Bowness Community Association

Fantastic experience: Saw what they did for the dog and they deserve every star

Fantastic experience: Saw what they did for that dog. Anyone who does that is a 5 star human in my book. You go!

Fantastic experience: Saw the post about helping the dying dog get what it wanted (the chance to play in snow before it passed), so I had to look for them and give them a 5 star review

Fantastic experience: good

Positive experience: Good size hall for community events

Fantastic experience: Awesome recreation centre for ice and gym time.

Fantastic experience: Had an absolutely great time. Will most definitely be back. The ice was smooth, the rooms clean and the staff was excellent, the girl driver with curly hair really went beyond to make sure the experience was as great as it was.

Fantastic experience: I like this community so much . I appreciate all efforts I ❤️Bowness

Positive experience: Bowness Community Association boasts of a nice community facility tucked in an easily accessible neighborhood of Bowness. My family goes to watch our son play Hockey there and it feels welcoming each time I go there. There are clean rental spaces/halls, activities, art work. The information board on the wall stands out for me. You get information on food support, community support, upcoming opportunities, arts, sports, research etc.

Fantastic experience: I'd like to thank the BCA for all the wonderful programs they have so I can meet other people in the neighborhood, volunteer in my community. And how they come to the fore in crisis. Love you BCA!

Negative experience: Bunch of Stuck up Karen's

Positive experience: Great areana easy access to benchs

Fantastic experience: We've loved being apart of the BCA. It's been a great way to connect with the community. The staff are wonderful and we always enjoy visiting with them. Excited to see what they keep getting up to.

Fantastic experience: Love this place!

Positive experience: I can only comment on the Arena portion. The ice is terrible, but the arena is an old school barn that has a certain charm to it. If they improve their ice, it could really be a nice little arena. Hope they figure that portion out.

Fantastic experience: Great rink!

Fantastic experience: Nice well kept arena, heated for spectators too. Love seeing Blayne when he’s around he’s awesome super nice, friendly and has an amazing attitude! Keep it up!

Positive experience: Pretty good, other than the fact that some of the dressing rooms are a bit small and ice is like a pool.

Fantastic experience: Friendly service and always with a smile. Downfall of this location is there is no drive-thru.

Negative experience: Rink rats they currently have are trash.. the local lake ice is smoother.. worst ice I've skated on in sometime

Positive experience: Decent rink great seating for fans. Dressing room benches are really shallow and close to the wall so hard to sit on but otherwise Decent

Fantastic experience: The heating in this rink is great for spectators. Lots of parking available. Great facility.

Fantastic experience: It was a real good craft sale people where real friendly

Fantastic experience: Seriously updated from 20 years ago! It's nice, has space to sit both in the arena and in warm areas.

Fantastic experience: Great place for young and old

Positive experience: Nice place to organise for the head count over 500. It also has ice hockey inside this. Also had a plenty of parking for the guests.

Fantastic experience: Great bathrooms Good vending machines

Fantastic experience: My children have a summer camp here. The children are very satisfied, they have a good time, nice staff, good location! From September, we plan to attend hockey classes.

Fantastic experience: Bowness area has a comfortable seating area to watch the games.A concession to watch the games. Very clean facilities.

Fantastic experience: Great community centre. Would still come here even though I no longer live in the area!

Fantastic experience: Nice facility

Positive experience: Went to a winter craft sale and it was one of the best craft sales I have gone to.

Negative experience: Terrible association, the management is terrible and I do not recommend.

Fantastic experience: It's is a lovely facility that houses many ways to bring the community together. There are always classes to take, hockey to watch, and child care. Now even a little bar on the second floor to grab a snack or a drink to watch the kids play hockey. Check out the landing during the day, there's free wifi and it's a quiet place to get things done.

Fantastic experience: GAA

Positive experience: Smaller dressing rooms. Good ice. Okay bleachers for fans. Parking can get tight at busy times.

Fantastic experience: Great little rink with good parking and decently sized dressing rooms, compared to some community rinks!

Positive experience: A landmark facility in a sports mecca area of Calgary. Well maintained, bustling place.

Fantastic experience: Absolutely stunning visit, such kind workers

Fantastic experience: I attended the Bowness market on Sunday, November 13 and it was amazing. Over 100 vendors, very organized.

Fantastic experience: The dog...

Positive experience: Great centre with rinks, gyms and other. We are taking pickleball lessons there. Unfortunately the gym floor has many dead spots which presents an additional challenge playing pickleball. 230911 new floor is excellent, only limit is the lower ceiling on the two end courts; otherwise an excellent indoor facility for pickleball

Fantastic experience: A great arena located in the heart of Bowness. Loved their public skate and am going to try their weekday shinny

Fantastic experience: Hockey parents are insane. But the Bowness Community Association is an awesome place to build a community. The rink is always clean and consistent and the facilities have all the amenities you may need (bar).

Positive experience: Good rink, decent seating and dressing rooms.

Fantastic experience: Best in the business

Fantastic experience: salute to these kings

Fantastic experience: Rink is great and the Zamboni driver is super nice and friendly. Showsies - 4/5 gloves Controllable temp and great pressure. Very steep grade to drain. Too steep.

Fantastic experience: Thank you.

Fantastic experience: Very good hockey community

Fantastic experience: You people have good hearts. Keep the love in the world

Fantastic experience: A 2500 plus day ifunny user approves! Good people here

Fantastic experience: Thank you for making that dogs last day something no one will ever forget

Fantastic experience: 5 stars isn't enough to show my gratitude for your kindness and compassion. Thank you.

