Let me start by saying that the concept of Olivias Dollhouse is so cute and a little girls dream. Little girls will love the place. However, in many ways, it did not meet my expectations for the money. I will admit I love planning and putting on parties so I pay attention to every detail and probably have higher standards than most when it comes to children's birthday parties.
I've been here for a few birthday parties and they all pretty much go the same way. There's not really any theme except a tea party. I like birthday party places for girls that allow you to select different themes so that each party there can be semi customized and not the same old same old.
The building itself is stand alone and it is set up to make you feel like you are walking into a real house. It is very old fashioned and the entire place is like a house with various rooms, a dining room, a sitting room, a make up/fashion room, dressing room etc. This is really really neat. There are tons of dolls, knick knacks, floral stuff all over the place. Really, in my opinion its overkill on the tacky stuff but the kids do seem to love it. The place feels very old for Las Vegas standards and doesn't seem like it is very well maintained. The area of town is not the best.
Flow of Activities at a Party - Here's how a typical party goes: guests arrive, each guest selects a dress, shoes, costume jewellery and gets changed then go to a separate hair, nails, and make up station. Little girls absolutely love this. They do a great job with the hair although I really don't know how sanitary it all is. I don't recall seeing santization supplies being used in between each guest. Once the girls are all dolled up they go to a fashion show and each girl gets a photo snapped, they give you a souvenir photo from the event to take home with you. After the fashion show its off to the dining room to eat. The dining room is cute and they serve the food on "real" china. Cute but it all seemed mismatched and old. I guess that's supposed to be part of the charm. The quality of the food and the presentation is mediocre. Not that the kids noticed, this stood out. After the dessert, its back to the dressing room to change back into regular clothes. That's it the party is done. On the way out, each guest gets a picture from the fashion show (home printer type quality) and a choice of one toy from a treasure chest as a party favor which is basically the $1 made in china dollar store toy.
The tea party concept of Olivias is great but I just don't find that it is worth the $45 per child. Girls do love it but for me the quality is just not there. Maybe with a little sprucing up this place would be a lot better.