Best for a birthday or a mixed-age group, where nobody is stuck waiting their turn to bowl.

BowlingLaser TagBumper CarsArcadeClimbing Wall
Birthday Parties
Facility accessIndoorDrop-inYear-round
Thu · 10AM – 12AM
Monday10AM – 12AM
Tuesday10AM – 12AM
Wednesday10AM – 12AM
Thursday10AM – 12AM
Friday10AM – 2AM
Saturday10AM – 2AM
Sunday10AM – 12AM
Pricing is à la carte and set per location rather than posted as a single rate card: bowling by the hour or game, attractions by individual admission, plus a full-service restaurant and bar.

Pricing is à la carte and set per location rather than posted as a single rate card: bowling by the hour or game, attractions by individual admission, plus a full-service restaurant and bar.

  • The Westlake page advertises recurring specials — early-bird bowling at $10/hour (shoe rental extra), a weekday happy hour (Mon–Fri 4–7 pm), half-price arcade games on Tuesdays, Bowl + Bite Monday, and a 10% military discount on walk-in bowling and dining.
  • Reserve lanes or book a group event online.
  • Party, group, and event pricing is quoted separately.
Our take

Pinstack is a bowling alley that kept adding to itself until it became a full entertainment complex. Under one roof in Westlake you get the lanes, a two-level laser tag arena, an indoor high-ropes course, a rock-climbing wall, bumper cars, and a video arcade, plus a sit-down restaurant and a full bar with a climate-controlled patio. The bowling anchors it, but the real draw is that nobody in a mixed group ends up stuck waiting their turn — there is always another thing to go do.

That combination makes it a group-and-occasion place more than a drop-in playground. It is built for a birthday party, a rainy Saturday with school-age kids, a team outing, or a night when the adults want a cocktail and dinner while the kids burn off energy. It skews older than a toddler play space — the attractions carry their own height and age limits, and the room gets loud and busy on weekend evenings — but for elementary-age kids and up, and the parents with them, there is a lot to do. It also runs late, to midnight on weeknights and 2 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, so it works as an evening venue as much as an afternoon one.

Local Tips

Pinstack sits on Parish Lane in Westlake, minutes from Southlake. Walk-ins are fine for bowling and the attractions, but on a busy weekend you will wait — reserve a lane online for a guaranteed time, or put your name in at the Bowl Desk and they will text you when it is ready. A few things that trip up first-timers:

  • The only outside food allowed is a birthday cake (no ice cream cakes).
  • Balloons are welcome except in the dining area.
  • There is a family restroom with a changing table off the game room.

The quietest windows are weekday afternoons and early evenings; weekend nights from about 6 to 10 are the crush. Grab the free Pinstack Perks app before you go for rewards and coupons, and note that active or retired military get 10% off walk-in bowling and dining.

Credentials

Pinstack Westlake is a location of the Pinstack entertainment brand (Entertainment Properties Group, Inc.), not an independently owned studio or a coached program. It runs as a supervised bowling-and-entertainment facility with a full-service restaurant and bar rather than an instructional business, so the relevant standards are operational: staff enforce each attraction's own height and safety limits, major credit cards and mobile payments are accepted, and the venue keeps a family restroom with a changing table. There is no single owner-instructor; day-to-day operation is by location staff.

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