Bowl America Dranesville
46940 Woodson Drive
Sterling, VA 20164 (map it)
(703) 430-1350
We managed to avoid testing the food and the video games, but we did try out the lanes at Bowl America last weekend. The bumpers made the game more fun for my two and four year olds. And maybe I have been living with my head in the sand for the past 20 years, but they have a nifty device we have never seen before. It is a little ramp for kids to use to aim and release a bowling ball to give it the momentum it needs to get all the way down the lane. However, my kids though the bowling ball coming back to us backwards was even cooler. Maybe they have a tilt button or a puff of wind that an operator hits when they see a little one’s ball stuck mid-lane, but as far as we were concerned it was pure magic.
Even though it was a Saturday night the vibe was still pretty family friendly. I don’t bowl often and always forget how close you are to the folks in the next lane. Either we were lucky or the staff is thoughtful in assigning lanes, because our neighbors on both sides were patient with the kids and seemed to enjoy them.
Other tidbits parents might care about:
- Smoking is allowed after 5pm on Saturdays, but we didn’t feel like the place was too smokey for a short visit with our kids.
- The bathrooms were clean, but very narrow so a bit awkward for wrangling toddlers or changing diapers.
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