Website updated regularly but please ring 0411 335544 for confirmation

30 January

Last day for our EXTRA school holiday sessions is tomorrow. Back to regular times from Wednesday. (Regular times here)

Although some schools will still be on holidays until 6 Feb. or later, our program concludes when the "official" Education Department dates suggest the school term should begin - sorry for any inconvenience.

25 January

Open tomorrow, Australia Day, as usual.

9 January

School Holiday times now apply through to Tuesday, 31 January (Times here)

Roller hockey leagues resume on Monday 23 January (More info here)

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27 December

Hope you all had a great Christmas! The Centre reopens tomorrow at 11:00am. (Times here)

19 December

The centre might be 36 years old but it will be our "management's" 18th anniversary on Friday, so...

• Thank-you to all of our regular skaters and all of our birthday party patrons
• Thank-you to all the schools & groups who visit the centre
• Thank-you to all of our online customers
• Thank-you to all of our hockey players
• Thank-you to all the hard working staff and to the friends of Rollerway

It would all be meaningless without you! Hope you all have a great Christmas and have a safe and Happy New Year!

7 December

Christmas Break-ups & End-of-term parties
Almost 400 already booked in for the week before Christmas - hurry if you want to have your break-up with us!

Skates for Christmas?
The Chicago Skates and two Riedell Skates shipments arrived over the past week. Have sold about half but still have a few hundred pairs left. We still have 14 "shipping" days to Christmas, so there's still time and skates available.

14 November

The new Chicago roller skate shipment is now due to arrive next Monday (21/11) and the Tour Hockey shipment will land on 26/11 - just after Christmas! Don't you love international shipping!?!

22 October

Most of our hockey leagues (Monday, Tuesday, & Thursday) are "full house" for this season but we are looking for a few extra A and BA players to convert our Wednesday scrimmage night into a regular league. Some of our Peewee teams (under 12's) could also use an extra player or two. Please call or email if interested. Thanks!

19 October

Today, Geelong Cup Day, we will be closed during the day but our Hard Puck Hockey Scrimmage will run as usual from 6:30-8:00PM

10 October

Back to "normal" public session times from today. Our public/general sessions for social skating, groups, and birthday parties generally run from Friday evening through to Sunday afternoon.

Our Summer Hockey season starts tonight! We usually have hockey from 6:30PM Monday to Thursday, and before our public session on Friday nights.

Our skate park and skate shop are almost always available anytime our centre is open for either public skating or roller hockey activities.

21 September

A quick wrap up...

School holiday sessions start after this Friday. See here

All roller hockey leagues start their own "holidays" after tonight but resume on 10 October - get your teams in now!

Birthday Party bookings are still available over the holidays and we have even more options with the extra sessions that are running

Good luck to all hockey players from our centre competing in the Skate Australia National Inline Hockey titles in Hobart, starting this Friday

11 September

More info on facebook!

3 September

Not as many updates nowadays, mainly due to day-to-day info going out via facebook. Be our "friend" and stay up-to-date and also get SPECIAL OFFERS!

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Become our friend!

On Sunday 4 September, why not take Dad skating!

18 July

Back to school and back to our regular session times. Also "Hard Puck" returns Wednesday nights and Peewee & Intermediate Hockey starts up again on Friday.

5 July

School holidays are in full swing. Although we always have room for "general skaters" and although some sessions are booked out for birthday parties, most are still available so don't hesitate to have a party with us this holiday or take advantage of the extra opening times!

22 June

School holidays are coming. We will have EXTRA skating sessions from Monday 4 July, though to Friday 15 July. See here for session times. Groups and parties may still book in during any of the holiday sessions.

7 June

Thursday 9 June - All hockey games have been cancelled for one night only due many players being unavailable because of the Vic Inline Hockey Championships in Moe over the long weekend. Centre will be closed for that night. Sorry for any inconvenience but it's for a good reason!

3 June

Winter is here!

Long weekend coming up, Queen's Birthday. Monday 13 June - Public skating open 1:30-4:30 (hockey will run that evening as usual)

Also good luck to the 5 teams we are sending to the Skate Victoria Championships at Moe that weekend.

Having a birthday soon? Still have a few bookings available, especially over the winter school holidays.

