How the house is run

A bowling lane at Haldenwick with the pins still standing

A lane house, not a mail-order catalogue

Bowling, pool, and reserved tables at Marius Berliet, with the game price written down

Haldenwick opened in April 2018 as a twelve-lane floor for neighbours who wanted a game after work and a birthday table they could book without a brochure. The rule is the same: if the board at the desk and this page disagree, the board is what we charge, and we correct the page.

We run open-play games, bumper lanes, pool tables, and reserved parties. A daytime game is €9.40 with shoes. An evening or weekend game is €13.20. A weekday birthday for eight is €96. Pool is €16 an hour. Coffee at the snack counter is €2.80, a burger is €12.40, and a 25 cl beer is €4.90. We do not take card numbers on this website. Corrections and party briefs can go to [email protected] or +33 4 78 01 21 65. The desk is at 60 Rue Marius Berliet, 69008 Lyon, France. The tram stop is Jet d’Eau – Mendès France. House shoes run from size 28 to 48 and stay included in the game price. Street shoes do not go on the approach.

Write the desk

Prices you can check

Game and party figures are re-read against the desk board, not copied from an old flyer

Plain booking language

Lane, headcount, shoes, and price — named the way the booking note names them

No empty-lane promises

A page can list a game at €9.40. It cannot promise lane 7 is free at 19:30 on a Friday

Bowling pins at the end of a Haldenwick lane

What guides the floor

Name the lane, name the price, and leave the hype off the board

A walk-up game, a reserved party, and an hour of pool are different sales. A note that mixes their prices is a bad note. We label which one a figure belongs to.

The same habit covers the week. Monday closes at 23:30 so the pinsetters can be checked. Games are sold for the hour you play them. A deposit is asked only when a party is over €120, and then it is 40 percent of the agreed price, not a vague holding fee. Twelve full-size lanes, eight pool tables, and six late evenings are the counts we actually run. That is the house standard: specific, current, and easy to check at the desk. Shoes stay in the game price. A second game is always its own line, €7.60 by day or €9.90 in the evening window.

Full-size lanes

Pool tables

Late evenings

Mara Ellison

Lane host lead

Mara sets the nightly lane grid and the party diary. Ask her when a birthday table and an open-play rush are competing for the same pair of lanes.

Host list

Tomas Greaves

Pinsetter mechanic

Tomas keeps the pin machines and the ball returns running, and he closes Monday earlier so the lanes can be checked without a queue behind him.

Host list

Adele Moreau

Front desk

Adele issues shoes, takes the €9.40 and €13.20 games, and keeps the March shoe note matched to the sizes actually on the wall.

Host list

Jonah Peck

Events host

Jonah runs birthday tables and company blocks. He will tell you when Friday evening is full rather than squeeze a tenth person onto a lane that is already booked.

Host list

Desk notes

What regulars write after they leave the lanes

Claire Beaumont

“Haldenwick writes the lane number on the booking. The Friday game matched the €13.20 on the board, and the shoes were handed over before we walked to lane 4.”

Henrik Solberg

“I asked what a weekend table for eight includes before I paid the 40 percent. Shoes, one game, and the €128 starting price were on the same note. That stopped the usual back-and-forth.”

Nadia Courtois

“They told me lanes 1 and 2 have step-free seating and that street shoes still stay off the approach. I would rather hear that than a vague ‘we’ll try’.”