Del Mar Lanes

Del Mar Lanes in Northwest Houston is the ideal place to spend time with family and or friends or even coworkers. There are plenty of lanes with a large selection of balls. The interactive media allows you to choose “games” to play and you can even order food and beverages right there from the same terminal. For those out of practice, wait your player on the screen and select “bumpers” so that each time it’s your turn, then the bumpers come up and you’ll always hit at least one pin. There are reduced prices before 5 pm too. Highly recommend!

2 months ago

We loved it. It was a great experience. Staff is very friendly and helpful. Restrooms clean, great food, great prices and we had a great time playing. Family friendly.

7 months ago

Very fun with your lady or the family also at a good price. Drinks and food available too!

2 months ago

Great place- clean and well run….classic bowling alley and a lot less expensive than Pinstripes or Lucky Strike. The pizza dough is made in house and was really good. We will definitely be back. (SAT 1 PM- busy but no wait)

9 months ago

Came here on a Saturday evening for a birthday party. We had four lanes booked out and I'd recommend a maximum of six players per lane, although they do support more than that. Rental shoes are quite stretched out here. I actually sized down nearly 2 full sizes (usually wear a 7.5, ended up using 6's) to fit snugly. The bowling balls are set up from ~8lbs to ~15lbs in order. I couldn't really tell, but it seemed like the smaller balls also tended to have smaller finger holes on average. There are some "game" options to bowl with that ultimately boil down to 1 bowl x 5 frames, 2 bowls x 5 frames, and 2 bowls x 10 frames. Kids may enjoy the Angry Birds game, which is 2 bowls x 5 frames but if you hit all of the birds, you'll effectively get a "strike" (at least, I think that's how it works). For serious bowlers, I'd suggest the "Pro Stats" setup which will give you mph, % of strikes, and things like that. You can put in your e-mail to get your scorecard or even set up using an app, which are great modern options. The people who weren't as good bowlers ended up trying to go for high speed bowls toward the end of the night (25.7mph was the winner if you're curious). We had a few incidents where someone bowled during a reset, usually because we were playing a minigame where we expected two rolls but actually ended up being counted as a strike due to whatever game gimmick was going on. During those times, it took the staff about 5-10 minutes to respond and clear the lane. Lane 20 was also really wrong in the sensors. We called it the charity lane because if you guttered a ball, it would give you between 3-6 points randomly. So, not all of the lanes are perfect. There's also a little arcade here, and some coin operated basketball games. Cool that you can order bar food and beer from the attached restaurant. Overall, a generally positive experience with one lane out of four that was a bit glitchy.

8 months ago