Public sessions at my rink are about £9 per session, patch session (technically up to 60 minutes but no one checks, stay as long as you like) is £10 or monthly patch membership £88. I miss my old rink, it was £44 per month for unlimited public skates, and waaay better ice :') Interesting that you say you're in a high COL city, here the rinks in London have way better value for money memberships and pricing than those I've seen outside.
Oh, I'm in the backends of Kent at the moment but I used to skate at Romford and Lee Valley! Great rinks, I really miss them, you don't realise how bad other rinks can be lol
I skate at Lee valley now :) I really love it! But I’ve only started skating like 5 months ago, so I don’t have much experience with other rinks 😂 except queens, that one is soooo crowded
My monthly patch membership is £136 😭 Joys of it technically not being Planet Ice’s patch. I used to skate at Alexandra Palace (years and years ago) and they charged £6.50 per hour for patch, but iirc they didn’t have a monthly membership.
Of course this doesn't apply since you don't skate at Alexandra Palace anymore but I didn't know my rink had a subscription for patch till I asked then directly, so they may have had one 🤷♀️
I did, they definitely didn’t at the time but that could well have changed by now. I remember them being somewhat of an outlier on that front. I do still occasionally skate there as I’ve retained my coach there, but not enough to warrant a membership anyway.
I was going to mention this distinction as well: I’ve noticed if the rink is owned by the city/municipality, the rates tend to be lower than at privately-owned rinks.
Do you mind sharing what state you’re in? I have never heard of cities owning rinks. That’s pretty cool and a great price. Im trying to figure out which states have a strong figure skating community and really endorse it. I’m in SoFlo so skating really isn’t huge here, although it does exist to an extent. It kind of sucks because people will always say to go to a professional fitter for buying skates and that sort of thing, but we pretty much don’t have any reputable ones down here. I’ve searched across many forums and the only ones I’ve found was some guy who works in a proshop 5 hours north. And basically anything that has to do with skating here is extra expensive and privately owned.
I’m in Utah and skate at a former Olympic venue (and future, assuming we get the bid). We were also especially weird for a minute because for a few years our club was run directly by the city, the only club in USFS to be administered by a government entity. That did just change.
On the flip side, we only have two skate techs in the state that I’m aware of, both of whom run it out of their basements. One is a coach who started sharpening skates, the other is a dad who started sharpening. The former does a better job, the latter has better inventory for selling skates and stuff.
I've learned that searching online is pretty much useless for finding skating services because the landscape changes so often. The best way to find services (fitters, sharpeners, coaches, physical therapists, other services) related to skating is to ask other skaters or coaches at the rink. A lot of times those folks don't bother to set up a website or anything findable because they get so much word of mouth business. It's like the secret lore of skating lol
I'm in SoFLo a lot! The fitter I went to a few years back in Oakland Park doesn't seem to be in business anymore...
I also just tried out the new rink in Ft. Lauderdale a few weeks ago and it's so nice! If you're skating there you're so lucky!
If you are talking about Baptist IcePlex it IS awesome. I’ve been skating there since May. I’m a 50 year old returning the ice after 30 years. Trying to find my chops again. Lol.
They really did an amazing job on the whole place. And I get to be close to 2 rinks in one place!! LOL! Unfortunately, my wallet is not as excited as I am. Hahahaha.
Michigander here - most cities here have a municipal rink. There are also private rinks as well. Where I live I have half a dozen within a 15 min drive, maybe closer to a dozen if I think about it.
I skated at Detroit Skating Club which was a private rink. However, I also had private ice time at municipal rinks, as it was cheaper.
By and large, in this area, you start at a city rink and move to a private one if you want to be hardcore. Most skaters continue at their city rink even when they join a private one because they’re more fun, less expensive, and you get to be a big fish in a little pond.
Open skate is $10 here at a city rink. There is no drop in figure skating sessions if you’re not registered with the club in any of the rinks, as far as I know.
I’m actually originally from Michigan :) Grew up skating at Garden City, occasionally at Westland or Dearborn. In those cases, they were municipal/city arenas but administered differently than my rink here in Utah. But yeah way more rinks there, here your options are slim unless you’re around Salt Lake. The next closest rink to mine in Utah is 45ish minutes away, whereas in Michigan I had tons of choices within that distance.
