Chuck E Cheese’s

Chuck E. Diseases (a friend gave it that name) used to be a great place to take the kids. It’s gone down hill and the cleanliness of this place is terrible. I wouldn’t go here without a big bottle of hand santizer. The food is terrible, but the kids loved the games. I think every parent must take their child here, thankfully we’ve outgrown this place. Be prepared to spend a lot of money so your child can earn a toy you could have bought at the dollar store! If they offered better food and beverages maybe parents would stay longer (and spend more money).

I loved Chuck E Cheese as a kid… Growing up in Syracuse and my mom taking me and my sister to play a little X-​Men arcade and crawl in the mouse maze…
Fast Forward 25 years and Chuck E Cheese does not hold up the test of time… First off the pizza and the «Salad Bad» (laughable) looked like shit… The salad bar made the golden coral salad bar look like 5 star restaurant… All the little kid stuff consisted of 7 quarter machine cars that move… All the other games are games Dave and Busters got rid of… Plus there is no little kid play ground except some tunnel that goes up… Not really got for little ones… 4 /​under…
Not to mention… not all… but most of the people there were total shit… Letting the older kids run wild… Fucking being all reckless with the shit… and no one watching the younger ones… I know that’s not the Chuck E Cheese’s fault but when the place looks like shit and the games and food are shit… Mostly shit people come…
I will not come back here again…

I haven’t been to a Chucky Cheese in about two decades, for my younger brother’s tenth birthday. I remember a ball pit and whack-​a-​mole and Chucky wandering. Apparently these days it’s all, about overpriced games scheduled Chucky appearances. My daughter enjoyed herself, she’s 6. The lines were long for the rides and there was a zillion people there. My fault for going at 1pm the day after the holiday, to be honest. The prizes for anything below the 600 level are cheap dollar store breakables at best, even above that mark they are not much. My daughter is something of a ringer at the games with an unerring knack for hitting bonuses and she was unimpressed with the selection. It was a an okay experience at best. We’ll have to shokt for a less trafficed time if we visit again.

My 6 year old little girl loves Chuck E Cheese. I asked her how many stars she’d give it and she said: «ONE HUNDRED!»
I’ll give 3 stars because she loves it so much.
Dad though, is not a fan. I tolerate it for my daughter’s sake.
The food is terrible. To use the adjective ‘edible’ is being charitable.
The whole experience is overpriced and I don’t find the games very compelling.
Dave and Busters is the far better choice. Take your kids to D&B instead. You’ll also spend a lot of money there, but you’ll enjoy yourself more and your kids will too. The prizes they offer are much better, the food is significantly better and there are many more games to boot.
On top of all that, I really think Chucky appeals to very young kids. I’d say 8 or 9 yr olds at most. D&B has games that will appeal most every age.

So if I have to explain Chuck E. Cheese, it’s going to be a long review, since I assume you have just moved here from Mars.
Thus this is a review of Chuck E. Cheese compared to other Charles Frommage franchises, since you’re either going to go or not go depending on how far your resistance has been worn down by whatever advertising or birthday-​party-​related misfortune brought your children to the point of demanding a visit.
The food is always the same at Chaz Milkproducts, which is to say reheated below average pizza and the like. I always go in thinking it won’t be as bad as I remembered it, and I’m always wrong. It’s always worse.
The only differentiators are (1) personnel and (2) relative grime/​wear of the place (3) upkeep of the arcade games, all vis a via the other Carlos Quesos in the world.
(1) Personnel. We had to wait nearly 10 minutes for entry because the person working the «child safety» stamping system at the door was the same one working the food orders and ticket/​coupon redemption, and was equally slow about all the various duties she was assigned to. On the way out, we waited a bit for them to show up to check our invisible hand stamps before departing, but on one seemed to even notice, and with bedtime beckoning, I just decided to go straight through without having them verify the two kids were the same ones I brought with me. I hope I got the right ones.
(2) Grime/​wear: not so bad here. I found hardly anything gross here, which is saying something in comparison to the sordid Claus Kase we used to go to when we lived elsewhere.
(3) The machines were in pretty good shape; only a couple out of order. ¹⁄₃ are pure gambling games, ¹⁄₃ traditional video games that may or may not spew tickets, ¹⁄₃ old school arcade like skee ball or shooting baskets and the like.
I will remind you if you’re going to go to go to the website first and print out coupons, since you save about 10% on tokens that way. Like a fool I didn’t, but then again I skipped one wretched wait in line. I think I may have come out ahead in the end, as the party in front of us when we ordered food had their 100 tokens for the price of 90 counted out to them… one…at…a…t…i…m…e,
Finally, I note MOST IMPORTANTLY
(4) this location DOES have beer, some horrible Americanwatery beer, but beer nevertheless. So if you can persuade your spouse or another adult caretaker to be the designated driver, you can drink quickly before the life-​sized non-​animatronic Chuck E. Cheese comes out, and maybe it will all end up being a blur.
Your kids will have fun no matter what, and you have already been whined into taking them there, so why have you read this far in the review? Oh, right, to confirm this is one of the locations that DOES HAVE BEER! Yay.

