Sweet! Someone to trade war stories with!
[QUOTE=Atl For Life]Over the past 6 months I've been touring pretty much all the black SC's in Atlanta. Inspired by BHL I decided to post reviews for some of them. I'll post more at a later date. Feel free to PM me if you need the 411 on a black SC.
AFL[/QUOTE]I see you've covered the lot and it looks like not much has changed since I used to be in all of them all the time.
Remember gentlemen, I'm big on the day shift, not so much night, so most of my info comes from that.
I've always heard that at Platinum, just about anything goes if you can get it agreed upon beforehand, maybe I was wrong. The last time I was there was in Spring of '06, and the main thing I remember is that it was like the white clubs in Tampa where everydamnbody wants a tip! The waitress wants to sell you and the girl shots, the bartender wants you to buy drinks for the girl, the damn dancers want a tip just for breathing oxygen. That was kinda irritating, because like A4L said, the day shift there was pretty dead. The old guys got all the attention, the white guys too. So BHL felt somewhat unappreciated, LOL.
Dances were 10$ if memory serves correctly, but it wasn't too hard to negotiate 5$ a song. Either way, that didn't bode well for a night shift return by BHL, so I never went back.
Blaze was too wide open for any action for BHL, but there are a few high mileage dancers in there. It's kinda cramped to me, and there isn't much difference between the dances upstairs or downstairs. Most dancers/customers told me the VIP wasn't worth it, so I never went into it. The girls have a generally great attitude though, so it was always a fun, but 'clean' time. 5$ dances. I think they charged like 5 bucks to get in when you come early, early.
Foxy Lady reminds me of those old lounge looking strip clubs you find in Columbus, you know, the ones that were designed to be good 'ole boy bars but had to sell the business for some reason or another. No mileage unless you go to their 'VIP', which is just an open area that kinda reminds me of an indoor patio, if that makes sense. 10$ dances in the 'VIP' were good contact, but since the manager's door is literally next to that area, not too much extra activity going on there. You meet some cool down to earth chicks there too. I meant one that was starting a buttnaked cleaning business! Heh! She'd clean the house naked for $100. Unless I was getting seven lapdances with that though, I couldn't see the value. How about I wash my dishes, mop the floor, fold my clothes then take my ass to Babes and drop that 100$?
Pinups started out as my favorite spot in '04, but by '06, nahh. Last time I was there was November of last year. The security treats you like crap, they are getting more and more apt to make sure all the dances during the day are air dances, which is weird because most strip clubs tighten up at night, but they are the other way around. The mileage in the VIP isn't what it used to be, unless you tip off the right bouncer or two, and even that is getting trickier because all of the girls are spooked. They have some very, very nice pieces of meat in there, but it's not worth it because you feel inferior from the jump when going there. From the Airport security style metal detector they make you walk through, to the next guy holding a metal detector that you go through after that, to the fact that you can't bring cigarettes or black and milds in there, because they want you to get them out their expensive ass machine, to the 'I could've swore I wasn't an armed suspect' pat down AFTER the metal detector. I mean, I've had my nuts felt up more by security in there than by some of the dancers a few times.
Other than the one bouncer I used to tip off to look the other way in the VIP, there is no understood treatment of the good customers. For example, when I go to Babes, the manager speaks to me, security recognizes my face and jokes around about the prices to get in "Today it's going to be $100 to park", you know, makes you more comfortable. At Pinups, you feel like you're trying to get a lapdance at the precinct sometimes.
Skip Queen City, Pleasers, and Blue Flame. The first two for the exact reasons A4L said. I went into QC one time at night and there were 3 or 4 girls there. One tried to give me a dance in that room that's kind of portioned off (kind of a could be a VIP room) but the manager instantly said we had to come out of there. They aren't playing about the airdance rule either.
Pleasers is the absolute airdancing worse. From what I'm told though, almost all are available for takeout there, so that's why guys keep going. I don't trust it, nor do I like the looks of what they have to offer in there on every night besides Friday and Saturday.
Blue Flame is airdance central for the 5$ dances on the floor, and even though a lapdance is permitted in their VIP for 10$ a song (honestly, it might be 20$ and I just negotiated 10$, I'm not sure), security makes rounds to make sure action is pretty clean. Speaking of security, if you ever become rich and don't want anyone to touch or breath on your expensive self portrait or any other prized personal possessions when you host a party, you might want to hire their security. They're like the damn secret service, only bigger, blacker, and quicker to make a scene. They actually wore headsets up in there! The ringleader spends all night motioning to girls to keep their distance away from their customers during the dances, if I've ever seen a big, buff, black guy who would be universally considered a douchebag, he would be it. Girls are available for takeout there, but I don't like the rates or the feel of the club. Nice looking club though, with nice looking women, and it seems about half of them wish security would lighten the hell up.
I went to Dreamgirls before it remodeled, so all I could tell you about that is a bunch of funny stories. I'll just mention most of the 'strippers' looked like they should be somebody's favorite aunt, who cooks the best Thanksgiving dinners, and their means of music was a boombox, that in summer of '06 was playing a scratched CD of Master P's Ghetto Dope. I met a cool dancer in another state though that said she dances there when she's in Atlanta because they don't make them get permits, and it's better now. I'll go back in the next couple of months to see what it is.
Magic City is just plain overrated. Nothing else to be said about that.
Goosebumps was ok when I went. Laid back atmosphere, dances were ok contact, but not Westside Babes mileage by longshot. The two girls I chatted up about the VIP weren't going for it.
Strokers is for the guy who wants everyone to know he has money. Not for the bargain seekers. Very beautiful women, but attitude is too high, and mileage is too low.
Dancer's Elite is also what A4L said it is. Plus, it's like the dudes up in there are spend more time meanmugging each other than checking out the housemeat. I got fully served up in their VIP once, but let's just say I wasn't too comfortable about it, and since A4L said they tightened up, that is pretty much scratched off the list.
Body Tap is what he said it is also. Not for bargain shoppers at night AT ALL, but I'm going to check out the dayshift one day to see if it's different.
I was telling one of our esteemed posters I was going to check out Onyx in a couple of months, as it now has the reputation of being the best, but even better, from 12-3PM they have five dollar dances. Expect BHL to be pulling up promtly at 11:55AM when I go.
Remember gentlemen, dayshift is your friend. Cheaper to get in, less security, more mileage, and better attitudes. At night is when the girls have a hit and quit it mentality, because of the size of the crowd and the money being spent.
