Warning: Penthouse encourages / allows smoking throughout the club
A brief warning for those who don't like second hand smoke and / or who don't want to smell like an ash tray when returning home:
Penthouse used to restrict smoking to the upstairs cigar bar, a place with good ventilation so that the downstairs part of the club was pretty smoke free. No longer the case! Ash trays are supplied throughout the downstairs and a number of the patrons were smoking downstairs. As a result, I cut my visit short and decided to spend my money in clubs that do not allow smoking.
This seems like a strange decision by management. It increases the risk of getting fined for violating the state wide ban on smoking. I can't imagine that allowing smoking attracts more customers than the number of customers who are lost because they are repelled by the smoky club environment.
Actually the club was really dead on the Saturday afternoon that I visited-- less than a dozen patrons and maybe 8-10 dancers.