I must say I have not been to a Chuck E Cheese in a very long time, but it was great! The staff was very sweet and they were constantly cleaning the games, which I definitely appreciated being surrounded by so many kids! I thought it was funny they served beer and wine, and if my nieces birthday party wasn’t at 11 am I definitely would have taken advantage of it :) I wound up conquering the Ferris Wheel machine and walking away with 1000+ tickets which thrilled the birthday girl!
All in all a great experience, a wonderful, patient and engaging staff and the kids had a blast too!

When I was a kid I would have my birthday party at Chuck E Cheese every year until I was probably about 14. That being said, this new version doesn’t come close to comparing to the old Northway Mall location. Its small and crowded and the pizza is the equivalent of frozen pizza. Maybe I didn’t know any better as a kid but I remember the pizza always being great back then.
They do still have some positives though. Its free to get in. The games are all one token each. And your kids get run around and scream as much as they want and no one cares!

New games, clean space, and delicious food, — a good deal! My daughters ages 13, 10 and I went here for a nice school break outing. After reading mixed reviews, I had some reservations but they were immediately put to rest upon arrival. This Chuck E Cheese was sparkling clean! As for noise, I’ve been in louder restaurants and stores. Yes, there certainly was noise– mainly from machines that beeped and clicked, but all within comfortable conversation levels, with occasional outbursts of glee. New games had been installed two weeks prior to our arrival and everything appeared to be in great shape. As for the pizza — to us it was yummy. I downloaded coupons from the internet to help save some bucks. We spent $ 20 on 100 tokens and $ 6 on drinks. Later we added a medium cheese pizza ($ 9.99, 10 slices) and splurged on 40 more tokens for $ 10. Okay, the prizes are very minor but in Chuck E Cheese it is all about the play not the prize, and I figure that is what the token money is for — the opportunity to play. For 3 people lunch and games came about $ 15.33 per person. While I would not want to pay for recreation every day (and for the record, the two girls split the tokens while I read a book and sipped on a soda), for a special treat, it was a very good deal and we had a blast!

Oh Yeah!
I have been to some cruddy Chuck E Cheese’s in my time. But this is not one of them. This one rocks. Would have been 5* if it had a larger play space and louder anamatronic stage-​show. Yes, I said louder.
This one is clean, and well lit. Most of the games/​rides/​amusements work. And even the big games that move, which cost $.50-​$ 1.00 at crossgates are just one token.
With coupons, that you can print from
you can get those tokens for pennies on the dollar.
The pizza wasn’t nearly as bad as I was expecting. The crust was more like oily, cheap, thin focaccia than cardboard. And the cheese was redolent of that salty, oily stuff they use at pizza hut. True, it has a strange texture, but it’s tasty (which is a lot more i can say about some pizza in the cap region).
So it’s loud and obnoxious. Well… so are your kids. And even though you’ll leave with a headache, especially if you indulge in some cheap beer, it’s a good place to let your kids run around without having to pay by the hour.
Plus if they get really good at ski-​ball they may nail that scholarship to Yale.

i know. everyone knows. we all were there as kids and loved it. those mechanized dancing figures were cool (not creepy as they are to me now) and when the big mouse himself came out it was so important to get up there and have him pat you on the head. and the games!!! who can resist skeeball? how freakin exciting was it when you got a 50? and then the unending tickets (5 at most) pouring out of the machine?
the allure diminishes as you age i am sorry to say. but the good news is that they have cheap beer and wine so you can drown your sorrows while the kids run around screaming and come back for more bites of the cheese and sauce covered cardboard. actually that doesn’t really work — even if i were inclined to drink and drive and endanger my daughter’s life, the cheap wine and beer reminds you why it is cheap in the first place and you don’t really feel like going back for seconds.
but hey! they have a salad bar. that part is good. and after you get over the grouchy ‘crap. i hate screaming kids’ part, you revert back to your childhood and get up there and play those games and climb in the ball pit (ignoring that suspicious moisture you feel) and maybe even climb up in the habit-​trail for kids (praying that your adult weight doesn’t prove too much for the structure) and wave at all of the sane adults below. after all of this fun and adventure, the pizza is even tolerable.
really this is a great place to go with kids (but get ready to unload tons of dough on coins for the games and such so that the kids can buy junky toys and candy from the counter that they forget about as soon as they get in the car…) and the bland food is the price you pay for happy chilluns.