Coachlite Skate Center

Skate cop owner decided one week not to let me in with my own skates which i had been bringing there for close to 20 years. I pleaded with him that i am the one bringing groups of 10 plus weekly to his facility. In the end he was totally fine with losing the business from me and my dozens of friends with children. His excuse was, he just had the floors redone. I promoted this place for years, I brought back people that handnt been there in over 20 years, and to thank me the owner didnt allow me in, and then smuggly smirked as he, his wife, and the other skate cop watched my friends and I leave. There are way better places to go for a birthday parties that are cheaper, have better food, and are all around more accommodating. It sucks I have to leave this review, this place was one of my favorites as a kid.

Great place to have fun at a reasonable cost. Throw back to the 80s facility. No frills but plenty of thrills. Food is not recommend!!!Lots of parking, friendly staff..

I have been going to this roller rink since I was a kid now I take my kid. Rink is in great shape. They play a good variety of music. We love skating here.

Go to this place I promise you you’ll love it

Kids had a blast, they even have skates that fit my almost 2 yr old lol

When I went for my sisters friends party, it was pretty nice! The rink was really big, and not so crowded to the point where youd have to wait to go in and skate. They offered skates and blades, so you can choose which you feel better on. The food is pretty nice, for the party they gave us pizza. (Which was pretty good as well!) There were also arcade games, but only about 4 or 5. The only thing Id not recommend is buying a lot of food, but other than that this is the best Skate Center Ive ever went to. Also its a great place for young kids, I saw a lot of them there. You can also bring your own skates in! Parking is good too. Great for beginner (And pro) Roller skaters!

Staff is always nice really good music fair prices the best place to roller skate

Affordable. Watch for discount days on their website. Staff is nice and knowledgeable. Concessions are affordable. Select few games to play with a prize area which helps with younger kids who chose to not skate. Also hosts flat track roller derby which are entertaining games to watch. I have also had a birthday party there (they have a reserved birthday area) and the staff was very attentive. It is an affordable option. All the kids had a great time.

This place is nice it brings back the 80s

It definitely is nice this place still exists. I just dont appreciate having to pay just to watch my nephews skate. Also there are too many rules that would turn most teenagers away. I would rather have kids be able to come in and hang out with their friends than be somewhere else causing problems out of boredom. If you allowed kids to bring their friends that dont skate you would probably attract even more business. Besides teenagers love a good concession stand. If you want to bring back the days of roller skating then try and loosen up a bit.

Such a great time! Love this place!

Fun place to skate! Music was good. Staff was extremely friendly and attentive to little ones learning and falling. Clean. Overall excellent!Happy to be able to bring my children to my old hangout.Will be visiting often.

Dont take your toddler for Kids Skate unless they are independently skating. You cant hold your kid on skates, take a picture with your phone, and hats are not allowed. While being lectured by a high schooler, no one offered any kind of assistance device for my daughter, so I guess they dont have that either... Never going back, and wouldnt recommend.

Great place. Staff is very friendly. Held several birthday parties and a school fundraiser here and staff was wonderful to work with.

My 14 year old daughter loves the saturday night skate there. I attended with her one weekend and my only complaint is just mainly with the parents of some of the kids that hang out there. These 14 -16 year old girls were dropping f bombs and just using way too many curses for their age.

This place has been around since I was a kid. Still a lot of fun for the whole family! Decent music selection. Although could be a little more up-to-date. Fair prices. Still kept their original vibe from the 80s! Definitely a fun spot. Glad theyre still open all these years later!

Always a good time here great prices great environment and awsome employees always happy to help a small family owned buissnes there disappearing rapidly.

So glad this place is still around, just like the rinks from when I was a kid!

Looks identical from 30 years ago....Still awesome!! Love sharing roller skating with my son there.

Awesome place overall! Totally recommend! Great place for families and for friends to hangout!

We had a great time, staff is really friendly, definitely coming back specially winter something to do indoors with the family.

Overall great place music was good and really nice people with the exception of the Concession stand cashier, a young teenage girl, probably 16-17 year old girl. She was very rood and was giving a lot of attitude. NBC

Super fun place to skate, love the environment and the helpful staff. Some recommendations though: have a request list for songs for $0.25 each request, and have a voting board for music when it gets too crowded

They are not friendly and are very mean they play old music and it’s really boring and they only have one good song

Very Nice Friendly Person s

Fun skating experience. Decent music. Helpful staff.

Great time! Our school had a fundraiser and it was a fantastic! Lots of fun. Brings you back to childhood.Food leaves something to be desired. But, it is concessions not what you would call gourmet food, anyway.Eat and then go roller skating!

Great place to go with your family and in my case try to roller skate.

