How Much Do You Pay for Figure Skating Ice?

Location: Burbank, CA
Hours of ice available each week: 57 sessions a week (40 – 50 minutes per session) with an additional two sessions (45 minutes) that are “club” ice. Of the 57 sessions in the week, most are open but 3 are high elite and 3 are adult. During the summer that will change and there will be more high elite sessions (also low elite sessions) but the majority will still be open.
Contract cost/hour: We pay by punch cards at our rink – the cheapest is $7 a session if you buy 40 but they don't sell those during the summer. During the summer the cheapest rate is $9 a session if you buy 20. If you are really non-committal, you can buy 10 sessions for $100.
Contract cost/hour (home club): For “club” ice, we pay $10 for each session. It's usually less crowded than the regular freestyle sessions.
Walk-on cost/hour: $12 a session if you don't buy a punch card.
Average number of skaters/hour: (this your estimate) We probably average about 15 – 20 skaters at an after-school session but when you add in 7-10 coaches, it can get pretty crowded. Mornings are lighter (5 – 12 depending on how early you go) and middays (during school hours) are wonderful… sometimes only 6 people on the ice, including coaches! But Saturday mornings can be brutal – I think the cutoff is 25 or 26 skaters but if even half of those kids have a lesson, it can seem a lot like Grand Central Station at rush hour!!!
Other: (Comments or items that don’t fit into the categories above) Two days a week there is also a public session at our rink which is during school hours so when your school has a vacation that other kids don't have, you can even skate a public during those hours without the usual crowd. It's a great rink if you homeschool. Summer is more crowded all the time but what can you do?

i will do the two locations i skate in due to being in university
Location: (coventry, Great Britain)
Hours of ice available each week: 37 open to everyone and another 5 for elite skaters and one hour club ice
Contract cost/hour (home club): £4 per hour/$5.8 per hour
Average number of skaters/hour: (this your estimate) morning could be max 5 plus coaches but after 8am when people go to school could be 1 or 2
Other: paid by the hour to coach no need to contract the ice just turn up however it must all be paid that day for each hour

Location: (deeside, Wales, Great Britain)
Hours of ice available each week: 31.5 hours
Contract cost/hour (home club): £3.20 per session/ $4.60 per session
Average number of skaters/hour: weekday about 10/15 plus coaches weekend/after school could be upto 30 plus coaches
Other: price is per session this could be 4 hours or only 2.30 hours so price depends slightly

Location: Cape Cod, MA
Hours of ice available each week: 8 (public ice, 11-1)
Contract cost/hour (home club): $2.00 per session (11-1)
Contract cost/hour (second club):
Walk-on cost/hour:
Average number of skaters/hour: 5 or 6 adults, my 10yo. is usually the only child out there
Other: We are a homeschool family (always have been, not because of skating) and the rink we go to has a homeschool rate for their public ice. The public ice is from 11-1 while other kids are in school so there are only adult skaters on the ice when my daughter skates. Her coach comes during public skate twice a week and gives her 30min. lessons. I know our situation is unique and I know we could not afford for her to skate during the club ice or rink freestyle. So, if you want to live on Cape Cod and homeschool your child, come on over! (We do go to another rink once a week because our home rink is closed, they charge $4 for their public ice time so our total for 10 hrs. of ice time is $12 a week!!)

Location: middle of Pennsylvania

Hours of ice available each week:

Winter – approx 36 freestyle sessions (45 minutes each. Approximate because some ice frees up after hockey season in over); Summer – approx 45 freestyle sessions

11 public skating hours in winter; 6 in summer

Contract cost/hour (home club): My math is fuzzy. Yearly contract works out to about $208 per month to skate any/all sessions every month. Practically, most people top out at about 2-3 sessions a day, so skating 5 days a week, that works out to about…approx $4.50 per session if on the yearly contract?

