Decided to take the little ones on a random Tuesday to this Chuck E. Cheese location. As a super saver tip, apparently on Mondays they give you 200 bonus tickets, so we will have to make another trip back on a Monday in the distant future. In my personal opinion, Chuck E. Cheese is pretty pricey though it is much more inexpensive that taking the kids to Dave and Busters. The tokens system gives you better control of how much your kids are spending/ playing, and allows you as a parent the opportunity to ensure they don't drop the token in, can't figure out the game, and walk away. We had several issues with the kids inserting the game card at Dave and Busters and leaving it in the machine and walking away, leaving a perfectly good $20 worth of credits for another kid to pick up.
So Chuck E. Cheese has these coupon deals you sign up for online. For example, you can get for $23.99 pretax : 35 tokens ( mathematically equates to $8.75 worth if each token is considered $0.25), a medium one topping pizza, and 2 small paper cups for fountain drinks. You can also exchange $25.00 for 100 tokens. The actual monetary value of a token is actually $0.30 to the dollar. If you are impatient enough to buy your tokens from the machines, you actually would pay $30 for 100 tokens ( or some obscure amount). It's almost like they prey on impatient parents who just want to give their kids the 30 minutes to an hour of free reign.
In any event, the location is as every review have stated: small. The facility is clean by standards of a location that has tons of kids running around, some barefoot. Bathroom ( women's at least) was as clean as it possibly could be for a place take caters to kids. It has at least 4 regular stalls and 1 wheel chair accessible stall. There is only one changing table and it is located right when you walk in, so you do not get any privacy when you're changing your kid's diaper, which I find disturbing. We had an issue with at least 4 machines, where the token was jammed or tickets were not being dispensed. It wasn't hard to locate a game attendant to rectify the situation, but you did have to wait a good 5 minutes after you flagged someone ( usually a person running the food from the kitchen to the tables) to get a game attendant by you to fix the issue. You would think that they would throw you an extra token or some tickets for the wait time, but they don't. Chucky the Mouse comes out to dance and give away free tickets once every hour. Because there weren't any birthday parties going on and it was relatively not jammed pack for a Tuesday, Chucky stayed by the entrance to entertain. Unfortunately, parents who were there did not exercise common decency and stood very close to the mouse, trying to record their kids dancing with the mouse or taking pictures. We were crowded at the very back and missed both Chucky dancing and handing out free tickets.
Lastly, we only ordered the parmesan bread sticks on this visit as a snack and asked for cups for water. An order came with roughly 5 bread sticks, marinara, and ranch dipping sauce. Off the top if my head, I think it was around $4.49? While the pricing came out to be a rather expensive appetizer, it also took 20 minutes from when we ordered to when we got it delivered to our table. I have to make it a very clear point that the parmesan bread sticks were delicious. Definitely worth the price and wait time. Just need to know for next time to get 2 orders. read more