Silver Spring Ice Skating At Veterans Plaza

We decided to kill time before a movie and ice skate. After skating for a while, a guy came up and said he worked there and started mocking my friend’s skating, made a few sleazy sexual comments, and topped it off with a racist comment about Chinese people. When we left the rink to avoid confrontation, the manager came up and accused us of being drunk and asked us to leave. Apparently, our harasser was upset about being rejected and lied to the manager to get us kicked out. When I mentioned the guy who harassed us, the manager said he didn’t work there, and offered to refund our money. At least it was free!

This was a very small rink, and they had no problems overloading it, and then blocking off sections for lessons. Have to agree with the other posters about the horrendous staff of this location. The rink was full of unattended children skating the wrong way and people on cellphones with the staff sitting by either not visible or talking to each other. Not to mention that the rink is not properly maintained more water and slush than ice. There’s plenty of outdoor skating in the area so find another spot.

Way too many unattended children and hot doggers. Most of the time the skate attendant was no where to be found and when he was there he fell as much as the kids were, total chaos.
You can’t pay me to go back!

This ice skating rink is well put together. Super friendly and helpful staff. Reasonable prices and a great atmosphere. My nieces and nephew had a ball here. They fell many times and no one skating at the rink seemed to mind. There were a lot of first time skaters there and the rink provided little penguins for the kids to hold on to.
I really appreciated how helpful and laid back the staff was. I would definitely come again.

The only reason this rink gets 2 stars (not 1) is for convenience and hours. Otherwise it’s 1 star. The staff responsible for the rink itself spend most of their time socializing with friends. Kids and adults with or without penguins are going in every direction and make this rink a hazard for most. Others outside the rink throw things onto the rink to trip up their friends and should be asked to leave but nothing happens. I won’t be back. Protect yourself and go to Wheaton or Cabin John.

Primarily a rink to take small kids if shopping in SIlver Spring. Something similar to DC’s Sculpture Garden rink. It’s size is similar to a studio rink, definitely NOT either a NHL or Olympic rink. Still, it serves this niche adequately.

I went here with my boyfriend in January we had fun and I would go back. But they need to fixed their rink to many lumps. I expect it to be better since it up in Montgomery County. Skating rink in S. E DC had a better rink. The staff the were nice.

What a fun place! I decided to come here with my BFF since neither of us have been ice skating since we were 10 (so, about 23 years), and I’ve never been to an outdoor rink. Basically we had completely forgotten how to skate and looked like a bunch of toddlers on the ice. However, they have these little penguin things for kids to lean on so you don’t fall. Naturally, I grabbed one for my first couple of laps around the rink. I have no shame.
It’s a small rink, and obviously lots of kids are around, which to me is a major con, but as long as they don’t grab onto me or try to pull me down with them, I can deal with it. They play some decent pop jams, albeit a bit inappropriate for kids («Do what you want with my body» isn’t what I’d pick to DJ a kid-​friendly activity). All was well until some mystery person started bleeding on the ice, and the ambulance had to be called. Although, that means four attractive EMT guys arrived. One of the teenaged employees cleaned up the bloody ice with a shovel… and then carelessly waved it around right in front of us on the way to dump it over the side of the rink onto the sidewalk. I’m no medical expert, but it seems like a pretty careless (and GROSS) way to dispose of bodily fluids to me. All in all, we had a fun hour reliving our youth. The only thing that would’ve made it better is getting rid of the kids and adding alcohol!

We have been here a few times and probably will go again during the week. The weekends are way too crowded, too loud, and skates need new laces. I prefer other locations.

This is a fantastic skating rink and experience. It’s always open, the atmosphere is great, and the people have so much fun. There are many beginners and very few of the hot-​shot, run-‘em-down skaters that you find in many indoor rinks. People have a fun, welcoming attitude toward skating. It’s also probably the most diverse skating rink in the country — you get all kinds of races, ages, languages, and abilities. We love it!

Husband, daughter and granddaughter went ice skating recently at Veterans Plaza. I tagged along to take pictures and eat and shop with them afterwards. We got their tickets and it was very reasonable, $ 8 for adults, $ 7 for children for a 2 hour skate, the fee included skate rental. When daughter asked how they monitored the time limit the clerk just shrugged, but it didn’t matter because we knew our group wouldn’t last that long anyway. The rink was busy, but not too crowded and it seemed like most skaters were pretty amateur with lots of families with kids on the ice. They have large plastic buckets scattered around to help give the kids something other than the rails to hang on to. There was music playing on the loud speakers and everyone was having a lot of fun. And as expected after about half an hour our party was tired and one was bruised (ouch!) so they turned in their skates and it was off to lunch.

so much fun!

Went over to the Silver Spring Ice Rink on the new Veterans Plaza for the first time this week, and had a great time. My friend and I were able to rent skates and skate for 2 hours for $ 11 (admission was $ 8 and rental was $ 3), which seems reasonable. The ice was very uncrowded which I loved, and even though it isn’t the largest rink in the area it’s a nice locale outdoors in the middle of Downtown Silver Spring. All in all a fun time and I’ll definitely be back.