Walk-on cost/hour: $11.00 per 45-minute session; weekday winter mornings, you can skate the entire morning for $11.00

Public ice: $4.00 for middle of weekday; $6.00 for weekend, Friday night

Average number of skaters/hour: (this your estimate)
Mornings in winter there are only 2-5 skaters on the ice at any time. Afternoons have peaks and lulls, but can top out at about 15-18 skaters. Last year, summer mornings seemed more crowded with the afternoons being less attended. Friday afternoon in the summer, the entire rink can be yours at times so bring your iPod and crank up whatever it is you like to skate to other than the usual top 40 playlist.

Other:

Our rink has freestyle ice M-F and Sat morning in the winter, M-F only in the summer.

There are a lot of rinks in our area. I think the prices at other rinks are about the same for walk-on ice, although some might give a full hour instead of 45 minutes. We recently attended a Sunday morning session at another local rink, and it was dead (in a good way ).

Location: Iowa
Hours of ice available each week: 1 hour club, 2 hours freestyle, (figure skating allowed on public, which is at least 4-5 hours everyday)
Contract cost/hour (home club): not available
Walk-on cost/hour: $9 per freestyle session, club at home rink is $4 for members, $6 for walk ons, club members get $2 discount on freestyle.
Average number of skaters/hour: 10
Other: There is a more competitive club in the area that is based at a rink with much more available freestyle time for $9/hour through the rink. The rink also offers homeschool skating time and adult skating time That club also only has 1 hour of club ice and I think it's $11. They do not offer contract ice.

Just wanted to add that when I say figure skating allowed on public I don't just mean low levels. I've seen double axels on publics. You just have to know what times the ice is empty.

Location: near St. Louis, Missouri
Hours of ice available each week: estimate 22 to 28 hours a week during the school year, Mon – Sat (Non-Club ice, our rink belongs to the city, so it runs differently than many other rinks. There are more hours of ice available in the summer.
Contract cost/hour (home club): We only belong to one club, our club doesn't have contract ice. We do have club ice for 2 hours a week, this ice time is in the evening & it is VERY crowded. It used to be $19 for two hours, now with a subsidy it is $13 for 2 hours, but this cheaper price will not last forever.
Contract cost/hour (second club):
Walk-on cost/hour: A regular city-run freestyle is $8 to $9 per hour.
Average number of skaters/hour: varies a lot depending on the time of day, could be as few as 2 all the way up to as many as 25. Average is about 10 skaters.
Other: We are fortunate that our rink offers more ice time in the summer, and sometimes there are freestyles that are an hour and a half for the same price. The bummer is that our rink has been built onto a few years ago & we now have 3 ice surfaces but the figure skaters only get to use the old rink for the most part (rolling eyes) – as we are always told it's hockey that brings in the $$$.

Location: northwest suburban Chicago
Hours of ice available each week: 6 am – 6 pm Mon – Fri, 6 am – 8 am Saturdays
Contract cost/hour (home club): we use a punch card…$125 for 10 punches (1 hour each) + 11th punch free so I guess it comes out to 11.25 an hour. Walk on rate is $16 for an hour and $9 for 30 mins
Contract cost/hour (second club): $8.50 per hour, walk on rate is $11.50/hour. This is the crappy facility across my house and there's only like 5 hours a day of ice during the week…and all ends before i get home from work. So it doesn't work for me. I usually just come here for weekend public skate.
Walk-on cost/hour: see above for both clubs.
Average number of skaters/hour: (this your estimate) my primary home rink/club: about 7 skaters during early Saturdays. More than a few times it's just me and 3 other girls. When it hits about 15 it's considered crowded I can't speak for the weekday skates coz I'm at work at this time. The crappy facility has about 15-20 and it's a smaller ice surface too
Other: (Comments or items that don’t fit into the categories above)