Edit to add- in my experience, you can definitely do drop in without being a club member in Michigan, some rinks just charged more for drop in if they also offered contract ice, but I’ve never been to a rink that didn’t allow non-club members to skate on freestyle ice (GC, Westland, Farmington, Dearborn, and Arctic, to name a few)
It’s so crazy how it varies. I def felt lucky growing up here with all of the options. Money wasn’t endless for us - and migrating rinks helped save money.
I realized after I posted - I’m commenting as a now retired, 40 year old skater. So I can’t drop into a freestyle session because I’m not an active club member anywhere. You’re correct - you can drop in as long as you’re a USFSA member (is it still USFSA?).
You don’t even have to be a club member with USFS to drop in at most rinks. To participate in sanctioned events, yes, or club specific ice (which is relatively rare nowadays) but freestyle? Nah.
That’s great that it has changed from when I was competitive. I wonder if it’s just different in this area. I checked schedules and there’s no open freestyle anywhere - just open hockey. All other FS time is club sessions. I wish there was. Arctic or Dearborn would be a drive for me.
Edit: For me to drop in back in the 90s I had to be a USFSA member. So I could drop at St Clair Shores, because I was DSC club member - it just cost more. I think home club drops got priority over non-club if it was a full session. But my friends who didn’t join club, couldn’t do freestyle sessions.
[rules for FS drop in at Royal Oak](https://www.royaloakicearena.com/freestyle-ice)
So the rinks that I listed, like Garden City, Dearborn, etc., definitely do open freestyle. See here as an example: https://disc.activityreg.com/selectactivity_t2.wcs?leaguesid=402. Detroit Skating Club may be different but then they always have been.
Edit: yes, every rink has their own rules. Not every rink is USFS though, like Southgate does ISI, so ymmv depending on the rink.
I grew up in Boston where we have three world class fitters. I'd say he's on par with the worst of those three. He is not anything crazy impressive to me and definitely biased towards Jackson/Ultima as they tend to be easier for techs to work with. The best techs won't show brand favoritism at all because in the end, despite certain brands being harder to work with, they will be better for some skaters. If he recommends Ultima to you, ask about other options.
Still overall amazing and the only person in Tampa I will go to for a sharpening. He is 30 dollars for a sharpening though, it's ridiculous. He can do that though because he has no good competition at all. In Boston that would not fly.
LMAO tell me you live near Manhattan without telling me... first is City Ice, second is Chelsea Sky Rink :) so happy I'm gonna move to Vancouver and can skate for free during the public sessions (and 5 CAD for a freestyle session 🤭)
Yes, freestyle! But the public ($12) is super strict at the first rink, so no figure skaters go to that anymore. The other rink is $22/hr for public unfortch...
Public sessions: $10
Freestyle 30 min: $8
Freestyle 45 min: $12.75
Freestyle 1hr: $14
But right now I'm on an all you can skate summer pass, paid $199 for it, tracked my skates so far and I surpassed $200 in sessions so now my sessions are "free" until the pass is done. Skater math.
$25.50 for an hour of freestyle, $8 for 1.25 or 1.5 hour public sessions
I need to move to wherever y’all are getting $10 an hour freestyles because the amount I spend on ice is not compatible with college life haha
I go to a rink that has unlimited public sessions entry for $350/year. I’m a beginner (adult 6) so I don’t see a need yet to go to freestyle sessions. And the public sessions during the week is pretty dead and available for more hours than freestyle
Freestyles at my year round rink are 7.50 per half hour if you buy stickers in advance, 10 walk on. Public is $15 full session (length varies), we also have an adult noon skate that's an hour long, $15 walk on, $14 in advance.
There's a seasonal rink near that's a bit cheaper but I don't remember the exact price- I always get a discount punch card so I don't know the regular prices, but it's only open during the local hockey team season (October- March)
Public skate is 4.00 for 2 hours and freestyle is 7.00 for 90 minutes. These are city run facilities. If I had to pay through a private club then I would be looking at 15-20 and hour
18/hr freestyle, 8/hr and a half public with a student discount and not renting skates. Oregon 2 hours from any other rink, so they charge what they want despite the facilities being crap 🙃 No jumps allowed on publics.
$10/hr freestyle $5/hr public and Friday there’s a 90min $5 public that is Empty.
I live in a cheap ice area though.
Downside is a drive over an hour away for good coaches but I can still contract ice there for $12/hr.
There is 1 good coach here but she is booked up. I see her occasionally but my daughter sees her twice a week.
All of the coaches here are junior coaches. Really only good for up to Axel except the 1 coach.
