Have any of you ever had a birthday party at Chuck E Cheese? If you answer no, then I strongly suggest you do not. Chuck E Cheese is fine for an afternoon delight but not a good idea for a birthday party. I have three kids that I have been planning birthday parties for, for the last ten years and somehow I had managed to steer clear of Chuck E Cheese till now and it was a big mistake. It was very last minute. I am usually very on top of this birthday thing but this year I just could not get into the groove. I really wanted to do it at the house but we just moved into our house a couple of months ago and I still do not have things the way that I really want them. Then my oh so precious father in law had to have a quadruple bypass and ended up having a stroke while in surgery so that took a lot of our time and before I knew it the time was here to have a party and I had no plans. So…Chuck E Cheese it was!
I am pretty critical of birthday parties. I HATE going to a party where they let the kids play for hours before deciding to actually celebrate the birthday (cake and presents). I want to get there and celebrate the birthday and then let the kids play. I have three kids and an oh so busy life so as much as I want to spend hours visiting with my friends at birthday parties, I do not have time. We are lucky if we make it to all of the birthdays. So…anyway, Chuck E Cheese went totally against my thoughts on what a birthday party should be like. They give you a two hour time slot. The FIRST hour….PLAY TIME. Second hour, birthday! I was not happy! My father in law is not doing too well but was determined to be at his granddaughter’s birthday party and he had to sit there for over an hour waiting on screaming obnoxious kids to play. My sister had a soccer game but still wanted to come by for cake and presents…had to leave right after we sang. I don’t like that. Then they do not let you just celebrate your child’s birthday, it has to be done as a group with six other birthday kids. Call me selfish but this is the one day a year that it is ALL ABOUT MY CHILD! I don’t want her to have to wait five minutes for Chuck E to get down there to see her because he has five other kids he is also dealing with. Isn’t there a way they could stagger the times? They do at all other birthday places. So, after they sing and we wait on Chuck E and have cake there is this ticket machine and it has lots of tickets in it. The child is supposed to get in this spaceship looking thing and this air comes on and blows the tickets everywhere and they are supposed to get as many tickets as they can as fast as they can. BUT…you have to wait your turn with the other five kids. So, we are waiting and every time they go to take her over there then someone else has cut so I ask the party hostess if we can go ahead and start presents because the kids are getting anxious at this time. She agrees that is a good idea so off we go to open presents. About half way through she comes over and says, “It is her turn in the ticket booth.” I say, “Right now, right now? Or can we wait till we are finished?” “No, right now!” Yea…well, no, I am not going to leave all these people just sitting there waiting while we walk across the restaurant to do this ticket thing and then expect to still have their attention when we get back. Needless to say, Chuck E had to wait.
Don’t get me wrong Ally had a great time but I was just not impressed with the organization of the party. I won’t ever being doing Chuck E again.
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1 comment:
Eeek! That sounds stressful. I've only been to Chuck E Cheese once. It was disgustingly dirty and I'm a huge germaphobe, so I will never go back. Unless, of course, my children beg me. ;)
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