Beech Grove Bowl

When you think of bowling in the 90s with a little modern spin, this is exactly the place I envision. Scents and smells of cigarettes from decades past, bowling balls that are greasy enough to feel like they've been dipped in cooking oil, and the same layout I can remember from bowling as a kid, this place brings the nostalgia. The prices were a tad pricy, but you can bowl as many times as you can in the time slot you pay for. The tv screens, additions of black lights, and animations around the bowling lanes add a nice "modern" touch.

Very old. Lanes were uneven and pins were attached to wires. Our lane had lots of problems with locking up. Food was good thank goodness! If you live in the neighborhood, I can see why people spend time there on the weekends. It's close. It's familiar. There are only 12 lanes. We were there for my daughter's 21st birthday and I was embarrassed once everyone showed up. But, it worked out and we made the best of it.

on January 15th me and my family drove from greenwood to bowl and have a dinner at a recommended bowling alley. i remember coming here as a kid and enjoying this place the food everything about it was great experience. we come in to get two lanes and were told its league night so its going to be a 45 minute wait which was fine. it was 7 of us including my 7month old daughter. not even five minutes go by and JEREMIAH is approaching us telling us we cant sit at the table we were at and to move down one, not even in a nice way he was actually quite rude whatever we move down and wait an HOUR as him and another female employee is giving other people lanes. which was fine we ignored it and moved on- we then tried to order food and were told we couldnt order anything because we didnt have a lane ? as walking away the two employees start giggling and talking about all of us- if you want to go to have a good time and be treated with respect do not go to this establishment its trash if i could put 0 stars i would

Beech Grove Bowl is the kind of place where "everybody knows your name." You want the Cheers of bowling alleys, start going to Beech Grove Bowl. This place is unassuming. It's an older building and there's not a lot of flair like you see in some places that try to be trendy. But Beech Grove Bowl has heart. More than that, they have everything you need--12 lanes, plenty of good food and drinks, music, and arcade games. And they're open (normally) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week... which blows my mind. You could literally go bowl whenever you want to! You want claw machines? They've got claw machines.You want to play some 90s pop while you bowl? You can select on the touchscreen "jukebox."You want to play the world's largest PAC-Man? That's here, too.Wanna bowl with your toddler? They have shoes that will fit their tiny feet, bumpers, and "slides" they can push the ball down. Looking for an adult league or youth bowling program? They've got you covered!It's an older building, but they've done some renovating. My only complaint is there's a bit of a (musty?) smell inside. They do have gluten free pizza crust, so that's a huge plus in my book! My fam loves the calzones and slushies. They even have Dip'N'Dots now.Basically, this is a community place with a lot to offer if you give it a chance. I think you'll see that when you stop by.

This was weird. About 10 years ago, I'd come to this place all the time after work because it was 24/7. What happened?We walked in, and immediately it smelled old and dirty. We walked up to the counter to see how much it was to bowl. $6.25 per game and $3 for shoes. Not bad! I told the nice guy that we would bowl 2 games. He said "I am not supposed to take any new games right now, but you can put your name and number on the wait list, it will be about 20 minutes" weird, because about 80% of lanes were open, but I said "okay, can we grab a drink while we wait?" he said "no, I'm sorry. But I have to ask you to wait in your car. There's been a lot of violence around here lately so that's why there's a wait" ..... what???? When was the violence? What was the violence? Should you even still be open?? Big yikes. We left and went to another bowling alley. Funny because they didn't call us till 55 min later. I'd skip for now, either until there is new management or something is put into place. Sad because it used to be awesome!

The best thing about this bowling alley is that it's 24 hours. Not much to do around Indy late night, so this place is a savior during those can't sleep want to do something type of nights. The place isn't very big, has touch tunes for music, and arcade games. They also have a decent food menu, though I always eat before I go here so I've not yet actually tried anything. Parking is right outside the building which is convenient. The tv screens have cool features like snippets when you bowl so you can watch yourself and you can get your score sent to your email which I think is neat!

I ended up going to the Beech Grove Bowl on Saturday night January 23rd. Since, there's nothing to do in the city every bowling of that night was sold out. I remember I called bowling alleys as far North as Noblesville which was sold out. I made out there at 8pm, and my wait time was 30mins. Everyone, that went to Beech Grove Bowl only bowled two games, the bowling alley is 24hrs, yet they made sure everyone was able to bowl which was why the limit was two games. The bowling alley is small, goes up to twelve lanes, the front entrance there's no stairs so it's accessible to everyone including if you use a wheelchair, or other devices. Beech Grove Bowl does have a small game room area, they do sell food as well as drinks. You do have to wear your masks coming in, and leaving the bowling alley. I noticed while bowling there were a lot of ppl not wearing their masks. At night the bowling alley glows in the dark, and when bowling it changes to a piano that actually makes noises when the bowling ball is rowing. A little fun fact about Beech Grove Bowl is that it's been open for 24hrs since 1948.

Have to say for as small as this bowling alley was it was super cool bc you could see your self on the screen after you did your throw. I do wish they would have had a league rate for the teens. I gave them a 4 star due to that the cheese for cheese fries was nasty but on the other hand they did have fresh hot mini donuts that I could have eaten for ever!!

So first of all let's start with the entire staff was either drunk or high....but that was the least of my problems. We were not told there was a $2.50 service charge for EACH transaction. After being told my total was $67.50 I was then charged $69 I think it is wrong to tell someone a price and it would actually be something else. Each time someone in my party would get a beer or something else we were charged something else. We came in for an event but we will probably never go back. That's probably why they were so slow!

This place used to be super fire. They started charging by the lane ($45/hr) and I won't be back again. Only reason I ever used to go here was because it was so cheap PER PERSON. The experience isn't great enough to charge by the lane. They must charge by the person or they will go out of business.