Fantastic experience: saw a picture referencing this place, they did an amazing thing for an old dog. I dont even live in canada but if you do, please patronize this business because they're good people.

Fantastic experience: Big kudos to the rink personnel for putting snow out for a dog’s final day. She got to lay in the snow one last time before she passed. Thank you for being great community members!

Fantastic experience: Very good people working for this place for them to allow a dying dog to encounter snow for the last time.

Fantastic experience: Real nice guys, have one last moment of snow to a dog who needed it. Thank you for your kindness.

Fantastic experience: Incredible human beings!!

Fantastic experience: Appreciate what these guys did for that dog. True compassion and kindness.

Fantastic experience: Sometimes doing the right thing costs nothing and makes all the difference in the world. Bless you all.

Fantastic experience: I don't even know how to ice skate, but if I did I would definitely only skate at Bowness Sportsplex. Great people!!!!!

Fantastic experience: Incredibly kind, compassionate, and lovely staff. Thank you for all that you do and for always going above and beyond.

Fantastic experience: Way to go above and beyond to help that family give their dog one last play in snow. Y'all are heroes

Fantastic experience: Exceptionally kind people.

Fantastic experience: Very caring humans run this place!

Fantastic experience: Classy group of people. Helping that dog find some snow on their last day on earth was truly heartwarming in such an odd time in life. Good on you. Classy.

Fantastic experience: They went above and beyond the call of duty and supported the local community. Many blessing from Japan

Fantastic experience: They did a very special thing for a dying dog! And for that alone, you guys deserve a 5 star rating

Fantastic experience: They dumped snow on the ground to let an old dog play in the snow one last time before it passed away. This is why I'm giving 5 stars. Kindness and compassion always deserves 5 stars. Thanks!

Fantastic experience: Compassion for a dying dog and her owner - well done helping out with the snow for the dog, Bowness Sportsplex, well done!

Fantastic experience: Whoever helped the pupper here needs to be commended and given a raise.

Fantastic experience: Wow! Unreal compassion Bowness Sportsplex. You guys are next level

Fantastic experience: Have heard only too notch things.

Fantastic experience: Amazing people. Thank you for you kindness.

Fantastic experience: You did a good thing.

Fantastic experience: You can tell a lot about people by the way they treat animals. You did good.

Fantastic experience: Amazing staff, giving a pup it’s last good time in the snow. Brought tears to my eyes all the way from Florida!

Fantastic experience: These beautiful people helped a dog who loved snow find it in august. He got to lay in it one last time before he passed all because of these wonderful individuals.

Fantastic experience: Great people!

Fantastic experience: What a great place

Fantastic experience: Saw what you did on Reddit! Nice job.

Fantastic experience: Good people work here

Positive experience: Tricky location

Fantastic experience: Nice ice

Fantastic experience: Nice and clean. Friendly staff

Fantastic experience: Try to get room 1. The other's are tiny

Fantastic experience: So well maintained & colorful in lobby! Very inviting, friendly staff and great variety of information available on bulletin boards. Ice is terrific & the heaters work!

Fantastic experience: Excellent location, good seating, ventilation and sound system.

Fantastic experience: Best rink in town

Fantastic experience: Great shinny Mon, Wed and Friday. Hot showers. 10$ a skate. Good skill level, beginners also welcome. Thank you!

Fantastic experience: This is what community associations should strive to be. I showed up to play shinny hockey and everything was really well organised from the signage to the payment. The group of guys were great sports and definitely would recommend. The website clearly communicated when there was shinny, so thatnk you. Inside there are loads of things from community environmental engagement bulitens, a small honor system library, to a great ice rink!

Positive experience: Had a U9 tourney there last weekend. Ice was great! Rooms were clean. Heaters worked in the stands.

Fantastic experience: You can play hockey here, and other sports, mostly hockey tho

Fantastic experience: Oh, the memories. I grew up in Bowness and remember when the "Sportsplex" was just a pipe dream. We had outdoor rinks on this property and would show up 30 minutes early to get them shoveled off so that we could play. -40 degrees, it was NOTHING! Then my father and others put together a plan to build the Sportsplex, it was like winning the lottery. PLAYING INSIDE??? What a concept. We became young adults in this arena. We learned about the inner workings of a "community" center, the good, the bad, and the ugly! Fond memories indeed!

Positive experience: Pretty fancy place

Negative experience: Let's talk ice rinks. Obviously this one's quite old, you can tell just by the dressing room size. Water bottle locations on the bench are nothing to be desired. The ice surface is decent. But the water tastes like it's being pulled directly from the bow River. Don't expect to enjoy a nice shower after the game either. I'm giving it a low score over the facility faults and not the staff.

Positive experience: Find my self visiting hockey areas around town Bowness Sportsplex is a great place to go for hockey. The heaters work tho the last bench doesn't have one wich is fine the bench them selfs are raised higher than the ice giving you a great vantage point if the rink.

Positive experience: Great new upstairs lounge with seats overlooking the ice!

Fantastic experience: What a beautiful place!! Only comment I have, is that in the wheelchair accessible bathroom, putting the toilet paper holder and garbage container next to the toilet makes it really hard for people like me. I had to sit sideways and it was really uncomfortable. Maybe they could be placed somewhere different. Otherwise, beautiful place.