Also would like to add that there are a ton of rinks in the area. I only go to publics on two others. There is another one 15 minutes away, and the one where Evan Lysacek used to train (or at least it's one of his facilities) which is around the corner from my house, has a ton of ice time but I think theirs is $20 an hour or something crazy like that. That's why when my coach thought our primary rink is closing (just change of ownership) even she wouldn't want to teach there even though it's so close to my house. Public skate there is $9 just for admission and then another $7 for rental I think. I only go to public skate there too. In all fairness it is a nice facility with workout room/dance studio even indoor soccer (!)facility on the second floor. There is about 3 other rinks within a 20 minute radius from me that I haven't even ventured to try but i think the ice times on those are more reasonable. Too bad I work in downtown chicago so my commute is longer and I am dependent on the train schedule. Otherwise I would be skating a whole lot more. I do like my home club rink which is a 15 min drive on the highway, 20-25 min if we take local. It is the rink I skated in as a teen and is down the street from my mom's house. When I moved, I kept skating there cuz of my coach, despite ahving the Evan Lysacek place and the 3 other rinks by my new condo. Also it is a reason to visit mom on saturday mornings for apres skate breakfast

Are you kidding me?? To get my kid a monthly pass is $450! And during the school year, she can really only reasonably do 2 sessions a day, so it doesn't make sense.

When you all say 'contract ice'- what exactly does that mean?

Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Hours of ice available each week: 12-14 hrs daily weekdays, less a few hours sold for hockey; 12 hours daily on weekends, less a few hours for public lessons/sessions; only 6-8 hours on weekend days in summer. (Includes dance and figure skating sessions, freestyle sessions are also leveled). Rink does sell additional ice (sometimes entire weekend days, but only a few times per year) for hockey tournaments in season.
Contract cost/hour (home club): varies by contract–unlimited is $450 per skater, but other contracts can be split among family members and can be as low as $5.30 per session (50 mins) of high use, multi-skater families. Average use would work out to about $8-10 per session. There is also a $160 (per family) club membership fee.
Contract cost/hour (second club): N/A
Walk-on cost/hour: $11 for club members, $13 for guests/non-member if no contract; Additional sessions in excess of contract are $10.
Average number of skaters/hour: (this your estimate) My skater has often been the only skater on weekend afternoons; maybe 15+ on popular after school sessions
Other: (Comments or items that don’t fit into the categories above): I just learned our club is one of only 5 in country to own/operate its own rink! So over 70% of ice time is available for club figure skating/dance sessions. And Ashley Wagner trains at our rink!

Icemom: Does this make us the promised land? Should I send you the name of a good local realtor?

Location: Central PA
Hours of ice available each week: 4 freestyle hours a day (T-F) for a total of 16 per week at home rink. 6.5 per week at second rink.
Contract cost/hour (home club): You can buy 15 hours for $180 ($12 per hour) or 25 for $250 ($10) and they are good that month only. You can buy additional hours at the same price as your plan.
Contract cost/hour (second club): $11 per 45 minute session or punchcard of 12 sessions for $110
Walk-on cost/hour: $14 if you are a club member, $16 if not
Average number of skaters/hour: Between 2-7 mornings, 5-15 afternoons.
Other: We are a fairly small club with only 30 active members and two ice rinks in the same town (less then 15minutes) and I can drive 30-45 minutes and be at one of 4 other rinks where ice is between $11-$15 walk on rate.

Uh-oh…I hope our rink's management isn't reading this!

Yes, even at the low price, it's tough with school etc. for the yearly plan to make sense financially for a lot of people. There is a different month-by-month rate which is a bit higher.

Contract ice: this is ice where skaters check off the club freestyle ice sessions they want for the next month in advance and pay in advance. Our club sends out a contract so we know how many skaters we have on each session, which sessions are full, and how much money we're short for the month.

Walk-on ice: Skaters can walk on to club freestyle sessions that aren't full.

Punch card ice: The rink organizes this freestyle ice. Skaters purchase a punch card for maybe 10 freestyle sessions. Skaters come to the ice whenever the rink has a session and they present their punch card. Skaters can also pay at the time they walk on to the punch card session, but it's usually at a higher rate.

