GObowling
4.1 (1.4k)
Grove park, Court Drive, Dunstable LU5 4JD
32 lanesHours listed from £7 Open to the public
A 32-lane league centre at Grove Park, with free coaching and a cut-price third game.
Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk
East of England: league centres, piers and seaside arcades
The East has 35 places to bowl, and an unusual number of them are on the coast: on Clacton Pier, on Wellington Pier in Great Yarmouth and beside the beach at Hemsby and Lowestoft.
Most lanesGObowling Dunstable · 32 lanes
Lowest game rate foundEat N Bowl · £5
Latest closingHollywood Bowl Stevenage · 01:00
Online booking20 of 35 alleys
Namco Funscape Norwich
4.1 (1.4k)
10 Barnard Rd, Bowthorpe Employment Area, Norwich NR5 9JB
30 lanesHours listed Open to the public
Thirty lanes on the west side of Norwich, with £6 Early Bird games every morning.
Stevenage Leisure Park, Six Hills Way, Stevenage, SG1 2UA
28 lanesHours listed Open to the public
Stevenage Leisure Park's 28 lanes, with interactive darts and a 01:00 Saturday finish.
Tenpin Cambridge
3.9 (1.9k)
Leisure Park, Clifton Way, Cambridge CB1 7DY
28 lanesHours listed from £9.95 Open to the public
Twenty-eight lanes off Clifton Way, with four karaoke rooms and late weekend nights.
Hollywood Bowl Watford Woodside
4.1 (2.7k)
Woodside Leisure Pk, N Orbital Rd, Watford WD25 7JZ
27 lanesHours listed Open to the public
Twenty-seven lanes and an Immersive Gamebox room at Woodside Leisure Park.
Hollywood Bowl Basildon
4.2 (2.6k)
19 Festival Leisure Park, Festival Way, Basildon, SS14 3WB
26 lanesHours listed Open to the public
A 26-lane bowl at unit 19 of Festival Leisure Park, open from 10:00 even on weekdays.
Hollywood Bowl Colchester
4.2 (388)
Unit L4, United Way, Northern Gateway Colchester, CO4 5UP
26 lanesHours listed Open to the public
Lanes and a nine-hole mini golf course on United Way, with darts and a customer lift.
Hollywood Bowl Norwich
4.3 (1.8k)
1 Wherry Road, Norwich, NR1 1WZ
26 lanesHours listed Open to the public
Interactive darts, live sport and 26 lanes at 1 Wherry Road, close to Norwich's main shops.
Sturrock Way, Bretton, PE3 8YF
20 lanesHours listed Open to the public
Bretton's own Hollywood Bowl building on Sturrock Way: 20 lanes, VIP seating and EV chargers.
Namco Funscape Braintree
4.1 (1.5k)
Leisure Park, Charter Way, Braintree CM77 8YH
20 lanesHours listed Open to the public
Twenty lanes beside soft play, pool and climbing walls on the Braintree outlet leisure park.
Tenpin Colchester
4.1 (1.1k)
Cowdray Ave, Colchester CO1 1YH
20 lanesHours listed from £7.80 Open to the public
Twenty lanes off the A133 on Cowdray Avenue, with the same 10:00-to-midnight hours all week.
Tenpin Ipswich
4.1 (824)
Gloster Rd, Martlesham Heath, Martlesham, Ipswich IP5 3RJ
20 lanesHours listed from £8.10 Open to the public
A bowling-first centre at Martlesham Heath, with its festive opening hours already published.
Eat N Bowl
4 (797)
Huntingdon Rd, St. Neots PE19 1XG
16 lanesHours listed from £5 Open to the public
Sixteen LED-lit lanes on two floors, plus crazy golf, soft play and a new splash park.
Tenpin Luton
4.1 (736)
The Galaxy Centre, Bridge St, Luton LU1 2NB
16 lanesHours listed from £9.95 Open to the public
Sixteen lanes in The Galaxy on Bridge Street; evening parking at Crawley Road is free.
The Harlequin, 318, Watford, WD17 2AU
14 lanesHours listed Open to the public
Watford's smaller Hollywood Bowl: 14 lanes under the Harlequin's roof.
Unit 11 Capital Trading Estate, Rant Score, Whapload Road, Lowestoft
14 lanesHours listed from £10 Open to the public
Fourteen lanes on Whapload Road with a pier-style arcade hall and Richie's Adventure Island soft play.
Superbowl UK Norwich
4.1 (518)
Level 2, Castle Quarter Shopping Centre, 100 Castle Mdw, Norwich NR1 3DD
14 lanesHours listed Open to the public
Fourteen lanes on level 2 of Castle Quarter, with three party rooms for 25.
Tenpin Harlow
4 (270)
32B Terminus St, Harlow CM20 1EY
14 lanesHours listed from £8.30 Open to the public
A compact Tenpin whose Level 3 bar becomes adults-only after 19:00.
Ace of Lanes
4.4 (647)
4 Anchor St, Bishop's Stortford CM23 3BP
12 lanesHours listed from £6 Open to the public
Twelve boutique lanes and a cocktail bar under five minutes' walk from the railway station.
