The Ice Palace is great, but the one bad thing is that they don't have very long open-skate hours for the public. It's not terribly expensive to get in, but it's not necessarily cheap either (can't remember prices), and you only get an hour and a half to skate and then they scrape time off the middle because the zamboni has to re-zamboni the ice.
I didn't think the atmosphere was very friendly and the staff had no problems allowing older, more experienced teenager skaters run rampant around families with little kids who were taking it slow and being mindful to try to stay out of everyone's way.
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