We have enjoyed Coachlight over the years. Family owned, very friendly, great customer service & fair prices, all aspects with which many corporations & business are & have been trending towards fading away. I dont remember a place in recent history, where they do the work of running your credit card. Shocking! At other places, where for all the years, lines back up, customers get impatient & the companys just dont care. But this is just one aspect of what much is impersonal, oft cares less, than more, customers doing work where once jobs existed, sell outs to other countries, marks of privileged Corporate Greed in America has come home to roost. This as even more ways to have customers serve themselves in stores & online, unpaid tasks, & raising prices to boot. Be aware consumers & spend accordingly. They only get away with these as long as its tolerated. How do I know? Nearing 30 years in consumer advocacy & Business Development. Shop at good community based business like these, especially those that give back. I would never would have imagined when I started years ago, but things are what they are. Thank you Coach light for being ole school, doing it right, & a part of the community as well! A lot to be said for caring, personality & fairness in business because after all, it is still and always will be a 2 way street. Plenty of options for customers to choose from, it only makes sense to have it right. Makes a huge difference, really!!! My only feedback is to do some updates inside & with the rentals. Again, thank you!

A nice family owned company. Great for skating!

The skating is fun, but it was late to get in and the girl behind the counter serving food kept telling us to come back every 10 minutes and would not take anyone’s order while she was doing nothing. Extremely unprofessional. Not to mention the music is irritating as it is only music that no listens to.

I love it when Im with friends or meeting up with new people for the first time but alone its weird but thats just me10/10 going next Friday

Very friendly staff and a fun place to skate!

So, the basic amenities are there - a floor you can skate on and not die. Staff to make sure you die. But beyond that, quite lacking. From the sound system with out of sync speakers, to $2.50 slices of Jacks Pizza (which usually go for $2 for a whole pizza at the store) just...no. Roller skating rinks are a dying breed, which really lowers the overall bar. You can be better, Coachlight.

Kids and teenagers keep in mind when coming unless your adding to the pot haha....fun?

They were nice and things were reasonable. I just want to add that a business should always watch the content of the music they play. I think it was ok when I went but Im just saying...watch it, 1 bad song could be like one bad tweet and you cant get it back ;)

I try to go to the roller derby nights here and am always pleased with them. Open skate can be a little hectic but that’s part of the scene. Food and drinks are decently priced and there’s a little gaming area for non skaters. Good place for a party.

They helped me order my first set of skates. The people are friendly and knowledgeable. Theres also a nice old beagle behind the counter who has excellent customer service skills.

Had a work party here on a Tuesday night. Really nice skate floor, good music and lights, and the crew was helpful and friendly. We had an awesome time! Looking forward to skating there again.

I take my kids there weekends and they love it. Hosted a B-Day party there and I would not recommend to anyone. Very disorganised and unprofessional in the whole setup. Food choice is only limited to frozen pizza. Some of our guests were treated very disrespectful at the entrance. The rest of the staff is friendly. The kids did have a lot of fun though.

I love skating there but the prices are really bad for getting in and there are no staff there they need more people

My bfg fell and broke her arm one hour after we started skating. Too many little kids zooming past you to throw you off balance. Spent the next 5 hours in ER. =(

We are regulars, my son prefers coachlite over any other local rink.

It’s a great place to go skating

Amazing place for skating. music is very well selected

Last of a dying breed, the roller skating rink. came here for a childs party. the set up for the party was really nice. kids can skate all they want, then as part of the party, kids get tokens to play games that spit out tickets which can be redeemed for little knick knacks. (redemption rates are really generous, so every kid gets to walk away with a lot of stuff).poor marks because the rink has a crazy rule about who can sit in the party area and who cannot during the childs designated party time. to save our host some money, all the adults sat outside the party area.

We had a great time. No issues with rentals, and the snack shop was reasonable

Place is real nice for everyone of all ages. They have a concession spot so you can get a snack if you want. It is a very nice place. The only reason I gave it 4 stars, is that the concession spot is on an upper level. Meaning, you need to take a step up to access it. If you are like me, and in a wheelchair, it is NOT possible to access that area. I was there with my daughter, and I could not enjoy that part of the rink.

Great place. Too cold bring a sweater.

Wednesday nights are $1 entry for everyone from 6:00-8:00!

Had my daughter birthday party here. Its ok you have to spend at least $25.00 or you have to pay cash

This place is the best for skating

Took me back to when i used to come here ....fun...the roller blades were loose on the top and peeled my skin a bit....did not like that you have to spend $25 in order to use your card...so bring cash!

The staff at the rink are very helpful but it takes a long time for food and it is over priced mostly for the pizza, almost every food they have is frozen.

It is a fun local place to skate. Dont forget to watch real Derby in action once a month when the Du Page Derby Dames are present in action. Its a real thriller. Great beer, wine coolers, popcorn, cookies and snacks for ALL ages. Come one and all for a good time!

