Fathers Day is only two days away. What are you doing to celebrate your one and only Dad this year? Giving him another tie or money clip? We don’t think so! This year, bring Dad to Playland Skate Center in Austin, TX for some FREE roller skating with the whole family! 

On Fathers Day, we are offering free skating to all of the Dads out there from noon to 5 pm with the purchase of a child’s admission. We will still be having our usual FREE skate lessons on Sunday mornings, 11a-11:45 so bring the whole family and get a skate lesson in the morning, then skate all afternoon. The lessons are open to any age, any skate level. This means that Dad can’t say he’s too old or doesn’t know how to skate. You have the perfect excuse to get him out here rolling around the rink.

For the rest of the family, we have our indoor playground to romp on the multilevel toy with slides, ladders, and poles. Our arcade will also be open where you can take Dad and challenge him to beat you at one of our many games. See which of you can collect the most tickets and redeem them for fun stuff and momentos at our Stuff Shop.

We are looking forward to seeing you here this Sunday with Dad and the whole family. Enjoy an afternoon of great fun together for Fathers Day at Playland Skate Center in Austin, TX!

On Thursday, August 1st we will be celebrating Playland Skate Center’s 40th Birthday!! 

From 3-10 pm we will play games, skate, and have a ton of fun! There will even be Birthday Bash t-shirts available for sale. Admission is only $5 and we are looking forward to seeing you there!

Do you have dreams of becoming a pro skater? Well the first step to take is to buy your own pair of skates and Playland Skate Center has you covered for the best selection and best prices for skates in the Austin, TX area!

The New Skates at Our Pro Shop

We just completely overhauled our pro shop and we did it just for you. The face of roller skating is constantly changing with new technology advancing the art behind manufacturing boots and wheels for each type of skater. To make sure that we are bringing you nothing but the best, we have a brand new selection of wheels, skates, and accessories. If you have a need for your roller skates, we can fill it! The Pro Shop at Playland Skate Center will keep you rolling along no matter what type of skating you like to practice.

The BEST Prices Around!

Don’t shop around for prices, because we guarantee that we will offer you the best prices around. If you do find a price that is better than ours, bring it to us and we will BEAT or MATCH it! Any competitor!

We just want to make sure you caught that: We will BEAT or MATCH any competitors price!!

The Playland Skate Center Pro Shop

Playland Skate Center is your go-to for roller skating in the Austin, TX area. For competitive skaters and family fun alike, we have the skates and a skaqte session that will suit your needs. Come by today and check our our HUGE family fun center – go for a spin around the rink, try your hand at the arcade, or let the kids romp on the indoor playground. We will see you soon!

Finally! School is out and summer is in! That means that our schedule at Playland Skate Center in Austin, TX is changing over to our summer hours!

Summer Hours at Playland

Starting on Monday, June 3rd we are switching over to our summer hours. We will be open for all of our regular sessions, plus our new daytime hours. This gives you way more time to come skate with us and perfect your skills!

Are you a daycare or camp that needs some activities to do with your kids over the summer? Our summer schedule is perfect for you. Open every day from noon until six, bring your campers for some cool summer fun. The great thing is, we have more than one activity so the kids won’t get bored. They can roll around the rink, climb the indoor playground, or try their hand at winning tickets in our arcade.

For all of our regulars, don’t worry, our normal skating sessions won’t go away. We will still have all of our normal sessions including Adult night for you to get some time away from the kids.

This summer we are also starting a Family Skate Night program on Thursday nights. Bring the whole family for an evening of affordable summer fun. Look for more information on all the fun we will be having there, in our next blog.

We can’t wait to see you at Playland Skate Center in Austin, TX all summer long. Keeping cool while having fun!

Playland Skate Center is going to be famous! Several weeks ago we were turned into a filming area for a music video by the Isaac Sisters of Austin, TX. Now we can put “music recording studio” on our list of offerings in addition to the skating rink, indoor playground, and arcade.

