Woburn Bowladrome

Love it here! It’s reasonably priced, they have food an arcade and glow bowling on weekends. The staff is very friendly. Its well worth a visit.

This was my first experience dealing with Bowladrome. I signed up to run a group bowling there last evening, and it ended up to be even more wonderful than I expected! Everyone commented on how nice the environment was. The staff was so warm and accommodating, the shoes were in great shape, bathrooms and the facility so clean and well organized. It was decorated beautifully. I would highly recommend this facility, as it was just terrific! Enjoy!

Woburn Bowladrome is the best!
it is huge!
it is reasonably priced!
there’s beer!
i love that there isn’t any «big ball» here
i hope they stay in business forever

We came here to go bowling after we found another alley we usually went to was closed. It was clean, reasonably updated and priced. The side games were also great and there was food if we chose to eat there-​pizza and other snack food mainly. Seemed like a nice place to have a kid’s party with bumper bowling. Will def be back.

This is an affordable bowladrome with optional candle pin rail guards for when you and your friends are drunk and want to think you can bowl. If I had a kid, I’d probably throw them a party here. If I had my own little league baseball team, I’d bring them here for some kind of get together. They serve some foods, like okay pizza, as well as beer.

It’s automated scoring which makes really efficient games lots of fun. The are beers which is awesome. The are tons of lanes so waiting in line isn’t a concern. The couple that own it seem really nice. Wed night there is a deal. Clean and nice equipment. Really a fun place.

Family owned since opened. Nice location. Has a large glow bowl section, bumper bowl, 40 lanes. The staff is great from Eddie to Tricia, John Sharon & Mike. Just about any night there is open bowling. Prices are standard best to buy by the hour for families.

Affordable, friendly and fun. Fairly big place, dingy with that 70’s /​80’s vibe and smell but clean. One of the better, older, Candlepin joints around. They do cosmic bowling on some nights if you’re into that sort of thing haha

We just hosted a fundraising bowling event here… and I have to say they could not have been nicer. Sharon was incredibly helpful, they gave us a great rate and were very gracious to all of our event attendees. Our whole family is very grateful for the nice job Woburn Bowladrome did for our event.

OMG it’s an F’ing Bowling Alley !! To hear all these complaints WTF. Drove in Hurricane Arthur on Fourth of July. Walked right in — no wait ! Friendly and helpful staff, clean restrooms. Auto scoring worked fine, no long wait for pins to set up. Very reasonable pricing espec. for a Fri night. $ 30– 3 people, 3 shoes and 45 min. of bowling.
If you don’t want your bowling experienced turned into a bar/​nightclub event but want a vintage/​retro/​safe place to Bowl just like when you were a kid this place is well worth. Stop complaining Jesus !

In response to Annemarie G. comment
Yes, I am sure I am reviewing right place. When we got there, we were told that score is kept manually and were given paper and pencils. When asked about automatic scoring, were told it is broken. And when I asked if they will be fixed any time soon, I received very rude reply. Something like — we know when and how to run our business. Stay out of it. If my kid did not want to play bowling so bad, I would walk out right then. But we stayed for a game.
Shoes did smell. I mean at $ 3/​pair one would expect a clean, non smelly pair of shoes right?
As for restrooms. If you really have a company come in every night… Well, you are getting rubbed if that is the best they can do in terms of cleaning.
And staff was not friendly at all.
Luckily there are plenty of bowling places around. If I am to spend my money, I want much better service than this.
Sorry.

I wish I had read Unilocal before deciding to come up to Woburn to bowl. Ultimately we had fun, and the experience was good, but their website does not anywhere that I can find, state that they only have candlepin bowling. With forty lanes, as their website states, I figured that half would’ve been ten-​pin. Oh well. Candlepin it is.
We were a party of four. We booked an hour. We could not finish two strings! That surprised me. But then, I noticed that the pin resets were taking quite a while to do. I’m not a bowling machinery engineer, but I really did expect that we could’ve finished two strings in 60 min. We were almost done, but got cut off at the 8^th frame or so. And we really weren’t dawdling, we just weren’t speed bowling.
We also wished they served beer. I guess a lack of alcohol keeps the place cleaner and the riffraff out, but still.
But hey, it’s a bowling alley — why are there so few bowling alleys in the Boston area? The one closer to us had leagues filling up all their lanes for the entire evening, so I guess Woburn is a good place to go on a weekday.
One piece of advice: always call ahead, especially on a weekday — because who knows.

