Ice Skating - Smithfield/RDS

Undercoverguy

Anybody going Ice Skating this year? My mate started Working at SmithField this week and said so far it's brilliant. The only thing i'd worry about is that the skangers/childers court is all of 39 foor away from the entrance! We should all organise a big boards day out and go skating lol

Anyone have any info about the RDS one? Someone told me it was too much waz stuff instead of ice last year and it more for kids but i dunno. let us know!

ixoy

Smithfield on Ice is a poor poor experience. I'd strongly advise all boardsie folk NOT to go. If you need to go skating, wait for one of the other venues.

^CwAzY^

ixoy wrote:

Smithfield on Ice is a poor poor experience. I'd strongly advise all boardsie folk NOT to go. If you need to go skating, wait for one of the other venues.

I agree.. save your money and don't go :v:

JackKelly

i found it alright, as long as you went in early December and not coming close to Christmas.

monkeyfudge

I'd heard that Smithfield is the best of a bad bunch...

IFSC being the worst...

Red Alert

most injuries used to occur from the IFSC or RDS, only a few poor bozos like myself got serious injuries from smithfield.

swingking

I really pisses me off when I go to these places and find that the biggest show size they haev for ice skates is size 12, when I need a size 14 or 15.:mad:

I'm sure I'm not the only person in Dublin to have had this problem. Is there any ice-skating arena where they have big size skates to rent; they must think that people's feet only reach a maximum size of 12 or something.

Dave!

Has it started yet? I may take my girlfriend there, I'd like to try ice-skating some time in my life

okidoki987

I have 4 adult tickets for RDS this Saturday afternoon 19/11/05
(1.30-2.30pm) that I am looking to sell. They normally cost 16 EURO each but as I bought a load of them for a group booking, I got them for 13.50 each.
I will sell them in lots of 2 or the 4 together for 7 EURO EACH.,
aprox 1/2 price!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054849371

dundalk cailin

i went to smithfield last yr, u practically couldnt move on the ice, there was that many kids round
oh yea it was the first time id bn skating in round 5 years, and 15mions in, i promptly fell and whacked my head on the ice...not a nice experience

Undercoverguy

Ah guys quit your moaning.... How often do we get a chance to go skating?

I went like 12 times last year, just go early on school days and ya have the place to yourself! Outta all the rinks smithfield is the best.

BTW, It launches tonight!

dundalk cailin

i went skatin in france, my friends n me were the only ones on the rink...Great craic!! i do like ice skating im just sayin i dont have great memories of the time i was in smithfield!! (banging head, with hoardes of children skatin round ya!)

Undercoverguy

I know i think they can fit someting like 400 peoples onto the ice at any one time so that is a lot of babbies i guess. But like i said my mate's working their this year and he's been saying that it's better than last year, and with the Ice Marchals on the ice i dont anything will kick off. Security seams pretty big too.

dundalk cailin

well that sounds promisin!let me know how it is!!

ixoy

Undercoverguy wrote:

But like i said my mate's working their this year and he's been saying that it's better than last year, and with the Ice Marchals on the ice i dont anything will kick off. Security seams pretty big too.

Your mate lies. It's awful. Don't ever go to Smithfield on Ice and advise all your friends not to go...

Diarmsquid

I love ice-skating. I used to do loads of roller-blading when I was younger so the ice-skating kinda came naturally. My brother and I have competitions to see how many times we can know each other over and last year we tried to knock over as many other people as possible without touching them, skating towards them and swerving away at the last moment.

Smithfield is definitely the best out of where I've been (Smithfield, RDS, IFSC)
Although maybe, if you're a bad ice-skater, there's a rail in the middle of the RDS to hold onto.

Setun

I've been twice, and haven't skated twice. Once too hungover, second couldn't be bothered, but having studied peoples faces throughout the allocated "one hour" (HA!) it kinda went like this:
:mad:..........:v: ?

Kablamo!

DaveMcG wrote:

Has it started yet? I may take my girlfriend there, I'd like to try ice-skating some time in my life

if you are who i think you are i was wathing home videos tonight with the lady friend in them

eth0_

Diarmsquid wrote:

last year we tried to knock over as many other people as possible without touch.

You're an assh0le.

I thought Smithfield was pretty good, but god do we need a PROPER ice rink in Dublin again! Not a ****ty one like Silver Skates, if you've skated in Dundonald up north you know what I mean.

As for the ice marshals, from what I saw in Smithfield, they were irritating little knackers who spent their time showing off and carving up the ice and putting ice shavings all over people with their WAY COOL way of stopping suddenly.

PADDYPOKER

Was in the RDS.
Very good, well run, lots of security and staff on the ice.
no messers that we could see, lots of kids but they were on the kids ice rink.
They have other stuff in the RDS but didn't go to any of them.
Get discount vouchers as nobody buying tickets at the door seemed to be paying full whack.
Would go again.
Parking/traffic is a nightmare.
TIP
Either get the Dart, 5 minute walk or park your car down beside AIB (7 day pay and display :mad: !) or the road down from the 4 Seasons Hotel but there's no right turn onto this coming from Merrion Road.

Siogfinsceal

i went to the rds one last year and found it a great laugh its what you make o fit i guess - i went with some mates and it was good