Bowling shoes aren’t just fashionable—they provide the added two inches of height needed to load your ball into a regulation-size trebuchet. Lace up and reach for a three-holed pin-puncher with today’s Groupon: for $10, you get three games of bowling plus free shoe rental and eight arcade-game tokens (up to a $20 value) at Hermitage Lanes on Lebanon Road.
Hermitage Lanes offers family fun to alley cats of all experience levels and finger sizes. Slip into a pair of free rental shoes and listen to the scintillating symphony of strikes over the course of three pin-toppling games. Champion ball slingers can examine the latest in bowling accoutrement in the JENXXX Pro Shop. AJ’s Arcade offers entertainment for hyperactive thumbs and an ideal depository for your eight arcade tokens. This gaming utopia houses classics such as skee ball and air hockey, which peacefully coexist alongside newer games such as Deal or No Deal. Inside Gasoline Alley, you’ll find wall-to-wall racing games such as Daytona USA, where you can jump behind the wheel to navigate a stock car through a treacherous course of asphalt and evening-wear competitions.
Flinging plastic globes repeatedly can work up an appetite, so hungry hurlers can have a seat in Legends Bar & Grill inside Hermitage Lanes. This sports-themed and TV-laden joint serves traditional American fare with shuffleboard tables ideal for settling ten-pin disputes and regular tables for arm wrestling, foot boxing, and other archaic feats of strength.
Cost of food and drinks not included with today's Groupon.
Reviews
Six Citysearchers and three Insider Pagers give Hermitage Lanes a four-star average rating.
- Hermitage Lanes is a great place to go, whether you are serious bowler or just there to have fun with your friends. You can meet new people while bowling a game or two, or play games all night with all of your old friends. – chris_s_girl77, Citysearch
- Hermitage Lanes is a great place to enjoy bowling, arcade, birthday parties, etc. They are completely smoke free. The atmosphere is very family friendly and the staff is very friendly and helpful. – Tracie C., Insider Pages
Groupon Says
Bowl It to the Limit
Bowling the perfect game takes more than simply throwing 12 strikes in a row. As former United States Bowling Congress pro player turned hall of fame bowling announcer Ruddy Witherhall said, "Being the best don't mean nothing if you ain't happy." Many of the pro-bowling tour's most legendary players have very publicly suffered from a number of official and, as of yet, unrecognized mood disorders, including seasonal affective disorder, moonlight sorrow, double-hunger, and Wednesdays-only agoraphobia. For these brave champions, such as 1991 tour winner Donce Mondrian, joining the elite "300 Club" was almost enough to turn their contemplative, melancholy expressions upside down into something resembling smiles.
Upon bowling a perfect game, the bowling lane is cordoned off, the pins are sent to a testing facility in Virginia, and the bowler gives blood, hair, and tissue samples (this rule was instituted in 1988, after bowler M4X-Q4 was revealed to actually be a Japanese bowling robot). Once the perfect game has been verified, the bowler is awarded an unbreakable ring carved from moon rock, its glowing luster confirming to bowler and spectator alike that its wearer is a member of a special class. Wrote Donce in his autobiography Win It to the Limit (co-written by Gore Vidal), "Becoming a true champion is more than just bowling a perfect game. It also involves wearing a ring made from the moon."
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