In response to some other posts, I feel the need to preface this review with the following: my friend and I are two late-twenties, slender, good-looking girls. So any theories you have about people not getting in because they?re fat and ugly do not apply here.
My friend and I went to meet up with 3 guy friends (also good looking) who went for dinner. The waitress kept reiterating that they needed to leave their table by 10:00 sharp unless they wanted bottle service, ?which is like, $1,000?. Aside from the fact that she assumed my friends were like, too poor to afford a $1,000 bottle of Absolut (retail price - $29.99), when we asked why she was rushing us to leave when it was only 9:30 she said it was because it would take ?like, 15-20 minutes to split the bill and run 3 credit cards?. WTF? No one said anything about splitting it 3 ways (funny she picked the number 3, there were 5 of us there); everyone paid cash.
After dinner they escorted us downstairs to a small bar area opposite the actual club. Of course, there?s a glass window behind the bar so you can see just how cool the club that you couldn?t get into is. I chatted up the bouncer whose job it is to stand between our second-rate mini-club and the actual club. Although he wouldn?t let us in and couldn?t hook me up with the infamous black stamp, he did say that around 11:00ish they remove the ropes and you can go anywhere in the club. Hmm, so let me get this right. You get there early and buy overpriced dinner to have the opportunity to be placed in a holding area until 11:00pm, or whenever the management decides to open the gates and let the peons join the privileged? Retarded.
Drinking copious amount of alcohol allowed us to enjoy ourselves, but it was right around 1:45am when the music switched to Toto?s Africa that it felt more like a bad wedding than a Hollywood hotspot. Save your money and your time ? you?ll be disappointed that you can?t get back those 4 hours of your life.
Pros: Every 3rd song the DJ plays is good
Cons: Everything except every 3rd song
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