Let me just start off by saying that I shall never give an Orlando "strip club" five stars. No contact whatsoever, air dances three feet away for $10, pasties galore, and not even any light touching by the dancers to customers at the tip rail? Not happening for such establishments in O-town. However, Dancers Royale does deserve four stars, and me being a strip club aficionado who originally hails from Rhode Island, where the strip clubs are full nude AND full liquor is saying a helluva lot. I understand why the Orlando laws are in place; it's a tourist town, yes, but a bulk of those tourists are families with small children. Having two young sons of my own, I completely understand why they would have these strict laws in place. The city is run by Mickey Mouse and this means it is trying to cater to a more family friendly environment. Fine. But if one Orlando resident is not hard pressed for time, as in, if the night is still young and the said individual has money to spend, they go to Tampa, Daytona, or brave the horrific tolls of route 528 to go to the Space Coast to have some adult-style fun. Each is roughly an hour-1 hour, 15 mins. away mind you, and most people do this. However if the Orlando resident is not in the mood to travel, wants to go someplace with a nice, "Cheers" style environment with breasts (as others have called it, which is highly accurate I may add), and does not mind a tamer, but still very fun evening out, they come here.
I have so far been to four strip clubs in Orlando, three on the OBT, and this one. The ones on the OBT are pretty awful, though I have not been to Thee Dollhouse yet. However, I have been to three others that were very much lacking in the entertainment department. The difference between those clubs and DR is the fact that the OBT clubs are not only kinda sleazy, therefore attracting sleazy clientele (it is in a sketchy part of town, after all) but the quality of girls are very poor, in my opinion. If you have a club in Orlando that has strict as hell laws, you should at least have women so blazingly hot that you may convince yourself they are from another time-space continuum. Dancers Royale, although obviously having to comply to Orlando's laws, at least has a great atmosphere, cheap drinks, attentive staff, and HOT girls. I'd have to say 8 out of 10 of the ones we saw on our night we went were hot enough for me to pay $10 for them to shake their asses three feet away from me. The club itself is small, and it was PACKED when we went, which was during the week...I bet it's standing room only on weekends, that is how packed it gets. We were lucky to actually get a seat at the tip rail. DR has one stage in the center, with a small VIP rail in the back of it that has several tables and it roped off. I assume these are areas that are reserved for parties and such, and this too was packed and provided those guests with bottle service. There are tables and chairs spread about the club, and two bars: one when you first walk in, and another to the back, and to the left of the stage. The place is clean and much classier than the dives on the OBT (though it is stated in my recent review of Stars the atmosphere is pretty good, DR is better still in the classy department), not as expensive, and apparently have great drink specials, and a service industry night (SIN Sundays). The clientele is mixed, and have more females in them than the OBT clubs (actually I think I was the only female in the crowd over on the OBT, come to think of it), and they all were having a helluva great time. The dancers and customers alike just seem to enjoy it here, everyone was smiling and laughing it up, and of course this was a plus. I even did end up getting a dance from a lovely goth girl, and even though she was a few miles away from me, she was so hot I didn't care at all. Let it also be said there did not appear to be any food here, but c'mon...I don't go to these places for chicken cordon bleu and baked Alaska, in fact I don't like the idea of adult clubs having a full menu...I think it financially hurts the dancers, to be honest. So that's another little one up they have from me!
The only thing I don't like about this establishment is the music. Three hours of blaring techno music was rather irritating, but again, the hotness of the ladies does take your mind off of it. Also, it is Orlando...and I don't need to go into detail yet again about the laws, but alas, that plays a part in my giving this place 4, rather than 5, stars. However, like I said, because of such laws, I won't give any Orlando club 5 stars, therefore 4 stars is the highest it gets for me in this city. So if you are a tourist in Orlando and have a busy schedule for your holiday, or a nearby resident and don't have a helluva (I like this word, me thinks) lot of time to kill or money to spend to go all the way to Tampa or Daytona for some grade A debauchery, but HAVE to have a sliver of the adult entertainment pie, come here. read more