Review Visit: May 10th, 2012…read more From the early days as a skating rink to a modern day bingo hall. Back in the day, this place used to be the hip place to go for roller skating. Now all those people are older and come here to play bingo. I'm not entirely sure that is true, but let's just pretend it is. Having lived in this area for a long time, I've drove by this place a million times but never had an inkling to visit until I started this travel list. Having only ever played bingo casually, walking in here was a new experience. One we were ill-prepared for. How? People take bingo serious. Us being young rapscallions, we were learning the ropes as the numbers were being called out. We were having fun while not knowing exactly what we were doing. Evidently, being too loud gets the whole crowd to glare at you. We were asked to quiet it down as people were getting bothered by us having fun. It took them a few times to shush us for us to finally calm down. Once we settled down, the glares went away... for the most part. The bingo hall employees were friendly and helpful in getting us set up and explaining the rules of each card style we got. We all bought blotters and I still have mine. It's probably dried up at this point. Near the end of the games, someone claimed BINGO! and won some money. They give everyone time to respond to a bingo before they award the prize. My friend was also new to this and didn't know the rules fully and missed out on winning over $200 because of it. You could see the loss and disappointment in his face. It was an expensive lesson he and we all learned. I think in total I spent maybe $20 to play bingo. There were multiple styles to play. I don't recall which versions I played but I do remember all of us were furiously trying to keep up as they called out numbers. The tablet things we got were nice to use at it kept track for us. I've been wanting to try bingo again, whether it be this location or the bingo hall in Peoria. Hopefully I can convince my friend to go and he can make up for his loss here.

Good food. Fun time. Decent prices. They call the numbers too fast in my opinion, so I recommend…read morenot getting a lot of cards your first time.

Here for a good outing! Tried their stuffed pizza and it was good. Great service even when they are…read morebusy.

I'd been wanting to try this place out ever since my mom had told me she used to work here while…read moregoing to college. Well, our opportunity came this weekend as finished doing the Scenic Drive. Our servers were both very nice, but it was odd that we had two people waiting on us and that they were the only two servers on a busy Saturday night. We ordered salads and pizza for our dinner. I would think that normally the salads should come out pretty quickly, but we waited quite awhile. Once they did come out, the waitress also took my glass for a refill. While she was gone, we realized that she'd gotten the wrong salad dressing for my mom. We figured she'd be right back with my drink, but she wasn't. I noticed a large group came in and she was in the other room taking down their orders and darting around. I felt bad because I could tell she was busy, but we were hungry and thirsty so we went to the bar and made our corrections there. Some time after that, we got our pizza and it was only room temp. By then we were just tired of all the mishaps and ready to head back home. Also, there wasn't a sign or anything telling you to seat yourself or whatever, so we weren't really sure if we could. And there was a dead fly on the window sill next to me and another dead bug in the bathroom. Not too impressed by this place.

Timmy Todd is the reason I frequent this venue. He is total…read moreclass. Gracious, kind, and the epitome of a gentleman. He gives Dixie Rose credibility.

I was here on a Tuesday night in November and they only had 2 dancers lol Hilarious. But the better…read morepart was the 2 dudes bartending and working were cool and chill as fuck. So were the 2 dancers, but not alot of action, cause it was a Tuesday and it was cold. $5 Tall boys everyday was still a great deal. Can't win them all at every Club, but if it was a Friday or Saturday I'm sure I'd be giving it 5 stars.

Fun light show. Especially if you don't have to wait in a long line. We went on Christmas and we…read moredrove straight in. No hassle at all. $10. But I would plan accordingly. If you think there's going to be a line, use bathrooms and bring snacks before coming. Also huge tip: Make sure you are going to the "Folepi's Winter Wonderland". Because the Festival of Lights is actually a parade that is an event at a different place in East Peoria. The winter wonderland we are reviewing here is the light show you drive through. But the light show is really well done. Lots of fun things constructed I haven't seen before. Like a huge Star Trek Enterprise.

This was really cool. I had never seen anything like it before and the photos don't do it justice…read more There are so many displays and you can tell the effort & work put into them is commendable. I would imagine kids would especially love it, BUT something I didn't read about in any of the reviews is the CRAZY wait time. From the point that our car was "in line" we drove (very slowly, mind you) for over 90 minutes before getting to the ONE pay station... so two of the world's longest lines of cars are converging into one pay line. Still, it's inexpensive and there is even a radio channel you can turn to with Christmas music to really get you into the holiday spirit. So if you go, make sure you have PLENTY of time. And if you go with kids, good luck!!!

Expensive Entry Fee & Little to See…read more Honestly save yourself money and look at the bikes in the parking lot, and visit the city sights. Vendors were a joke. Music was a joke. Events were a joke. We planned a group ride down for this , and we'll it was disappointing. Enough said.

Now the Miller Lite Grand Nationals after Bud pulled out this year. Hopefully the past greatness…read morewill return after a disappointing year this year.

Review Visit: October 8th, 2014…read more Partridge Point Orchard is on point! Talk about a hidden gem. While expanding my local travels, I stumbled upon Partridge Point Orchard... not in the traditional sense. I was browsing Google Maps for recreational areas to visit and came across this place. I asked a few friends who are from the area and they never even heard about it. So as I usually do, I scrounge up at least one friend and we head on our there. What a day it was. The weather was perfect. Not too hot, not too cold. A gentle breeze. Isolated from the majority of the populace. Parking is a bit limited, but this is a small, family run business, so it's to be expected. We were greeted by a lovely lady who told us that we have free reign to walk around and we can pick all the apples we want. They had your standard varieties with one or two I never heard of before. The land that the Orchard is on is serene. There was a small pond we stopped at and just took nature in. My kind of peace. Any who, we ended up grabbing one apple a piece and when we went to pay, they said we could just keep them as it was just two and it was a drop in the bucket. I still paid them a $1 for them (I think their rates were $0.54 a piece) as a compromise. Overall, a really great place if you want to visit an actual orchard versus a tourist-y one such as Tanners Orchard. Well deserving of a 5/5 in my books... err blog!

Played as a guest in the Men's Invitational. Fun course, challenging holes yet hard to loose a…read moreball. Great staff and members were very friendly. Heading back in 6 weeks. Can't wait!

Customer service is awful. The woman who answers phones and Facebook messages is rude. I messaged…read moreher about a lost item, my message was read so a day later I messaged her again and it was also read and ignored. At tha It point, I messaged stating I would appreciate a message back if she was going to read them. Then she messages me back saying if I was sooo worried about my missing item I should just come look for it. Mind you I live an hour away and work for a living. She was probably the same woman who led me to a bathroom when I asked for a place to nurse. She did end up bringing me to a lounge that was connected after I asked how she would like eating on a toilet. She also said she would forward my opinions to the bride so she would know I thought the place was awful. Okay so you're going to try to hurt my SIL's feelings over my opinion of you?! Petty! Don't worry my SIL knows my opinion!

Great step back in time. But, with current films. Lower…read moreprices, courtesy service, and cordial patrons. Find myself wanting them to be open during the week. All that and they donate profits to their community!

I grew up going to this theater. The seats were awful then, but it was only a buck and we saw every…read more80s movie that came to Town. Now, the seats are really comfortable (are they leather?!) and it's still the same small town vibe. I love that it's supporting programs around town. The concessions are affordable. The young ladies working the night we visited were super sweet. I would LOVE to have something like this where my family now lives for my own kids to hang out!