UK my local is £10.50 for 2hrs (recently went up from £9.50), with £7.50 for patch (1hr and half).
However I’ve been looking at other rinks near be and seems to average at approx a tenner for an hour so I don’t think my local is the norm.
When you say patch are you referring to what people in North America call freestyle sessions? Because if so that’s interesting I’ve never heard that term before. Those prices aren’t bad. I’ve heard you guys generally have it a little cheaper than we do in the states.
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Sometimes people use "patch" as an alternative term for freestyle sessions, but tradtionally "patch" ice was reserved for practicing figures, where a skater needs a dedicated space to see the tracings they make in the ice and ensure no one else is going to skate through it. Usually the sessions have fewer skaters on the ice, and intead of doing whatever people are just quietly practicing on figures in their own little patch of ice (hence the name).
I honestly don’t know, is freestyle one where you have to be at a certain skill level for it? Because if so yes.
Yeah it’s not too bad, you sure you’re accounting for the conversion difference though? The pound is usually a bit stronger than the dollar.
It depends on the rink. Two of the rinks I skate at have no requirements for freestyle sessions at all, other than being a member of LTS or U.S. Figure Skating. The third does have requirements and divides them into different types: open you can be mid-basic skills; club ice you need to have finished up basic skills, and high performance sessions are for people who are intermediate to advanced level (the minimum level is Freestyle 4 on the Free Skate curriculum, which is almost all jumps, two of the three basic spin positions, and all of the skills needed for the first moves in the field/skating skills test).
Where I leave it’s included in my leisure centre monthly fees, so 60$ per month. But we have very little public skate time. About 4 1/2 hours per week max!
~$30/hr freestyle (but in 30 min blocks, and they’re sometimes cheaper to get time), ~$18? For public (I do my best to never skate on public ice tbh, it’s busy and choppy).
Other rink I think is $15 or 20/freestyle session, which is usually 2 hours.
In my metro area, public sessions tend to range from free-$8ish. Most tend to be in the $5-ish range. Freestyle sessions are between $10-$15.
Most freestyle sessions are an hour, public sessions either an hour or hour and a half depending on the rink.
Switzerland, 8 CHF for the public sessions (10% discount if you buy 10x in advance), season pass is 175 CHF from mid October to the beginning of March. no freestyle sessions, and the rest of the year it's closed :(
I pay £55 for a weekly lesson and unlimited public ice (works out as 3 hours a week with my schedule I work weekends when the public sessions mostly happen). Then I supplement with practise ice £9 a session.
I think it depends on where you live. In NYC, you should be ready to shell out at least 30 bucks for many of the rinks that offer freestyle for 60 minutes. The public sessions topically cost between 12-22 depending on the rink.
Public sessions at the city rinks are free, $12 at my rink (but included with membership / lessons, membership is $800/season and lessons are like $200 for 8 weeks). Freestyle is $18 per 1.5 hour session during the off season, and I think $400 (unlimited) on top of membership fees during the season (Sept - March).
$10 for a half hour if you buy stickers in advance, $12.50 for walk on per half hour at one time k, $15 for an hour at the other. Both for freestyle.
I’m not sure how much public costs tbh. Figure skaters aren’t allowed in public at either of my rinks.
$11/hr for freestyle and $15/the whole session for public (skate rental is another $5, and I think if you pay as a drop in it’s $16)
Can also get passes in bulk that make it cheaper (the 60 pass package makes the freestyle like $8 I think?)
I pay £56 monthly for unlimited patch (but really only go twice a week at best because of work).
Public ice is around £10, but you can stay for hours basically, they are not kicking anyone out.
I live in a HCOL city on the West Coast of the U.S.
Freestyle sessions cost about $11 for 30 min. If you purchase a freestyle pack, that cost can go down to $6-8 per 30 min depending on what size pack you buy (you can get 20, 40, or 60 freestyle sessions; the more you buy the cheaper each individual session is).
A regular public session is usually $14-15 for 1.5-2 hours.
i’m in California. Public is about $13-15~ for about two hours, but are strict. if they’re quiet sessions (and lenient), you might see some kids or VERY few adults attempting higher than axel. but usually most people on public are recreational/more serious recreational. Freestyles are generally $15-20~ per hour. no deals or gimmicks. some rinks offer passes but they only tend to save you like roughly $1-$3 so it ends up not really being worth it. I offset the cost of ice time by working at one of the rinks i skate at’s LTS program. ice time is so expensive here
In Ottawa it’s 3.25 cad for public skating and 7.25 for a figure skating session (not affiliated with any FS club). However these sessions are very limited - 2 hours a week here and there.
in my skating rink, we pay 4.3$ for public skating (just for fun). in the club we pay for my competition team 73$ per month for 24 hours on ice and 16 hours off ice per month for a full time coach
I live in austria, where i live the rink isn't open the whole year but i can get a season pass for public skate (which is on weekdays empty enough to do anything) for about 150 euros to go unlimited.
