Gator Lanes

Gator Lanes has gone through a facelift! Well… sort of. They’ve vamped up the look of the lanes and seating in the main area (the bar area seems untouched). I’m definitely a fan of the new seating options – I don’t think I’ve ever felt that ‘clean’ in a bowling alley. They now offer ‘Cyber Lanes’ that are complete with dark, ambient lighting and bright lights featured by the pins. Pitchers of beer here are very reasonably priced (I believe it was $ 7 plus tax for a pitcher of Yuengling) and they have your typical bowling alley menu (fries, pizza, etc.).
FYI, I totally won both games my date and I played. Boo-​ya.

Well, it’s probably seen better days but the balls rolled, and the pins dropped. It seemed a bit expensive to me but I don’t go bowling that often.

Filthy, smelly & overpriced.

This place is really in bad shape. Gator Lanes has been here for years and I can tell they’ve tried to fix it up but it’s poorly and cheaply done. The lane continuously broke down and they placed another family right next to us when there were plenty of lanes to spread everyone out.
The service was rude when we asked for help with the broken lane each time and inconsiderate as I mentioned with placement of people on lanes. The crowd was rough, with many intoxicated people. This was a weekday, so I had assumed it was the best time to take my kids.
The bowling balls are all chipped and destroyed, the floors are cracked and the wood is coming up in places (hazard).
This place has degraded to serving the low income communities nearly by and fixed income retirement community behind it. It’s not a place for a decent family to enjoy an evening.
At $ 30 per hour per lane I found it not worth the money considering other entertainment options around. We won’t be back.

Great for a fun family time, and if you want to hang out with friends! Been going here for years! New stuff added to it as well!

Gator Lanes has been my place to bowl in Fort Myers for the past 5 years. They may be a bit dated in areas, but overall you will have a good bowling experience. Management is caring and staff is polite and courteous.

Gator Lanes is everything that a bowling alley off of Rte 41 should be.
Lots of lanes, clean and not overpowering tunes or flashing lights. We sampled the food, which was fine, and the drinks were reasonably priced. Good place for kids too — no sketchy elements loitering in the parking lot :-)
Plenty of open lanes on a Saturday night, which was convenient for our last-​minute decision to bowl a few frames.

I went there with my kids over the weekend. The place is a little outdated but adequate as far as upkeep of the lanes and equipment. My only real issue is that it was so hot. I’m of average size 5’7, 125 lbs and I’ve lived here for 15 years so I’m accustomed to the heat but It had to be 85 or higher in this place. When I went outside it actually felt cooler. Half way through our first game I brought it to the managements attention. They said they would turn the AC down, but by the end of our third game, it was just unbearable and we had enough. We had paid for four games but left after three. I don’t think we’ll be going back to this location again.

The reason we went to this joint was the promise of bowling and arcade games. I don’t really know what to touch on first. The cost of our two games in an alley with garbage air conditioning and miserable pin resetting was absurd. This was a super casual game of bowling and we were sweltering the entire time. Alright, fine. We’ll play arcade games. While the selection of games was awesome, approximately 75% of them were broken. There was also a weird split of tokens vs quarters. The staff person we worked with was rude, but I would be too if I worked day in day out under the mocking gaze of a broken air hockey table. However I must give credit where it’s due: the food was pretty on point.

Nice place, somewhat reasonable pricing

Threview should be about 3 ½ stars. They have done a bunch of remodeling. They now have fancy leather chairs and a big leather couch for you to sit on which is super nice. They upgraded their computer systems and they are really nice. We took my 3 year old and he had a blast. They have a new play area for kids that has a giant inflatble slide and a big soft playground which he enjoyed. the reason for the less stars is because they really need to fix their arcade hardly anything works. My son won some tickets and we went to redeem them and the stuff in that area was olé and gross and almost empty he had 180 tickets and got 2 bags of pop rocks which were old and stuck together a piece of candy and a set of vamire teeth. They really need to fix this part if they want to make it a sucess. The bar area is also really nice with big leather sofas and trendy décor. I think they are still in the middle of the remodel hopefully they will get it right.

This bowling alley was overall a good experience. I went for a night out with my girlfriend and her family. It wasn’t difficult to find a ball that fit me well, and there were large TV screens set at the end of the bowling lanes to watch sporting events in between turns. I ordered a beer and got a huge coke for a reasonable price. Another plus was that I happened to get a pair of one of their new styles of bowling shoe. I was the only person in my party who got one. They were really comfortable, were all black as opposed to red and green, and felt more like a pair of skater shoes than bowling shoes. I made the mistake of leaving my credit card at the bar and went home without closing out my tab. I returned the next day and the bartender was able to return my card to me. The downsides i noticed with this alley, was the people on both side of our lane were pretty rambunctious and didn’t know a thing about bowling etiquette and were constantly winding up their bowling shots at the same time as us, or they would just be excessively jumping up and down which was a bit of a distraction. Also the arcade seemed a bit outdated and nonfunctional. Overall though we had a good time and I would go back.

Excellent bowling alley! Friendly staff, decent priced, not too crowded. They have video games, a full snack bar, and waitresses that come to your lane. Awesome!