happily teach you or your kids and hone your skating skills. Excellent whether you are a beginner or have some skills and want to get better, and everything in between. Frequent free skate periods are available and affordable for you to practice your skills. Want to LEARN how to play hockey? -say it with me- then THIS is the place for YOU!

Maybe you want to LEARN how to curl: you know- that mysterious sport first developed 600-odd years ago by Scotsmen chucking 40-pound polished stones down a frozen pond or Loch at a target. Find out how to curl and WHAT ALL THE SWEEPING IS ABOUT here at their learn-to-curl school!

So come on down to the CFIA and bring your coat, your curiosity, and your sense of FUN. You'll be glad you did!

Excellent hockey arena. Great environment to catch a game.

Extremely fun atmosphere! Fun for the whole family. Great food. Parking is free and close to arena.

Great Facility, but why wasn't any canteens open during a hockey tournament? Great viewing and easy to get to.

Love this Arena. You can see truly high level hockey talent at a local arena that has wonderful amenities. My favorite ND facility!

I love this place. Not a bad seat in the house. Started coming to Notre Dame hockey this year. Loved it. And became season ticket holders. Confessions are good and cheap. Crowd is loud so if you have little ones that are sensitive to nose bring ear protectors. Seats are narrow but if your average size you ll be fine. Usually can move seats after the first Period.
Parking can be a hassle if there is a basketball game. So beware of the schedule.

We came for a tournament. The refree thru the whole parents out. The refrees where making the worst calls on our team . They even thru one 11 year out for hitting and they saw the hold thing . BAD CALL ...The stadium was beautiful. It's to bad that the refrees ruin it for out kids.

Super clean and great sight lines. Long food lines but good prices. An impressive college hockey arena and I can t imagine there are many better out there.

Excellent facility nicest in the area by miles.
Offers hockey games youth through college, open skate times for the public, and multiple skating programs for all ages.
Also has 2 full size rinks.

Drove an hour to only find the place to full because the men's hockey team was practicing. Didn't say this on the schedule. Nice place if you can get in.

Notre Dame has been upgrading their sports complexes and adding new buildings.

Awesome place to go for hockey. They really treat you right at Notre Dame.

Great place for a hockey tourny! Clean and well maintained facility!

Awesome place to play or watch a game. Notre Dame home ice arena. 2 ice pads available.

One of the best places to watch a hockey game. Concessions are a little bit ridiculously priced though

Nice!! Clean!!! Not a bad seat in the house!! Easy to find your way around.

Good sight lines, and like all of Notre Dame, well run and a blast to see my first ice hockey game. Notre Dame won!

Fantastic arena with great views no matter where you sit. I would've given them 5 stars but the food is way over priced. I know that normal for stadiums but it was still more than I've spent at minor league hockey games.

Beautiful Ice Arena, but I'm not an ND fan. Go Blue!

Wonderful family experience. Friendly staff. Easy parking.

5,000 seat stadium, intimate place to watch a good Hockey game; the band and student section are engaged throughout the game too.

It's a nice rink with lots of activities. Lefty is pretty comfortable temp wise. The Olympic rink is pretty chilly.

Amazing place to play or watch Notre Dame hockey. Facility is clean and staff is helpful. Try the open skate for good old family fun!

The venue is first rate. The food concession that I went to was unbelievably expensive. I wanted to ask for instalments, and when I am being robbed blind, it would be preferable if the robbers could at least be pleasant, however, even this small mercy was not shown. Service was rude, miserable, uninterested, unhelpful and the whole concession thing reminded me of one of the reasons I don't go to venues.

Saw an ND game good time and reasonable prices if it's not a "prime" game

Excellent tournament for the boys.
Nice place

The Compton has to be the best ice arena around. They offer family skating on some Saturdays from 10am to 1pm. You will not be disappointed.

This place is amazing and the ice is decent, but the locker rooms are little bit small, the benches on the main rink are very unique as the home and away benches are on opposite sides, opposed to being on the same side.

Go Blue! Just sayin.
Beautiful place.

AMAZING RINK! What a facility. Concession stands are rarely open if it is not a major mens game. Should have coffee & hot cocoa vending machines available.

Great fun watching the Irish ice hockey team. Not a bad seat in the house. Dress warm. Fun venue.

We were here over Presidents Day weekend for our grandsons' hockey tournament. I believe Notre Dame students were not in session as it was quiet on campus & parking a breeze! The ice arena is quite new, so bathrooms, seating, etc. are very nice. Two rinks, plenty of seating; plenty of parking. Very limited food in a snack bar downstairs. Restaurants nearby.

Best place ever for date night very clean and shiny bathrooms friendly staff

One of the nicest arena's that I have been in. Beautiful facility.