Carmel Ice Skadium

I have a friend who plays rec hockey and I wanted to come up and check it out, this is a nice location, it appears clean and maintained! I was able to grab a seat in the stands for a bit before her family showed up, and then I moved to the lobby area, I was also hungry so I decided to get a pretzel with cheese, it hit the spot! Would come back if I had the chance!

We had an excellent time skating around during open skate. Skate rentals were fast and easy and the ice seemed smooth enough for us (we just skate once or twice per year)There was plenty of parking in the lot and lots of places to sit in case you needed to rest in between bouts of skating.

We like the fun the Skadium has to offer. This is the place my daughter picked for her birthday treat with the family. So we all packed up and headed to ice skate. It was very fun and a great workout at the same time. I used to have my own skates. I like hokey skates. The rental selection of hockey skates is more sparse than the figure skate selection. If you have skates - bring them.The food isn't the greatest and seems a bit over priced. But, I don't come here to eat. I come here to skate. The rink is big and there is room for skaters of all skill levels. Fun times - we will be back!

Carmel Ice Skadium has two rinks which I've never seen before. But I understand why since there are many hockey players practicing here after public skating closes. And it is obviously home to many talented figure skaters and their coaches. The granddaughter had her 11th birthday this week and wanted to go ice skating.By coming on a Wednesday there was no crowd at all. The snack bar adequately fulfilled both kids' hunger pains. Their rental skates were in good condition and looked fairly new. Seating was marked out for distancing and signage was posted. Everyone was wearing their masks both on and off the ice.Rink #1 has bleachers running the full length of one side so there is always a place to sit and observe. There are rental lockers available as well. The ice was in good condition and well maintained. I did not check out the arcade.

TLDR - This place is not friendly to the neurodivergent or those that are first time skaters. It took a lot of encouragement to persuade a young teen to try something new and because of Carmel Ice Skadium he may never get on the ice again. Today was our first and last visit with the Carmel Ice Skadium. We came for public skate. Our first impressions were not great. The venue is filthy. There's a weird smell. There's lots and lots of blood on the ice. We were there hosting a large group of friends to skate and celebrate our son's birthday, so we decided to ignore this and head out to the ice for some fun. The staff is why we will never give our money to this place again. On several occasions they raised their voices to our party. Once because an 8-year old forgot to put on his wristband another time because an 11-year old non-skater asked to use a walker for some extra stability. A third time for "being on the side too long" followed by "being in the middle too long". The kids in our party were very uncomfortable with the way they were treated. As far as they knew they were just skating. The kicker though is when the manager urged one of the employees to confront and verbally assault one of the mothers in our party because her neurodivergent child (13) used a walker for his first time ever on the ice. The employee screamed. He swore. He stormed off the ice in a rage. Then instead of apologizing, the manager (unsure of her name, but she has pink hair) came out and screamed at her as well. Told us we were in the wrong despite the fact that we had been told older kids with a disability would be permitted to use a walker. She threatened to kick us out of the building until I reminded her I had paid for 18 skaters. I actually do not blame the young man that became angry and swore at us. He was clearly following the directions of the manager. She had been feeding him instructions all afternoon. I saw and heard her send him out to confront my friend.This sort of behavior is absolutely disgusting and unacceptable. She attempted to completely humiliate the child/mother in front of a group of strangers. It took a lot of encouragement to persuade this child to try something new and because of Carmel Ice Skadium he may never get on the ice again.

My jacket still smells like Carmel Ice Skadium, which smells like old grease and kid farts. The smell is everywhere, it's stifling, it permeates everything. So, you've got the smell. Then you've got all the noise from all the people (it was really packed when we visited), and the noise from the arcade adjacent to the skate rental desk. Then there's the trash and random bits of detritus on the floor, and the grimy rug upon which the trash and detritus sit, and the finger-print-covered windows looking out onto the ice rink. And they have lockers here ($1 in quarters only), but no one uses them, and instead, they just leave their shoes, coats, bags, etc. all over the ground in piles all over the grimy trash-littered floor. So you walk in, and it looks like someone's closet exploded into an ice skating rink. It was a sensory overload nightmare, basically. But you can ice skate here, so here we were.Pros: They have walker-type stands for kids who don't know how to skate, and you can take them onto the ice and they will prop you up and help you balance on the ice. These are awesome and greatly appreciated.Also, skate rental is $2, which isn't too bad.Cons: The person in charge of keeping people in line (the ref? The ice lifeguard?) was really rude to several people on numerous occasions. It's one thing to tell kids with walkers that they have to stay toward the walls, but she didn't have to bark orders at them like they were purposely doing something wrong. She also kept skating backward and almost hit a child, but then blamed the adult standing by the child for being in her way. It was super bizarre and unnecessarily stressful.

The organization of skating classes here is a mess, they moved to the Arctic skating place but the way they notified people are just by a piece of paper handed out, and if you missed one class, you wouldn't be able to know when is the next one. No electronic notifications sent out, primitive!

Agree. Super average ice rink. First of all it's very cold because the heaters don't work. Both stands are home made and in poor shape. The concession stand is subpar. Has a game room for those who are really bored. Rink #1 has more stands then rink #2.

What a dump!The only thing updated in decades is the cash grab Game Room.Very disappointed in Mike Aulby, the owner. Grew up going to one of his bowling's alleys and his facilities have always seemed well kept.But the Skadium looks like it's owned by Scrooge McDuck who'd rather bank money than reinvest it (at this facility).How it still has only stairs to get down to the rink amazes me, especially because skate rental is at the top of the stairs.Every fixture is beat up and worn.The seats of the wooden chairs in the main lobby look like Edward Scissorshands uses them to practice his hedge sculpturing.The food is NFL Stadium prices but tastes like a sawdust and cardboard.Mike must use the cheapest food vendor possible to pad those profit margins.The rink bleachers look like they came out of the gym used to make "Hoosiers" from the time period the film was set in.Couldn't guess at the last time the rink plexiglass was cleanedNot to mention that on hockey game days they keep the locker rooms locked until right before the game. If the coach comes early, they can sign out a key like an interstate side gas station. But if the coach (like a lot of coaches) is coaching their other kid's team beforehand that means of course that they won't be able to get a key until after that game is done.Of course, the first thing you notice when you arrive is that all the parking spaces are compact car size for vehicles that have to carry entire families and huge hockey gear bags.This place is busy year round. Prices aren't cheap at all.So I've got to think that Mike has the money to reinvest and update.

They wouldn't let us in. As people walked out we weren't let in. They said it was booked as people were leaving. Me and my family were just trying to have a nice outing.