26 April

The new hockey season has started and our new range of inline/roller hockey gear from Tour is now available.

Thursday Hockey League fixtures are now on-line.

Term 2 begins tomorrow and we resume normal term (session) times for "general" skating after today.

22 April

Happy Easter everyone.

Monday & Tuesday Soft Puck Hockey fixtures have now been published.

A couple of further reminders, as mentioned below, we do open EVERY DAY over Easter, Sunday has Vic training from 5:30PM, and the new hockey season starts this Monday.

17 April

ATTENTION HOCKEY PLAYERS: New hockey season starts Easter Monday and there will be quite a few changes with several extra teams coming into the competition. Please confirm your intentions regarding which teams/leagues you intend to plain in ASAP. Also see here regarding Vic's training.

3 April

OPEN ALL EASTER
Good Friday - 1:30-4:30 & 7:30-10:30
Saturday - 11:00-1:00 & 1:30-4:30 & 7:30-10:30
Easter Sunday, Easter Monday & Tuesday (Anzac Day holiday) - 1:30-4:30
(Hockey as usual)

2 April

Hockey League Grand finals next week - good luck!

School Holidays start on Friday and EXTRA sessions will be running throughout, including over Easter. See Here

10 March

Monday - Labour Day - EXTRA public session 1:30-4:30 (Hockey as usual)

Tour Hockey gear has just started arriving - Skates, Sticks, the works - buy from us at wholesale prices! (See here!)

Our hockey leagues start their finals in a couple of weeks - time to start getting your teams in for next season

7 February

Back to normal (public skating) session times from today (HERE)

Hard Puck hockey returns Wednesday night, from 6:00PM

New Training & Game Times for Peewees & Intermediates from this week (HERE)

24 January

Open Australia Day as usual (school holiday times apply)

Roller Hockey returns today - welcome back!

New roller derby FRESHMEAT packages now available!
See HERE for info

13 January

We don't normally have "editorials" on the News Section, but this is a message we posted on our Facebook page, FYI

Did you know that it was 17 years ago, Christmas Eve that I took over Rollerway, and that Christmas it rained almost non-stop for 6 weeks. This year the rains are almost as bad, but in the time I've been here, I have NEVER seen it this humid for this long. We have had condensation on the rink once over summer that whole time and this year we have had it 4 days in a row already!!! Does anyone think that what they are saying about Global Warming messing weather patterns could be true? :(

This year, our dehumidifier, halogen heaters and drying fans haven't really helped although we hope the inversion and humid conditions that have caused this are likely to pass in another day or so...we don't mind the rain but let's hope the freaky humid conditions go soon!

What dies it mean to you, the skater? The floor can range from slippery to quite slippery. Mind you the crowds we have been getting have been huge despite the conditions, but it's disappointing that the "skater experience" has been diminished.

3 January

Hope you are all having a great start to the New Year. Remember that our EXTRA School Holiday sessions have now started and will continue until Sunday 6 February.

26 December

The Centre is now CLOSED for maintenance until Sunday 2 January 2011 - reopening at 1:30PM.

ON-LINE SHOP STILL OPEN WITH MOST STOCK AVAILABLE although some of the interstate warehouses we use and several of our suppliers are closed until 4 January.

Best wishes to all and hope you have a great 2011!

And a big thank-you to all of our staff and patrons for making 2010 a big success!

15 December

The Online Skate Shop is flat-out at present by we will do our best to get everyone's skates to them by Christmas!

Hockey goes on Holiday after this week although we will have some specialised clinics over summer!

With the "official" start to the school holidays this weekend we will have a change to out usual times, specifically:-

CHRISTMAS TIMES

OPEN
20 December 11:00-1:00 1:30-4:30
21 December 11:00-1:00 1:30-4:30
22 December 11:00-1:00 1:30-4:30 7:30-9:30
23 December 11:00-1:00 1:30-4:30
24 December 11:00-1:00 1:30-4:30 ONLY
24 December NO NIGHT SESSION

CLOSED
25 December to 1 January

REOPEN
2 January at 1:30

With our usual compliment of holiday sessions continuing through to Sunday 6 February (see here for times)

10 November

Christmas Parties
Private Sessions
Christmas Presents
End of Term Activities
School Holiday Sessions

Just a few things for you to think about!

