PLAN YOUR VISIT

Please note we’re closing at 5pm for a private event on Tuesday 16th July 2024. Activities will close at 4:30pm and last walk-ins for the restaurants will be 4pm. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Opening Hours

Sunday to Thursday – 9:30am – 10:30pm

Friday & Saturday – 9:30am – 10:45pm

Christmas Opening Hours 2024

23rd December – 9am to 10:45pm
Christmas Eve – 9am to 5pm
Christmas Day and Boxing Day – CLOSED
27th – 30th December – 9am to 10:45pm
New Year’s Eve – 9am to 5pm
New Year’s Day – 11:30am to 10:30pm
2nd – 6th January – 9am to 10:45pm
7th January – Normal Hours Resume
Sunday to Thursday – 9:30am – 10:30pm
Friday & Saturday – 9:30am – 10:45pm

Please note our restaurant hours differ over the Christmas period. Please visit our dining pages for opening hours.

The Flower Bowl Entertainment Centre

Garstang Road

Brock

Preston

PR3 0BT (for Sat Nav please use PR3 0RB)

CARD PAYMENT ONLY

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Christmas Opening Hours 2024

Email

enquiries@theflowerbowl.uk

Phone Number

01995 676210

Welcome to Lancashire’s most exciting and unique leisure venue, offering a range of fun-packed activities under one grass-covered roof!

You’ll be blown away by our gorgeous venue with its vibrant mix of colourful design features and floral art. Home to the North of England’s only dedicated curling hall, we also offer ten pin bowling, crazy golf, a three-screen premium cinema, golf simulator and more.

With five great places to eat and drink, you can refuel and let the fun begin again!

The Flower Bowl Venue Manager Ruaraidh Whyte says: “Our aim was to create a vibrant entertainment hub where different generations could come together to make happy memories. The Flower Bowl is all about taking time out to relax and have fun, whatever age you are!

“It’s been a joy to welcome so many families from across Lancashire and to see them enjoying spending time together trying out different activities like curling, ten pin bowling and crazy golf. We’re always looking for new and innovative ideas to add to the centre. Watch this space to see what’s coming next!”

Enhance your experience with us by extending your stay locally! Immerse yourself in the charm of our surroundings and fully explore everything The Flower Bowl and Barton Grange Garden Centre have to offer by booking an overnight stay at a local hotel or B&B.

Click the links below for more:

The Barton Manor Hotel & Spa (2.4 miles)

The Premier Inn Preston North (0.8 miles)

Olde Duncombe Guest House (0.8 miles)

Best Western Garstang Golf Club (2.3 miles)

Just across from The Flower Bowl is our fabulous, award-winning Garden Centre. Breath-taking displays, an impressive product range and renowned customer service make this a retail experience like no other.

With an all-weather plant area, stylish outdoor furniture, fabulous home décor, giftware, clothing, a Cook Shop, Farm Shop and jaw-dropping displays, it’s well worth a visit whatever the time of year.

Visit the website to find out more.

We want to be open and accessible to all visitors to ensure that the widest number of people can enjoy our activities.

Where possible we will do our best to accommodate special needs as much as possible, so please let us know beforehand if we can help. For example, blending food, needing a quiet space or putting groups in the private bowling lanes where it is quieter. However, please note this cannot always be guaranteed, especially at busy times.

Access

We’re all on one level (apart from row B upwards at the cinema)
The car park is all on one level and there are 11 disabled car parking spaces along the front of the building
The front rows in all 3 cinema screens are wheelchair friendly – no steps involved, seats can be removed for wheelchairs or guests can transfer to the armchair
Activities (VR ride excluded) are wheelchair accessible. Please note, our crazy golf course does consist of some sharp corners and uneven flooring so some larger wheelchairs may struggle to get around the whole course without some support.
Accessible equipment is available, e.g. a wheelchair putter, bowling ramps, curling aids
Both restaurants have a mix of booth style seating and chairs

Noise

Low-medium level background music is played throughout the centre
The centre can be quite loud, especially at busy times e.g. weekends and school holidays

Lighting

There are 6 large trees in the atrium that have bright colour changing lights wrapped around them

Toilets and Changing Facilities

3 disabled toilets – the main toilet is equipped with a changing bed, hoist & privacy screens
2 baby change toilets
1 disabled shower room

Special Cinema Screenings

Subtitled screenings – once a fortnight on Tuesdays
Parent & Baby screenings – every first Tuesday of each month (plus school holiday specials)
Autism friendly screenings – please let us know if you would like us to schedule a screening. These can take place in the morning when it is quieter, the lighting will be raised and the volume reduced
Check our cinema page for more information: https://theflowerbowl.uk/cinema/

Carers

We offer free access for carers as a reasonable adjustment where disabled people require significant support in accessing our activities. This means carers may go round the activity but would not be taking part.
If an essential carer wishes to partake in an activity directly, in addition to supporting guests with access requirements, we ask that they pay to play.
However, we appreciate that our activities are sociable so if the booking party consists only of one disabled person and one essential carer, the carer may participate free of charge. To do so, we will ask for supporting evidence on arrival such as an access card or a valid blue badge.
Please note that the CEA card only applies to free companion tickets in our cinema as it is a cinema industry membership scheme www.ceacard.co.uk

If you have any questions, please give us a call on 01995 676 210 or email enquiries@theflowerbowl.uk and we will be more than happy to help.

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Testimonials

"The Flower Bowl staff were amazing! Very patient with our pupils, followed our lead with the way we spoke and dealt with the pupils. We have our Prom at The Flower Bowl, the venue is perfect for our children. It's not too big not too small and staff make a huge fuss our our pupils when we turned up in a limo!"

"Just to say, we all had a wonderful time at Rosie's 'special' 18th Birthday at The Flower Bowl/Ocean Restaurant, a couple of weeks ago. The young people thoroughly enjoyed bowling, their food, & spending time with each other. The Mum's, Dad's and Carer's, enjoyed the Tea/Coffee, tasty nibbles, and had a lovely relax and time to chat. Therefore, on behalf of us all, I would like to say a very big 'Thank you!', to you and all the staff for looking after us so well on the day, we couldn't have asked for more!"

"The centre did display large well-lit posters with accessibility information for anyone with disabilities and wheelchair-friendly activities. There were large posters to encourage all ages and disabilities to try all activities."

"Booked a Friday night tea time slot with a 3yr old to go bowling. He fell asleep in the car and staff had no problem chaning our booking time to accommodate an improptu nap. Went in at the newly arranged time and changed shoes and my son found it far too noisy (just the atmosphere- balls being dropped on to the lates, and a childrens party celebrating their goes - nothing unusual. (My son is very sensitive to noise). Husband mentioned this to staff and asked we be moved to a different lane. They were all so lovely and moved us into the function room with just 2 lanes in it. Really appreciated the staff being so understanding. It made such a difference to our evening!"