Bowling is like taking a road test: the only way to win is to knock over more obstacles than everyone else. Cruise to victory with today’s deal: for $5, you get two games of bowling plus one pair of rental shoes (up to an $11 value) at any one of the five following Vantage Bowling Centers' area locations: Cactus Bowl, Lucky Strike Bowl, Tucson Bowl, Santa Cruz Lanes, or Fiesta Lanes.

Family-friendly and fully loaded, Vantage Bowling Centers boasts lane after lane of well-maintained surfaces, modern scoring, and bumpers primed and ready to boost any youngster's score and attitude. To amp up the alley-based excitement, various alleys also host Cyber/Cosmic Bowling, an intergalactic amalgamation of flashy lights, fog machines, fresh pop beats, and occasional flying saucer sightings, often identified as piping-hot pizza from the food counter. Beyond pizza, most locations provide a range of eats and thirst quenchers, including burgers, fries, sodas, and a variety of adult beverages such as draft beer and milkshakes made entirely of Wall Street Journal clippings. Select locations keep the action rolling as late as 1 a.m. on weekends. Call ahead to check for lane availability.

Reviews

Five Yelpers give Lucky Strike Bowl an average of four stars, and nearly 330 Facebookers are fans of the Vantage Bowling Centers:

• This place has the definite classic 50s bowling alley feel to it, complete with no-nonsense staff and hardcore bowling addicts hanging out at all hours of the day and night... – Matt S., Yelp
• I find the bartender quite friendly and the facilities quite immaculate (these are things I never thought I would say about a bowling alley). – Molly H., Yelp