Chuck E Cheese: Where an Adult can be a Kid!
Written: Jul 06 '00 (Updated Jul 06 '00)
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Pros: turns everyone into a kid, indoor playground, video games, animatronic band -- what more could you ask for?!?
Cons: noise level on par with a major airport, kids hog most of the best games
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| argonut's Full Review: Chuck E. Cheese's |
Gentlemen, let's say you are about to get married and a few (maybe 6-12 or so) of your closest buddies would like to throw you a celebration to remind you of all that you are throwing away by walking down the aisle. What better to celebrate the ending of your bachelor-hood than by reverting to your childish past with a night of gorging on junk food, dropping tokens at the arcade and scoring cool prizes with the tickets you will win.
Chuck E Cheese is the ideal place to start off any bachelor party. First of all, the food sets the tone. A pizza, a pitcher of soda and 50 tokens are a very reasonably priced value meal that gives you everything that a bachelor party could want: energy and license to kill at Whack-A-Mole. This is also a good opportunity to remind the groom-to-be that he will no longer be allowed to play with his food while he eats. By the way, Chuck E Cheese even sells disposable cameras that come in handy when the best man leaves his at the hotel. (Not that I would know anything about that, personally.)
Secondly, Chuck E Cheese is ideal for a large group of people. Those with large appetites can sit and gorge themselves on pizza and hot dogs while others with more of a desire for fun can hit the video games and skee-ball.
Thirdly, Chuck E Cheese provides amazing photo opportunities. Get pictures of the groom riding a motorcycle, playing hungry-hungry hippo or better yet, get the whole gang in front of the Chuck E Cheese animatronic band. While I would suggest that Mr. Cheese invest in some more advanced musical talent to attract today's Nintendo youth, the current 20 - 30 crowd seem rather eager to pose in front of the dancing, banjo-strumming characters on the stage at the front of the dining area.
Finally, the best reason why you should take your bachelor party to Chuck E Cheese is the wonderful staff there. Maybe they see enough blood, guts and vomit during the course of the day to really not worry if a bunch of elder folk are tossing kids from the plastic jungle gym (a must for the groom and best man). These kind, neon-uniformed souls seem to embody the most important aspect of the Chuck E Cheese experience -- everyone is here to have fun. They will require you to take off your shoes to play on the playground, however. (This can be nice foreshadowing for the rest of the bachelor party evening, though, if you catch my drift.)
Unfortunately, there are a couple of drawbacks to hosting any party of large, adult-sized kids at Chuck E Cheese. Most of these boil down to the following: Chuck E Cheese has lots of kids. The kids are like rats, climbing over every single surface in the entire place and constantly trying to steal your food. To avoid these rodents…er… kids, I suggest you start your party as close to closing time as possible. (Which is generously late especially for the kids at heart.) Finally, most events in a traditional bachelor party are best left far away from little kids eyes. It is very important to remember that Chuck E Cheese is still a family establishment.
So be a kid for a day, just say Cheese!
Recommended:
Yes
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