Location: Eastern England
Hours of ice available each week: approx. 25 hours a week but it changes depending on what time of year it is and school holidays and also if the ice is being used for something else (e.g. covered over for a concert or used for a touring ice show) it can be as little as 10 hours a week
Contract cost/hour: £7 or $10.08 per hour
Walk-on cost/hour: We don't have this- all ice must be prebooked at least 12 hours in advance but we do get free public sessions that you can just go on at a moments notice
Average number of skaters/hour: depends on the time of day, weekends are busier than school evenings or mornings but there has to be at least 2 skaters and there's a maximum of 25 on the ice at any one time. I'd say the average is probably 15 but I don't know how big other people's rinks are but the ice here is larger than any other rinks I've been to so everyone's pretty spread out and you have plenty of room even on full ice.
Other: I don’t think we have 'contract ice' or 'walk on ice', you can book ice time months, weeks or even days in advance but as I said with public ice, you can go on whenever you want for free.

Location: (can be club, city, state, region, or country) Upper Midwest (U.S.)
Hours of ice available each week: 14
Contract cost/hour (home club): $11
Contract cost/hour (second club): $12
Walk-on cost/hour: $14
Average number of skaters/hour: (this your estimate) 18 – 20 in the evening; 12-14 at 6 a.m.
Other: (Comments or items that don’t fit into the categories above) We also have some punch card ice available at another rink. $10 = 1 hour. A punch card of 10 sessions = $90

Location: East Coast
Hours of ice available each week: As of now, only six per week, and they're all early morning. But never fear– we're getting more!
Contract cost/hour (home club): 15 per hour
Contract cost/hour (second club): There's only one rink near my house, and no clubs, so this doesn't really apply…
Walk-on cost/hour: Same– 15
Average number of skaters/hour: (this your estimate) Well….at the most, 10. But More like 5 or 6.

That's it, Jozet! We're moving in! Clean out your guest bedroom!

Location: England UK
Hours of ice available each week: About 30? All ice is walk on at my rink – or you can pay monthly/yearly to the city council for ALL of its recreation facilities – although this pays for itself if you skate twice or more per week.
Walk-on cost/hour: £1.80 – $2.74 roughly- although at my rink they charge per session, with a flat rate for all of them, so cost per hour would vary Morning sessions, if you stayed from 6:45 to 10 (!), would have 3 hours of ice time because of the ice cut, whilst most sessions have about 1h30 or 1h45 of ice time.
Average number of skaters/hour: anything from 4 to 30, mostly more empty in the mornings whilst it's dark outside in the winter, and more crowded after school, but it fluctuates depending on which coaches are in – as some have lots of lower level short lessons, and others only have one or two higher level skaters on each session. There are quite dramatic differences between after school ice day to day as I have seen 35 skaters on Monday and then 4 on Thursday so it really depends…
Other: This is the only rink I use, and although it can be really crowded, its always worth going for the off chance it'll be deserted, once it was only me and my friend on the ice for a whole hour! It's very convenient to get to for me, especially since my parents won't drive and don't encorage my skating – I can just cycle and it only takes 20 – 30 minutes. It's great during the holidays in the morning, when you can go the whole session with only about 7 skaters in total!

There's an entire rink that they take down during the summer. It has a dance studio and weight room plus trampolines. (Whoo hoo! Tampolines!) I'm playing the lottery to see if I can fund my elite summer ice camp dream.

Location: Anchorage, AK
We don't have contract ice and all the rinks are open for all skaters. The best deal is at the University. Children under 12 are $3 ($2.25 when you buy punchcard). Adults are $5 ($4/session with punchcard).
Open Skate – 6:30am – 8:00am M-F
12:00pm – 1:45 pm M-F
8:15pm – 10:00pm Friday
1:30pm – 2:45 pm Sat & Sun
Freestyle 10:15am – 11:45am M-Th
Municipal Rinks are $9 per freestyle session and have at least 21 45 minute sessions/week. Early morning and afternoon M-F.

