skating parties?

[noire.livejournal.com]

I hope this is okay--it's not about Davis Square specifically, but this is the most accessible roller rink to Somerville and I'm hoping a good number of Davis folk are interested in going roller skating. I just created a new community:

saugussk8

to organize trips to the rink in Saugus.

If you're interested, please join the community! And invite anyone else who might like to skate to join. Just my friends alone aren't going to make a regular rink rental.

Really, my primary purpose is not simply to have a place to shout "hey, let's go skating" but also to organize to rent out the rink for just us! If we have 40 people who are willing to pay $10/each, we can have the rink to ourselves--so we control the music and it isn't horribly crowded. I know we can rent the rink on Wednesday nights, and I'm pretty sure about Monday and Thursdays as well. Sunday may be a possibility--we'd have to ask (and it may be more expensive, but if there are enough skaters we're there.) The rental hours these evenings are 7-9, which does mean getting out to Saugus a bit on the early side, but it's doable.

But I stopped skating because I hated the music and there were so many kids on the floor or it was so horribly crowded that you couldn't actually skate. I guess other people might feel the same way and maybe together we can make this happen.

I'll be cross posting this in a number of places to see if we can't get an actual thing going.

Comments

[ron_newman]

There's also this place, which is closer to Somerville and reachable by MBTA: Chez Vous. Never been there, but it's been around forever.

[noire.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the link--that's a good resource. Unfortunately, they charge about three times as much as Saugus to rent out the rink.

[cutieperson]

it's also tiny, incredibly ghetto, and many of the skates are broken.

not that i wouldn't go again if something was organized there...

Roll-On America in Leominster is another option. it's just a different suck than getting to Saugus.

[blondeamazon.livejournal.com]

You might want to approach the Boston Derby Dames and see if any of the skaters would be interested or available around their team practice nights, to go for some casual skating. www.bostonderbydames.com I know there is a yahoo group for fans, but I don't currently know its name.

[c011een.livejournal.com]

i went to chez vous and yes, it's kind of ghetto and yes, they have metal detectors and burly bouncer types at the door, but my rental skates were just fine and it was fun, like a bizarro version of my childhood skating rink

[ron_newman]

Wouldn't just about every skate trigger a metal detector?

[lizzielizzie.livejournal.com]

There's also Roller Kingdom in Tyngsboro. They apparently rent regular skates as well as rollerblades, and they have lazer tag!

[suzybuzz.livejournal.com]

i went to Roller World last weekend and loved it! Ghetto or not, we had great fun!