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 unlimited bowling and shoe rental at Gladstone Bowl on NW 72nd Street in Gladstone. Choose between two options:

• For $5, you get unlimited bowling, including shoe rental, on Sunday night from 9 p.m.–11 p.m. (up to a $9 value).
• For $8, you get unlimited bowling, including shoe rental, on Saturday night from 9 p.m.–midnight (up to a $15 value).

Voted Best Bowling on the Kansas City A-List in 2008 and 2009, Gladstone Bowl has entertained strikers, rollers, and turkeys for more than 50 years. Ditch the usual weekend routine of sitting at home in the dark and come experience galactic bowling, where you can bowl in the dark. Gladstone Bowl is transformed as black lights hypnotize regular lights into setting the alley aglow. Send radiant comets shooting down a glimmering lane as neon lights tango with the pins. Spirited music sets rental-clad feet in motion, and automatic scoring flashes above each sleek lane on an overhead screen, announcing winners, losers, and innovatively concise nicknames.

Blue and gray tables, large enough to seat five regulation-size bowlers, provide ample dining space for chowing down on sandwiches, buffalo wings, tacos, and more at Smitty's Diner, before returning to the lanes for another frame of 10-pin annihilation.

Reviews

Nineteen CityVoters recommend it:

• Great atmosphere, friendly people, great prices, and the best taco's i've had in a long time. – blackoprogue
• I travel to Missouri to visit family, Gladstone Bowl ALWAYS is the place we stop for an evening of fun. – kgaul