Alpine Ice Arena

My husband had a hankering to go ice skating, and we were looking around to see what rink's public skating hours matched up with our schedule. The appeal to this rink is the value pricing. The skate rental for my husband and the adult admission was very reasonably priced for a fun, family friendly afternoon at the ice rink. I had brought my own skates though, and even owning skates I kind of wish I had rented since the quality of the ice is pretty poor. I had asked if they ever Zamboni the rink, as I couldn't tell where the Zamboni would come in, and the ice was very chewed up. I was told yes, so maybe the Zamboni came out right after we left. The facilities are also pretty old, with some maintenance very evidently needed. My main qualm was the quality of the ice. If you're new to skating and want to give it a try, this is a great entry-level place at a good rate.

Alpine ice arena is a louisville ice skating rink located in the newburg colmmunity of the city of Gardiner lane. The city of Lousiville is limited on I've skating rinks. You have alpine here and Iceland complex out east in the city. My family and friends go I've skating probably 3-4 times a calendar years. We have gone to both locations. Alpine is a smaller ice skating rink without the bells and whistles Iceland has. For instance the skates here are tie only where they overland has straps across the top for tighter foot wear. The areas I prefer alpine over the competitors is they have much better customer service. At the competitors we've had several issues with young workers who don't pay attention and ice rink "officials" who care more about being goofy with friends and doing tricks then monitoring the ice. Here on my experiences everyone has been nice and pleasant and appear to appreciate your business. Outside the ice skating rink they do have a small concession and one party room that can be rented out. They have much more availed free skate times and you can skate pretty much all day for around $11 a person after tickets and skate rentals. So not a bad deal at all. At other locations with I've skating rinks your time is limited because of constant hockey practices and things like that. So This place is the best bang for your buck when it comes to ice skating in the city or louisville. Overall a fun place to spend an evening ice skating. Not the largest or newest location but it has that nice nostalgic feeling of a classic roller/ice skating rink. Plus give me the top notch and caring service all day.

Alpine is an OK place for some ice skating. If you're asking me, I honestly don't think any of our ice rinks in Louisville are that great - most of them are swarmed with crazy teenagers and everything else is pretty mediocre. The price isn't too bad for skating; there is no time limit so you can skate as much as you'd like. The ice itself is not the smoothest; definitely a lot of chunks and holes in the ice. They have a stand where you can get some cheap snacks or hot chocolate, which is nice. The staff here are typically teens, and I haven't really experienced any type of great customer service here. You can also take skating lessons here. I used to take classes years ago and it was pretty fun - you can learn how to backwards skate, how to stop and some cool tricks. Some hockey games are held here as well. All in all Alpine gets the job done - nothing that will wow you but a decent enough place to get some skating in.

I love this place, it is a little outdated but the people are awesome. For those who complain,!stay in the East end

Came here with my sisters for some fun was a disaster the place smelled horrible so dark and dull in there not welcoming at all it was 30 for 3 people and I payed an extra 25$ for a 15 min ice skating lesson because my sisters were having a hard time when the tutor came out she told my sister to switch her skates she she missed more than half the time and then random people kept coming up to her along her questions and instead of telling her that we payed for her time she stops to help everyone else I just don't understand why I payed 25$ absolute bull shit and the ice was really rough so hard to skate on not smooth at all not to mention the ceiling was so nasty

This was our first ice skating experience! It was the most fun I have personally had in a very long time. They had the 'walkers' for the inexperienced and it gave us confidence to get in the ice. We bought our own skates now! Awesome facility! Very clean, kind and accommodating.

I was skeptical about visiting this establishment based off some very very unflattering google and yelp reviews but I'm here to report I'm glad I disregarded those reviews and went because I had a great time! 14 bucks for shoes and entrance is a great deal, they got a concession stand with cheap snacks. Seating area. The shoes are a bit worn out but other then that I enjoyed the place. The ice rink was well maintained even with 56 degree Saturday weather outside - I didn't notice any wet spots. The rink is huge too. Lots of kids there. Christmas music playing. The look of the place was interesting. It's an old rink but well maintained, well priced and best of all you can skate unlimited. There is no time constraint. 14 bucks gets you as much ice skating as you want - which is unlike any other ice rink around. If you're going ice skating - this is the place to go.

This place was unbelievable. Lady yelled at us when we were returning skates when she was the one that mixed up our shoes. She was a red headed lady with a navy lanyard and used rude profanity. Also very smelly outside and very smelly inside. Chunks of ice were missing and caused us to almost fall several times. Bathrooms were horribly disgusting and the stall door was so low I could see over when sitting down. Garbage was everywhere in the place and all workers were kind of rude especially the lady where you returned your skates. I would not recommend at all.

This is such a nice place. The owner is so nice as he was so helpful to get me and my children good skates

This place was so unbelievably rude and the lady with strawberry blonde/red hair was insanely rude to us as we were returning our skates and used profanity she had on a cardigan and a lanyard. It was fun until we interacted with the workers, I do not recommended this place at all The building has a funny smell to it and there is garbage everywhere, they could definitely do better but don't want to. There are chunks of ice missing everywhere which can be a safety hazard along with the animal or possible human feces all around the outside of the rink and the bathrooms are insanely disgusting. DO NOT RECOMMEND AT ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!