jesus christ has anyone been bowling in accy lately
 

you would be better off taking the pins outside and throwing your ball across the carpark as it would probably have a better surface to bowl on

it is the only bowling place i have ever been to where they only take one shoe off you so you are left not only carrying all your stuff that you purchase but also your odd shoe and your kids odd shoes


there is no where to sit to put your own shoes back on when you have finished , it seems the seats that were there were taking up valuable space that fruit machines now occupy

if you pay for 1 hours bowling you can expect to waste 15 mins of this time going back and forth having to tell them that the machine has messed up , not put enough pins back or simply not put any pins back at all

most of the bowls have chunks out of them and the general state of the bowling lanes area is grubby to say the least

what a sh1t hole

my advice is spend a few extra quid and go to blackburn , its also cheaper at blackburn because your second game and those after is only £1.00 where as it is £4.50 a game regardless of how many you play at accrington

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I've not been to accy but there is usually a button on the lane that resets the pins you just need to edit the scores to delete the dashes if it moves it on,

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or even Burnley, thats worse, me and Stuart used to go to Accy a lot and we loved it

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no the ball dosnt travel well across quicksand :D

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seriously the lanes at morecambe are curved lol:D

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Can't say i've ever had aproblem at accy,been a few times and always had a good time.
Agree it's annoying with the odd shoe thing though!

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no they only TAKE one of your shoes

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Is that so they know which is your shoe?.........
or is that so ya dont nick there shoes?

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It probably is so that you don't nick their shoes but why on earth would anyone want to nick them, they're horrible.

You'd have to own some seriously bad shoes to even think that you'd rather have the bowling ones and wear them to go out in!

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of course its as mad as it sounds infact its idiotic on their part, who wants to be carrying an odd shoe about the place regardless of wether you can leave it under your seat or not

common sense dictates that you exchange a pair of shoes for a pair of bowling shoes and if it was such a good idea why is accy the only town where you have this

has accy become so scummy that you risk getting your shoes stolen if left with the staff?

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When I go bowling, I always end up with Velcro shoes :o I'm only size 3 :o Kids even get lace up ones..... eldest son who's 10 years old is a size 5 and youngest son who is 9 is a size 4............ and me......Velcro shoes :o and they always laugh and make a big deal out of it............:rolleyes: but at least I always have mine on and off before them!! HA

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Thats pretty sad, no actually its very sad because it means that its you they don't trust to claim back your shoes and not try to claim back someone elses or accuse the staff of swapping them.

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*LOL*

there's actually no place to put ur shoe - u cant put it under the chair as its a solid wooden block u sit on...

it is a shame since the blackburn one opened accy has gone down hill. the company just wants to attract the kids playing the bandits it seems. the shame thing is that the cinema get affected by the lack of investment by the bowling alley.

and the reason they take one shoe not two isnt so that they can identify the shoe its cause the boxes arent big enough to fit most pairs.

and finally the person who asked about the morcambe bowling alley

would it surprise you to know that the same company owns morcambe also owns accrington?

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im not lol i just thought i would give them somthing to be realy offended at other than the title of this thread but my comments about jesus have been removed although i stand by my comment that like crap he floated on water and he did sleep with prostitutes

god damn it iv done it again

oh jesus iv blasphemed again

oh my god i just cant help myslef

jesus wept i better just stop before i get into trouble again

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OI!! My little brother works there!! And you know that! :p

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The shoe thing reminds me so much of an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. :D

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im sure the staff wouldnt steal your shoes lol infact i want to leave both my shoes with them

they also realy do need to get those machines serviced , they take ages to put the pins back and as stated before theres no guarentee it will put the right amont back and even if you can reset it that dosnt make it right because it interupts and spoils the game and at £15 per hour i want fun not hassles

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seriously you guys got a lot to moan about, over a superbowl?
i think i can explain a few things first of all:

they only take one shoe of you, for this reason: a chav playing on the arcades, see a new PAIR of air maz trainers on the lane, you go to bowl, they take your shoes unlucky! if there was only one then do you think they wud really take em, same with leaving 2 behind the desk

there are places to put your shoes, for instant you shoe box at the end of the lane... makes sense really? and its not tht far to walk?? there are seating areas on the lane you are, so whats the problem in taking you shoes over to the lane and putting them on there??

the lanes get cleaned....polished...and waxed one day a week, which is more then recommended, each bowling alley will have small dints in the lanes from where idiots throw the heavy balls into the lane rather then bowl them.

The lanes are cleaned after each customers, as long as there are enuf staff.

At the end of the day, the lanes are machines... machines break down , so how can this be solved? yes there is a tech on each shift, so there is always some one there to fix it.

