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Rinkside Sports
Categories: Active Life Amusement Parks Active Life Skating Rinks Amusement Parks, Skating Rinks [Edit]
6152 Grand AveGurnee, IL 60031
(847) 856-1064
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
6 reviews for Rinkside Sports
6 reviews in English
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Review from Adele S.
Buffalo Grove, IL
6/13/2007
This is a haul for us, but when other rinks don't have open skate, this place has it nearly all day. I don't skate so it's just my daughter-price isn't a problem-and the great thing is I can leave her there and run to Jockey to buy panties!
Remember, on school holidays they will be packed with a line out the door. If you have an Entertainment book, they have a coupon in there.
We don't do the arcade. -
Review from Frank N.
1/10/2011
Went here to get the dust off the hockey skates. Public skating started at 1pm after all of the hockey leagues ended on this fine Sunday morning. Public skating is from 1pm-2:30pm and since I would rather be an hour early than a minute late, I went early only to find a long line already waiting.
We waited almost 30 minutes just to get in! There is one check-in desk with a high school kid taking his sweet time. We all noticed him keep peaking out at how long thw line was...
Here's a hint to those of you who go to places like this: "Know how many people you have, their ages, and fricken shoe sizes!!" It just helps those of us in line that know these crucial tidbits.
Considering that public skating is only an hour and a half, sitting in line for 30 mintues just isn't right. And this is considering that I was only 20 people back in the line. i felt sorry for the young kids that were near the back of the line.
As for the skating, it was fun but my feet are killing me. I guess my high school hockey skates just aren't so ergonomic anymore. My ankles were fine, but the skates just didn't cut it. I should have rented the $5 hockey skates as they were in great conidtion and truly looked comfortable.
Though it was crowded, the ice was in great shape and everyone was in good spirits. There were no obnoxious fast skaters plowing people down.
The three stars is due only to the slow and unorganized method of allowing people to check in. Otherwise, this is a great place to skate. -
Review from Scott K.
Franklin, WI
7/22/2011
Went here for the mini golf, but also played in the arcade. The staff here was great, super-friendly and helpful. The mini golf was good, but small. Some holes were only a few feet long. The arcade had a lot of machines that weren't working. So, the place was okay, but could be improved.
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Review from Joe G.
Milwaukee, WI
3/23/2009
Nice arcade. We visited on a Sunday, when they opened about an hour earlier than the rest of the mall. It's a large facility, and has laser tag, ice skating, and other stuff, but we mostly came just to play some air hockey and skee-ball until the mall opened. It's not the cheapest arcade, but also not the most expensive.
Equipment maintenance is a challenge at any arcade, and it was clear that a lot of the games were in need of some attention. Skee-ball games that don't register the holes when a ball passes, one where the coin mechanism was clearly fouled and ate a token, a bowling game where the mechanism couldn't reset the pins, video games with dim, dead, or dying displays, all the usual issues you find at cheap arcades. However, it is a large facility, and there are lots of things that work fine, or work well enough. We found fun stuff to do, we didn't stay a real long time, and we had fun. -
Review from drew m.
Lake Villa, IL
2/26/2011
My kids really like this place. They have good value deals that include the mini golf and/ or laser tag with a pizza and pithcer of pop. There were some arcade games that didn't function right, but they had someone to fix the problem and give back your token. The laser tag and mini golf were good, and the kids enjoyed that alot. The pizza was pretty good too. Overall a good place to take the kids.
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Review from Michelle F.
Chicago, IL
10/31/2005 2 photos
Nice quality ice rink, they have hockey leagues and free skate times, too. Pretty expensive, especially if you're taking a bunch of kids. A once-in-a-while outing. Also have a fun arcade, but again, not cheap.
