Great Skate

Had my Daughters Birthday party there today and it was the best! Someone had goofed on our reservation and the GM Rodney made sure we had the best and everyone was awesome! Loved the DJ too! Great fun and Mr Rodney really ensured all was wonderful! Thank you Mr Rodney for making my Daughters day so special! From the Ashlynn Group!

My daughter had her birthday party here yesterday! They did a great job! Highly recommended! It was super busy but we still had awesome service! My daughter felt very special! We will go back very soon! My only recomendation would be to go at an off peak time! Very fun place!

Great place for school and team fundraisers! The kids and parents had a blast! Thanks Christy!

I have come here a few times. It is one of the most fun places I have ever been! Thanks great skate!

Staff is super rude. Was here for a birthday party and our host was so inattentive I had to take over. It’s dirty and not a good environment because of the staff

I just left this place a few hours ago, super close to my house and I never knew! The food was great, and the skates were okay I think I fell like twice but that’s because I suck at skating! It was really fun, very family friendly, the DJ was great. I’ll definitely be coming back here.

My number 1 thing I hate about great skate is how unbelievably horrible their floor is. It has rough patches EVERYWHERE and their floor needs not just to be recoated but also to be torn out and new concrete poured. Chandler Skateland and Mesa Skateland have MUCH better floors despite being owned by the same company which is called United Skates of America.
Number 2 is that the lights are very poor and the floorguards don’t do their jobs which is unfortunately common in roller skating rinks.
Obviously you are going to get the poor and unclean atmosphere of a roller skating rink so I wouldn’t count that as much of a bad thing as you will only come here to skate anyway.
Number 3 would be that they only had 1 line open with more than 50 people outside and it took forever to get inside.
The ONLY good thing about Great Skate is that their floor is huge compared to Mesa and Chandler Skateland but that ONLY good thing doesn’t mean anything when the floor is that bad.
I read the other reviews on Great Skate after I skated there and had this experience and the other bad reviews seemed spot on.
If you want a better skating experience, go to Mesa or Chandler skateland. Mesa being the best floor and a decent size, Chandler being a fine floor and smaller size.
I just wish their floor wasn’t so bad and from a real skaters standpoint this place is just bad all around. Maybe for birthday parties it would be ok but for actual skating I think not.
The only saving grace to this review is that they have good special events like advanced rhythm skate and adult nights that the other places just don’t have.

We went for my daughter birthday and not much has changed since I visited 15 years ago. We went today because the music was supposed to be radio Disney. They played a bunch of hip hop that wasn’t really age appropriate for my kids. I asked the manager about why they weren’t playing radio Disney. He went to talk with the DJ but nothing changed. Disappointing for how much you pay. Next time we’ll go ice skating… cleaner and more family friendly music.

My kids love this place. The light show, and music are awesome. It cloud use a little updating in the décor. But it is a very fun atmosphere. The staff mostly consist of teens, that are always nice, and super friendly. We are regulars at Great skates and will be for a long time. In fact I will be there today.

Highly recommended: old fashion family fun!!! If you are looking for new then this is not your place. If you are looking for authentic, this is your place.
It took me back to my youth and I could not get enough of this place. Good, clean family fun!

Birthday parties here are fun for kiddos Skating, cheap tasteless pizza and plenty of bright lights /​noise. I give this place 3 stars because the kids love to go/​have parties here. However, the food is overpriced, parties are crowded like a New York subway, and the pizza is worse than anything you could dig up from the bottom of a freezer at the dollar store ! If adults want soda it’s $ 3.50 for a large. Need extra pizza? $ 15 each

I went to Great Skate and paid way too much to get in only to get slammed by a guy skating like he was in a roller derby five minutes after I put my skates on.
NOT ONE STAFF MEMBER HELPED ME!
The kids skating helped me get off the floor. They helped me get ice. The staff walked by like I didn’t matter. They didn’t even help me get out the door. My daughter had to be my crutch.
My knee swelled up to the size of a grapefruit and I had to go to the ER. I had a hairline fracture!
When I called to talk to a manager about making rules to not race skating? They blew me off. No thank you, Great Skate. I’ll go else where.

I enjoy that this is cheap entertainment to go for a date or to bring the kids. The schedule they have has a nice variety for the young, old, and holiday times. They occasionally have some special for admission, skate rental, slice of pizza, and a beverage on some of the social shopping sites which is an awesome deal! The birthday staff is very helpful in assisting of the setup for a birthday

I’m not even sure I want to give this place 2 stars. I used to come here… After leaving rollero. Boy… Has this place changed. The floor has holes… The «golfers» are more into talking to their buddies… I saw at least 8 kids bust their ass and it was right behind one of them… I felt so bad for the kids one even got ran over. A bottle of water is 3.00 I’m not sure what kind of magical water that is but damn it must be magical.
This place was bomb when Zack and Andrew where here. I guess the 8 – 12 someone has to be 18 or older and I’m pretty sure I saw at least 5 «kids» that were not 18. Music is the same as it used to be which is awesome. I’m pretty sure next time I would take my money to Ghetto Rollero.

Recently started coming here, and it’s just great, clean fun! Friendly people, good crowd, nice staff. For elementary school age kids, hit up the Kids on Wheels on sat morning. They play radio Disney top 40. Very appropriate.

I haven’t been roller skating in ages. Maaaaaaaaannnnnn this brought back some memories. The old skates I borrowed were surprisingly tuned up pretty well so kudos for that. I look forward to going for a 9:30p sess next time. Also, even though the dj didn’t play my song –_​– there were very age appropriate choices played for the crowd.
I look forward to going back soon.

I had a birthday party for our 3 year old daughter on a Sunday 3:30−6 session. I can’t say enough for the staff there. They are GREAT with kids. We only had a few people in our party, so they got the whole staff together in singing happy birthday to her. I’ve seen some posts concerning prices, but I thought they were very reasonable, and worth every penny for the service they provided. I will definitely go back when she turns 4. If you’re wondering where to have a birthday party for your child, I’d highly recommended you consider Great Skate Glendale.

Prices are kind of high for the sessions, and they nickel and dime you for extras. The kids love going, but $ 50 just to walk through the front door with three kids is a bit steep.
Adults should skate free with kids’ admission, especially since we just spend most of our skate time propping our kids up so they don’t fall or get run over.

So, I took my BFF skating yesterday for an early birthday outing. We were both pretty nervous as it’s been since my senior year in HS and for her since middle school.
I felt like a newborn calf for about 10 min, and then before I knew it, was speeding around like nobody’s biz-​naz! Forgot how fun skating is! So, I fell once. Concrete doesn’t feel good on your tailbone. Plus fell on my wrist as I didn’t want to re-​injur my ACL injury to R knee. Whew! My pride was crushed more than anything… ;)
Yes, there were a ba-​jillion kiddie bday parties, but if you can maneuver thru the sea of little ppl and parents being their crutch, it’s also fun for adults.
Music was so-​so. I didn’t like the 3 seconds of total blackness either — that’s a little dangerous!
Didn’t try the food from the snack bar. Just didn’t sound appealing.
It also smelled like a dirty foot crossed w/​a stale bag of salty popcorn.

Going to the roller skating rink is old fashioned, good clean fun. We’ve been here for school events and birthday parties and always had a great time. Even when they messed up and took forever to deliver the pizza at my 7-​year-​olds birthday they made up for by giving us free passes and tokens to use on our return.
If you’ve got kids, or just want to feel like one again, and especially when its too hot to go outside, head on over to Great Skate and get your workout in while having a great time!