Stay far far away. Staff is extremely rude and the place really is a dump

Loved this place since I was a kid now my kids hang there every weekend like I used too !

Nice place. Smaller than other rinks but my daughter who is 11 yrs old, loves coming here. We had her bday party here as well.

Hasnt changed since the 80s. Super fun and great memories

I skate in a regular basis amd coachlight is one of my favorite...friendly staff...clean ...family ambience!!!

My daughter loves it

Hi we visit this place for first time today to cel brate my daughter B day my expierence is regular nice place to skate my kids enjoyedBut we didn’t reserve a table because it was just a last minute idea to go there, So we decide to go there and i wanted to go out to bring some cupcakes for my daughter and the lady in admissions door told that was not ok to bring cake or cupcakes from out side only for reserved b days I think that was very rudeWe didn’t like the frozen pizza, from aldi we order 2 pizzas and they were not even ready the pizzas were put in the oven the time I order and it took to long to cook we were very hungry and wait to long for the pizzas. I think is ok for frozen pizza but just have better quality and more selección mayb hot wings, salad,or sandwiches

It saddens me that there are so few of places left. Especially ones that properly wax and maintain thier floors like coachlite does.

Love the sat kids skate. Great for learners- lights are on and they dont get run over by the older kids. Great way to stay active all winter

This is the best roller rink around! Family owned & well kept. Such a fun time!

Wish I would have read the reviews before having my daughter’s birthday party here. Since she wanted a skating party, and Orbit shut down, this was the only near by option. They have a monopoly and know it and treat people however they feel like. If I would have read the reviews before, I would’ve steered clear and spent my money elsewhere. $350 for a party of 23kids, and pizza/pop for the adults. For that amount of money, I would have expected WAAAAAAAAAAAY more and at the very least for them to treat my guests kindly and respectfully. Here are my takeaways:1) Owner is Rude:I had an adult guest in tears due to the guy at the front berating her about wearing a beanie. His excuse “insurance policy”, fine. A rule is a rule. You do not berade and belittle your guests/customers under ANY circumstance. You never know what someone is going through...show some compassion. Who argues and berades a customer to the point of tears? Disgusting.2) The whole place is Dirty and Disgusting:The smell of this place....GROSS (like mold/old/stale air), stains all over the carpet, returned skates and didn’t even see them get cleaned before getting put back. After the kids were skating and touching the walls, floor, etc they didn’t even have hand sanitizer before they ate. Any other place that hosts kids party makes sure kids sanitize before eating. Common sense. One thing I wish I would’ve remembered yesterday was bringing hand sanitizer. I have no clue how this place hasn’t gotten shut down by the health department,3) Too many rules/Hard to even book the party:They have inconvenient hours and you must pay a cash deposit before party. Make sure to read ALL the fine print of the rules. I forgot forks for the cake, they wanted to charge me 25cents per fork... are you kidding me? I am spending over $300 and you want to charge for forks. Ridiculous. They are not accommodating.4) Horrible Party Set UpParents had to sit in the concession area, the only people allowed in the party area were the kids with the “skate” stamp. There were two empty tables in the party room that parents could have sat at and ate at. Instead, there were multiple cup spills, and chaos as the kids ate. Having to run back and forth between kids and parents was not enjoyable as a party host. Kids only got 30min in the party room, so only enough time to eat and do cake. Not enough time for presents.5) Bad Pizza/Small PizzaEven for a kid party, the pizza was bad and small. Some was even burnt. Paying $9/pizza I would expect better. Or allow people to bring their own pizza in.6) Not for beginner skatersthey do not have any of the skate carts (the things beginner skaters use to hold on to while learning to skate). So unless your kid and their friends are good skaters, don’t waste your time/money.The kids seemed to have fun, that was the only positive. Most of them enjoyed the arcade games and winning prizes more than the skating. I will never be back and based off of the experiences and feedback of my guests, I don’t think any of them would be back.

Awesome place, they have rollerblades for rent that are well maintained, and my daughter thought the guy working was cute. They have a good selection of employees

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Great place to have a good time. Beginners to experienced. Great music, not crowded excellent prices.

How many roller rinks are still around? They host roller derby here and its awesome. The staff is nice and helpful

The staff at this establishment are the rudest Ive ever met. The attitude and dirty looks from the person taking the money to the people at their stations. Ive never been so mad before that I felt I needed to write a review. If I could give them zero stars I would have. Good luck keeping this place open with those kinds of attitudes

The old man that works there was rude to this African American family and harassed them calling them ghetto. So unacceptable and racist I reported this to the bbb.

