I went bowling last night. In comparison to here in Ronneburg, bowling in Edinburgh is e x p e n s i v e. Here, we pay per lane per hour. Including shoes and car parking costs, we paid a total of 36 euros for four people to play approximately four games over a couple of hours.
In Edinburgh it's metered per person per game. For comparison, at a local Edinburgh bowling hall it costs 48 euros for four people to have three games (the maximum allowed) over two hours. Extrapolating a bit, that comes to 64 euros for the same number of games and people. To have a cheap bowling night in Britain you must have no friends and be a crap bowler.