Thanks all for your input. I got the pack on sale, and I like it. Just tested it briefly last night by building a bowling arena under the Willow Creek gym. The entrance is a separate "shed" outside, so unless the ground is a common roof, I will probably miss some auto functionality. But NPCs joined my actively bowling sims by chatting, and when my little household arrived the lot, the non-active household member rushed straight to the bowling lane and earned his first bowling skill without me directing him to go there.
I have not ye checked whether bowling is a club activity, but I do plan for some annual tournament and minimum one club will be coming up :) I will probably add a bowling hall in San Myshuno and a celebrities only in Del Sol Valley, in the cellar of a new tenant complex there (if that will work...).