Staff is pretty friendly with the exception of the guy who hands out tickets. I was holding the door for my friend who’s hands were full and was counting the money to pay that we pooled. It was obvious the man handing out tickets wanted to make me feel uncomfortable so he yelled at me infront of everybody telling me to help my friend who obviously was doing fine with the money that we pooled. We came to coachlite again because we love the place. We came with our own skates and rode in. At the benches we took our skates off knowing that he would have to check them. He yelled at only me and not my friend. He told me to walk with no shoes outside when we left and to not wear my skates ever again. This man is very rude and does not know manners or a way to be nice to clients. :(

Had a good time people were nice

Great staff, decent price and the kids, my husband and myself have had a blast every time we come

We were there for Prince Night and cant wait to go back for a family birthday party...

I had my sons party here. The place is a little dated. They charge a lot of money for Aldi Pizza. If they got better food this place would be cooler. Theres a plus ! The staff is very helpful and friendly!

Love it. $8.00 admission & $4.00 skates. On Saturday night. Not bad, is fun.

Terrible place! Pizza was burned. Smelly skates. The slushies have no flavor. Terrible Terrible like really. I dont recommend it as a place to go.

Took students on a field trip here. There was dog poo just sitting on the floor as you walked up to the skate rental booth. Not sure how they missed it, to clean it before we came or why it was even there but the level of cleanliness is at a 0.

HAD A GREAT TIME GOOD DEAL!!

The place is in a bad location, also I did not like a staff member, he constantly tells me to clean up, even though I never did anything. The food is alright but they only accept cash. The songs are good but I would recommend the DJ to get some 90s songs for people who like 90s music. The skates are too old and the wheels are loose.

Great skating floor. Check out roller derby there.

Dont come here if youre over 12 years old, the place is a daycare. The staff clearly know nothing about customer service. Couldnt last 10 minutes, walked out. Go to Orbit instead!!!

Fun for the kids. Still the same it was 20 years ago....the place could use some remodeling.

Great place for spend time with family

I enjoyed this location for skating. The upkeep is well for such an old building. The rental skates were also in good condition from inline, speed skates, to regular skates. There is a ref who really takes her job seriously and can be a harsh to even those who are just learning to skate. Overall, I had a good experience.

Great nostalgic feel in a cozy 70s style skating atmosphere

Full of teenieboppers and a total dramafest

Its got a good floor, large concessions area and regular roller derby matches. Its selection of skates and gear for purchase is limited.

Great place to go roller skating and a great place to learn as well but, this place can get pretty packed depending on the time and day you decide to go, the concession stand does not seem to be worth it to purchase anything and the mini arcade is sort of good but the roller skating ring is the main attraction here

Great place except the staff is so rude. I used to rollarstreet at Mainstreet USA until they closed down, I miss the family friendly enviroment. The staff here is so rude and unfriendly.

Walked in and had a wander full chat with the ticket guy. Definitely hop on instagram! Good music and skate rentals plus a snack bar with good PRICES!! Future hang out spot.

This place is disgusting. I used to go when I was a kid. My wife and I took our four year old there a few months ago. We werent impressed, but we wanted to give it another chance since he enjoyed himself. Flash ahead to May 7th. Awful experience. The old man (presumably owner) taking payments at the front is completely rude and arrogant. Disrespectful. The young kid renting the skates - same attitude. Even worse, the cashiers at the food area cannot count change. We had to help them do simple math on two occasions and then argue for our change. The facility itself is filthy. It looks and feels like it hasnt been cleaned in twenty years. A lot of the arcade games are broken. Even picking out prizes from arcade tickets was a nightmare. The same old man who let us in was the one issuing the prizes. He was rude to my four year old who was excited, trying to decide what to choose. The bathrooms are absolutely vile. Im reporting this place to the health department and will be telling everyone to AVOID at all costs. There are better places in the area. This place is a DUMP! Used to be good twenty years ago...but its hard to stay nice when you literally dont change anything for twenty years.

Very fun place to go but if you are new prepare to fall a lot

Cool roller rink. Not many around anymore. Nostalgic smells and times...

Everything seemed to be in working order but a little rundown. Maybe typical for a skating rink? Carpets far from new, floors and benches in the snack area worn and on the more rickety side. Staff seemed professional and the kids had fun though!

Pretty good place but needs updated music or just a new dj. The staff was pretty good with service

I will never ever pay a dime here again. The worst unorganized birthday party. The manager up front was sure and pretty much called me a liar. Made his employee cry in front of me because I was accidently served an extra pizza and pitcher of soda . Then added up my bill incorrectly and charged me to much. For almost 200 bucks I could have my party someone where else closer and better!!! Then when the manager realized he over charged me hr sent a girl to get get me and told me only me not my husband could come over because my husband had called him out on his rude behavior.

My kids always enjoy coming here definitely a olace to go to have a great time with gamily and friends.