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Eden visitors to be bowled over
8:37am Saturday 23rd February 2008
Comments (18)THE latest scoring technology, 22 lanes, an amusement arcade and a stylish bar and diner await Wycombe's keen bowlers when Eden opens.
This week, the Bucks Free Press took a sneak preview inside the new AMF Bowling Centre - one of the main leisure attractions of the multi-million pound centre due to open in just three weeks' time.
The High Wycombe centre is a unique design for AMF, with curved interiors and colourful lighting to tie in with the architecture of Eden.
Screens above each lane offer the latest graphics, including the opportunity to put players' photos on screen.
Sharing platters from the diner can be ordered to seats by the lane, so players can snack as they bowl, while a range of burgers are available for sit-down meals.
For a VIP experience, the centre offers the first AMF private lounge, with four dedicated lanes joined to a soft-seating area with plasma screens, WiFi connections and a Karaoke machine designed for birthdays, corporate events, Stag and Hen dos and tournaments.
Bosses said the lounge has already been booked for six children's birthday parties on the first Saturday after opening.
The centre can host up to 400 people at a time. The centre will open for business during the day on Thursday, March 13 when Eden launches. AMF mascot mice Bumper and Squeak will be on hand to welcome bowlers and show them around.
It will be closed in the evening for an invitation only corporate launch.
A bowling game costs £5.50 for adults and £4.50 for juniors. There will be special offers of three games for £7.50 during off peak hours and an evening offer of £10 for unlimited bowling from 9pm.
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andy b, high wycombe says...
10:54am Sat 23 Feb 08
Becky, High Wycombe says...
11:09am Sat 23 Feb 08
andy b wrote:Not if you pay £10 for unlimited bowling after 9pm!! You've gotta be in heaven with that!!
So one game of bowling for a family of 4 would cost £20 plus drinks/snacks and parking (assuming you can find a space). Not a cheap outing.
erm, ermsville says...
11:28am Sat 23 Feb 08
£10 for unlimited bowling from 9pm
ouch, cross that off the list of kiddie activities
andy b, high wycombe says...
11:34am Sat 23 Feb 08
Not if you pay £10 for unlimited bowling after 9pm!! You've gotta be in heaven with that!!Unfortunately my primary school aged children go to bed at 7pm!
Plus ça change..., Wycombe says...
12:48pm Sat 23 Feb 08
Could be a proper town soon!
Bring it on...
Mike R, Wycombe says...
1:42pm Sat 23 Feb 08
Ivor, says...
3:04pm Sat 23 Feb 08
The centre will open for business during the day on Thursday, March 13 when Eden launches .... It will be closed in the evening for an invitation only corporate launch.Closed on its opening day for a corporate launch? Not really meant for the people of the town then is it?
Are corporate events put before the people of the town it appears so! It appears that any member of the public wanting to go bowling on the evening of March 13th will have to travel to another town to do so!
TQWood, Hazlemere says...
5:13pm Sat 23 Feb 08
?????, bucks says...
6:05pm Sat 23 Feb 08
Ivor, says...
6:28pm Sat 23 Feb 08
????? wrote:It appears the facilities have not been built for the people of Wycombe if they had been we would have bee able to go bowling on the opening night. This is another example of our town being used by others for their convenience. They will drive away at the end of the day leaving us with the hideous complex bighting our town centre.
Come on Ivor we've managed this long with no bowling alley just pretend in your own mind that it opens on the 14th!!!! Are you really going to be trying to go bowling that night? Im sure you'll be too busy measuring queues at traffic lights or something!!!
Have you read Ivors blog today? Click on the Opinion link on the menu on the left then click on Readers Bucks Blog.
erm, ermsville says...
6:42pm Sat 23 Feb 08
hideous complex bighting our town centre.
your house isn't that bad Ivor
HW resident, Hazlemere says...
8:15am Sun 24 Feb 08
andy b, high wycombe says...
9:07am Sun 24 Feb 08
at the moment you have to go to Maidenhead where you have to pay lots to use the leisure centre car parkYou could go to Aylesbury - convenient for Stoke Mandeville if you drop a bowling ball on your foot! Parking in Maidenhead and Aylesbury is free on Sundays - will the plebians of Wycombe get such luxury - I think not.
david, high wycombe says...
10:27am Sun 24 Feb 08
Why is it that it's the same people that moan and groan, what would make you happy?
Tharus Bond, Wycombe says...
9:17am Mon 3 Mar 08
Mike R wrote:what about the high street?
Lol this town is brilliant. Nobody is ever happy are they? The town centre was rubbish so what do the council do, spend millions on provding new shops, restaurants, a cinema, bowling alley etc etc. And its still not good enough! 'Oh what about the parking' - Easy theres loads of car parks! 'Oh its so expensive' - Erm no, like they say there are loads of deals that are on offer and at the end of the day things like that are supposed to be treats for kids, so whats the harm in spending a bit of cash? Lighten up! OR we could always just demolish it all and have back the way it was with loads of chavs in honda civics racing around bridge street car park and the smell of stale kebab wafting through the town into frogmoor?
We'll be living in a ghooooost towwwwn living in a ghost town!
lilkaos, High Wycombe says...
9:20am Mon 17 Mar 08
Mike R wrote:to right, we have a billabong now! yay!
Lol this town is brilliant. Nobody is ever happy are they? The town centre was rubbish so what do the council do, spend millions on provding new shops, restaurants, a cinema, bowling alley etc etc. And its still not good enough! 'Oh what about the parking' - Easy theres loads of car parks! 'Oh its so expensive' - Erm no, like they say there are loads of deals that are on offer and at the end of the day things like that are supposed to be treats for kids, so whats the harm in spending a bit of cash? Lighten up! OR we could always just demolish it all and have back the way it was with loads of chavs in honda civics racing around bridge street car park and the smell of stale kebab wafting through the town into frogmoor?
and guys, of course bowling is going to be expencive. since when has it not?
annon, st ives says...
3:57pm Tue 26 Aug 08
The new bowling centre fast nearing completion
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TQWood, Hazlemere says...
10:35am Sat 23 Feb 08