Pin Center Bowl

Grap your ball or get one at the Center and GO BOWLING !Pin Center at 112 Williams Ave in Cleburne Texas is our favorite place on Saturday night.(I'm not a pro or even that good) but I always have a great time. They have a bar and game room also, go check it out !!

If I could give a zero, I would. Mike and Stacie, the owners, are crooks. We took our grandkids to bowl. Paid $50+ for two hours. We ended up leaving after about 40 minutes. Only got through 4 frames. The problems were endless. 1st. OMG HOT! It appears they haven't run their AC in ages. They're definitely not effectively cooling the bowling alley. It's not surprising though, as the customer's comfort does NOT matter to the owners! 2nd The bumpers for the lanes were broken. Three balls got stuck in the gutter. 3rd The equipment did not work. At one point, all the pins dropped when the machines were setting up for the next bowler. The machine also cleared the before the bowler's second throw, but the scoring stayed on the second throw. When the next bowler came up, the pins did not clear and reset. CLEARLY the equipment is not synchronized. We decided that 40 minutes of not getting what we paid for was not going to work for us. We asked the manager (young kid) and was told that their "corporate" policy was to give gift certificates for a return visit, not a credit card refund. **What**??? Why would we come back to a place that is the most run down, piece of crap bowling alley, and do this all over again? The manager called the owners and my husband spoke to Mike. After explaining our issue, Mike said that we could take the gift certificate or leave! So, we left. I wonder if Mike is aware of people's ability to dispute charges with their credit card company.

So... let me start where I started. About 1.5 months ago I got into bowing more than just a hobby. I've been actively working on my game and buying new equipment. This WAS my home center. I bowled about 70 games over a 10 day period. Spent a ton of money here. I noticed a bunch of things that I kind of dealt with because it was close. 1. Balls don't return and get stuck in the machine which puts marks and gouges all over the balls. 2. Pin resetting machine does whatever it wants. Resets all pins before 2nd ball. Doesn't reset at all. Gets stuck in "180" very often. (5-7 frames per game) 3. Scoring machine doesn't keep the correct score. I would say 80% of the time it's wrong. Says you don't get pins that you actually do. Says you get pins you actually don't. Not to mention it's an ancient scoring system. 4. The manager, Montana, is an alright guy but is horrible for this business. Brings his friends in at night to bowl for free. They are super loud. Super wild. Playing the jukebox on max volume and screaming at each other. Running back and forth. Im also fairly certain he is using the center as hub to sell weed to his buddies. 5. A few of the owners relatives work here which is totally understandable. However, one of the girls asked me how to make $44.85 in change. Asked which bills made up the amount. The owners daughter is the "manager" and runs around the bowling alley literally barefoot and pregnant. In sweat pants and just sits in the bar all night. I just dealt with those things in the name of convenience. However,last night (8-3-21) we hit the final straw. 8/16 lanes were occupied and the other 8 were broken. So we were in the pro shop getting a ball drilled. 2 lanes open up from the pro shop guys and he said we could have them. So I asked the girl at the counter if we could have that lane. She went to ask the manager and the manager said they were closed. It was 8:45. They close at 10:00. So my brother went to speak with the manager and that's when things got heated. He owners daughter started yelling and said he needed to leave. And her husband stood up and started a fight with my brother. So they went outside and we got between them to keep any physical stuff from happening. All while the owners daughter was yelling and screaming. They called the police so rather than leave like we had anything to hide, we stayed and waited for the police. Told them what happened and basically the officers told us that "this place is going downhill in a hurry and it's worth the extra drive to go somewhere else" Long story short, this bowling alley is going down the gutter. Pun intended. Hopefully new people buy it and make it great again.

NEVER GO TO THIS BOWLING ALLEY I want to talk to an owner we got the cops called on us because we did not get a refund. our reason for the refund: it took them 30 minutes for cheese stick ( they put the fries in the go box the melted into the put them in for so and when we went to show the lady at the desk, she snatched the box out of our hands and started calling us names, they would completely ignore anything we said to them, and then when we went to leave, they had a whole bunch of people surround us)

We had a bowling party for 20 special needs adults. As you can imagine, it had its challenges but the staff was kind and helpful and welcoming. The group had a great time. This is a true small town place from the good old days with charm. Thank you for making 20 special people very happy.

