Brewster Ice Arena - Brewster, New York

Larry Bruno

Great bartenders. Great food for a bar. Let your kids skate and have some wing and a Beer.

Ryan Crook

Highly recommend. We had a fantastic time. I had my son’s 6th birthday party here on 1/23/22. We had 16 kids and 20+ parents. We opted for the public skating session instead of paying more for a private ice rink, and we reserved two tables in the main lobby area. Alex was our event coordinator, helping with the tables, setting and cleaning up, food, directing guests to our table and guiding them to where they need to get their rentals. She was great and make the experience significantly easier.

Robert Gobel

Brewster ice arena is a cool place , i just wish they would have fresh hot coffee available for all apple core home games ..

Cheryll Anderson

Was at a birthday party for a 6 year old. Pizza was nice and hot. My niece had about 70 people. Plenty of room for all of us. We had our own skating rink. It was great. Not sure of the price.

Alan Masulli

This place is run down, and has garbage everywhere. My four year old found a broken beer bottle by the video games.

J Rosie

Two stars are for the incredible instructors and coaches. But the facility needs serious help -- The bathrooms are dirty and non-functional, the entire outdoor and indoor space needs a facelift, or at the very least daily cleaning, it's so grimy. Even the doors don't all work correctly. So sad because my daughter loves her instructor!

Space Fury

Many rinks to skate on depending on occasion such as birthday parties, open skating, rink rental. Clean. Pro shop on premises to buy from or have your own skates sharpened. Reasonable rates for open skating. You HAVE option of figure skates or HOCKEY, but have to ASK.. Your skate size is a size or 2 LESS than your shoe size.

LC

I’ve waited over 2 years for things to change at BIA before writing this.
It’s unfortunate because this place has great potential. Every inch is filthy.
The bathrooms upstairs and downstairs are always horrendous.
The pre-teen staff in the main office is unaware of anything at all, they can never help you with even the simplest of questions and are not knowledgeable in answering any team inquiry of any magnitude.
There is rarely an adult even present. How is that safe or okay?

This facility has no ice packs for injuries. They give you freezer burned “ice” in a paper towel (if you are lucky enough to locate a staff member) if there is an injury. No one wears a BIA employee shirt, or name tag.

The “ice” upstairs is, and always has been *absolute trash*. The edges are uneven and it’s rarely cleaned. There are not even color lines cut into it to teach the students how to actually PLAY hockey according to the rules.

The parking is awful. The actual parking spaces are not wide enough.
Players (and drivers of players) seem to think the handicapped spots are their own personal drop off/pickup spaces, which is just wonderful for the ACTUAL handicapped spectators who have to sit there, blocking traffic to wait for their designated space to free up.

The metal bleachers downstairs have not been cleaned in ages. They are all sticky.

And if you managed to look past all of that, the head coaching staff absolutely does not care at all about the careless way the teams are run and scheduled.
Unless it’s their main travel team, please do not expect any type of professionalism or quality leadership.
They take your money and that is all they care about.
Several of the kids coaches are phenomenal, so this is not about them. The younger coaches and the paying students deserve to have the equipment they need to PROPERLY learn, teach and succeed. This place does not to seem to have one ounce of maintenance and it’s really disappointing for the kids and coaches — to have to “just manage” with zero tools on hand for success after paying so much money.