Tampa Bay Skating Academy

The inside and outside of rink is dirty & run-​down. All walls have chipped paint and scuff marks. Rental skates are torn/​filthy with laces that do not fully lace up because they’re broken. Reminds me of a tacky small town roller-​rink from the 70’s. i wish owners would invest in improving aesthetics & customer experience, as many other rinks have done in other large cities.

Always a fun time at TBSA! We have been to TBSA for Open Skates, which can get busy. We have also done camps and attended birthday parties. All in all, we’ve had a great time. This is a no-​frills ice skating facility. We have found the coaches to be professional and great. We will definitely be back again.

Make sure you check the times for free skate online before you head over. This place has a huge ice ring and caters to many events. This place is great to have a little fun and skate around the ice. There are little blue «ice walker» thingy that help beginners get used to being on ice. If you’ve gone ice skate or regulate skating before than you will enjoy all the room you get here.
Although the there were lots of people the times I went, I still felt like there was room to skate around a stuff. Just watch out for little kids, they have no sense of direction.
Speaking of little kits this place will host birthday parties. :)
Anyways, beside the ice the facility in nice it’s easy to get around with skates on even if you need to use the restroom. I wish they had more available seating next to the rind for those with skates on. If you wanna take a break and it’s busy you have to go back to the rental area just to find a seat or stand by the ring if all the ring side benches are taken.
All in all great little place to practice, free skate, date night, or other ice things.

For an ice rink in a mall, this place has great equipment with cheap prices. Go for the last hour, and it is half price.
They even have private bathrooms.

I went here for the first time about two or three weeks ago and had a fun experience, as it was first time ice skating. However, there are a few things TBSA could improve upon to make the experience more enjoyable.
First, their ice skates aren’t comfortable. I changed my skates twice. The group that I was with did so as well and we were all pretty unsatisfied with the skates. First pair I tried were too small and were practically cutting off my circulation. The second pair were more comfortable, but too big and loose which made me feel slightly uneasy while ice skating.
The staff were nice, for the most part. The safe guard was very nice and helpful — offering me tips on how to stop, and how to get up when I fell.
The music is BAD. Seriously. So bad that I had to abruptly stop in the midst of skating and ask myself, «what the eff are these cats playing up in here!?» They really need to play music that livens up the joint a little.
Overall, I plan to go back, but I’m really dreading wearing those God-​awful skates again. For me, the issue with the skates put a damper on the whole experience.

My friends and I planned to go here for an ice skating day on our school holiday yesterday and we came in a gigantic group to the skating rink, and they refused to give us a group discount. We were a group of probably thirty people, it was ridiculous, we had to end up paying full price at around $ 12 each instead of maybe $ 7-​$ 8 each. They old us we had to book in advance, but that’s kind of retarded. People wouldn’t make groups of random people just for discounts, and even if they did, a group is a group. The only reason we still skated there was because it was a really long drive that we took to get there.
I tried some crispy french fries there and they were pretty good even though it took quite some time to take. The fitting place for ice skating has some kinks to it and they cannot really match up your real shoe size to ice skates, almost everyone complained that their ice skates were either too big or too small and they had no half sizes.
The music was alright, but faint and not nearly on par with the Brandon Ice Sports Forum’s music and DJ. They weren’t clearing the floor to resurface the ice so eventually towards the end ice started building up on the floor and dirt and cracks were easily visible.
My friends and I had fun, but it was no thanks to the Tampa Bay Skating Academy.