Remember my excitement for Capitol Hill’s Ice Skating Rink that got all this buzz around town – including here? Well, I went. And I’m here to tell you my experience in Yay-Today’s first ever expose´! My apologies in advance for my lack of secret video tapes revealing something you won’t believe. This isn’t Dateline, folks.
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But I am here to tell you that there is no ICE at the ICE SKATING RINK. That’s right. Just a bunch of weird styrofoam-y type substance that you can hardly skate on. We were duped by the shiny white stuff as we paid from afar. And when I stepped on the rink with my ice skates and didn’t slide, I immediately felt like I just threw away my $12 hard earned dollars. When our skates wouldn’t even budge along the non-slippery surface – to the point that we just started walking, rather than skating – we couldn’t help but laugh hysterically. This was so wrong.
Shamefully, I didn’t say anything. I didn’t want to fight or complain to someone over the holiday season. And honestly, we spent our hours worth giggling at little kids who thought they were actually ice skating when they were really just awkwardly walking on the “ice”. I couldn’t help but think that these kids were really gonna freak when they eventually go to a real rink and realize that it’s not as easy as they remembered.
Also, I didn’t see Dantes hot dogs that were promised on their site. Even more of a reason not to go. If you advertise you’re gonna have food, then have the food. We were hungry. We were prepared to eat some damn dogs. And there was nothing but hot cocoa and other hot beverages, which I love and all – but I wanted a dog, man. Instead we went to Rancho Bravo for reheated cold tacos. Not fun.
So, you see – if you think this kind of ice skating could still be fun and you want to waste your $12 then go right ahead. It was fun, in the sense that we felt completely ridiculous not ice skating on not ice. But if you rather spend your hard earned money on real ice skating with real ice, then please do yourself a favor and head to Seattle Center instead. Not only is it cheaper there ($7 for adults, $5 for children, free to just people watch), but it’s actual ice. Who would’ve thunk it. Ice at an ice skating rink. Novel concept, but it works.
Next time (and I surely hope there isn’t a next time), Capitol Hill Ice Skating rink should do the right thing and put quotes around the word “Ice” so people will immediately understand that this is fake ice that may or may not make you glide like Nancy Kerrigan. When you’re honest, people will respect you for it – or to another customer’s point, make light of the fact that it’s not real ice and do something more Capitol Hill-like by offering roller skates instead. But don’t, and I repeat, don’t dupe us. Because you never know who will write about it.
Thank you and goodnight.