A Private Rink has 4 to 6 one hour long freestyle sessions per day M-F for $8, $7.30 if you buy the punchcard. This rink is possibly the coldest place on Earth!

There is another rink that is about 15 miles away that we don't go to.

There seems to be enough ice time that the most I have seen on the ice at any given time is 20. Usually there is a lot less than that.

Location: (can be club, city, state, region, or country) Upper (way upper) Midwest
Hours of ice available each week:Oct-March 7-10 hours per week but very late for young children, April-September 6 hours per week with great times
Contract cost/hour (home club): Oct-March you pay for the flat fee of $400 to the club and it is only open to club members, April-September $8/hour
Contract cost/hour (second club):
Walk-on cost/hour: $10/hour
Average number of skaters/hour: (this your estimate) Oct-March 12-18, April-September 5-15
Other: (Comments or items that don’t fit into the categories above) We are the only rink in within in a 60 miles radius to keep year round ice so we are lucky. Downside is lack of consistent coaching so we need to travel for the majority of dd's coaching.

And the main reason I wish there was a pass available (monthly or what have you) is so that I wouldn't feel like I had to be so draconian with jumpingbean about exactly what time she is on and off the ice- we arrive at 3:40 and so we wait until 4 so it is a FULL session for a FULL ticket, we make her stay on until exactly 5:50, when some days a little more is good and some days a little less.

Location: Silver Blades Overland Park KS
Hours of ice available each week: 36 hours a week
Contract cost/hour (home club): $11
Contract cost/hour (second club): $11
Walk-on cost/hour: $13
Average number of skaters/hour: About 10ish on daytime. Early morning is crazy busy. like this morning there had to be 35 people there. if you go after 9 its really empty!
Other: Everyone is really nice, follows the rules, ice is made every hour.

From Karen in the UAE:

Cannot fill in your form as in UAE there are not so many options; ie no patch or training ice apart from group skate for 2 hours per week!

the rest is done on public sessions so about 7 hours a day available – you just don't know until you get there if there will be busloads of school kids on a trip (45 degrees outside = teachers' idea of heaven!)

2 hour public session is 6.8 dollars US

30 min private lesson is 27.23 USD

1 hour club skate is 17 dollars

Location: (can be club, city, state, region, or country) Rolling Meadows, IL (rinks belong to the park district, one is mostly used for hockey)
Hours of ice available each week: varies, but I'd say 4-6 hours a day
Contract cost/hour (home club): $4.50 for half hour, $8 per (fifty minute) hour
Walk-on cost/hour: $5.50 per half hour, $90 per (fifty minute) hour; punch cards are also $5.50 per half hour (used for convenience, not because they offer a discount)
Average number of skaters/hour: Today there were two of us, but its not uncommon to see 20+ skaters
Other: According to the summer schedule there are freestyle sessions reserved for beginners through Delta, FS1 and up, and FS5 and up, but most are undesignated. Its possible you might have to be enrolled in lessons there (either group or private) to be able to participate in walk on/ freestyle sessions, but there are public skate sessions on Friday night, Saturday and Sunday afternoons that are open to anyone. You can buy an annual pass that lets you in to all the public skate sessions.

forgot to say in coventry there is a month pass for £65 or $94 a month and in deeside there is a monthly pass for patch and public which is £29 or $42 per month

Location: Northwest Missouri
Hours of ice available each week: 9 hours freestyle, M-F afternoons (hockey is the money maker and gets most of the time)
Contract cost/hour (home club): N/A
Contract cost/hour (second club): N/A
Walk-on cost/hour: $7/hour
Average number of skaters/hour: 2-4 unless there is a competition or test in the next 2-3 weeks, then there could be 10
Other: Our rink is closed for about half the summer, so we drive to a rink 50 minutes away where the freestyle is $10/hour. But for the last couple of weeks that rink was closed too, so we drove to a rink about 75 minutes away for $12/hour. It is a bit crowded with all the skaters coming from the closed rinks.