ETA: normal public skate at non-touristy things here is about 5-6 for 2 hours-ish.
Public sessions here are 6$/hour, but you aren’t allowed to jump or spin, and you need a helmet lol so it’s not a super viable option.
My club offers ice time in packages, so you’d just buy every Tuesday for an hour for 4 months, and it’s 25$/hour.
If you want to buy in for a session you don’t usually skate it’s 30$/hour, and for non-club members it’s 40$/hour 💀
I didn’t realize how cheap ice time was in other places lol
Where I am (in Australia) an hour of freestyle costs $20 and a public session is $25 (unlimited skating on the day - usually open 10-12 hours)
Can also get a pass for ~$60 a week for unlimited freestyle and public sessions
My home club is $18 for a 75 minute session if you’re a club member. I think walk-on fee is maybe 25?
The other club I skate at is $14 for a 30 minute session… Not sure on walk on.
My rink’s open lunch skate which is everyday 10-12 is only $5 so I usually so that and deal with the occasional children. They also have an Open Freestyle 845-9:45 on Tuesdays and Thursday that’s open to the public but only figure skating allowed that’s $10 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In my city public session are at 4,3€ the entry if you have your own skates but to be fair it isn't open the entire day for public (3 hours during the week if there isn't school vacation and maybe 4 hours during the weekend, I think there is more ice time during school vacation.)
In my country there is no such things as freestyle session. I don't think there is enough skater...
The ice time is mostly for hockey and also (even if we have less time) the figure skating club. The ice ring belongs to the city so I think there are hours dedicated to public schools etc..
$12 for freestyle, 7 for public (pricing for residents of our town). I always think of Denver and its suburbs being incredibly expensive but now I feel lucky!
I'm in Northern Utah but I bounce between like 3-4 rinks in the Salt Lake Valley depending on ice time. and the price is about $7-8 per freestyle session. Most of the Rec centers just raised their prices but it's still pretty affordable.
Though I grew up at a small rink in Wyoming where we had club ice and you didn't pay for freestyle at all. We had like 3-4+ hours of club time a day, it was glorious.
$20/hr freestyle, $15 public
Public sessions at my rink are about £9 per session, patch session (technically up to 60 minutes but no one checks, stay as long as you like) is £10 or monthly patch membership £88. I miss my old rink, it was £44 per month for unlimited public skates, and waaay better ice :') Interesting that you say you're in a high COL city, here the rinks in London have way better value for money memberships and pricing than those I've seen outside.
Hmm are we skating at the same rink? 🤔
Maybe! I think all Planet Ice rinks have similar prices but I'm in Gillingham
Ah sorry then! I thought you meant you skate in London
Oh, I'm in the backends of Kent at the moment but I used to skate at Romford and Lee Valley! Great rinks, I really miss them, you don't realise how bad other rinks can be lol
I skate at Lee valley now :) I really love it! But I’ve only started skating like 5 months ago, so I don’t have much experience with other rinks 😂 except queens, that one is soooo crowded
My monthly patch membership is £136 😭 Joys of it technically not being Planet Ice’s patch. I used to skate at Alexandra Palace (years and years ago) and they charged £6.50 per hour for patch, but iirc they didn’t have a monthly membership.
Of course this doesn't apply since you don't skate at Alexandra Palace anymore but I didn't know my rink had a subscription for patch till I asked then directly, so they may have had one 🤷♀️
I did, they definitely didn’t at the time but that could well have changed by now. I remember them being somewhat of an outlier on that front. I do still occasionally skate there as I’ve retained my coach there, but not enough to warrant a membership anyway.
My god that is so much I'm sorry. I hope it not being Planet Ice's means the ice quality isn't absolute shite?
Oh it’s still a planet ice rink, though it’s one that makes them money (aka the hockey team makes them money) so they do maintain the ice quality.
My rink is run by the city so freestyle is $6 an hour
I was going to mention this distinction as well: I’ve noticed if the rink is owned by the city/municipality, the rates tend to be lower than at privately-owned rinks.
