Brunswick Mockingbird Lanes

Three stars for the 1 $ game on Monday nights. Beside that there is nothing exceptional about this place, it looks pretty old but decently maintained, the bowling balls seem round.

I’d rather pull my teeth out and suck on lemons than go here again. The bartender was rude, grumpy, and old sack of poop. I’m sorry, but $ 7.70 for a Dixie sized cup of Captain and Coke is ridiculous. When I’m handed a cup that small it better be from the doctor’s office for a urine sample. It’s a shame that your bartender sucks because we planned on bowling and staying a while. 0 stars.

We just got home from celebrating my 10 year old’s birthday at Mockingbird Lanes. I reserved a birthday party package for her earlier in the week. Super easy. Quick phone call and per my choice I stopped in that evening to pay my deposit.
The party was set to start at 1pm. We arrived ten minutes beforehand, and everything was already set up. Cups, plates, balloons, and even a Happy Birthday message on the TV screens.
The front desk people were super friendly and helpful. The grill staff, not so much. First trip to the grill was to order food/​snacks for the adults. The young man working could barely ignore his cell phone enough to take our order. Second trip was to ask where our pizzas were (included in the party package), and we were told they would be brought up to our table after the first game was completed. Didn’t happen. We received both pizzas halfway through our second game, with only about 20 minutes left for our party.
The bowling was fun, and the kids had a blast. I took two stars away for the sub-​par grill service. I would NOT have another birthday party at Mockingbird Lanes.

Not a good experience here. We actually left after a.) seeing that there are actually more games to play at any random Buffalo Wild Wings; b.) realizing that I wasn’t going to be able to endure the smell of grease and rubber; and c.) our kids decided that they would rather play at the hotel pool that bowl/​play/​eat here. It looked pretty spendy too– particularly for the area.
For anyone else that may be optimistic about this place because it says Brunswick (as in Brunswick Zone), don’t be.

On a family vacation to Colorado Springs, we stopped in Omaha for the night. I felt the urge to bowl and found Mockingbird Lanes… nice place! Fun! Cosmic bowling was going on when we got there, and that was cool – I’d never done that before.
If you’re out this way, give it a try.

Nice place. Fun time. Maintenance man is a jerk though. Just started cleaning our lane without asking us. Took him like 10 minutes and we had to stop our game while this was happening.

Clean but not cheap.

Babystting three kids under 12 for the weekend, looking for something to do that a) amuses and 2) involves food (of course).
Per the website’s recommendation, Friday I call to double check that there’s open bowling Saturday. «Of course», they say, «all day, from 9:30 a.m. until midnight.» When I arrived with my charges in tow, the (very friendly) guys at the counter inform me that open bowling is available, but only until 1 p.m. Fine… it’s 11 a.m. I can make that work. After all, I’m also there for the fried fatty snack bar treats.
We settle in and get our game started. I collect our food orders (cheeseburgers, hot dogs, french fries, fried mushrooms and gallons of soda under the guise of small, medium and large). When I get to the snack bar at 11:30 a.m., it’s completely vacated, so I ask the (again, friendly) guys at the main counter if food is being served and they promise to send someone over. Snack bar lady… super friendly yet frazzled. She takes our orders and we’re back rolling balls down the alley (missing pins left and right), looking forward to our Saturday afternoon fried meal. 11:45…12:00…12:15…12:30… how long does it take to throw all those items in the fry basket? Answer. 45 minutes. We got our snacks (finally) and wrapped up our second game (in time for the 1 p.m. cut off).
$ 65 gets you: 6 pairs of bowling shoes, 10 games of bowling, 2 hot cocoas, 2 med ice teas, 2 sm sodas, 1 hot dog, 3 cheeseburgers, 3 large fries, fried mushrooms and fried cauliflower.
Gonna try out another bowling alley next time. Had a great time, but hated that we had to be out by 1 p.m. (after verifying over the phone).
PS — Get the snack bar lady some help!