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.
Review Source:We come here pretty frequently. Â 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. Â Haven't been here though, since August this year. Â We went last night and what a big change!
Seems like they did a complete overhaul of the interior of the arcade. Â 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. Â 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. Â Pizza/Salad Bar are decent, at least for a kids' palette. Â Ice cream vending machine. Â Kid-Friendly restrooms, etc.
We've gotten to know the staff here and they recognize us as well. Â They are always friendly and helpful.
Back to the arcade - lots of new stuff and keeps it exciting for the kids. Â One of the newest games is Fruit Ninja on a huge touch-screen monitor. Â Still have the usual suspects as well, Skeeball, Basketball/Hoops, Carousel (but a new one), the climbing structure in the middle. Â All games are a token (roughly 22 to 25 cents each depending on what token package you purchase). Â Most games offer tickets for playing (higher the score, higher the tickets). Â They also have a section for smaller kids/toddlers. Â 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). Â 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. Â It's a bargain if you use the tokens coupons. Â Or, sign up for the email list and you can get coupons there as well. Â $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!
Chuck E. Cheese a kids casino!!!
I'm a fan, anywhere I can go and take my boys to run around and be kids in the winter time if good to me. I am not a germ a phobe mom, or do I expect kiss *ss service at a place like this. (Hand sanitizer is provided, use it) I only expect that the equipment and games work, and that there is enough fun things for my kids to partake. I send both kids off with $5 worth of tokens and they trade in there tickets for made-in-China crap and everyone is happy. We don't typically eat here, uh why would you? My boys have eaten here for parties, and of course the food was terrible and overpriced, I wouldn't have expected it to be anything less.
Good points, not everyone can walk in. There is always a person at the door that stamps each groups hands to ensure they only leave with the kids they came in with, makes me smile! There are typically booths or tables parents can sit at instead of aimlessly chasing after there crazed child who is distracted by flashing lights. So bring a water bottle, snack, and some ear phones to listen to your favorite tunes and chill out while your kids go ape-sh*t.
As usual, this place is different from when I was a kid!
Good points:
**The stamp that you get when you walk in so they make sure you're leaving with the kids you came with!
**The fact that nobody is allowed in without a kid (cuts down on the creep factor!)
**They serve beer (this can be a plus or a minus, but with all those screaming kids, maybe you need a couple!)
**Convenient location
**Salad Bar
**They have good coupons, and they take more than one at a time
**God variety of fountain drinks
Bad points:
**Nasty Pizza
**Craziness of the screaming kids
**No supervision of the kids who are climbing on games and things they're not supposed to
**Bad smell
**Can become expensive
Overall, I have been unimpressed, but my daughter only being 5 doesn't know how cool this place was when we were kids, so she doesn't know what she's missing!!
Also, why is this place open til 11 pm?? Â I mean, with the crowd it supposedly caters to, shouldn't those kids be in bed??
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Screaming kids, lots of arcades, and a packed jungle gym. What a great way to burn some time. I use to like coming to check e cheese when I was younger. The games, the tickets, and the hot pipping pizza were a lot better when I was younger, but I went a couple months back to play the games and I don't think I will be back until I have kids. The crazy kids running around, screaming, trying to take your tickets is still there. The only plus is the games are cheaper than gameworks with less of the violent games. If you like amusement park games to win tickets than this is the place to go. Also the pizza is okay but definatley below pizza hut quality. It seemed so good when I was a kid... Oh well
Pro- cheap arcade/amusement park games
Con- crazy kids screaming and running around, eh food is below average
Hidden deal- check your sunday paper for coupon savings, sign up online for coupons, also if you have kids bring in there report card for free tokens
It's like being shot in the face so excruciatingly slowly with a very loud gun. On fire. You, not the gun.
The pizza is horrid, the service nonchalantly rude and the environment distractingly unkept.
Chuck E Cheese's, like chicken pox, is a necessary evil of parenthood. Make no mistake, this overly bright and noisy den of disease and chaos is every parent's nightmare but somehow we find ourselves congregating there a few times a year for some kid's birthday. Surrounded by flashing lights and ringing bells we smile nice and sing happy birthday whilst some drug addict in a mouse costume dances his hangover away for minimum wage. The American dream, we can has it.
Chuck E. Cheese: Where a Kid Can Run Around Unsupervised!
My family does a lot of birthday parties here. It's germ central, but that's anywhere children abound. They do have sanitizer stations now, which I like to see. The live shows are cute, although they do current pop songs now, as sung by the animatronic puppets. Kinda weird, but I guess the kids like seeing a giant monster sing Miley Cyrus?
The sandwiches are decent. The pizza is standard pizza. Can't really expect anything gourmet, I mean, it's Chuck E Cheese. Â And there's beer for the grown ups. Which, I love beer, but definitely find it a bit disconcerting that you can get drunk, and then drive your toddler home.
Most parents here don't seem to pay much, if any, attention to their children while there. Maybe that's the point of the place? But the game area can get a bit dangerous with children at knee height running violently into the grown ups, or throwing balls around. Not just the basketballs, but the heavy hard skeeball balls!
Ahhh yes, skeeball. My favourite part of any arcade! Â Unfortunately (and my family is no exception here) the littler kids will try to play and end up throwing the ball 3 lanes down. So, while the attendants try to keep an eye on it and even out the lanes when they can, it's not uncommon to put in your token and there are no balls. Or no tickets. But if you let an attendant know NICELY, they're pretty good at compensating for it. Don't be ghetto and demanding, they deal with enough of that already.
My favourite feature is that they have someone guarding the exit. So your kids can't leave without you. And they have a system in place to know which kids go with which adults, to avoid abductions. Good stuff.
Also, the ice cream vending machine is super cool.
Ok so I was craving Chuck E Cheeses' pizza...the one with the processed cheese and greasy crust. So I made my way over to this place but they wouldn't let me in cuz I didn't have any kids with me. Pretty stupid in my opinion. Now the place that was my favorite as a child, is on the blacklist for me!!
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