2 November

Sorry folks but we do not open to the general public on Melbourne Cup Day (Hockey runs as usual).

Monday to Friday we only open by appointment for schools due to the nature of both demand and our arrangement with local schools. Although it is sometimes confusing as some schools have days off and other don't, but we tend to open not when there are "pupil free days" or when private schools have holidays, but rather on official Public School Holidays (so days like Geelong or Melbourne Cup and Geelong or Melbourne Show days are not usually available to the general public). Sorry for any inconvenience.

20 October

We open for schools as usual on Geelong Cup day, today, but unfortunately WE ARE CLOSED TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. Hockey will be on tonight, as usual.

9 October

With attendances over the school holidays affected by the UCI bike race (we were almost totally surrounded by road closures) many kids didn't get to find out about our great party deals and so we have a few extra vacancies for parties than we usually do. Take advantage of the situation as more days and times are still available!

Our five hockey leagues resumed last week and next week we will be introducing our new Intermediate hockey league on Fridays.

As things get back to normal and we continue to develop our online shop, our mail order and internet sales departments are starting to take orders again - sorry for any minor delays.

Finally, congratulations to the 8 people from our rink that travelled to Adelaide for the Inline Hockey Australia National titles and who managed to return with a number of medals including two gold - well done!

28 September

UCI Bike race creating greater congestion than expected so allow at least 30 minutes of travel time to get through some of the focal points. Our morning and night sessions may also become more appealing as they tend to be less affected by road closure issues.

*Monday Night's Roller Hockey League fixture is now up!*

24 September

Big Bike Race won't stop skating!

During the UCI Bike race access to the centre will still be possible by going along LaTrobe Terrace, then turning down West Fyans street, then proceeding to Gregory Street and turning into Lambert Avenue (as usual).

Depending on which direction you are approaching from, you may need to consider the following suggestions:

WEST
Princes Highway leads over James Harrison Bridge
Turn left at West Fyans Street
Turn Left at Newtown Vet Clinic
Right at Lambert Avenue

EAST
Cross at the Breakwater Bridge
Join onto Princes Highway
Follow over James Harrison Bridge
Turn left at West Fyans Street
Turn Left at Newtown Vet Clinic
Right at Lambert Avenue

NORTH
Follow Princes Highway
Turn Right at West Fyans Street
Turn Left at Newtown Vet Clinic
Right at Lambert Avenue

SOUTH
Follow Princes Highway over James Harrison Bridge
Turn left at West Fyans Street
Turn Left at Newtown Vet Clinic
Right at Lambert Avenue

Due to possible traffic congestion, please allow for a few extra minutes of travel time.

For more information please ring 0411 33 55 44

15 September

With our new online shop opening soon we will be temporarily stopping all mail order and online sales until further notice - sorry for the inconvenience but the project has grown and we are unable to work on both concurrently.

New shop here: www.allskateshop.com.au

7 September

Due to stock-take, periodic maintenance, and finalising an unprecedented number of back-orders our ONLINE SHOP IS CLOSED FROM 8 to 11 September. Unfortunately we will have minimal ability to answer phone calls or respond to emails during this time. Sorry for any inconvenience.

5 September

3 September

• Holidays are coming and so are extra sessions Monday-Friday
  
• Hockey Starts finals next week - get your teams in ASAP for the NEW season
  
• Internet/Mail order customers: due to an unprecedented growth in demand and several major shipments arriving at once (requiring backorders to be cleared up) there will be some delays in responding to emails and in sending out skates - sorry for the inconvenience

14 August

Well, we finally joined Facebook and we hope it will help our hockey players, regular customers, and on-line shoppers, better communicate with us and each other.

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9 August

By popular demand (literally) we will run a special afternoon public session today: 1:30-4:30

Tonight's hockey remains as fixtured

12 July

The busiest winter holidays in quite a few years just finished yesterday and we are now back to our usual time table.

International shortages of some of the top roller skate models continue to make life interesting for us but we still have reasonable stock of many of the important sizes, with more being air-freighted from the US, arriving next week, and a container coming by sea freight, due in the next 2-3 weeks.

