With our collective experience at DIY on Roosevelt Ave, my friends and I were very skeptical at this place. However, we had to admit that we were pleasantly surprised at the costs, facilities and services at this location. We highly recommend this location to people who are looking to karaoke with quality facilities at a relatively cheap price.
We came here on a Friday evening after making a spontaneous decision to go karaoke. We hunted around for different places for 6 people and the prices quoted were consistently above $55 per hour. This location initially quoted us at $50 per hour for a "wonderland room", which appears to the extra large room. On our second phone call to the location, we were offered the medium room at $30 per hour after some customers cancelled their reservation so we took the room at a heartbeat.
This location, as compared to the Roosevelt Ave location, is a bit out of the way. However, it does provide shuttle services to customers based on certain criteria (e.g. one round-trip on a per room basis, Flushing area only, etc.)
Upon arrival, we were able to find street parking right across the street so we did not have to park in the onsite parking lot. However, we later found out that it offers free parking to all of its customers with validation from the front desk.
The facilities were brand new and were very well decorated. The staff were very attentive and polite to the customers. The song selections were pretty good given that they covered English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and Japanese. Given that we do not go karaoke often enough, picking a song was a bit confusing at first but we managed. Otherwise, we had a fun-filled experience at this location.
One important item to note is that there is a MANDATORY service charge of 18% that is automatically calculated for you on the bill and such charge must be paid in CASH. So make sure you have enough cash before going.
Another item to note is that the food and beverages are on credits which means that the hourly charges offset the amount spent on food and beverages. For example, in our case, we incurred $60 in room charges and ordered $61 worth of food and beverages. We only had to pay $61 in total given that the first $60 worth of food and beverages were covered by the room charge. read more