Overall a fun place to bowl. Still somewhat archaic, however, as the technology running the lane is not 100% accurate (it failed to recognize the ball passing through a couple times. The place also isn’t the cleanest either and the food is nothing special. The staff also wasn’t the best and failed to show up and give us a drink from the broken vending machine. The arcade is rather sparse as well. Bowling is still very fun, but the atmosphere surrounding it could be better.

Been there plenty over the last two years with the kids. Good rainy/​snowy day activity. Have never had problems that staff didn’t take care of pretty quickly. Don’t know what happened to Michael, but they do have automatic electric scoring. Haven’t found any bathroom disasters like someone else on here. It reminds me of bowling alleys when I was a kid, with some arcade games and concessions on the side. All Candlepin. Can get busy and loud sometimes, but that is a bowling alley.

Being from Florida, we do not have the candle pin bowling opportunity. This place had a nice nostalgic feel with decent prices. The sport of candle pin bowling is a challenge of its own, and can be quite frustrating. However, there was a staff member «Anthony», who was most helpful getting us set up and gave us plenty of tips. I still did not do all that well. If you want a challenging sport with a fun atmosphere, look no further that the Woburn Bowladrome. It is an experience you will never forget!

Not bad. It seems like they are trying to hard when it comes to making it a great place. It would be perfect as just a simple small town bowling alley environment. As an artist I was bothered by only one part of their decoration style. Someone who puts together the signs and posters really loves to use comic sans as a font. that part is just ugly. Any true artist would not approve of that. On the other hand the service there is great and the social environment makes it a fun place.

I really like coming to this bowling alley. Sometimes it’s really quiet and nice, then other times it’s very busy, but that’s still okay. I always have a great time while I’m there. The only problem is, which isn’t even a big deal to me, is that sometimes when bowl the screen says you knocked down more than you actually did. It’s great when it happens to YOU, but not the other people you’re playing with: D

Everything was great the, atmosphere, excellent bowling experience, fantastic night,

I have a love/​hate relationship with the Woburn Bowladrome. On the one hand, it’s reasonably priced and conveniently located. Seriously, the prices are awesome and for some reason it’s one of the few bowling alleys in suburban Boston. I also like how they charge by the hour, rather than by the game. It can suck to get booted off the lane in the middle of a game, but it’s definitely preferable to buying, say, three games.
But there’s annoying parts too. For one thing, no matter how many empty lanes they have, you’ll inevitably get dumped in the middle of a group of people. I don’t mind bowling next to adults, but oftentimes I’ll end up next to a bunch of kids screaming or running around. The second problem is that a lot of the lanes are old, so they break down a lot. And the computer system will randomly give out extra points for no reason. Finally, not one television in that place works. Not that I go to a bowling alley to watch tv, but it’d be nice to have the Celtics or Red Sox up on the screen while I’m waiting for my turn to bowl.
Still, there are a lot of worse ways to spend an evening than at the Woburn

So I actually went back last week — don’t ask me what drove me here…
The building has been repainted — at least out back. Looks nice and new. Parking is still hellish — but if you expect it when you get here then you’ll do just fine. Note to you: please look for the arrows on the ground. Guy in front of me didn’t and nearly hit me — loser!
The place still smells the same — ahhhhh — bowling.
So the place has been re-​vamped since I was there last. The center area has an all new counter with lower areas for the kids/​handicapped. It’s been cleaned up some. Still the same gruff workers behind the counter, though. The arcade area has new arcade games and little skee-​ball for the tykes, but they all take tokens only now — that’s kinda lame.
When I was there — they had half the building as regular bowl, and the other half as that dark neon «galaxy bowl».
This place would be better if they served beer.
The ball returns have changed — they are now a long rectangular box and the mechanics inside the ball return literally FIRE the balls out at you. Watch your fingers!!!
Bowling is all automated scoring now. I miss the old pencil and overhead displays…
If you have kids, you can do worse than to kill time here. Prices are still reasonable to bowl a few frames. Give it a shot.