The Isaac Sisters

The Sisters, Asia, Aliyah, and Shakira Issac, just debuted their very first music video of their original song ‘Girls Night Out.’ The girls are only 13, 11, and 9 respectively, but they already know what they want to do as a career – sing! Their musical career started with their parents musical influces of Pop, R&B, Country and more when they began writing their own songs. They have appeared in numerous festivals around Texas including the Urban Music Festival, Chalk and Walk Festival, and Wildflower Art Festival. So far the girls have written 10 of their own songs and they are always looking for more opportunities to perform and become recognized entertainers.

‘Girls Night Out’

The Isaac Sisters approached us here at Playland and requested to film a segment of their very first video on at our rink. In the video, you see the girls pick up their skates from the rental counter and see some friends of theirs at the rink. They skate around and have a great ‘Girls Night Out’ together under the lights at Playland.

Playland Skate Center wishes the Isaac Sisters all the best in their future music career and if they every want to come back to film a sequel – we will be here!

The end of school is creeping closer and closer, and our last holiday for the school year is in less than a week: Memorial Day! Don’t worry about being too hot or too bored for your first taste of summer break, because Playland Skate Center will be open from 12-6p for you and your friends to come roller skate in Austin, TX!

What is Memorial Day?

Most of you probably know Memorial Day as the marker that summer is just around the bend, but do you know the meaning or history behind Memorial Day? First organized in 1868 by General John Logan, Memorial Day was originally declared in remembrance of the soldiers who gave their lives in the Civil War. Flowers would be placed on the graves of both Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery to recognize the soldiers that gave their lives fighting for their country. A particularly interesting fact about Texas and the rest of the Confederacy is that we did not recognize Memorial Day with the northern states. Instead, the states that had once been part of the Confederacy chose to recognize their dead on separate days until after World War I and Memorial Day was changed to recognize all soldiers who had lost their lives at war. Now, Memorial Day, also called Decoration Day is a day of recognition for those who have died during service to the United States. Texas also recognizes January 19th as Confederate Heroes Day to commemorate our Civil War soldiers.

Looking for a Memorial Day activity in Austin, TX? Look no further! This Memorial Day, May 27th, Playland Skate Center will be open for all of you who will be out of school and off from work. Come enjoy your long, holiday weekend with us! We will be skating from 12-6p for only $6!! We hope to see you here!

The weekend of April 13 and 14 was full of beautiful weather, and competitive skaters! That was the weekend of the Texas Road Rash Inline Skate Marathon, held annually in central Texas.

The History of the Texas Road Rash

The annual inline roller skate marathon race started in 2004 by Round Rock’s Parks and Recreation Department and Hill Country Speed. In its first year, the race attracted 110 skaters and has since grown to over 200 participants. Each year the race continues to grow and the organizers continue to develop ways to attract more skaters of all levels.

What’s With the Name?

When the event was founded, the creators spent many hours trying to brainstorm the perfect name. If you are an experienced inline skater, you know all about road rash and how unpleasant it truly is. They decided to go with the name because it is captures the essence of inline marathon skating and they embrace that fact with their yearly “road rash photo.” At the end of each race, all of the skaters that have received the kiss of road rash gather and show off their wounds. The person with the worst rash wound wins a deluxe first aid kit!

Want to Race?

The road rash marathon invites skaters of all levels and experiences, but they do ask to make sure that you will at least be able to complete the course. You can choose to participate in the marathon, or half marathon race. The course is at a slight 7% downgrade, but if skaters are not able to complete their first lap around the course, they will be assisted off course for their safety and the safety of other skaters.

Are you interested in participating in the Road Rash? First, why don’t you perfect your skating skills during one of our roller skate lesson programs! We’d love to see you win the Road Rash Race and carry Playland Skate Center‘s name proudly across the finish line!

Its been a great year so far, full of fun and great skating sessions! We have a lot of cool events coming up in the next few months that we want you to know about so you can come join us at Playland Skate Center in Austin, TX and have a ton of fun skating around our roller rink with your family and friends! 

