World Ice Arena Reviews Summary

Staff and Service

Pros:

• "The staff here are so sweet- I fell several times today and each time a sweet staff rolled right up to me and checked up on me."
• "The ice guards are friendly and helpful, and the rink is usually very clean and well maintained."
• "I go to this rink every Saturday, and the skate guard are all very kind, and funny."
• "Johan at the rental counter was really nice and made sure he found me some that weren’t as bad."
• "Very nice place to go ice skating. It was a little crowded returning skates but NICK helped me and found my shoe very fast."
• "The employees who helped me with the skate rentals and check in etc were such a charm!"
• "They maintain strict schedule for changing rooms sections and the coaches are all very helpful during our visits."

Cons:

• "If you are even the slightest experienced skater they will hate you."
• "Staffs wearing orange uniforms were not friendly here and they were just so rude."
• "I cannot stress enough how poorly treated myself and my boyfriend were at World’s Ice Arena."
• "The rudeness that they gave us was uncalled for."
• "Very rude staff."
• "One of the staff in the entrance was really highly aggressive, rude, and unprofessional."
• "The girl in the front doing registration was very rude and unprofessional."

Facility and Maintenance

Pros:

• "Great place to skate. Besides the general skating they also offer skating instructions of all levels."
• "It's hardly ever closed. Maybe 3 days out of the year."
• "The rink itself is beautiful, one of the nicest facilities I’ve been too but when you take out figure skating it takes all the fun out."
• "Nice and affordable rink, was my first time coming here and it’s pretty big."
• "The arena is very convenient to get to."
• "The ice is usually in great shape and well taken care of."
• "The rink is nice and cleaned regularly and the staff is nice."

Cons:

• "The parking situation is pretty weak."
• "The ice was horrible. It was full of bumps even after smoothing."
• "Ice was too choppy for me, even though the Zamboni smoothed it out like 5 minutes before I got back onto the ice."
• "The locker rooms don’t seem to be heated, and as they open directly to the ice, that does seem a problem."
• "The ice was completely cut up when we arrived around 2:30 which made the skating thoroughly unenjoyable."
• "Very disfunctional place, needs new management."
• "Management is really bad."

Cost and Accessibility

Pros:

• "Skate rentals are $6 (you pay in person cash or credit card)."
• "The prices are really affordable and reasonable, 16 dollars on a weekend (with skate rental) for around 5 hours of skating is really worth it."
• "There’s also one time use lockers for $75 cents."
• "For skaters the entrance cost is$7 Mon-Thu and $10 Fri-Sun."
• "Located on the edge of Corona/Flushing park. Free parking under the elevated highway."
• "Admission prices are affordable and worth it."
• "The cost of admission and rental was very low."

Cons:

• "You have to pay the full price to watch the kids and your wife."
• "Food is way too expensive and I'm someone that pays for movie theater food."
• "Gone are the days you could pay cash and get on the ice. So many hoops - register online with all your private information, book a session online, pay online, scan a QR code at the door and they are absolutely COVID crazy."
• "Mind you the clinic is $125 for 1 day or $200 for 2 days, supposedly to be 3 hours from 9am to noon with a break in between."
• "It’s required to pay the ticket via a website, which a friendly staff helped me to set up an account and pay the ticket. Everything was good until a month later, namely now, I found I’m charged $89.95 for whatever annual membership of ACTIVE NETWORK."
• "Used to be ~$8 for the day. Now it's $10 (extra $6 for the rentals) for 1.5 hours."
• "For the price $10 it was pretty cheap (since it’s not hourly based)."

Skating Experience

Pros:

• "Teachers are caring and tailors the learning to each child."
• "It’s not too crowded when you go early."
• "After every 2 hours they started to clean the ice and make it smooth."
• "Public session is good you want to practice stuff -- some rinks like Bryant Park and Rockefeller are way too crowded for that."
• "Came to skate on Christmas with my best friend and we had so much fun!"
• "I had a really nice time here with my family, kids had a blast, none of us can skate but still had a great time."
• "My daughter starts the ice skating summer camp from the very beginning (July.5), everyday she is so excited to attend the class, and she learns a lot."