Desert Ice Castle

I’m so glad there is an ice rink in the desert. IMO paying less than $ 10 for 2 hours of cool fun out of the heat is super affordable. The staff are really friendly and I’ve never had any real issues to complain about. I come here with my family and friends at least once a month. The place is not perfect but I don’t know any business that you can say is 100% great all the time. Yes, they skates are a little worn but if you have been to other ice skating or even bowling rinks etc, the skates and shoes are pretty gross. As a long time desert resident, I find it a bit weird that people are complaining about the Palm Desert Mall rink? They are no longer there because they obviously could not stay in business for whatever reason. What does that have anything to do with Desert Ice Castle? Things change, move forward, and appreciate what we have. I’m glad the desert has changed and has so much for to offer. I hope that the rink continues here in the desert as it’s a great place for adults and kids.

Note: Always look at the business hours cause they are different everyday.
The best thing about this place is being able choose to rent between figure skates and hockey skates.
I always go with the hockey ones since the blades are rounded. I have a easier time skating backwards with those.
Very fun place to go with friends.
Tip: Careful not to scrape your leg with the skates, they could rub really hard and leave you skinned. Since then I just wear jeans inside the shoes with long socks underneath.
Definitely awesome to have in the desert!

Okay maybe I’m old school, but what happened to the ice rink at the Palm Desert Mall? So fun in high school.
Desert Ice Castle in Cat City is easy to find, parking is plentiful, check in process was painless. So much fun, two hours of free skate is more than I needed. Feeling nostalgic… I wanna watch The Cutting Edge and learn some new moves (TOE PICK!).
Whatever happened to Robbie Benson (Ice Castles movie) so dreamy?!

Great place to hang out at, especially at these rates! Their staff is very friendly, helpful. Greeted & checked in by Natalie then rented our skates from Jason had great customer service & will definitely be back!

So, I thought this place was family friendly. I was wrong.
Firstly, as were getting skates some incredibly young little Mexican guy immediately tries to start stuff with my boyfriend and his friend. This person tried to get eye to eye… more like eye to chest… with my boyfriend while insinuating my boyfriend was ‘looking at him’. Then starts to get crazy like he wants to fight him and his friend. I’m at the snack bar and asked the attendant if hes going to help with this situation, so he reminds this man its a family environment and he needs to calm down. The attendant then tells me the guy does this *REGULARLY* to other guests, and he didn’t plan on jumping into a fight if it happened.
Thankfully the troublemaker leaves on his own before the situation escalated further. Great.
Secondly, the music. My six year old does not need to hear sexual healing, anything involving pulling someones panties to the side, or anything about strippers, hoes, taking shots, sex, drugs, etc. Family friendly? I mean, play the radio so you have some sort of censor for the 3 – 13 year olds, which makes up most of the patrons skating. Seriously this bothers me.
Our session started a good 15 minutes late but surly ended right on time. Kind of felt a bit ripped off by that.
Probably not going back. The staff were awesome but… not worth a possible fight breaking out and explaining what p-​ssy is to a six year old.

Been hearing about this place and finally checked it out. Nothing fancy but super nice staff and of course nice and cool especially during the summer months!!! Great place for kids, teens and they do birthday parties here too!

Today I had SUCH an excellent experience at Desert Ice Castle! And specifically with two Staff members, Jennifer at the front desk, and the General Manager, Andrew. I had an unusual special request, and in a very warm, friendly, accommodating way, they both went out of their way to meet my request. They followed through, and were so professional, courteous, and cheerful, that I felt if I had a job to offer them I would do it on the spot. THAT is the way I would want my business represented! Kudos, Jennifer, Andrew, and Desert Ice Castle! You’re getting it JUST RIGHT!!!

One rink. There are enough viewing bleachers for a hockey game. The facility is clean and fairly well maintained, save removal of gang graffiti in the men’s room. Parking is adequate.
Draw backs:
— A bit of a haul from parking to front door.
— There are only two locker rooms, so if your game is next you’re having to share, maybe requiring moving the other team’s gear to one half because they didn’t know you were coming in, too.
— Snack bar was closed and I needed coffee after driving in from Orange County. It opened 40 minutes later and only had foo-​foo hazelnut, French vanilla, and cappuccino automated machine gunk, diminishing points on my man card.
— No pro shop.
Not their fault, but my Garmin took me to the wrong corner, which had a large strip/gentlemen’s club and adult bookstore.

Place was overcrowded, the ice skates were old, and it was so dirty. The only positive I can say is Evan was very helpful.

On a cloudy day I will say there is not much to do in the Palm Desert/​Springs area so finding this place saved us from a long boring day.
Pros–
Very cheap I think it was $ 7 to enter and $ 3 or $ 2 for the skate rentals
Cons–
More cons than pros :(
We got there right when public session started and have to say the ice was poorly cleaned
The place is a little run down looking, def got the creepy vibe
Lastly maybe im getting old but there was a swarm of high school kids yelling and screaming and bumping into other people– made me not want to be there.

Took my girls there for the first time ice skating and they had a blast. Adult point of view is that the building inside needs to remodel, it looks a little run down and it’s not on the same level as the rink was in the mall years ago. The old lady that checks the skates in/​out creeps me out (probably the kids as well) I think she had her old granny panties in a bunch. The kids point of view was they had fun. There was a girl there she was 7 taught my oldest (5yrs old.) how to get started. Improve your building and the old lady and this review would get better

If you’ve lived in the desert long enough and you remember the ice rink at the Palm Desert Town Center then you’ll be very disappointed with this place. The building is old and funky. It used to be the Coca Cola bottling plant. The inside is dirty & run down. The staff are rude and not helpful. The clientele are pre pubescent wannabe gangsters and it’s only redeeming quality is that it’s cold inside. The ingress & egress on & off the ice is astonishingly bad, it was maybe 4 feet wide with 50 kids who’d never skated before all trying to navigate this horrible bottleneck. Have a separate exit or an alternate way on & off the ice. The place is gross, but I’m sure in mid July I’ll probably go back to escape the heat and let them pay for some A/​C.

A fun place to go on a warm summer night, but gets completely infested with the desert’s high school and middle school children of the entire valley. Helpful hint: either go at the beginning of the opening time or go at the end of the session, otherwise it gets super busy with rowdy teenagers especially on Friday or Saturday nights.

Their tag line is true– «the coolest fun in the desert!»