24 June

The Extra sessions for the Public School Holidays start from next week.

For the EXTRA Times over the Public School Holidays
As well as the usual weekend sessions see here

REMEMBER: Birthday Parties may still be booked over the holidays.

The On-line shop is operating as usual, although some of our suppliers are having an end-of-financial year stock-take and there could be small delays in getting some items out.

2 June

Open QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY HOLIDAY (Monday, 14 June) from 1:30-4:30
*Hockey as usual on 14 June, from 6:30PM onwards

New roller skate stock just arrived, for those of you who have been waiting, although international demands continues to be a problem, as all of our suppliers are having difficulty in keeping up! That means we won't have enough for everyone, despite our best efforts - but we are trying.

9 April

School holidays finish today so it's back to regular term opening times from Monday.

Open ANZAC DAY & ANZAC DAY HOLIDAY (25 & 26 April) from 1:30-4:30 for public skating; hockey as usual on the Monday night.

5 April

The new Winter Season Roller Hockey Fixtures are now up on their respective pages. Good luck for the new season.

29 March

1 March

• Open Labour Day 8 March 1:30-4:30 (Hockey as usual from 6:00PM)
• Entry fee (session admission) $9 per person for kid's & adults (3-hour sessions) from 15 March
• Roller Hockey Finals 15-26 March
• Extra sessions for School Holidays from 29 March-9 April
• Boy's Night Out 26 March. *Free entry for Boys that night! (*CA)

27 February

We open Labour Day 8 March for public/general skating from 1:30-4:30, and for roller hockey from 6:30 PM, as usual.

The boys get their turn on Friday March 26th, from 7:30-10:30, and as always, we offer the boys FREE admission to the centre and of course like with other similar events this offer does not apply to groups or parties. Hire charges are the usual $3 pp. BTW, girl's are welcome on that night too!

30 January

Back to school next week for most primary & secondary students!

Our times revert to normal now, until the Easter Holidays.

School bookings for "general" or roller hockey may now be made from 9:15 to 3:15, Monday to Friday. Ring or email for prices & availability.

22 January

We open as usual on Australia Day, Tuesday 26 January, for regular public skating during the day and roller hockey of an evening.

15 January

It's back by popular demand...(love saying that)

Last Friday in Feb (26th) from 7:30-10:30, it's our "Girls Night Out" with all girl's (of any age) getting FREE admission to the centre. Conditions? Other special offers don't apply. This offer also does not extend to groups or parties. Hire charges apply as usual.

Also, don't forget

Just to be different, we're celebrating Valentines Day on Friday 12 Feb from 7:30-10:30 (with apologies for those of you who prefer the 14th!)
Come with your partner and get a surprise...
Every couple will have a free pick from our lucky dip

8 January

EMAIL PROBLEM FIXED!

Some technical problems by our Internet Service Provider (server & DNS issues) have meant that incoming emails were being rejected today. Sorry for the inconvenience but the problem has been fixed and email functionality will be back to normal very shortly.

2 January

Extra Times for School Holidays
As well as the usual weekend sessions we have
extra WEEKDAY sessions 2-29 January (see here)

1 January 2010

We reopen tonight at 7:30PM - HAPPY NY!

26 December

The Centre is now CLOSED until 7:30PM New Year's Day

NB: No "Day" sessions on 1/1/10 - just the Night time (7:30-10:30)

ALSO CLOSED New Year's Eve (just in case the above was ambiguous)

ON-LINE SHOP STILL OPEN WITH MOST STOCK AVAILABLE

Once again, best wishes to all and hope you have a great 2010!

19 December

Anniversaries are a good time to reflect and rejoice a little perhaps? 16 years ago, Christmas Eve 1993, the present proprietor walked into Rollerway to begin operation, having once worked here as a boy. Thanks to the tremendous support of the local community, an awesome crew, ever increasing popularity of "skating parties," a local roller hockey league that is bigger than most state leagues around Australia, and lets not forget one of the most successful on-line skate shops in the country, Rollerway has grown 400% over that time. Thank-you to all for making it happen. Best wishes to everyone!

BTW School Holiday sessions have just started, but we do close for a few days from 25 December (see below).