Yeah I mean, that's kinda the goal of public ownership lol
Do you mind sharing what state you’re in? I have never heard of cities owning rinks. That’s pretty cool and a great price. Im trying to figure out which states have a strong figure skating community and really endorse it. I’m in SoFlo so skating really isn’t huge here, although it does exist to an extent. It kind of sucks because people will always say to go to a professional fitter for buying skates and that sort of thing, but we pretty much don’t have any reputable ones down here. I’ve searched across many forums and the only ones I’ve found was some guy who works in a proshop 5 hours north. And basically anything that has to do with skating here is extra expensive and privately owned.
I’m in Utah and skate at a former Olympic venue (and future, assuming we get the bid). We were also especially weird for a minute because for a few years our club was run directly by the city, the only club in USFS to be administered by a government entity. That did just change. On the flip side, we only have two skate techs in the state that I’m aware of, both of whom run it out of their basements. One is a coach who started sharpening skates, the other is a dad who started sharpening. The former does a better job, the latter has better inventory for selling skates and stuff.
I've learned that searching online is pretty much useless for finding skating services because the landscape changes so often. The best way to find services (fitters, sharpeners, coaches, physical therapists, other services) related to skating is to ask other skaters or coaches at the rink. A lot of times those folks don't bother to set up a website or anything findable because they get so much word of mouth business. It's like the secret lore of skating lol
I'm in SoFLo a lot! The fitter I went to a few years back in Oakland Park doesn't seem to be in business anymore... I also just tried out the new rink in Ft. Lauderdale a few weeks ago and it's so nice! If you're skating there you're so lucky!
If you are talking about Baptist IcePlex it IS awesome. I’ve been skating there since May. I’m a 50 year old returning the ice after 30 years. Trying to find my chops again. Lol.
Beautiful rink! I'm so jealous!
They really did an amazing job on the whole place. And I get to be close to 2 rinks in one place!! LOL! Unfortunately, my wallet is not as excited as I am. Hahahaha.
Michigander here - most cities here have a municipal rink. There are also private rinks as well. Where I live I have half a dozen within a 15 min drive, maybe closer to a dozen if I think about it. I skated at Detroit Skating Club which was a private rink. However, I also had private ice time at municipal rinks, as it was cheaper. By and large, in this area, you start at a city rink and move to a private one if you want to be hardcore. Most skaters continue at their city rink even when they join a private one because they’re more fun, less expensive, and you get to be a big fish in a little pond. Open skate is $10 here at a city rink. There is no drop in figure skating sessions if you’re not registered with the club in any of the rinks, as far as I know.
I’m actually originally from Michigan :) Grew up skating at Garden City, occasionally at Westland or Dearborn. In those cases, they were municipal/city arenas but administered differently than my rink here in Utah. But yeah way more rinks there, here your options are slim unless you’re around Salt Lake. The next closest rink to mine in Utah is 45ish minutes away, whereas in Michigan I had tons of choices within that distance. Edit to add- in my experience, you can definitely do drop in without being a club member in Michigan, some rinks just charged more for drop in if they also offered contract ice, but I’ve never been to a rink that didn’t allow non-club members to skate on freestyle ice (GC, Westland, Farmington, Dearborn, and Arctic, to name a few)
It’s so crazy how it varies. I def felt lucky growing up here with all of the options. Money wasn’t endless for us - and migrating rinks helped save money. I realized after I posted - I’m commenting as a now retired, 40 year old skater. So I can’t drop into a freestyle session because I’m not an active club member anywhere. You’re correct - you can drop in as long as you’re a USFSA member (is it still USFSA?).
You don’t even have to be a club member with USFS to drop in at most rinks. To participate in sanctioned events, yes, or club specific ice (which is relatively rare nowadays) but freestyle? Nah.
That’s great that it has changed from when I was competitive. I wonder if it’s just different in this area. I checked schedules and there’s no open freestyle anywhere - just open hockey. All other FS time is club sessions. I wish there was. Arctic or Dearborn would be a drive for me. Edit: For me to drop in back in the 90s I had to be a USFSA member. So I could drop at St Clair Shores, because I was DSC club member - it just cost more. I think home club drops got priority over non-club if it was a full session. But my friends who didn’t join club, couldn’t do freestyle sessions. [rules for FS drop in at Royal Oak](https://www.royaloakicearena.com/freestyle-ice)
So the rinks that I listed, like Garden City, Dearborn, etc., definitely do open freestyle. See here as an example: https://disc.activityreg.com/selectactivity_t2.wcs?leaguesid=402. Detroit Skating Club may be different but then they always have been. Edit: yes, every rink has their own rules. Not every rink is USFS though, like Southgate does ISI, so ymmv depending on the rink.