I think we are lucky to have a bowling alley so close to us!

thanks

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i forgot to mention that morcambe and superbowl are owned by two differnet companies, superbowl is owned by 2 gentleman! where as morcambe is owned by a big complany

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we shouldnt have a lot to moan about , for the price it costs us everything should be working correctly and just because there happens to be a bowling alley near by i dont see why we should think ourselves lucky because in my eyes the bowling alley should be the ones thinking they are lucky that people are still using it

i wont be going back as long as there is a better and cheaper one in blackburn or until they spend some of the proffits they make and fix the machines and tidy up the place

the poor staff only work there ,its the owners that need to get thier fingers out their backsides and spend a bit of the money they have taken off us

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Yes...... they will just nick that one, then go to JJB and nick the other :D

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do you think the superbowl is making a profit?? yeah rite!!! plus its up for sale, so why would the owners now, wanna spend money?? i think people need to get sum facts right, before they give their opinion on something they really dont know about!

thts cool choosing to go to blackburn but then why morn about the one in accy if you dont go there? talking about the price, yeh blackburn may be cheaper but then go somewhere like hollywood bowling, where its like 8.00 a game!!

superbowl is in for a lot of changes, which are all for the better, i dont think the public slating them is going to help things! we should be behind them!!

i really dont understand how people think that the machines are always going to be working?? if you knew how the machines worked, you would have a total different opinion, trust me!! does your washer machine or boiler, or tv never break?? i highly doubt tht!

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£5 an hour just to play skittles :eek: amazing!

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empty drinks bottles and a ball..... much more fun to make your own


.........Em wanders off before anyone accuses her of being cheap

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you dont know how crap somthing is until you try it , if the place is for sale then i hope the next buyers spend some money on it

perhaps the reason why it isnt making a proffit is because one visit is enough for most people and they dont return

maybe if they employed literate people that would be a good start ? ( assuming from your superior knowledge that you work there)

ps:

if my washer or dvd player should ever break it would be repaired or replaced within 24 hours but then again i dont charge people to use my washing machine or dvd player , it isnt up to me to know how a bowling lane works thats their business

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The staff must be dingles :D

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lol you nut :)

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I paid £500 for my laptop, a hefty sum for a student, yet it isn't guaranteed to not have any faults. I've been lucky with mine, yet some people can pay over £1000 for a laptop and have huge problems.

My point is that you can pay as much as you like for something, be it £5 or £500, doesn't necessarily mean it's going to work all the time.

Also, we once didn't have a bowling alley, or a cinema in Accrington, and those who can't afford to travel out of the town will be very grateful for what they were given, even if it isn't as good as blackburn.

At the end of the day, lets just be thankful we don't live in a place like Darwen or Burnley, now that would be something to complain about.

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so poorer people should stop complaining and be grateful to be provided with substandard ?

well thats us poor folk put to rights :rolleyes:

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Well I'm one of them and I thoroughly enjoy accys bowling alley.

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I don't think it was meant to mean that.

It is simple really, if you don't like the one in Accy then go somewhere else.

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Well I agree with some of the other posters myself. At the end of the day you are paying for a service then you have a right to expect that. If things aren't working then to keep custom then in the interests of the customers you should repair or replace where necessary to ensure a certain level/reasonable service.

If you went to the Cinema and the last ten minutes of the film were cut off would that mean I'd just have to be grateful I could watch the First bit?.. :D

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:eek: ya know summat, iv never been bowling:eek:, the kids have , but meself have never tried it.......:(

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You are right you do. You should ask for your money back and not go again. It annoys me when people go several times and complain that it is always rubbish. It's simple, you know it is rubbish so stop going.

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Hurts your Thumb n Fingers if you don't know how to do it properly :(

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I've been to Accy a couple of times but only to the Cinema though and it was ok. The only thing that naffs me off about most Cinema's this day is they don't put the blooming heating on and it is freezing. I went to Blackburn Cinema last night and wish I'd took a blanket!

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That is true, my wife had to ask them to switch the heating on last time we went.

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i didnt start this thread to get into a debate as to wether i should go again or not i started this thread to point out to others how disapointing my time was there compared to my time spent at blackburn the week earlier,i hadnt been to accy bowling for a while and thought i would go there instead of blackburn an quickly wished i hadnt

i thought that one use of an open forum was so that people could express opinions either way of a service and talk about their experience, a few people share my opinion and a few people dont and regardless of this thread i personaly will not be returning to accy bowling as i find blackburns better and those in agreement with me now know if they didnt already that there is a better option should they choose to take it

the staff at both places i found were perfectly fine but in my opinion blackburn is better because of their price and functionality of their machines which is nothing to do with the staff and like i stated before its the owners who need a kick up the backside to make things better

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Accybird, please don't ever get a job in customer services, you have not got the knack.