Location: (can be club, city, state, region, or country)
Hours of ice available each week:
Contract cost/hour (home club):
Contract cost/hour (second club):
Walk-on cost/hour:
Average number of skaters/hour: (this your estimate)
Other: (Comments or items that don’t fit into the categories above)

Location: (can be club, city, state, region, or country)Massachusetts
Hours of ice available each week:3
Contract cost/hour (home club):$12
Contract cost/hour (second club):$12
Walk-on cost/hour:$15
Average number of skaters/hour: (this your estimate)10
Other: (Comments or items that don’t fit into the categories above)

Location: Reston Skatequest (Northern VA)
Hours of ice available each week: 6 give or take (but I wish it were soooo much more)
Contract cost/hour (home club): We have a swipe card that gives you the rate of $10/session (40 minutes)
Contract cost/hour (second club): n/a
Walk-on cost/hour: 12/session
Average number of skaters/hour: (this your estimate) Various depending on which session. First AM session (about 5:30 or so) will have 4 skaters to about 10 skaters, will increase as the day goes on. I think the most am skaters I have seen is 15.
Other: (Comments or items that don’t fit into the categories above)

Ooops…I totally mis-read question number 2. The hours of ice available are: 57.5 hours or so…some days are longer than others and sometimes there are saturday and sunday sessions. There are more sessions now since school is getting out.

Location:Pacific Coast Region
Hours of ice available each week:about 60 freestyle
Contract cost/session (home club):punch cards; range from $7.50 to $9 or so. walk on $10/session (shorter than an hour), the more you buy, the cheaper it gets. No contract ice.
Contract cost/hour (second club): $8 walk on, $7.50/hour punch card, $6.50 club member punch card
Average number of skaters/session:about 12 mornings, can be as low as 1 during mid day, more crowded in the afternoons, maybe 15-20? 1st club rink
Other:coaching fees run $80/hr
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Members of the Ymca where our home rink is…..Free! (open ice times only) Freestyle will cost you $10 for 3hrs. Or 12 times for $100 (I think that is the non member price, may be cheaper for members)

Open ice only has around 10 skaters at a time. Freestyle has maybe 3 at a time. The rink is state of the art by my book and is only a few years old. It's really a missed opprotunity for our city. It should be used so much more!

Location: Vancouver, Canada
Hours of ice available each week: About 30 – it depends on the season. This is what it is during the spring (our schedules work around school). There's more in the summer.
Contract cost/hour (home club): We have several different sessions for different levels (not counting CanSkate, which is our Learn to Skate, because you can't walk on to that):

Junior (no test – prelim), Intermediate (up to pre novice), Senior (pre novice up), Open (all), and dance sessions for the four.

An hour-long junior session with no stroking, edges, or spin patches (15 minutes added as instruction to the entire session) is $8. An hour-long intermediate session is about $8.5. An hour-long senior session is about $10. They're paid for the ENTIRE season, so during spring, a skater who's working on doubles would pay $78 to skate once a week for ice time.

Contract cost/hour (second club): n/a
Walk-on cost/hour: Look above We pay $8 for junior, etc.
Average number of skaters/hour: 10. ~25 is the maximum.
Other: During winter, there are a lot of walk-on sessions available at other rinks (not within clubs, though). They're rare during spring and summer. Weekend ones, particularly.

Location: Greater Boston, Mass
Hours of ice available each week: 25+ across 10+ rinks w/n 20 miles of each other
Contract cost/hour (home club): 13
Contract cost/hour (second club): 12
Walk-on cost/hour: 10 to 18 depending on club
Average number of skaters/hour: Varies widely by club and time of day but in the summer it can be as low as 2 even on the 10$ ice.
Other: We are fortunate to have many rinks within a reasonable (20 mile drive) with free-style ice. Weekends are difficult regardless of season due to hockey. One trend we are seeing is more MOVES ice time.

