I grew up a few miles from one of the clubs on this site that's known for having some pretty serious mileage. As a kid, I obviously didn't know what mileage meant. I just knew it was the strip club. It had a reputation. And I thought they'd all be like that. Then I moved to Virginia and realized I was very wrong.
Now I travel enough that I usually have options. There might be a club twenty minutes away, another one an hour away, and maybe a third just across a state line. If I'm already planning on spending a couple hundred bucks, I don't care nearly as much about the money as I do whether I picked the right place.
Living in Virginia changes the math a little. Virginia clubs are operating under restrictions that don't exist in places like West Virginia. The baseline experience is different, and so is the ceiling. If driving another forty-five minutes gets me a noticeably different experience, I'll usually make the drive without thinking twice.
What surprised me is that I spend more time researching clubs than I ever expected. And there's so little reliable information out there that I end up paying attention to things I'd completely ignore if I were looking for a restaurant.
The first thing I look at isn't even the club's Instagram anymore. It's whether the dancers themselves are advertising that they're working there. If several dancers are posting that they'll be at Club X that night, tagging the club regularly, or interacting with each other online, I take that as a good sign. Maybe it means they're making decent money there. Maybe it means the club is busy enough that it's worth promoting. Maybe it means nothing. Either way, it's another piece of information.
Then I start looking at everything else.
Is the club's Instagram active, or was the last post eight months ago? Why are there three different Instagram accounts claiming to be the official one?
How old is the newest review on TUSCL?
Does the website actually work?
Does the parking lot look reasonably well lit on Google?
None of those things would matter if I were deciding where to get dinner. With clubs, they all matter because there just isn't much else to go on.
When I was younger, I always imagined that if I ever had disposable income, I'd be the guy saying, "Let's just go to a club and throw some money around." It turned out to be the opposite.
Now that I actually have the money, I care a lot more about where it goes. I'd rather spend the same amount at a place that's worth the drive than save forty-five minutes and spend the evening wishing I'd kept driving.
I'm curious how everybody else approaches it. Do you have one or two things you look for before deciding a club is worth the detour, or do you mostly trust the reviews and figure the rest out when you get there?
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