Chuck E Cheese Hell - Chuckie Cheese Coupons
by Liv | Published on February 14th, 2006, 9:04 pm | Food
Chuck E Cheese HellI am convinced if Hell exists, it's at the Friendly center inside of Chuckie Cheese. Today we took the kids there because we were tired of parenting and this is the closest thing to day care by the hour in Greensboro. The first thing about Chuckie Cheese is for some reason, even though I've been there like a half of dozen times in the last year I can never find it. I know its in Friendly Center, but the whole center is one single tan nightmare, and for some reason Chuckie Cheese is in the Bermuda triangle of the center. Eventually I did find it. We went inside and got stamped by a middle aged man who acts way to happy to be the manager of an overpriced arcade. This is all done since 9/11 to make sure no one swaps kids in the fun tunnel and leaves with the wrong kid. Either that or they just wanted to get black lights like the bar has.
I go up to the counter at peruse the menu. Expensive pizza and tokens. Expensive Pizza and more tokens. I chose the cheap option which only included 2 drinks even though there was four of us. The unlimited refill station meant we would take our drinking in shifts. Even though this was the cheapest Chuckie pizza option, the total still came to about $40.00! That's right $40.00 for food. Holy crap.
So I set the kids loose with the tokens to which they mindlessly stick into machines that spit out a couple tickets. These tickets entitle you to prizes. Do you know what the $40.00 deal allowed my kids to have? Sweet tarts, and a Captain America water toy. The guy working the toy center was ultra cool and hooked the kids up with a second Captain America toy at no charge. Now that's customer service.
My biggest complaint about Chuckie Cheese is how there really isn't any games anymore. It used to be packed wall to wall with games, but now its filled with a play-land, and some 80's arcade games with a few other machines that simply suck your tokens and spit out tickets. What a load of crap this is. At least they didn't take away skee-ball. I'd be really upset if they got rid of skee-ball. Skee-ball should be an Olympic sport in my opinion.
Remember the animatronic show? They don't close the curtains anymore. Why? What happened to the anticipation and the peaking under the curtain to see if Chuck E. goes off stage to kiss Delila the duck? Oh, and what is with the sports bar TV on the stage? My God this place has gone to the dogs.
My recommendation is take your kids when you're highly medicated, and can push the bratty girl with pig tails out of the way and you yourself can jump in the ball pit.