Chuck E Cheese's

I've been here the past 4 years for my nephews birthday. I really think it's great for ALL ages. Even the grown men in our group had a blast with the basketball, football & skeeball games..they won a bunch of tickets for the kids to pick out some fun stuff at the ticket booth. Sign up online for their email list and get coupons and specials for game tokens, party packages, etc.

They monitor closely as kids/adults come & go to be sure no children leave with the wrong adult. Thought that was great!

The pizza is good..I mean, I'm a fan of almost all pizza, but I've never heard any complaints from the rest of our group & we're always having to order more. This year I gave up pizza for lent so tried out their salad bar and it far exceeded my expectations..fresh lettuce, wide variety of toppings, and multiple yummy dressings. Also had some of their chicken nuggets and those were good too. I was surprised to see they have glasses of wine on the menu..I think beer too. Overall decent menu for a "kid's" place.

I easily get grossed out by dirty smelly places (who doesn't!?) and was pleasantly surprised at how nice & clean (& smell free!) they manage to keep this place. *MINUS the tunnel that runs across the ceiling..that is just brutal! I took my nephew through there once and swore I'd never do that again.

I had my son's birthday party here this past weekend and was less than thrilled. I should have known better than having a party here on a Saturday afternoon. So many kids you could barely move, kids running around without supervision, waiting in line for games,etc. My party host was awful and hard to find. I was irritated and annoyed when the adult food came out after the kids pizza and cake was served. I also ordered a pinata that was done in the last 10-15 minutes of the party and was done in between 2 tables where the kids could barely enjoy the fun. I will never have another party here and after this experience I will likely not go back to this location.

We come here pretty frequently.  It's the closest location to us in the NW suburbs, though sometimes we venture out to the Arl Hts (Dundee Rd) location.

Over the last couple of summers, we'd come about 2-4 times a month.  Haven't been here though, since August this year.  We went last night and what a big change!

Seems like they did a complete overhaul of the interior of the arcade.  Been here often enough in the past that I can tell you the exact layout of all the previous games and kid attractions, but it's all been updated now...I assume to coincide with the redesign of Chuck E Cheese himself (yes, they updated and modernized him).

Still the same good stuff - entrance/exit is monitored.  Everyone in your party has their hand stamped with the same number (special ink only visible under black-light), and hand stamps are checked upon exit.  Pizza/Salad Bar are decent, at least for a kids' palette.  Ice cream vending machine.  Kid-Friendly restrooms, etc.

We've gotten to know the staff here and they recognize us as well.  They are always friendly and helpful.

Back to the arcade - lots of new stuff and keeps it exciting for the kids.  One of the newest games is Fruit Ninja on a huge touch-screen monitor.  Still have the usual suspects as well, Skeeball, Basketball/Hoops, Carousel (but a new one), the climbing structure in the middle.  All games are a token (roughly 22 to 25 cents each depending on what token package you purchase).  Most games offer tickets for playing (higher the score, higher the tickets).  They also have a section for smaller kids/toddlers.  My kids' faves are skeeball, carousel, whack-a-mole, and any the photo 'games' that spit out black & white photos or picture cards.

This location is pretty good at keeping the place clean (enough).  Hard task given all the kids running amok, but I do notice staff wiping tables/games/rides down.

If you get the Sunday paper, look out for the coupons they offer every so often in the weekly circulars.  It's a bargain if you use the tokens coupons.  Or, sign up for the email list and you can get coupons there as well.  $20 (shared/split among my 3 and 5 year old) buys us about 1-1.5 hours here on average....though, they could definitely spend many more hours here than that!