Antwerp’s bowling lanes are where the space is: on the Noorderlaan in the north, on the Left Bank, in Deurne, next to the padel courts in Ekeren and, the exception, at number 13 on De Keyserlei, the shopping street that leads away from Central Station. Here are five places to bowl inside the city’s districts, with what each one does besides bowling, and where the city’s league players go.

Bowling Stones, at Noorderlaan 104A, has 18 lanes, not the 24 an earlier version of this guide gave it. It is one of five Bowling Stones venues in Belgium, alongside Brussels, Wommelgem, Oudenaarde and Waregem. The lanes run HyperBowling, with lighting, targets and score multipliers built into the lane, and there is pool and a row of arcade games. Food comes as a stone grill or as Pasta Strike, a bowling-and-pasta package. Saturday nights are disco bowling, and the hall takes company parties of up to 200 people. It is closed on Mondays unless you book the place. Bowlingclub Libertas, a league club founded in 1972, lists the Noorderlaan lanes as one of its two home venues.

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Gamestate, at De Keyserlei 13, is the only one of the five within a short walk of Antwerp Central Station. It has ten lanes, all with HyperBowling’s LED targets, sold in 55-minute sessions for up to six players: €39.95 a lane from Monday to Thursday, €44.95 on Friday evenings and weekends. The lanes share the floor with more than 50 arcade games, interactive darts, pool tables and a lounge. It stays open until 01:00 on Fridays and Saturdays and opens at 10:00 in the school holidays.

Euro Bowling, at Ter Heydelaan 17 in Deurne, is where the competition bowlers are. Sport Vlaanderen’s club register gives it as the home venue of two league clubs with long histories: the Opel Belgium Bowlingclub, founded in September 1968 and named after the car maker, and the Antwerp Ship Repair Bowlingclub, founded in 1988. It keeps the quietest profile of the five: no website we could find, and bookings by phone on 03 685 15 90.

For a birthday or a wet afternoon in town, Gamestate is the easy choice. For an evening where the bowling is the point, go where the league clubs go, the Noorderlaan or Deurne: people who bowl every week have already chosen their lanes, and they did not choose an arcade.

Bowling Planet, at Slijkweg 5 in Ekeren, has turned into a sports centre that also bowls. Its bowling hall takes groups of up to 100 people; next to it are squash courts at €14 an hour before 18:00 and €19 after, five padel courts run as Padel Leugenberg, Glowgolf, a black-light minigolf course, and a 30-square-metre karaoke room. The kitchen serves lunch on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays and dinner from Wednesday to Saturday. It closes on 24, 25 and 31 December and on New Year’s Day.

Antwerp Bowling, at Blancefloerlaan 181 on Linkeroever, is the Left Bank option. The company behind it, Antwerp Amusement Center, was registered in 2011 and filed its accounts for 2025. The building also hosts an X-Cube escape room with a spy theme: Spy Training Mission, for two to six players in 60 minutes, and a 30-minute version for children’s parties.

Bowling Planet is the only one of the five that rents out a karaoke room, which may or may not help your score.