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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First of all, sorry you're in Virginia. Beautiful state, but sucky clubs for sure.
To your article's point, I mostly rely on Tuscl and occasionally USASG. I found Facebook and Instagram ads to be unreliable. Often promising a fantastic fantasy experience, but way under delivering.
Based on the drift I pull from Tuscl reviews, I adjust my expectations accordingly and have seldom been surprised, in either direction.
I'll drive further for a better club. In fact now I'll drive hundreds of more miles past other clubs to to one of the best!
In the late 90s/early 00s there was no option for cheap, topless, full-contact laps than the inner room cabaret in cocoa beach. We made sure we did 3 visits if we were local on a golf trip, in our 5 days there. The we discovered the now sold World Woods Golf resort, 90 miles north of Tampa. We'd golf Pine Barrens, shower at the course, drive completely across the state from the gulf to the atlantic ocean, spend 6 hours there and drive back, twice. Interesting note. I tried drinking a case of beer on the drive there and back and only managed 22, plus what I drank in the club. So hungover the next day my roommate on the trip who stayed home and didn't drink, wanted to triple the stakes because he saw me retch a bit when I tried a sip of water. He shot a 116, including and epic 4 balls in the water and golf club snapped over knee on one hole and I retched my way to an 83 lol. I still give him shit and will do so when we tee off on Old Scotland Links this weekend.
in Virginia it's not just the restrictions it's also the prices. But going to DC is somehow worse because unless you are VERY wealthy, the prices make less sense. Lust in WV has continued to deliver both in price and talent. To your point about vetting a location, it's somehow worse in the age of the internet. Meta constantly nukes IG accounts for both clubs and dancers. No Club keeps thier site up to date and seems stuck in 2010. Reviews here are okay, but having the prices on the listing would go a long way. I'm interested in how the new dancers feature will work, but adoption seems slow. There also appears to be some sort of friction between reddit.com and this place so that does help with sharing information. Current economy isn't helping any club, dancer, or patron and everyone has tensions running high.
Always check the last few reviews on tuscl, yelp, google, etc. then check the club IG and website. If it's place I've never been I occasionally scope it out on Google Maps and the nearby neighboorhood to make sure it's not too sketch.
But honestly these day it's crazy hit or miss. I went out to a club this weekend for an hour and didn't get a single dance.