Chelsea Piers Ice Skating

Chelsea Piers offers a bevy of sports activities for both adults and children from ice skating, to ice hockey to gymnastics to basketball and so much more. During the winter break, my daughter had the opportunity to take an ice skating lesson at the Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers. The teacher Ms. Nancy was just wonderful with my daughter, super patient showing her all the moves necessary to ensure her safety. It’s obvious she has a lot of experience teaching kids. She has wonderful disposition and was super patient.

My daughter has been ice skating approximately twice but having a lesson really improved her form. She had a ton of fun and was able to put into practice all she learned in the next 2 -1/2 hours of free skate (that’s right, 2 – 1/2 hours.)

For the record, I have never even stepped foot in the Sky Rink let alone be able to locate it so I was interested in checking out the facility in general. The Sky Rink is enclosed, who knew?  Smart, no?  Mind you, as the non-skater standing for the entire 2 1/2 hours, I was cold.

And while we went on a day that the schools were closed, I never felt that the rink was crowded. There was plenty of room for everyone to skate. Also, there were plenty of Sky Rink kids skating around keeping an eye out on the kids who fell.

There is also an indoor area right as you enter the Sky Rink where you can get food and hot drinks or plain relax or warm up.

I would so recommend checking it out and in fact, we are both going to sign up for lessons. It’s time I learned to skate or at least, move slowly around the rink.

The Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers for schedule, admission prices and lessons.

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