Ice At The Parks - (817) 419-0095

The instructional hockey progams offer good instruction, good people, and great prices for ice time. Sure the ice is terrible in the summer and just passable the rest of the year but ice time is ice time. The coach and the other players there make up for the wet ice and bad zamboni jobs. Just dont let them sharpen your skates! They butchered mine because they dont have good equipment.

I love to take my grandkids to the rink. They have the best time out there, but I NEVER, EVER leave them for a moment. They cannot leave the ice without me and we all go together. I have not had a problem with the restrooms and I am fussy about such things. We use our Star-Telegram Press Pass and get in for $3 each plus skate rental is free with the pass. What a deal!

I suggest that any and everyone visiting Ice at the Parks in Arlington exercise optimum caution. Arlington is not the placid bedroom community it once was. The mall and the rink are trouble and in trouble. All the lies, coverups, advertising and artificial hype can not hide the fact. True, adverse pu blicity would only add to the problem so many occurrences do not make the six o'clock news nor the newspapers. But, real danger does lurk there, from parking lot to the lobby. and all places in between. The rink is not a safe place to leave the kids. Before you decide to let your guard down to indulge in a leisurely day of spending, look about. How many police do you notice, how many stores are closed, how many edgy shop clerks, how many menancing teens, any dubious loiterer , who's watching your car. who's watching you, how many pimps with their working girls did you spot, did another ambulance pull up at the rink? A word to the wise.