Instead of defending the company, in what I can see are justifiable complaints/queries from Accymad, you should be offering to approach your employers to see if they can improve their business to encourage customers to come back. Tell them to visit the competition to see if they can pick up any tips... sure they do, but doesn't seem to be working.

Re: the shoe thing ... think this was probably done to absolve the company from any blame should they get lost/pilfered from their lockers; not specifically to protect the customer.

You go ahead Accymad .. have your rant on here .. may do some good to keep our residents 'in' rather than going 'out'. Need all our services in Hyndburn to be nop notch !

Hate the 'like it or lump it' attitude.

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Sorry Accyman .. not Accybad .. oh no! Accymad I mean .. too late to edit .. :D

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lol no problem although i would like to say again it wasnt the staff that was the problem it was the lack of effort put into the place by the owners that lets it down and until the owners fork out some money and fix problems rather than sit back and count the money coming in i cant see it improving

i have never worked in a bowling alley but as a customer i would suggest refurbishment of the lanes , replacement of the bowling balls, and seating provided near the enterance so customers arnt walking around in their socks until they find somewhere to sit

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and decent sized pigeon holes to fit 2 adult shoes into

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I still can't believe they make you walk around with one shoe? I've never heard of that before.. It's a bit odd (almost literally) :)

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*LOL*

accy and morcambe are both owned by osprey lesuire - who's directors also own a big building company - *they built the cinema and bowling*

last time i went there i paid 12.50 for the hour - i spent around 10 mins tryna sort the machine out that was dropping pins etc

shud i be grateful? regardless of wether a company is for sale or not it shud still maintain its premises. it does want to be sold so not investing in it doesnt arise.

as for the lanes - polishing them does maintain them but do the lanes honestly suffer any less damage than other bowling alleys? they were put in badly to say the least - and thats comin from an engineer who worked around the back!

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I don't think the understand terms like reliability, mean time before breakdown, uptime, time since last production lost and the many other terms that we in the business of keeping our machines running and producing product out the door on time use.

The machines in a bowling ally are simple, don't try and convince us otherwise. I have worked on everything from light switches to machines with robotic arms replacing men and all sorts in between costing millions of pounds. When people report that a lane breaks down several times in the 1 hour they used it then, that is down to poor preventative maintenance programs and even worse reactive breakdown maintenance.

No doubt you will come back and tell me how difficult it is to pick up a few pins and stand them up again. It must be really complex equipment that sends the ball back to the players as well :rolleyes:

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I went bowling in accy recently , got 212 ! was very proud as i hardly ever bowl! :)

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Well done mate, are you sure the scoreboard counted correctly? :rolleyes::eek::D

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I always thought they had no discrimination on who runs round the back doing that job, if I find out is a complex equipment then I think they should be reported for only emplying women to do the job :)

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Aye it was , was extremely suprised 7 Strikes !!!! I was like whats happening , i dont have the special bowling balls etc or dont play it regularly so to get the kind of score i was extremely shocked!! Its one of them things that will only happen once though! I know its hard to believe but it is true :)

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Ahhhhh can't stand the place. Have been 4 times in past 6 months or so and am constantly back and fourth reporting faults. Its filthy dirty and should be shut down imo.

I was given complementary tickets as an apology for the messing around i had there once, but i never used them, i saw little point as it would just be the same.

When you take children they get so fed up waiting around for people to come and sort out problems it spoils the outing there.

What a an absolute waste of what could be a great resource for Accrington.

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You must be a real divvy to keep going back then :p:p:p

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yes I must be a real divvy taking YOUR children out!

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will you two get a room please :D

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Opps I forgot it was you, its that rare to see you on here :rolleyes:

We don't need to, we already have one upstairs :p

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Hate bowling, but have been to accy Bowling place a couple of times to watch family n stuff.

Simple thing to put right? The bloody toilets! Filthy and smelt summat rotten. Doesnt take much to put that problem right, and might just improve turnover a little.

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Was thinking of taking Saffron and her best mate next Sat night for her birthday, don't think I'll bother now:D Thanks

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accy and morcambe are both owned by osprey lesuire - who's directors also own a big building company - *they built the cinema and bowling*

No they dont, thats why its not called ospey leisure anymore, its called accrington superbowl :S

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ah well that must've been a recent thing

and it was always called accrington superbowl

but their websites look remarkably similar

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Never been bowling in accy, never will. Unlimited bowling in blackburn is where its at, beautiful brunswick lanes with the latest pin setters and even some half decent house balls.

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People in Accrington/Hyndburn actually have children called Saffron ? :eek:
:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

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i think taking only one shoe is quite a good idea. think about it it not only eliminates theft of the bowling shoes but it also stops scruffs from accy going behind reception and stealing the customers shoes!
i think u should chill out and give accy bowling a break!
if u dont like it then just dont go.......