Subway is cold, just gotta get used to it :}

The ice fees at our rink are based on resident or nonresident because we skate at a city owned ice rink. The fee is also based on if you prepay for ice time or if you do drop in sessions. If you prepay for ice the sessions for nonresidents is $9.00 per 50 mins and $4.50 per 30 min session. If you do drop in ice the ice fee is $12.00 for a 50 min session and $6.00 for a 30 min session. We can also purchase punch cards that have 6 sessions per card. The punch cards are $57.00 for a 50 min punch card and $37.00 for a 30 min punch card.

I also ice monitor at our rink and this allows me to receive coupons for free ice time. I can use the coupons to pay for prepaid ice time or for drop in ice time. I do a lot of ice monitoring so I usually receive enough coupons to pay for about 2 weeks of ice time and only have to actually pay for 2 weeks of ice time. My daughter usually skates 6 days a week for about 2 50 min sessions per day. I also purchase punch cards for the times I have to pay for ice time. I purchase about 4 punch cards for 1 month of ice time. I buy 3 50 min punch cards and 1 30 min punch card. This adds up to about $208.00 per month.

I have been very blessed however. My daughter has been off from skating for about 4 months due to injury and I have continued to ice monitor while she has not been skating and so I have been holding onto all of my coupons and I think I may have enough coupons to pay for all of my daughters summer ice and hopefully I will receive enough coupons over the summer to pay for at least half of her fall/winter sessions.

If your rink offers you the opportunity to volunteer to offset ice fees I highly recommend doing whatever possible to reduce your ice fee payments.

During the fall/winter season we have about 20 hours of freeskate ice. During the summer our rink has about 24 hours of freeskate ice. The number of skaters per session in the morning during fall/winter sessoins, is between 1-7 skaters. The number of skaters during an afternoon session during the fall/winter sessions is between 5-20 skaters depending on how late in the afternoon the session is that you are skating on. The later afternoon sessions have the most skaters. During the summer sessions mid morning ice times have the most skaters and the number of skaters during these time is about the same as during the late afternoon ice time during the fall/winter sessions. Hope this helps! Season

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Location: NW Ohio, but skate in Ohio and MI
Hours of ice available each week: about 10hours Ohio, too many to count- MI
Contract cost/hour (home club): $6 per 1 hour session, $14 per 50 min session with punchcard
Contract cost/hour (second club):
Walk-on cost/hour:$8/ $18
Average number of skaters/hour: less than 10/20 skaters (this your estimate)
Other:We are in a unique situation. The rink five minutes from our house does not have a skating club. We joined a skating club 45 minutes from home. We try to use the cheap close to home ice as much as possible. This year my daughter went to half day kindergarten and we would go to open skate at $2 a session and the ice was fairly empty. (Comments or items that don’t fit into the categories above)

Haha OK I think you'll be really jealous . I'm a skater from Singapore. We don't have freestyle sessions here, so us skater skate on public sessions, because skating's a minority sport, not many people do it. Which isn't too bad, since the ice is usually dry 90% of the time and you just have to avoid the peak hours. They charge SGD 7.40 or USD 5.30 for 2h, but rule enforcement is quite lax at our rink, so many skaters I know stay the whole day.

Location: Smaller city, Midwest
Hours of ice available each week: 10ish
Contract cost/hour (home club):$9.50
Contract cost/hour (second club):None available
Walk-on cost/hour:$10.50
Average number of skaters/hour:12 (max. 22)
Other:We have a minimum contract amount per month, whether you skate or not.

IceMom
where I live there are many rinks and few Clubs. So the ice is mostly sold by the rinks…. Contract ice is usually sold for a group of weeks similar to semesters at school. AT some rinks the purchase of contract ice is a requirement to skate in the Ice Show.