How bout a negative 100...my daughter booked a birthday for my grandson and for the 260..00 dollar price tag we received assaultive behavior and several of the children present got to hear the owner cuss their mom...understaffed ,Under cleaned, overrated...we ate filing a civil suit against the establishment and the owner. Do not encourage the owners behavior by patronizing this establishment...

Always a good, time great staff. Jordan and Noel are so attentive. Always do a great job! If you live in Cleburne do yourself a favor and stop in:)

Do yourself and your family a favor and don't spend your money at this establishment.We reserved 6 lanes for my son's birthday party. We arrived about 15 minutes early just to try and get settled prior to his start time of 3 pm. When we arrived the place was packed . I went up to the counter and asked a lady that I later found out was the owner/manager where we would be so that we could start getting set up. She throws her hands up and says " I don't know, I have 20 million other things I'm doing right now so you'll have to wait and I'll figure it out." I said, "Ok, well we have his cake so is there a place to put it?" She said, "Yeah, that table right there, until I can find you somewhere else." cut to 3pm, we are still standing around said "temp table" waiting to find out where to go. Mind you what we were paying for was an all inclusive party with decorations, a shirt, and a bowling pin for guests to sign. Nothing was done. I caught her again and said, "People are arriving, and we need to know what we are doing." She said, "Well, I'm trying to get all these people to move down to make room for you. How many people are here?" I said, "I reserved 6 lanes, and not everyone is here yet." She walked off and went to go get a big table to set stuff on and brought out the table cloth to try and set up. At this point it's 3:15 and all guests are there and waiting.She then brings out forms so all guests can sign in so they can start the pizzas, bring the drinks, and turn the lanes on. While I'm having all of the guests sign in and out their drink and pizza order in, she finds the big table and starts trying to put the table cloth and the plates on it. (At this point, everyone is signed in) when she sees one of my guests brought in a salad and a drink (her 10 year old daughter has food allergies and they dont have stuff she can eat), she stomps over to the guest and says, you can't have outside food or drink in here, you have to throw it away or leave. (Nowhere on website does it state no outside food or drink) My guest tried to explain that her child has allergies and they couldn't accommodate them so that's why she brought the food in. The lady rudely says the health dept won't allow that, either take it out or leave or I call the cops and have you removed. My guest takes the salad out to put it in the car. The lady then sees she didn't take the drinks, including a reusable water bottle so she goes over, grabs the water bottle, rips the drink cup from the 10 year olds hands and walks away. My guest was like that's my water bottle and takes it back from the lady. At this point I'm simply trying to get the lanes up because we have 15 kids that have now been waiting for 30 minutesI take the sign in sheets up to the lady, who is now saying that's she's going to call the cops. I said, "Can you just please focus on my son's party and get the lanes up and then you can worry about a guest and her salad. My husband walked up at this point and handled things 1 hour and 4 pizzas later and none of the kids have their drinks. My husband checks on the drink order 4 diff times. I'm apologizing to all of the parents because this is running so badly. Finally get the drinks at 4:30. One of the guests on their way out stated that they won't be back. The lady yells across the room, good I'm glad leave don't come back. At this point I have really had enough. I walk up to her and say ma'am, that was uncalled for and unprofessional. Your behavior has been ridiculous the entire time we have been here. She says I don't give a fuck, you need to leave and if you come back I will call the cops. She said you are making a fool out of yourself and get the fuck out. I said there are actual kids here and you're speaking like that? You're the one making a fool out of yourself. She then called me a stupid ugly little bitch and fuck off mother fucker. At that point I turned and left because how do you even respond to someone that is cussing you out in front of children?! She made my son and his friend cry because of her behavior.Verbally abusive behavior and not family friendly

Food was nasty and had a long wait, bowled 2 1/4 games bc the lane get messing up and took forever to get serviced, still was overcharged and for all the games. Will never go back k

Spencer here. I would suggest this over two of three of the alleys I currently bowl league at. One of which is a sports challenge league. I went bowling here with my mom, the staff was very nice, I see all these bad reviews and don't understand why.I bowl three leagues and open bowl a ton,when I fix my approach and timing to go pro, never have I ever met such great people in a center, these guys are super nice and great to talk to.Thank you for your help in providing a great time with my mom. I really appreciate it and I will definitely be back. When I go pro I will mention you guys on tv when I win.