The SAFRA bowling rate in 2026 starts at $4.30 a game for members at SuperBowl and $4.50 a game at Sonic Bowl, against $5.50 to $6.50 for the walk-in public. SAFRA runs two separate bowling brands at its clubhouses, and they price differently, so the cheaper option depends on which clubhouse is near you and whether you go before or after 6pm. Below are the per-game and per-hour rates verified against SAFRA's own pages as of June 2026, plus the one calculation that decides whether flashing a SAFRA card actually saves you money or whether you would bowl cheaper somewhere else entirely.
SAFRA does not run one bowling alley with one price list. It runs two brands across five clubhouses, and the member discount is built into the lane fee rather than applied at the till. Sonic Bowl sits at Yishun, Choa Chu Kang and Punggol. SuperBowl sits at Mount Faber, Tampines and Toa Payoh. Same operator, different rate cards.
For a single game, members pay from $4.30 at SuperBowl and from $4.50 at Sonic Bowl. The public pays $5.50 to $6.50 depending on the day and time. That gap, roughly a dollar to two dollars a game, is the whole reason people ask what the SAFRA bowling rate is before turning up.
The catch most price guides skip: the member rate is only as good as the membership behind it. A SAFRA card costs money, so the rate only beats the open market once you have bowled enough games to clear that fee. We work that break-even out further down, and you can sanity-check it yourself with the monthly budget calculator.
Sonic Bowl is the SAFRA bowling brand most people mean when they search the rate, partly because Yishun is one of the bigger family clubhouses. As of June 2026 the per-game card runs as below, and members get the discount baked into the lane price rather than as a percentage off at the counter.
Off-peak generally covers weekday daytime; peak covers evenings, weekends and public holidays. Students get the cheapest off-peak rate of the three tiers, but their peak rate jumps to the full $6.50, so a student bowling on a Saturday night pays the same as a walk-in adult.
| Tier | Per game off-peak | Per game peak | Per hour off-peak | Per hour peak |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAFRA member | $4.50 | $5.50 | $24 | $36 |
| Public | $5.50 | $6.50 | $30 | $42 |
| Student | $4.00 | $6.50 | $18 | $42 |
Sonic Bowl opens 11am to 11pm Sunday to Thursday and on public holidays, and stays open to 1am on Fridays, Saturdays and eves of public holidays. Cosmic hour, the glow-in-the-dark night session, carries its own rate of $44 per hour for the public and $38 for members.
SuperBowl is the other SAFRA bowling brand, and its member rate is the lowest single-game price in the SAFRA stable at $4.30, but only on a weekday before 6pm. After 6pm and all weekend, members pay $4.80 and the public pays $6.00.
If your only goal is the rock-bottom SAFRA bowling rate, a SuperBowl lane on a weekday afternoon is the answer. For an evening or weekend game the two brands land within twenty cents of each other, so proximity to the clubhouse matters more than the rate card.
| Time band | Member per game | Member per hour | Public per game | Public per hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon-Fri, 12pm-6pm | $4.30 | $24.00 | $5.50 | $30.00 |
| Mon-Fri, 6pm-close | $4.80 | $36.00 | $6.00 | $42.00 |
| Sat, Sun, PH & eve of PH | $4.80 | $36.00 | $6.00 | $42.00 |
Per-game pricing hides the extras. A first-timer who turns up with nothing pays for the game plus $2 shoes plus $2 socks, so a member's $4.50 game is really $8.50 the first time. Bring your own socks and you knock $2 off every future visit, which is the single easiest saving here.
Per-hour pricing is the better deal once you have three or more bowlers on a lane, because a lane runs continuously and everyone shares the clock. As a rough rule, a hour of off-peak SuperBowl ($24 member) beats per-game pricing once your group plays more than five total games inside that hour.
Worked example: two SAFRA members bowling two games each at Sonic Bowl off-peak is 4 games x $4.50 = $18, plus one pair of rented shoes at $2 if one person brings their own, landing around $20 for two people. The same two as walk-in public pay 4 x $5.50 = $22 for the lane alone. The member edge on a small session is real but modest, which is exactly why the membership maths below matters.
This is the question the rate card cannot answer on its own. A 2-year Ordinary A or B2 SAFRA membership costs $87.20 with GST as of June 2026, which works out to about $43.60 a year or $3.63 a month. Full-time NSFs get membership free, so for them the member rate is simply free money.
For everyone paying the fee, the bowling saving per game is roughly $1.00 to $1.20 against the public rate. To recover $87.20 on bowling alone you would need to bowl around 75 to 85 games over the two years, or about 38 to 43 games a year. That is doable for a regular bowler but a stretch for someone who goes a few times a year.
The honest framing: nobody buys SAFRA membership purely for cheaper bowling. The card also discounts gym, swimming pools, F&B and movie tickets, and those stack. If you are weighing it up, treat bowling as one line in a wider value calculation rather than the deciding factor, and read our full breakdown in the SAFRA membership cost guide. If you bowl rarely, the public rate or a cheaper non-SAFRA alley wins.
If your goal is just the lowest possible per-game price regardless of brand, our cheapest bowling in Singapore guide compares SAFRA against Westwood Bowl, the chains and the civil-service alleys, where non-members can sometimes beat the SAFRA member rate outright.
The cheapest SAFRA game in 2026 is a SuperBowl lane on a weekday between 12pm and 6pm at the member rate of $4.30. Everything else is more expensive, so timing beats brand loyalty. A few moves shave the bill further.
For SAFRA members, one game starts at $4.30 at SuperBowl on a weekday before 6pm and $4.50 at Sonic Bowl off-peak. The walk-in public pays $5.50 to $6.50 depending on the brand, day and time, with shoes and socks adding $2 each on top.
No. Anyone can bowl at SAFRA alleys at the public rate without a membership. The lower member rate only applies if you show a valid SAFRA card before payment, so non-members simply pay the higher published public price.
Bowling itself is not free, but full-time NSFs receive complimentary SAFRA membership, which means they automatically qualify for the discounted member bowling rate of $4.30 to $5.50 per game without paying any membership fee.
Both are SAFRA-operated bowling brands but at different clubhouses with different rate cards. Sonic Bowl is at Yishun, Choa Chu Kang and Punggol; SuperBowl is at Mount Faber, Tampines and Toa Payoh. SuperBowl has the single lowest member rate at $4.30 a weekday game.
Off-peak generally covers weekday daytime hours, roughly noon to 6pm, when both Sonic Bowl and SuperBowl charge their lowest per-game rates. Peak covers weekday evenings, weekends and public holidays, when the rate rises by about a dollar a game.
This is general financial information for Singapore, not personal financial advice. Figures change — verify current rates against the official sources above before acting. See our full disclaimer.