Skating at Bryant Park

This was a great experience and the winter market had the best Indian food. I will dream about the samosas for years to come. Don't miss the cheesewheel pasta either.

I had an amazing experience with the Bryant Park team even before stepping onto the ice. After purchasing tickets, I needed to change the time and later the date, and every single time I emailed them, they responded within minutes. They were consistently kind, professional, and incredibly accommodating. I’m taking my daughter ice skating, and even though we haven’t gone yet, the level of customer service alone gives me total confidence that it’s going to be a great experience. Truly appreciate how easy and pleasant they made the process.

If I could give No stars at all for absolute 0 custoner service and how personnel treats customers,and 0 quality of skates for charge of 65usd / each,0 help of personnel for anything, I would. Date and time: 12/30/25,7.30pm slot time; booked 2 rental skates for kids 11 yo who cannot skate but they were excited to go 2nd time in skating rink. They 1st time see snow in their life,& they were visiting nyc 1st time. They scanned our tickets and pls. here pay attention : there were No Notice or no warning before scanning our tickets, that Bryant park REFUSE to provide any skate aids for anyone higher 5 feet..( the girls were higher of 1 inch of 5 feet..) So I requested Refund, since they cannot skate without skate aid at all - they are supposed 2nd time skating in their life! Here came "manager"( who refused to give me his name at all ) and told me , that it's for their own safety that they can fall off the skate aid!:) and offered them to hold to the rink barrier:)) instead...:)) reminder: the kids were supposed 2st time in the skating rink in their life... Also pls note: the quality of rental skates are beyond bad with torn off hooks and torn off laces. You pay 65$/ per renter skater: 50 min on the rink ,where they didn't go at all because "manager" thinks its safer to hold to skate barrier rather than using skate aids! .. Also pls. note that there is No inside changing your skates - you basically sit outside in freezing weather outside metsl benches trying to lace those horrible skates on your child.... Please AVOID this place,spend your $ better at wollman rink, and please go instead to wollman rink at central park where you get skate aids no questions asked for $25 and you can skate from the time of your tickets till 10PM (thr whole day) and you have indoor benches in warm, and coffee/ snacks inside as well. Pls avoid BRYANT park skating rink if you don't want your xmas time ruined by it! ( btw I skate from 4 yo, and it was my relative with her kids coming from outside of US to visit and I was trying to show them good time at this BS Bryant park rink! Unfortunattely I failed to have any good memories about Bryant park rink and their customer service...) pls avoid it!

If you're visiting NYC for Christmas, ice skating at Bryant Park should be high on your list. The view is breathtaking and the location is awesome. We've been here 3 times so far in December for ice skating. It's pretty fun. Definitely gets very overcrowded every time. The ice skates they have hurt my feet. Usually only get about 25-30 min of time on the ice.

Beautiful but extremely packed... if you're looking for a chill romantic date this isn't the place. I visit Bryant Park's Winter Village at least 5 times every year to skate, its great but it is so hard to get around due to the amount of people this place attracts, I recommend coming early in the day because it comes impossible to enjoy in the afternoon.

Rude staff. Not enough skate aids for all the kids. Not even close to enough. Wouldn't let me wait in line for a skate aid to be returned for my child to use. Then when I followed the staff back with a returned skate aid, the staff tried to rent it to someone else who was standing there, where the other staff wouldn't let me wait. Beautiful venue though.

I came during Thanksgiving weekend and they also have winter village nearby for all the holidays shopping. The ice skating rink is very picturesque with great skyscraper in the backgrounds. They clean and smooth out the rink surface very often. They also have an igloo tent nearby where they serve hot chocolate inside.

These guys are charging top dollar for their old and destroyed ice skate rentals. It’s insane. Expect to pay anywhere between $34 to $50 per person. Doesn’t matter if they are a child. To top it off, they are renting the ice skate kid helper/tool (the penguin or the cart) for $30!! They also CHARGE YOU TO COME WATCH. They call it a chaperone. Absolutely ridiculous. GREEDY is an understatement