Featured Fridays

Last night was our PJ Pants featured friday and we had so much fun! The last friday of every month we have a themed featured friday for you to dress up or participate in and have a great time. Our next featured friday will be May 24th – the theme will be announced shortly. Stay tuned to hear about the fun we will be having that night!

Mother’s Day

May 12th is Mothers Day – a special day just for moms when their kids and family should all gather together and celebrate just how wonderful their mother is and show her some of the love that she has shown you! Playland is celebrating Mothers Day with a Moms Sk8 Free session! Mom’s you get to skate for free with the purchase of a kids admission. Bring the whole family out for a day of fun on May 12th!

40 Year Anniversary

Can you believe it? Playland Skate Center is turning 40!! To celebrate our 40 year anniversary here at our skating rink, we are going to be throwing a HUGE party at the end of June! This isn’t just going to be any regular skate session, we are going to have a ton of other activities going on as well. Stay tuned for more information on the exact date and more details, but in the meantime we would love your help! We need any old Playland Skate Center paraphanelia from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s. If you have anything ‘vintage’ about roller skating or Playland, please email a copy to info1@playland.com. We will be using it to decorate and help celebrate our anniversary.

Make sure you are staying up to date with all of these events as more details come out about their exact dates and times by following us here on our blog or checking out our upcoming events page. We hope to see you soon, sk8ting at Playland Skate Center in Austin, TX!

When you think of Playland Skate Center in Austin, TX the first thing that probably comes to mind is our awesome roller skating rink – which is great! We have so much fun throwing all of our featured friday parties and encouraging everyone to come skate at Sk8 4 Fit to roller skate and get fit, but did you know we have more than just roller skating? Its true! Playland Skate Center has fun for the whole family, even the little ones! Our Playscape – an indoor playground – is the perfect place for your kids to come play while you enjoy some time on the rink! 

The Playscape at Playland Skate Center is a GIANT two story indoor playground. It is just for your younger kids – under 52″ to be exact – to come and romp around while the older members of the family enjoy other aspects of our family fun center. The indoor playground has two slides so brother and sister can race each other to the bottom. The trampoline can turn any frown upside down, because no one will be left out of the fun! We don’t miss any of the fun of regular outdoor playgrounds either because we’ve even got a swing for kids to swing along to the music!

You don’t even have to worry about your kids while they are in the Playscape either. You get to sit back, and relax for a few minutes while our Playland employees monitor your children while they climb up and down the ladders and walkways and wear themselves out for a good afternoon nap. We have benches nearby so you can sit and watch you kids play, if you want to be on hand ‘just in case.’

This summer, don’t let the heat keep you locked in the house. When temperatures rise, we’ve always got some cool new fun at Playland Skate Center. Bring the whole family to enjoy some time on our skating ring, playing on the Playzone – our indoor playground, or trying their hand at our arcade winning tickets for prize redemption.

Summer is right around the corner! Kids will finally be out of school and team sports are getting in gear for fun! How are you going to kick off the end of the school year and the beginning of a great, long break? How about a party at Playland Skate Center in Austin, TX?!

Party Packages

We have party packages ranging from and 8 guest minimum to booking the skating rink all to yourself for 2 hours! The private parties inclue up to 75 people – each additional guest if $4.00, and each additional hour is $100. These parties include unlimited use of our skate mates, playscape, and roller skate rental. We do the clean up so all you have to worry about is having fun! You are welcome to bring your own food, drinks and paper products. While we have a great music selection, if you would like to bring your own CDs or iPod and really make it a personal experience, we can hook your music right into our sound system. For adult parties, alcohol is welcome for a small additional fee.

Our smaller party options come in a variety of sizes to fit your guest list. They all include reservation of party tables for 2 hours, skating games, at least 2 pitchers of drink and you can upgrade any package to include roller blades, skate mate rentals, or access to the Playscape – our indoor playground.

All parties, no matter your size, are always tons of fun at Playland Skate Center! Bring your school class, your swim team, or just a group of your friends to kick off summertime! Our dates fill up fast, so call us to book your party today!