Avoid this club at all costs, unless you want to get extorted like I was.
I was approached by a dancer for some private sessions and agreed. We agreed up front to two songs at $20/song, totalling $40. And I literally told her that was all I could afford as I had no extra cash on me and my debit card was in my car.
Once in the booth, the song was finishing up - she told me that didn't count. Makes perfect sense. I paid her $40 in advance and when the next song came on, she said we'll start now, to which I said of course. During the course of the dances, she pulled out some blow and asked if I wanted to party. I said no thanks. Just at that moment a server came in, and the dancer *offered* to buy drinks. She ordered the drinks, not me. She ordered herself a vodka and a cranberry chaser, and ordered me a whiskey. I said nothing. She also offered me oral sex, which I declined. The two songs were over and I said I had to go, as I was also with friends who were waiting for me back in the main room.
The drinks came. She downed hers and threw mine more or less in my face. I tried standing up but she held herself on me. I told her I was done as I couldn't afford anything more. She kept offering me oral sex and then started complaining that she didn't know why the waitress was charging her for drinks since she didn't order any (the glasses were sitting fucking inches away from her). It became clear that she was going to stiff me with the bill. A cheap move but I guess you can't expect much better from these types of girls.
I tell the waitress that I'll have to get my debit card from my car and take out cash at the ATM. This entire ordeal took place in the private booth which, little did I know, apparently was silently tacking on the time the room was charging me for, even though I was trying to leave.
I got up and the dancer was telling me again she didn't understand why she was being charged. She started asking me for an extra $20 since she spent that entire song arguing with the server about the drinks. I said no, that's not what we agreed to and I've been trying to leave this whole time. She then put her arm across the exit and kept me from leaving, arguing more. I didn't physically move her - I'll come back to this in a minute.
After trying to reason with her a bit more and telling her I was done, and asking for her to let me leave, I told her she was making me very uncomfortable now. She feigned offense to this and continued blocking my exit. I kept my hands off her, but tried moving around her, with her adjusting her position and keeping me blocked in the whole time.
Eventually another server (with whom I'd had a few good conversations earlier in the evening) came by asking for the update on the bill, and I asked her for help. When that happened the stripper finally let me leave the booth. By that point, from the last dance we agreed to ending to me getting out of the booth, another 10-15 minutes or so had passed. I spoke with the bouncer and then eventually the manager, explaining how I felt I was being extorted based on what happened. They both maintained that legally I owed them for the amount of time I was in the booth (explaining why she forced me to stay in there so long).
This is where I come back to not physically moving her aside. When I told them how she was keeping me in there, they laughed at me. "That's just not believable, look at how small she is" they said. Meanwhile this girl was now telling them *I* ordered the drinks (which I hadn't), that she didn't even drink anything (which she had), and that I owed her an extra bunch of money that we never agreed to, based on time she kept me from leaving. I knew that if I *had* tried to physically move her, she'd have had no problem also accusing me of assault. Either way, the staff are going to take her word over mine, so when I told them how she was keeping me in there against my will and they laughed at me, I knew they were in on the scam.
When I spoke with the manager to relay the story, I offered to pay for the drinks as a gesture of good faith because I didn't want to cause any problems, but that I didn't feel it was fair for me to pay anything more for the time spent in the booth considering the majority of it was her keeping me in there while arguing over what I owed her (while secretly racking up the tab).
One of the friends I was there with came in and paid for the drinks (he was eager to leave and extremely drunk), but then started shouting at me overtop of the manager shouting at me and the dancer shouting at me, all shouting different things, none of which I could hear. I was trying to ask the manager if we were square while trying to ask my friend to be quiet so I could hear the manager, and then the manager threatened to take me into the back room and "take everything" from me. I feared for my safety and wondered how many others they did this to who weren't so lucky to get out of their without a scratch.
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