General Information & Bathroom Lowdown:
With a great view of the Fore River, amenities of a ski lodge, and directly off of 295, Thompson’s Point Ice Rink is a fantastic spot to take your family to for ice skating. With 2-hour skating sessions going from 9am-9pm, on most days, you will be sure to find a session that works for you. Be sure to follow them on social media for more information about fun events at the rink. I can imagine the upcoming Taylor Swift Music Night will be a big hit there!
Tickets can be purchased online or at the rink. Skate rentals (toddler size 8 to adult 13) are available and can be purchased at the rink ONLY.
You will also find food and beverages available for purchase. Think all things hot! Hot cocoa, hot pretzels, hot dogs, etc. You will also find a robust adult beverage line up, if that also interests you.
Parking is available at and close by to the rink. Plan to pay $2/hour for parking anywhere on Thompson’s Point. ‘
With a heated tent with cubbies, a separate, non-heated viewing area, and outdoor picnic tables, there are plenty of areas to leave your belongings.
WinterKids Ambassador Tip: Be sure to secure your valuables when leaving items in public areas! Also, label or mark gear with your family name, initials, symbol, etc. as it’s easy to accidentally grab someone else’s gear.
You will find sex-separated bathrooms with a family bathroom as well. These bathrooms are located close to the heated tent.
Thompson’s Point Ice Rink is also a WinterKids Passport location! Children 17 and younger can skate FREE! And…you are able to use the WinterKids Passport up to TWO times here!
To use your Passport here, plan to purchase tickets AT THE RINK. Note: WinterKids is working with Thompson’s Point Ice Rink to allow Passport Holders to purchase tickets online and use the Passport during online check out. Stay tuned for an update.
Thompson’s Point Ice Rink allows for children 4 and under to skate for free as well!
With ever-changing winter conditions and the potential for sessions to sell out, always check their Instagram before heading out!
WinterKids Ambassador Tip: Be sure to snap a couple of pictures of your adventures and upload them to WinterKids to be in the running to win some free gift cards to businesses like LL Bean and Kittery Trading Post!
Our Adventure:
We headed out to Thompson’s Point on New Year’s Day and found that many other families had the same idea! We also found other families using the WinterKids Passport and had some sweet moments chatting with them about that. #community
We checked in at the ticket counter to buy tickets and some rentals for my husband. The staff were incredibly kind as I had a hard time loading my WinterKids App. They trusted I had a working Passport and passes still available to use. In these moments, I’m always reminded this is what makes living in our great state of Maine AMAZING!
WinterKids Ambassador Tip: Only redeem your FREE/DISCOUNTED passes when you are at the ticket counter, not beforehand. If this changes for Thompson’s Point Ice Rink, I will let you know.
We headed to the heated tent area to gear up and found lots of open cubbies available to put shoes and bags in. Once the skates were laced, my daughter and husband headed out to the rink. I was sitting this one out as I am still rehabbing my left arm from my surgeries this summer.
What I LOVE about the Thompson’s Point Ice Rink the MOST are these ice skate trainers available for kids. There are plenty of them to use and it makes skating around the rink more enjoyable for most kids.
We decided to bring our lunches to the rink for this outing. Bringing lunches and cocoa on our adventures is an easy way to keep these activities budget-friendly. We could have easily spent around $60 for lunch and cocoa at the rink. However, by bringing these things from home, we only spent $13. And…it makes “splurging” on some hot pretzels, like we did, not break the bank.
Note: Our Stanley Thermos, is our favorite cocoa vessel!
With some snow and wind gusts that were NOT forecasted for that day, my daughter was living her best life and we stayed for the entire two-hour session!
Note: It can get a bit breezy on this rink. Plan to bring extra layers, face buffs, etc. to stay warm out there!
Cost:
Important things to note about the cost breakdown below:
The WinterKids Passport program costs $40/family. We are planning on doing ten outings this winter, so I divided the cost of the passport by our intended number of outings. This is how I incorporated the cost of the passport below.
I will be using the government mileage rate to determine the cost of each trip.
Also, in full transparency, as a WinterKids Ambassador, I was gifted the Passport so while this “fee” isn’t a true cost to my family, I wanted to represent the truest depiction of an outing cost as possible.
- Ice Skate Tickets: 1 Adult: $12, 1 Child: $0
- Rentals: $6
- Mileage: $14.50
- Parking: $4
- Lunch & Cocoa brought from Home: $13
- Snacks @ Rink: $10
- Passport Program “Fee”: $4
Total Cost: $63.50
For more on our Winter Adventures, as well as all of other adventures, check out my posts on Instagram and Facebook.
Thank you for reading this blog on The Wandering Chickadee!
~Natalie