I'm a skater from Hong Kong and us skaters skate public sessions It's about $25HKD on Weekdays ($3USD) for the whole day -12 1/2 hours.
Weekends it's $40 HKD ($5 USD) for the afternoon session. ;D

Location: greensboro nc usa
Hours of ice available each week: they have one average 2 sesions every day,
Contract cost/hour (summit skate club):</b 12$ for member, 18$ for walk on, 100-140 to join prob not 100, prob not 140, somewhere in the middle
Average number of skaters/hour: public, 15-25 on a good day 35-40 bad day(very,very,very rare, only saw that many people once) dont realy know about summit, im gonna say 15-32
Other: good ice, barely rough, can do jumps and spin anywhere, the people dont care, good food, pro shop is good (just dont buy skates and gardes)

oh for hours I'd say 40-50

Location: Malaysia/Singapore
Hours of ice available each week:As long as the rink is open. There's usually no freestyle session, it's all public session in bothe the countries.
Contract cost/hour (home club):n/a
Contract cost/hour (second club):n/a
Walk-on cost/hour:3.98 USD per entry on weekdays or 5.51 USD on weekends in Malaysia, 9.29 USD/2 hours in Singapore.
Punch card ice:3.06 USD per entry in Malaysia, 5.72 USD/2hours in SIngapore
Average number of skaters/hour: 20 for morning session, 30 for afternoon sessions (very crowded so I usually skate in the mornings)

At my rink theres developemental ice in the mornings for $5. its between 1 1/2 hrs. and 3 hrs. The busiest its ever been when i was there was when it was me two coaches and one other coach watching. But its at 6 am…… the only person that isn’t a fan of the time is… MY MOM!

At my rink theres developemental ice in the mornings for $5. its between 1 1/2 hrs. and 3 hrs. The busiest its ever been when i was there was when it was me two coaches and one other coach watching. But its at 6 am…… the only person that isn't a fan of the time is… MY MOM!

Location: Korea University Ice Rink; Seoul, South Korea.
Hours of ice available each week: 28 (no freestyle sessions- only public sessions 2-6pm, but they’re never crowded after 4pm).
Walk-on cost/hour: 5,000won ($4.23) for the whole 4 hour session. If you come at 5pm or later, you don’t have to pay.
Average number of skaters/hour: 2-4pm: 15-20 freestyle skaters; 4-6pm: 2-10 freestyle skaters.
Comments: Another rink farther away from my house is Mokdong International Rink…it’s actually cheaper (about $1.50 for a walk-on), and they do offer freestyle sessions, but I don’t know the price.

Location: Korea University Ice Rink; Seoul, South Korea.
Hours of ice available each week: 28 (no freestyle sessions- only public sessions 2-6pm, but they’re never crowded after 4pm).
Walk-on cost/hour: 5,000won ($4.23) for the whole 4 hour session. If you come at 5pm or later, you don’t have to pay.
Average number of skaters/hour: 2-4pm: 15-20 freestyle skaters; 4-6pm: 2-10 freestyle skaters.
Comments: Another rink farther away from my house is Mokdong International Rink…it’s actually cheaper (about $1.50 for a walk-on), and they do offer freestyle sessions, but I don’t know the price.

Lyndon, Vermont
US Figure Skating Club
Head Coach has won a gold medal in the Olympics
1 day/week (8 weeks each session (2 sessions))
45 minutes
$40.00 per session (+$10.00 per season for club membership)

Bridge Classes: Only 5 students 1 day/week, $22.00 (this class is optional)

Location: greensboro nc, sumit figure skating club
Hours of ice available each week: 6 hours a day
Contract cost/hour (home club): it is 4.50 for 30 minutes (9.00 for and hour)
Contract cost/hour (second club):for club ice it 11.00 for 1 hour and 30 minutes (for non-club members it 16.00)
Walk-on cost/hour: 4.50 (you save if you bu a card for 77.50 with 20 30 minute freestyle sessions on it)
Average number of skaters/hour: (this your estimate) 0-12(AVERAGE)-15(rare)
Other: our city hosted the national figure skating championships this year and it knocked up alot of figure skating buzz but it has died down since