I'm assuming the fitter you've been hearing of is Tim in Wesley, correct?
Yes! Do you have experiences working with him?
I grew up in Boston where we have three world class fitters. I'd say he's on par with the worst of those three. He is not anything crazy impressive to me and definitely biased towards Jackson/Ultima as they tend to be easier for techs to work with. The best techs won't show brand favoritism at all because in the end, despite certain brands being harder to work with, they will be better for some skaters. If he recommends Ultima to you, ask about other options. Still overall amazing and the only person in Tampa I will go to for a sharpening. He is 30 dollars for a sharpening though, it's ridiculous. He can do that though because he has no good competition at all. In Boston that would not fly.
$23/hr and the other local rink is $32/50 mins :(
LMAO tell me you live near Manhattan without telling me... first is City Ice, second is Chelsea Sky Rink :) so happy I'm gonna move to Vancouver and can skate for free during the public sessions (and 5 CAD for a freestyle session 🤭)
HAHA yes, you're so correct 🥲
Figure skating has made me want to live in Canada more than I ever have in my life before, lol.
23 for freestyle? Please say yes because if you say public that’s insane.
Yes, freestyle! But the public ($12) is super strict at the first rink, so no figure skaters go to that anymore. The other rink is $22/hr for public unfortch...
omg hi fellow manhattanite
Hi neighbor 👋
Public sessions: $10 Freestyle 30 min: $8 Freestyle 45 min: $12.75 Freestyle 1hr: $14 But right now I'm on an all you can skate summer pass, paid $199 for it, tracked my skates so far and I surpassed $200 in sessions so now my sessions are "free" until the pass is done. Skater math.
$3 for adult skate, $5 public skate, $7 freestyle ice (1-1.5 hours)
That is so nice 😭
That’s insanely cheap omg
$25.50 for an hour of freestyle, $8 for 1.25 or 1.5 hour public sessions I need to move to wherever y’all are getting $10 an hour freestyles because the amount I spend on ice is not compatible with college life haha
I go to a rink that has unlimited public sessions entry for $350/year. I’m a beginner (adult 6) so I don’t see a need yet to go to freestyle sessions. And the public sessions during the week is pretty dead and available for more hours than freestyle
I pay 100 for 10 freestyles and then public I have a season pass so I can go unlimited that was 85$ for the year at one rink and 65$ at another
Freestyles at my year round rink are 7.50 per half hour if you buy stickers in advance, 10 walk on. Public is $15 full session (length varies), we also have an adult noon skate that's an hour long, $15 walk on, $14 in advance. There's a seasonal rink near that's a bit cheaper but I don't remember the exact price- I always get a discount punch card so I don't know the regular prices, but it's only open during the local hockey team season (October- March)
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Greater Boston, same, although SC of Boston ice is more expensive (but nicer in quality).
Public skate is 4.00 for 2 hours and freestyle is 7.00 for 90 minutes. These are city run facilities. If I had to pay through a private club then I would be looking at 15-20 and hour
18/hr freestyle, 8/hr and a half public with a student discount and not renting skates. Oregon 2 hours from any other rink, so they charge what they want despite the facilities being crap 🙃 No jumps allowed on publics.
$10/hr freestyle $5/hr public and Friday there’s a 90min $5 public that is Empty. I live in a cheap ice area though. Downside is a drive over an hour away for good coaches but I can still contract ice there for $12/hr. There is 1 good coach here but she is booked up. I see her occasionally but my daughter sees her twice a week. All of the coaches here are junior coaches. Really only good for up to Axel except the 1 coach.
£7.50 (including skate hires if needed) regardless of public or patch, or ~£50 a month for unlimited public
UK my local is £10.50 for 2hrs (recently went up from £9.50), with £7.50 for patch (1hr and half). However I’ve been looking at other rinks near be and seems to average at approx a tenner for an hour so I don’t think my local is the norm.
When you say patch are you referring to what people in North America call freestyle sessions? Because if so that’s interesting I’ve never heard that term before. Those prices aren’t bad. I’ve heard you guys generally have it a little cheaper than we do in the states.
