We don't know how good we have it here.
I've been traveling and have tried several clubs in Ohio and WV. I can't believe those places stay in business. They're hardly ever open before 6-8pm any day of the week. In my experience they have more empty stage time than time with any dancers actually dancing. And they're private options are ridiculous. Usually $20 per song without even going topless. I paid $60 for 15 minutes of topless, little or no touch dancing in a semi-private area. Actually the girl let my hands roam limitedly at one, but on the way out, a bouncer chastised me over it. I told him to go F-himself, as I'd never be back again. Some places have full-nude dances for $110-120 for 15 minutes, and the girls promise lots of grinding and hand usage, but I've never felt like I'd be getting any extras and feel that over $400 / hour is way better spent elsewhere. I've literally NEVER had a good time at a club in those two states. I suppose I could simply have picked the worst of the worst, but that's some really rotten luck if that's the case.
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Scup & Johnny's Great Adventure
Everybody knows, a little place like Kokomo. That's where you want to go to get away from it all. Or so say The Beach Boys.
Having long heard the praises of that little place north of Indy, home of the Hip Hugger, my friend JohnnyZ and I decided to take a Friday evening and check the place out for ourselves. We hit the Hugger at about 8 PM. From the reports I've read, I expected to see the infamous back wall lined up with guys getting fucked and sucked. Well, no. We did see lots, and I do mean lots of very attractive girls, most of whom made the rounds of the room asking if we'd like boobies in our face for a dollar. How could we resist? Dollar dances at the stage or the table were nice and nearly all of the girls in the place would rate 7 and up. The one who most caught my eye was named Robin. Beautiful girl with a magnificent rack. Gave a very enticing dance at the stage and again at the table. I told her that I'd like to take her to the back wall for a few of those $10 lappers. She said she needed to make the rounds for a bit to cool off first but I would be first on her list for later. About 30 minutes or so later I saw her disappear into what I presume to be the dressing room. After another 30 minutes or so I figured out that I wasn't likely to get another glimpse of Robin until springtime, so I took another lovely back to the wall. The dance was OK with the hands free to roam the uncovered areas only. But overall less aggressive than the typical dances at Brad's or Silk. Later I tried another girl. Same result. I looked at the other couples along the wall and I didn't see anyone getting any more action than I was. Johnny's experiences along the wall were similar to mine. Not a bad visit. But not really what we had hoped for either.
On the advice of another well known expert on the club scene, we then took the adventure across US 31 to Big Daddy's. I'd read about this place in the past, and didn't really have a good feeling about it. I expected it to be more of a low end dive than I really cared to explore. But what the hell. We made the trip and we were looking for adventure. BD's turned out to be not at all what I had expected. It has a spacious, two story warehouse layout with a large, elevated stage and comfortable seating. The girls were not overall as attractive or as plentiful as at the Hugger. But there were a few real lookers and most of the others could be in that class with a little dental work and a few sessions with Richard Simmons. And I like my women just a little on the trashy side. The $10 lap area here is hidden form view of the main room, and compared to The Hugger, the dances were much more aggressive, and hands were much freer to roam. They have a $125 per 30 min. VIP area upstairs which the girls tell me is very private with extended play activities available. That's often promised, but in this case, I believe them.
Next trip, I expect we'll go straight to Big Daddy's.
Pricing out of the market.
[QUOTE=Justguessing; 1294083]Not that I believe this will affect many here thought I should deliver the new of new Rick's pricing for Dancers. Apparently management here has forgotten that they are not in Las Vegas anymore nor that they ran that club so well Rick's had to sell it have raised prices for the dances as follows.
Dances on main floor are still $20.
Dances in back room with small individual booths, used to be $20 / dance with $10 wristband for night are now $160 per 30 minutes.
Dances in back room with couches previously $125 / half hour now $300 per hour.
Dances in front room behind main stage previously $300 per hour now $500 per hour. This may include a bottle of wine.
Talked to 3 dancers I've known for 5 years and reactions ranged from (1) I think I may work at Rio this weekend to (2) Why didn't they wait until after Christmas, I'll give it a little time and see how it effects me to If it hurts my income I'll move to another club. One of dancers did comment on something I'd observed watching the one main floor $20 dance I saw is that main floor chairs don't let them give a good dance.
Management semi sold this by raising the amount dancers get from the time rooms to 120 of 160, 220 of 300 and 300 of 500 if I remember what I was told correctly. While they get more per unit of time than previously they are getting a lower percentage of room charge.
I think management will have to back off this pricing as they face losing dancers. I also suspect that is what the two wait and see dancers I talked with are thinking.[/QUOTE]Maybe I am wrong but I don't know many fellow mongers willing to pay anything near those fees for a bit of fun. It isn't like Indy is Vegas or Miami or even Atlanta. As long as there are other options that are reasonable I think their business will suffer. If it doesn't then there are more rich mongers in Indy than I know about.