Bradley Beach Bowl & Recreation Center

When this was the Ground Round they had great food, free pop corn and free refills. Now this place plan sucks. Paper cups, cardboard baskets and plastic utensils. Not to mention the face they kept the prices of the items and give you half the amount. I can not see this place staying open much longer. The only reason I gave it a star was for the wait staff and Jim the Trivia host made the evening enjoyable. Shame on the new management for letting this place take such a horrible turn.

For god’s sake Unilocalers, this is a neighborhood bowling alley. If you want dance music and a laser light show, go to Lucky Strike.
I’ve gone to this alley since I was a kid, and sure, décor hasn’t been updated, but what difference does it make? The lanes are in great condition and there are digital overhead scoreboards. What more do you really need? Leather couches and table service? If so, this isn’t your place.
The adjoining restaurant puts out decent alley fare (mozz sticks, wings, etc.) and they offer beer pitchers, mixed drinks, etc. At least once a year, we (my family) celebrate someone’s birthday here and we always have a good time. Laser Light bowling happens on the weekend (maybe after 8p?) and is accompanied by cheesy pop music ranging from the 70s to today. In my past experiences, I’ve never had a problem with staff albeit being occasionally slow with food and drink orders.
This alley is what it is. If you want a more «modern» locale, Shore Lanes is your place… just be prepared to wait for a lane and endure the screaming of out-​of-​control children.

This bowling alley is outdated and over priced. It took us about 30 min to play 5 frames because of all the issues we were having. Management finally agreed to move us to a different lane. Unfortunately that cut into our hour of bowling. We chose to pay by the hour instead of per game. $ 100 for 2 lanes and we only played one game! Won’t be back and they didn’t allow me to use the Unilocal 10% discount which pops up once you check in.

The bowling alley is pretty good. Lanes are good condition and they have new overhead flat screens for scoring, but the carry is not NEARLY as good as over at Shore Lanes. And I 100% agree with Marcus that the interior décor is decidedly horrible!!! They should’ve left the décor alone as at least the previous décor had color. However, the exterior décor is sharp. The Ground Round is the best part about the place, (as bowling is probably not a real money-​maker there) and the service was just fine. Great food, I wish there were more Ground Round’s around.

DO NOT GO HERE! Manager of the bowling alley is a witch! Very rude to her customers! And boring ! No lights, 80’s music. Just crap! Spent ten dollars on my shoes and when I asked her to get my money back because of how disappointed it was, she said no with her snotty attitude. Was only there for 5 minutes! Shouldn’t have gave them a chance and spent my money elsewhere!

Bradley Beach bowling alley is the worst! Do not go here! You can go to Sea Girt lanes if you want a good experience! I had taken my kid with some friends bowling yesterday for her birthday, I had purchased 3 games for them. They had played 2 and then for the 3^rd game they wanted bumpers because they kept on getting gutter balls. They went up and asked for bumpers but they lady said no you guys are to old! That’s discrimination! One of her friends got there mom and she pointed out all the other people that have a little kid with them but they are still using the bumpers not just the kids. In the end, we just asked for a refund and she gave me my money back for the last game. The next day I went and spoke to the general manager and I told him what happened and he just kept saying well it is what it is! What kind of person in charge would say that! He just kept defending his employee even though she was wrong in so many other ways (I won’t get into that right now). He just kept defending her. I told the boss that this was wrong and that he will be sorry because my kid and her friends live here and they will just tell their friends to stay out of there and when it comes time for winter not a lot of people will come in here and his response was well it is what it is. (PS the last time I went there my daughters uggs got stolen and the people working didn’t even care so I tried going there once more and this is just another reason why I shouldn’t go there) Sea Girt Lanes is so much better.

Decent enough bowling alley but the big problem with it is it’s blandness. Its the plainest looking bowling alley I’ve ever seen. No colors, no strobe lights, modern decoractions or funny animations when you get a strike. The music is low so the noise ambience here is blah too. The best part about the alley is its directly connected to the Ground Round bar and resturant which is good since you can bring your food in and out of there. There also is a big lack of house balls here, more than I’ve seen at other alleys which is unfortunate for any out of towner like myself coming through. Lastly the staff are a bit cold. Not mean, but the initial interaction with the desk lady was a bit awkward. when checking out she was friendlier though. If anything this is a great place to get food and drinks where bowling is the little bonus.

It’s nice that this place is attached to a Ground Round. They have $ 16 beer towers and $ 5 apps on Sunday’s. We got the chicken nachos, mozz sticks, and jalapeños poppers which were all decent. We had a good time. It only gets 3 stars though because the guys at the front desk were not super friendly. Absolutely not a smile on one guys face as we told him our ball got stuck or when the kid from across the lane accidentally threw his ball into our lane so the score needed to be canceled. Also the poor pregnant bartender seemed to be the only one around to take drink AND food orders AND deliver them to the lanes. Get her some help!