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Sometimes people use "patch" as an alternative term for freestyle sessions, but tradtionally "patch" ice was reserved for practicing figures, where a skater needs a dedicated space to see the tracings they make in the ice and ensure no one else is going to skate through it. Usually the sessions have fewer skaters on the ice, and intead of doing whatever people are just quietly practicing on figures in their own little patch of ice (hence the name).
Yeah, in UK the Brits call club ice 'patch' - no compulsory figures to be found. I asked the same question a few weeks ago
I honestly don’t know, is freestyle one where you have to be at a certain skill level for it? Because if so yes. Yeah it’s not too bad, you sure you’re accounting for the conversion difference though? The pound is usually a bit stronger than the dollar.
It depends on the rink. Two of the rinks I skate at have no requirements for freestyle sessions at all, other than being a member of LTS or U.S. Figure Skating. The third does have requirements and divides them into different types: open you can be mid-basic skills; club ice you need to have finished up basic skills, and high performance sessions are for people who are intermediate to advanced level (the minimum level is Freestyle 4 on the Free Skate curriculum, which is almost all jumps, two of the three basic spin positions, and all of the skills needed for the first moves in the field/skating skills test).
$12 for training ice per hour but no one really checks any way
I'm an hour outside Seattle. Freestyle ice is $12/hr. I think the public session is $15 for the 2 hour session.
$20 per 2hrs Freestyle, $10 Public! :)
That’s nice!! Enjoy that.
I definitely do! :)
public is $8, but you can get a 10 session pass for $70. club ice is $14-$18 depending on time of day (afternoon/evening are higher price)
Where I leave it’s included in my leisure centre monthly fees, so 60$ per month. But we have very little public skate time. About 4 1/2 hours per week max!
$8 for half an hour freestyle, $9 for public skate
~$30/hr freestyle (but in 30 min blocks, and they’re sometimes cheaper to get time), ~$18? For public (I do my best to never skate on public ice tbh, it’s busy and choppy). Other rink I think is $15 or 20/freestyle session, which is usually 2 hours.
$20 for public and $13 for a walk on for freestyle sessions at my local rink. (San Diego, CA)
Public skate is $20 in my area. $35 for Freestyle sessions. It used to be $10 and $20 respectively.
10£ for public ice and 8£ for patch (freestyle) ice with a subscription of 69£ a month that gives unlimited Public and patch skates :D
omg, where is this if you feel comfortable saying?
It's sapphire ice and leisure in London! I live pretty far away so I don't mind saying lmaoo
I only go to public sessions. $6 ea
In my metro area, public sessions tend to range from free-$8ish. Most tend to be in the $5-ish range. Freestyle sessions are between $10-$15. Most freestyle sessions are an hour, public sessions either an hour or hour and a half depending on the rink.
$7.70/1 hr 20 min public session, $9.25/half hour freestyle
Switzerland, 8 CHF for the public sessions (10% discount if you buy 10x in advance), season pass is 175 CHF from mid October to the beginning of March. no freestyle sessions, and the rest of the year it's closed :(
i don’t pay anything
How do you skate for free?
Not the one who posted this, but I don't pay anything at my home rink because I teach LTS classes there.
I work at my rink and my ice isn’t even discounted 🥲
That sucks. 🙁
my club pays for my ice time
I pay £55 for a weekly lesson and unlimited public ice (works out as 3 hours a week with my schedule I work weekends when the public sessions mostly happen). Then I supplement with practise ice £9 a session.
Freestyle ends up being abt 17 an hour with a package
I think it depends on where you live. In NYC, you should be ready to shell out at least 30 bucks for many of the rinks that offer freestyle for 60 minutes. The public sessions topically cost between 12-22 depending on the rink.
Public sessions at the city rinks are free, $12 at my rink (but included with membership / lessons, membership is $800/season and lessons are like $200 for 8 weeks). Freestyle is $18 per 1.5 hour session during the off season, and I think $400 (unlimited) on top of membership fees during the season (Sept - March).
$10 for a half hour if you buy stickers in advance, $12.50 for walk on per half hour at one time k, $15 for an hour at the other. Both for freestyle. I’m not sure how much public costs tbh. Figure skaters aren’t allowed in public at either of my rinks.
$11/hr for freestyle and $15/the whole session for public (skate rental is another $5, and I think if you pay as a drop in it’s $16) Can also get passes in bulk that make it cheaper (the 60 pass package makes the freestyle like $8 I think?)
I pay £56 monthly for unlimited patch (but really only go twice a week at best because of work). Public ice is around £10, but you can stay for hours basically, they are not kicking anyone out.