11 December

New arrangement with Riedell means that we will soon have more top quality ice and roller skates at better prices than ever!

2 December

So much to do and such little time!

School Holidays - we will be having extra sessions from 21 to 24 December, and then from 2 to 29 January. NB We will be CLOSED from 25 Dec to 1 Jan, reopening for the NIGHT SESSION ONLY on New Years Day (1/1/10)

Skate Shop - Good supplies of many skates but out-of-stock of others means you should try to get orders in ASAP (this will help ensure early delivery as we are VERY busy ATM)

Roller Hockey - Only a couple of weeks before the summer vacation!

Roller Derby - A special event will be held on Sunday morning, 6 Dec, from 11:00-1:00 (only $7 entry)

Birthday Parties (and group bookings) - Bookings are up on last year so please get in early to avoid disappointment! Also remember that bookings are still possible throughout the school/summer holidays.

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20 October

OPEN AS USUAL FOR GEELONG & MELBOURNE CUPS
- for schools & hockey - sorry no public sessions on those days

14 October

A growing economy seems like a good thing, especially for those of us in the recreational and sporting industries. We look like having 20% more hockey teams than last season for this summer comp and we should therefore cement out position as Australia's biggest independent hockey competition with those figures!

We also have had a surge in skate sales so that we are now selling over 300% more than at the same time last year and given that we were already one of Australia's top online skate shops that is quite an achievement.

Everything has a downside however and we are currently running a little behind on a few projects but we hope you can bear with us as we channel those the extra funds into new programs!

5 October

New hockey season starts today - follow the above link for more info.

Back to school for most today and back to the regular opening hours for the Centre.

Given that almost half of our staff were in Perth for the last week or two for the Skate Australia tournament, and have just got back today, things should slowly get back to "normal" soon - we hope!

3 September

Father's Day on Sunday, so just a reminder that DAD'S SKATE FREE when accompanying a paying child on the day!

Inline Roller Hockey League finals starting next week. Good luck to all and don't forget to get your teams in for next season, which starts just after the school holidays.

Speaking of school holidays, they aren't far away, so as always, extra Monday to Friday sessions will be running.

The Australian Inline Hockey Skate Australia's (R) National Inline Hockey titles are on in a few weeks (in Perth) and we are lucky enough to have representatives in the Veteran's, Senior Women's, Junior Women's, 21's, and 13's divisions. Good luck to them too!

Skate Shop sales, especially our online sales have reached mammoth proportions and we are currently awaiting new stock in some lines, although our main sellers are well stocked. We are presently selling as many skates as we normally do around Christmas time, so deliveries appear to be taking an extra day or two, to some locations. Please bear with us, as things should be back to normal very soon.

14 August

Last month has been very busy with more birthday parties, more hockey players, and more internet sales than usual. For the Centre this has been interesting as we had expected a bit of a slow-down as was the case in many other recreational businesses, so we should thank all of our customers for their on-going support - thank-you!

Further to the above we have had and will have new staff starting at the Centre to help us cope with the increased demand; welcome. As always, we will aim to maintain the best and most value service delivery to all!

3 July

School holidays are half-way finished and we are gearing up for another busy week. Nothing like going for a skate during a dreary holiday, by the look of things!

For our internet customers, this year end-of-financial-year activities have combined with the school holidays and "supplier" issues to make thing a little more hectic than usual. Don't worry things have settled down now!

For all of our customers, remember, we have started importing our own gear now and prices will be even more competitive than ever. New stock arriving soon.

11 June

School holidays are coming soon and we hope you remember that we have extra sessions over the holidays but you can still book your parties during any of our regular or extra session times.

4 June

Much has been happening over the last few weeks, but first:

Just repeating the item on our front page, on the Queen's Birthday Holiday on Monday 8 June, we open for public/general skating from 1:30-4:30 and for roller hockey, as usual.

Many changes to the world of ice and roller skating with major brands like Bauer & Mission amalgamating, and Australian importers moving back to New Zealand, and new suppliers taking over distribution of Easton ice skates.

To serve you better we will now be by-passing some of the old suppliers and importing many of our own skates so that you will get more variety, better service, and importantly LOWER PRICES!

Stay tuned...as they say (trite, but true)

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