Bury Bowl
4.4 (905)
The Autopark, Eastgate St, Bury St Edmunds
12 lanesHours listed Open to the public
Twelve lanes at The Autopark on Eastgate Street, with free parking once your car is registered.
CJ's Bowling
4.4 (558)
8-10 Eldon Way, Hockley, Essex
12 lanesHours listed from £7 Open to the public
Twelve lanes, three snooker tables and a pro shop on Eldon Way in Hockley.
Kingpins Bowl Chelmsford
4.1 (103)
5 Market Rd, Chelmsford CM1 1XA
12 lanes Open to the public
Twelve Spark lanes that project your own photos onto the lane, on Market Road since 2024.
Madison Lanes (Madison Heights)
4 (688)
Madison Heights, Park Drive, Maldon
12 lanes Open to the public
Vegas-styled lanes under one roof with a roller rink, soft play and a paint-your-own pottery studio.
Superbowl UK Ipswich
4 (631)
Buttermarket Centre, St Stephens Ln, Ipswich IP1 1DT
12 lanesHours listed Open to the public
Twelve lanes on the Buttermarket's upper floor, next to Ipswich bus station, with Ninja Tag Active.
Clacton Pavilion
4.2 (982)
Marine Parade E, Clacton-on-Sea CO15 1PT
10 lanesfrom £50 a lane Open to the public
Ten lanes inside the seafront Pavilion, next to a fun park, a waterpark and Armstrong's restaurant.
Kingpins Bowl
4.4 (377)
Lucy Rd, Southend-on-Sea SS1 2AU, United Kingdom
10 lanesHours listed from £8.75 Open to the public
Interactive lanes, a VIP Royal Enclosure and a new terrace on Lucy Road.
Wellington Bowl
4.3 (641)
Wellington Pier, S Beach Parade, Great Yarmouth NR30 3JF
10 lanesHours listed from £8.75 Open to the public
Ten lanes on Wellington Pier, with free shoe hire and pool tables overlooking the beach.
Play2Day (Wisbech)
4.2 (981)
The Old Station Yard, Gull Rd, Guyhirn, Wisbech PE13 4AA
8 lanesHours listed Open to the public
A family centre in the old station yard at Guyhirn, with eight lanes and railway-themed golf.
Clacton Pier
4.3 (14.4k)
No.1, North Sea, Clacton-on-Sea CO15 1QX
6 lanesHours listed from £7.50 Open to the public
Six full-size lanes on the pier, refitted in 2026 with an interactive LED wall behind the pins.
Fakenham Superbowl
4.2 (188)
Bridge St, Fakenham NR21 9AX
6 lanesHours listed Open to the public
A family-run six-lane centre in a North Norfolk market town, open Thursday to Sunday in term.
Bowling House
4.6 (716)
7 Dereham Rd, Norwich NR2 4HX
5 lanesfrom £5 Open to the public
Five lanes, karaoke booths and a comedy club next door, just off Norwich city centre.
One Leisure St Ives Indoor
4.2 (608)
Westwood Rd, St. Ives PE27 6WU
5 lanesHours listed Open to the public
Five lanes inside the council leisure centre on Westwood Road, with morning sessions for over-50s.
Beach Road, Hemsby, Great Yarmouth
4 lanesHours listed from £10 Open to the public
Four bumper lanes and Glow Bowl nights in a Hemsby family centre on Beach Road.
Fen Road, Pidley, Huntingdon
Open to the public
A bowling alley inside a Cambridgeshire golf and country club, with rooms and lodges on site.
Strikes King's Lynn
4.1 (940)
1-5 Lynn Road, King's Lynn, Norfolk PE30 4PR
Hours listed from £5 Open to the public
Bowling where early bookers pay least, with Planet Zoom soft play on site.
Questions
East of England bowling questions
Which East of England alley has the most lanes?
GObowling Dunstable, with 32 lanes at Grove Park. Namco Funscape Norwich has 30.
Can I bowl on a pier?
Yes. The Lanes on Clacton Pier has six full-size lanes and Wellington Bowl sits on Wellington Pier in Great Yarmouth. Further north, in Lincolnshire, Skegness Bowl is under Skegness Pier.
Is Fakenham Superbowl open every day?
No. In term time it opens from Thursday to Sunday, according to its website.
Big centres inland
GObowling at Grove Park in Dunstable is a 32-lane league centre with free coaching, and Namco Funscape in Norwich has 30 lanes with early-bird games every morning. Tenpin Cambridge and Hollywood Bowl Stevenage both have 28.
Hertfordshire has two Hollywood Bowls in Watford: 27 lanes off the North Orbital Road and a compact 14-lane centre in the Harlequin.
Seafronts and family-run lanes
Clacton has two venues: the Pavilion's ten lanes on the seafront and six refitted lanes on the pier, with an LED wall behind the pins. Wellington Bowl in Great Yarmouth includes free shoe hire, and Richardson's runs 14 lanes in Lowestoft and four at Hemsby.
Fakenham Superbowl, a six-lane family business, opens from Thursday to Sunday in term time, and Ace of Lanes in Bishop's Stortford is a 12-lane boutique alley near the station.