I like Chuckie Cheese for the kids ... but you do have to be in the mood for it .. so many kids ... so much noise - not the kinda place to go with a big fat headache.

My boys are big fans... even the oldest still likes it there. They have a decent salad bar!

I agree with you Inni, Chucky Cheese is ok every once in a while. It's better now that my daughter is older and I don't have to follow her around to make sure no bigger kids are pushing and shoving in the tubes. It depends on which Chucky you go to how clean it will be. My daughter loves to play and win tickets the most, so then she gets to pick out a prize. I help her win tickets sometimes, and almost always end up putting in more money so she can get the prize she wants. What always boggled my mind though, was that they do serve beer there. Yeah, let me put my kids in the car, take them to Chucky Cheeses, pound down a couple of beers, and get behind the wheel to take them home. I mean, this is a KIDS place. You can't go without a drink while you're spending a couple hours with your kids? Pretty sad.

pooker... both my boys love the tickets thing too ... can you imagine how much we actually end up paying for those little toys they get with their tickets?! lol .. but they enjoy it - and that's what counts.

I understand your point about the beer, but as long as people only have one - and they eat pizza and salad - they should be fine. I work for a brewery, so I do promote responsible drinking... but I agree - no one should go to Chuckie Cheese to drink and drive. The idea behind responsible drinking is that the parents make wise choices. Pizza and beer go well together - but there is never a time when anyone (parent or not) should drink beyond the legal limit (which is not much) and then drive (kids or no kids).

My daughter LOVES Chuck E. Cheese..I took her there for her third birthday and she had a blast. And as people are saying, it's not too expensive either.

wow different here in canada then
i went once with the kids... spent 100 bucks
and got 4 or 5 cheapo trinkets out of it and lunch

I guess I am lucky, in reno we have circus circus, boomtown motion theater, and gob of other things. Yes and chucky, but my kids are beyond that.

My son's another kid who loves Chuck E. Cheese's. Thankfully we've only been a couple of times. My son chose to go as a reward for filling up a sticker chart and we went another time because he had so much fun.

He likes the little kiddie rides (though he's getting too big for them) and climbing in the big play structures.

After our first visit we learned not to eat there, though, yuck! We just got some drinks and tokens last time.

Chuck E. Cheese?

Oh! You mean Rodentorama!

Ugh. Expensive, noisy, and boring for me as an adult. Staff does not know what "cutlery" is when you ask for it with your pizza. (I was raised to eat with a fork and knife, and eating fast food with my hands is a very strange (and messy) concept for me.) My kids both love it though, and I take them there as a treat when they have been behaving. Not more than once every three months or so, though.

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Chuck E. Cheese?

Oh! You mean Rodentorama!

Ugh. Expensive, noisy, and boring for me as an adult. Staff does not know what "cutlery" is when you ask for it with your pizza. (I was raised to eat with a fork and knife, and eating fast food with my hands is a very strange (and messy) concept for me.) My kids both love it though, and I take them there as a treat when they have been behaving. Not more than once every three months or so, though.

I hope you don't mind me asking, but I find your choice of words so charming and interesting and I've always been wondering...are you by chance British? I always feel as though there is an "accent" somewhere in there. If so, it is nice.

As for Chuck E. Cheese, it was great back in the 80's when I was a kid and it was a new thing. It was a "fancier" place back then and really expensive. Now, most of them are a little run-down. Depends on where you go. Bullwinkles Fun Center in Renton is okay too, I don't know if you all have one of those where you are at, but the laser tag is really amazing!

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Originally posted by coffeebls2000:
I hope you don't mind me asking, but I find your choice of words so charming and interesting and I've always been wondering...are you by chance British? I always feel as though there is an "accent" somewhere in there. If so, it is nice.

I don't mind at all. I am not British, but I was born in Canada, so, to many Americans, I do have an accent. It is becoming less prominent over time, however. Some Brits have asked me from which part of England I hailed, so I suppose it can be mistaken for British.

As to my choice of words, I was raised to be relatively formal, and can thank my late ninth grade English teacher for much of my style.

My parents weren't rich snobs. They were rather poor post-WWII immigrants to Canada. But, they did descend from "old money" eastern European stock -- losing their wealth in the war. And, they always maintained their sense of "class", even when mother worked as a maid, and father was a farm-hand. They believed in, and instilled a belief in me, of responsibility and hard work, as opposed to an attitude of entitlement.

So, in our little rented upper duplex apartment, I was taught how to eat chicken with a fork and knife at 5 or 6 years old, knew how to set a table, the difference between everyday cutlery and "special occasion" silverware (the latter being silver, and requiring constant polishing -- one of my childhood chores). I diverged from my parents teachings when I expanded my horizons to learn to eat with chopsticks, and know how to eat an Indian meal with my fingers. For all that they taught me, they still were somewhat racial and cultural bigots. Growing up, it was socially accpetable for whites to show disdain of blacks, for example -- something I found irrational and therefore reprehensible, regardless of how "comfortable" it kept one, for "towing the line of entrenched bigotry". My teenage rebellion therefore, was not one of sexual libertinism and irresponsible risk-taking, but rather a political coming-of-age: I came to develop a propensity for arguing the less popular, but more rational perspective.

Politically I am libertarian, believing in fiscal and societal freedoms, combined with personal responsibility, though I have been mistaken for being conservative.

But, back to Chuck E. Cheese: my kids like it, but rather like sugared soft drinks, I try to limit their exposure.