Timezone Rotorua Central
Paying with a Timezone card
Anyone can walk in. Games are paid from a Timezone power card rather than per game at a lane desk, and the branch page does not publish a bowling price.
A supermarket turned games hall
Rotorua's newest bowling sits where shoppers used to buy groceries. Timezone took over the former Countdown unit at Rotorua Central Mall, an 800-square-metre space, and the Rotorua Daily Post reported that it would open on 20 December 2025 with more than twenty jobs attached.
The lanes here are short ones, part of a family arcade rather than a league centre, and they share the floor with ColourGrid, where players dodge lit tiles, Spin Zone cars and the usual claw and racing machines. The branch page lists both bowling and mini bowling but gives neither a lane count nor a per-game price, so ask at the counter before loading up a card.
Rotorua Central at a glance
The arcade's week, 11–17 November
These are the centre's opening hours for the week we checked; the bowling runs within them and the timetable can change during school holidays.
Source: the venue's official page (timezonegames.com), read 11 Nov 2026.
21 Victoria Street, inside the mall
The centre is in Rotorua Central Mall on Victoria Street, in the unit Countdown used to occupy.
21 Victoria Street, Victoria, Rotorua 3010
Bowling around the lakes
Sources
- timezonegames.com · trading status
- nzherald.co.nz · venue details
Facts checked 11 Nov 2026 against the sources above. Not a live availability check.