Chuck E. Cheese’s

All my nightmares and thoughts of this place appear to be true. Screaming, entitled children everywhere, small enclosed space and a giant rat. I still have chills.
Everyone I spoke to before I showed up here kept telling me how good the pizza was here and I am sorry, but this was not that great of a pizza. I have definitely had better pizza in my life. What I did find interesting here is that they offer a salad bar. Not sure I would even consider partaking in a salad bar that has free range children nearby. Who knows if they put their hands in the food or even if they sneezed near it. The sneeze guard doesn’t work on children.
If you do not have a coupon for here and want to buy tokens it can be expensive. I paid $ 30 for tokens and they seem to have gone way too fast for my liking. With any place like this you earn tickets by playing games so you can redeem prizes at the end. Funny thing is the exchange rate here. When you pick out a prize you can claim any of the ones that are up there and have a monetary listing. Basically one ticket equals one cent. When you think about it and do the math, you are really being ripped off and charged way too much for the justifications. If you buy the tokens at the $ 30 rate, you are paying $.20 per token when a ticket is worth $.01.
There are televisions here that broadcast a loop of Chuck E TV. The guy they got to do the video is way too happy for his own good. Every half hour on the dot they announce that Chuck himself will be out on the floor to do a performance. Nine times out of ten, the younger children end up going into a tantrum of fear to hide from the giant gray rat walking around the floor. We had to hide or distract my niece so we didn’t have to calm her each time. There is also one animatronic rat at the front near the televisions. To say that the motions are robotic is to waste anyone’s common sense.
Some of the games are old and dated. Some actually don’t give you the correct amount of tickets at all. One machine actually ripped me off and the staff (management included) did nothing more than tell me they need to have work done on the machine. No offer of tickets or free tokens; more like ‘Oh well, we got you money at least.‘
I think I may have had a few nightmares after visiting here, but hey, at least I survived.