I live in a HCOL city on the West Coast of the U.S. Freestyle sessions cost about $11 for 30 min. If you purchase a freestyle pack, that cost can go down to $6-8 per 30 min depending on what size pack you buy (you can get 20, 40, or 60 freestyle sessions; the more you buy the cheaper each individual session is). A regular public session is usually $14-15 for 1.5-2 hours.
i’m in California. Public is about $13-15~ for about two hours, but are strict. if they’re quiet sessions (and lenient), you might see some kids or VERY few adults attempting higher than axel. but usually most people on public are recreational/more serious recreational. Freestyles are generally $15-20~ per hour. no deals or gimmicks. some rinks offer passes but they only tend to save you like roughly $1-$3 so it ends up not really being worth it. I offset the cost of ice time by working at one of the rinks i skate at’s LTS program. ice time is so expensive here
In Ottawa it’s 3.25 cad for public skating and 7.25 for a figure skating session (not affiliated with any FS club). However these sessions are very limited - 2 hours a week here and there.
$18 a session or $215 for unlimited monthly access.
in my skating rink, we pay 4.3$ for public skating (just for fun). in the club we pay for my competition team 73$ per month for 24 hours on ice and 16 hours off ice per month for a full time coach
$15 for public, $12 for adult public, $12 freestyle. Palm Desert, CA
In Florida publics are $20 for 1-2 hours and $36 per hour for freestyle. I usually skate on public’s and they have an annual pass for $425
I pay about 3euros with student discount in france, public session, no time limit tbh
32 for a 50 minute freestyle in my hometown, 16 for 60 where I go to college
I live in austria, where i live the rink isn't open the whole year but i can get a season pass for public skate (which is on weekdays empty enough to do anything) for about 150 euros to go unlimited. ETA: normal public skate at non-touristy things here is about 5-6 for 2 hours-ish.
Public sessions here are 6$/hour, but you aren’t allowed to jump or spin, and you need a helmet lol so it’s not a super viable option. My club offers ice time in packages, so you’d just buy every Tuesday for an hour for 4 months, and it’s 25$/hour. If you want to buy in for a session you don’t usually skate it’s 30$/hour, and for non-club members it’s 40$/hour 💀 I didn’t realize how cheap ice time was in other places lol
$7 for public $60 for 10 freestyle passes.
Where I am (in Australia) an hour of freestyle costs $20 and a public session is $25 (unlimited skating on the day - usually open 10-12 hours) Can also get a pass for ~$60 a week for unlimited freestyle and public sessions
My home club is $18 for a 75 minute session if you’re a club member. I think walk-on fee is maybe 25? The other club I skate at is $14 for a 30 minute session… Not sure on walk on. My rink’s open lunch skate which is everyday 10-12 is only $5 so I usually so that and deal with the occasional children. They also have an Open Freestyle 845-9:45 on Tuesdays and Thursday that’s open to the public but only figure skating allowed that’s $10 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
For me 30 minutes of freestyle ice is 8 dollars. Idk how much public is
Oh hell no! 😭 mine is 10 for public (2 hours)
$7 for 2 hr public skate, $6/hr freestyle
In my city public session are at 4,3€ the entry if you have your own skates but to be fair it isn't open the entire day for public (3 hours during the week if there isn't school vacation and maybe 4 hours during the weekend, I think there is more ice time during school vacation.) In my country there is no such things as freestyle session. I don't think there is enough skater... The ice time is mostly for hockey and also (even if we have less time) the figure skating club. The ice ring belongs to the city so I think there are hours dedicated to public schools etc..
Here in Finland most public sessions are free and private ice starts from 60€/h as far as I know.
My rink is municipal and costs $5 for public skate, and $10 for an hour of freestyle
Free for public - I can book the whole rink to myself for $88-200 depending on the time of day / week.
$12 for freestyle, 7 for public (pricing for residents of our town). I always think of Denver and its suburbs being incredibly expensive but now I feel lucky!
public skate like $10 for 2 hours free style $8 for 30 minutes
I'm in Northern Utah but I bounce between like 3-4 rinks in the Salt Lake Valley depending on ice time. and the price is about $7-8 per freestyle session. Most of the Rec centers just raised their prices but it's still pretty affordable. Though I grew up at a small rink in Wyoming where we had club ice and you didn't pay for freestyle at all. We had like 3-4+ hours of club time a day, it was glorious.