Let Us Go Bowling – Best Joints In Nairobi City
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A lazy afternoon, fizzling drinks and dripping Kenyan Cuisines will make your Kenyan City Safari memorable. If you add bowling, foosball and pool in a colourful place, your day will be perfect. If you are travelling with your family, especially children, the number one bowling joints in the city will be:
The Village Bowl
This is at Village Market, along Limuru Road, on the second floor of New Wing. The Village Market is an all-in-one-stop place in matters of food, drinks and fun. Before getting in for a game or two, you can stop by the nicely stocked curio shops and pick a souvenir of a Moran wooden or stone carving. Or still, you can pack Crispy Samosas for the kids if not a variety of street cuisines.
The Village Bowl is the most recently set up bowling joint in the city, therefore it is modern and exotic. It is an eleven-lane Brunswick Bowling Facility, which is perfect for sports parties and leisure. I am talking latest pool tables, air hockey pitch, foosball pitch and live playing bands.
It is the best place to bring the entire family. Depending on the day of the week, a game goes for between Ksh.300 to Ksh.500 per person.
The Nairobi Club
We don’t just come here to play golf. There is something close to outdoor bowling here and that’s what makes Nairobi Country Club an epic place for bowling. Aside: this club was opened in 1901.
The club is a private membership exclusive, sitting on a vast piece of land, serene and extremely classy. If malls suffocate you or maybe you are megalophobic, then Country Club Bowling will do you good.
Here bowling is different: you will be rolling a biased ball that will have to stop close to a smaller white ball called a jack. It is easy to learn and fun to play. Bring your kids along and enjoy the countryside appeal of Upperhill, along Ngong Road. You can play golf afterwards, and enjoy a nice meal and exotic drinks. Later, you can take a hike on The Ngong Hills.
Green bowling will cost you Ksh.2000 per month or Ksh.150 for members and Ksh.200 for guests per game.
However, if you are tired of the outdoors and you just want color, good music, and being indoors…
Strikes – Westgate Mall
It could be the place you are looking for. Strikes bowling base is normally open from 10.00 am to 8.00 pm on all days of the week. A lazy afternoon or cool evening could be spent here. It has a ten-lane bowling alley, several pool tables, a foosball pitch and air hockey. You can also enjoy full restaurant and bar services. The cocktails at strikes, will blow your mind. They also have a resident DJ and you can ask for the hits you like as you bowl.
A game goes for Ksh.500 or Ksh. 300 depending on the day of the week and time.
The Pins Entertainment at Sarit Center
Nairobi Westlands has the best nightlife and the some of most exotic fun joints in Nairobi. Pin Entertainment is one of them. The bowling lanes are open all days of the week, from 10.00 am to 8.00 pm. You enjoy 11 bowling lanes and you can have friends come over to compete.
The Pin Entertainment place also has Kids Lanes and you can have a family league organized. You will enjoy art billiards, compete in Karaoke, and go in for a private movie if you enjoy such and your children who are under five years old will be kept busy on their bowling lanes and play zones.
On weekends and holidays, a game will cost you Ksh.500 and on weekdays, you will pay Ksh.350.
Playland Amusement Park
This is on the ground floor of Nexgen Mall. This is a place for indoor fun including virtual games. The place is open all days of the week, 10.00 am to 8.00 pm. A game here will cost you Ksh. 500.
Bowling is usually one of the most therapeutic sports of all time. It is cool and relaxing with less sweating. The bowling joints are also very exotic and you can enjoy music, savoury cuisines and drinks. After a wild safari, a hike or a city tour, you can stop at a mall and enjoy a nice evening bowling, biting and drinking. Do you love singing? Ending your day with an extreme Karaoke experience will be the best topping for your bowling night.
