If you are ETHNIC or AMERICAN BEWARE!!!!!!
Friends and I wanted to go out and dance and have a fun time on a Friday (12/14/18)night. We spoke with a few locals/friends who are from here and have been told this would be a good place to go. We managed to get on the list for free entry before a certain time and indeed we made it to this club before then only to be told by the man that the line we were in was for "reserved tables only" and that we needed to go to the other line (as he pointed in a vague direction) behind him. So then we found a different line where a bearded man was letting people inside and we politely (and in our best Italian) asked if he spoke English and explained that we were on the list. He enlisted help from another man who reminded me of Red Foo from LMFAO because of his hair and glasses and when we explained the situation to this guy (the bearded man was secretly saying something to him on italian during this) and we showed him the QR code he told us he "needed to find the specific promoter" for us as we were on "Lista Sunset"... needless to say we waited and neither my friend nor I could recall him looking for this imaginary promoter.
After we waited for about 15 or so minutes my friend asked the bearded guy for an update and the bearded man this time enlisted the help of a woman bundled in a scarf holding a clipboard (who also had been standing by fake red foo and bearded man during the previous interactions the whole time). Without asking anyone or even looking at the clipboard (presumably the lista)... she said that the club was full, meanwhile Italians are being let it from the two other lines without hesitation. I responded that we know that they aren't going to let us in and that I hope she have a good night.
I would also like to say that a part of the reason why we chose to come to this club is because we just wanted to dance and meet more Italians and upon doing research learned that this particular night at Piper club they were playing hip hop, r&b, and reggaeton.
I am a mixed black woman and my friends are Puerto Rican. We are all American. Imagine how much of a slap in the face that was.
We did attempt another club close by, that was right next door to another (fancier) club which I will review next and, again, was denied entry because "the line is only for reserved tables/there's another entry into the club on the other side"... both lies. And of course they played music music that reflected our cultures.
We do love it here in Italy, and have had wonderful experiences with the people up until this point, but it's incredibly saddening and disappointing to experience this in such a culture-rich country. read more