The Lido Room NYC
b0ssh0gg
Texas
Anyone ever been to the Lido Room lapdance parties in NYC? I have heard good things about lapdance parties but have never been. I travel to NYC a few times a year so I was trying to decide whether to hit the lapdance party, Flashdancers, or Gallagher's 2000 next time I am in town. Any input is welcome.
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I was the only customer and the three dancers (in the 6 to 7 range... the belly dancers upstairs were hotter!) were bored stiff. The host apologized for the underwhelming scene and waived the cover. The dances are $25 with only nominal attention to rules and song length. I would presume that everything's negotiable, and there was even hint of a bedroom available somewhere upstairs.<br />
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I spent about $200 and had a great time, and left the girls a little happier as well. Overall fun and I might do it again, but if the cover had not been waived I would have felt like it was a scam. It also felt like if there WAS any kind of crowd, it would have been pretty awkward, because there's not much room to move around or sit & chat.<br />
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Definitely not HLDC caliber. I wish I knew someplace that was.</div>
The new Lido Room is Thursday nights in a huge 4,000 SF nightclub space in Midtown Manhattan near Bryant Park. The space has a long bar with a full selection of premium drinks, wine and beer, as well as bottle specials. There is a private lap dance area which is separated from the main floor area by colorful Japanese panel screens. In the lap dance area, there are about 15 full size leather sofas which are very comfortable and great for lap dancing.
The dancers were so young and fresh, and included some college and graduate students, and European women. The dancers ranged from 7 to the 9.5 range. I met this tall blonde from Prague who was incredible and sexy. Another favorite was this petite 21 year old Chinese girl who was cute as a blossom and was a finance major in college.
Granted, there is no club in Manhattan that is HLDC caliber, and there probably never will be, but the Lido Room is now a strong contender (without the private rooms and live shows). I had an amazing time at the Lido Room and I am looking forward to coming back.
I am realty impressed with the quality of the dancers at the Lido Room. My favorite is Sydnee who is a petite All American brunette with a killer body. There is also a tall blonde who is a professional model who is incredibly hot. The dancers have that perfect combination of being real hot, but still sweet girl-next-door types who are intelligent enough to carry on a conversation.
The Lido Room is tamer than HLD, but the dancers are HLD caliber. I am hooked on this place and have been telling all of my friends to go.
When I went to the Lido Room in 2009 and 2010, there were not 2 or 3 dancers, but 12 to 15 dancers. Now, there are 30 to 35 dancers at an event. It was not shabby, it was comfy and cool. The new venues are several notches better, however.
There was never any hint of a bedroom somewhere upstairs. Upstairs was a restaurant, hookah lounge and a kitchen. It was a clean club back in 2010, and it is a clean club in 2015.
But thanks for letting us know that it is "tamer than HLD" and "a clean club." The one advantage that HLD had over regular clubs was the edge factor, which made the email and scheduling factors worth it for some guys. If Lido is just a more scheduled SC experience, then I'm not sure what it has to offer over a place like G2K, which I can visit any time I please and get hot dances from hot girls.
Now don't get me wrong, I have always said that I believe that club owners/managers would do well to try to find ways to reach out to tusclers and peddle their wares, but this isn't the way to do it. Putting aside the theory that we are all nothing but extras hounds, the truth is that many tusclers are also good and regular club customers. Most people don't get to the point where they've posted for many years on a strip club review site if they haven't also dropped some serious coin in a number of clubs.
Wanna' show us you have something great? Then be straight up and tell us what you think you have to offer. Also feel free to make it easy for us to come and check your club out. Simple courtesies like a waived cover or a comped drink are often more than enough to entice the guys around here to check a place out.
Seriously now.
My comments on the Lido Room are based on several visits to the Lido Room's lap dance parties at various locations, including the more recent locations in the West Village, Rockefeller Center and Bryant Park.
I am going back to the Lido Room on Thursday with some friends because they are making it easy to check it out. In fact, their website says at http://www.thelidoroom.com/#!nextparty/c… they are offering with a VIP invitation:
Free admission for you and all guests before 8:30 pm
Free lap dance card after Midnight with paid admission
Free admission for the lady for any couple
750 ml bottle specials for $150 (plus tax and gratuity)
You can't get more enticing than that.
Relax. Let them shill away.
In any event, I would agree with @jerikson that the reviews should focus on what a club charges and might be offering.
I went to the last Lido Room party after work since the location was near my Office in Manhattan. The admission charge was $30, but they were offering free admission before 8:30 pm, so I arrive before the 8:30 pm time deadline. I just showed them my invitation on my smartphone and got right in. I went to the bar and had a mixed drink which was in the $10 to $12 range. I then had some lap dances which were $20 each. The lap dances were given in a semi-private lap dance area where there were about a dozen large leather couches. There was no extra charge for entering or using the semi-private lap dance area.
In my book, it was a great deal. You decide for yourself.
It would be refreshing if people who were incentivized to promote a club here would just be forthright about their intentions. In this particular instance, there are a lot of people posting on this board who are either based in NYC or visit the city for work. A straight up explanation of why you think your club is worth visiting, perhaps combined with some modest courtesy like a reduced/waived cover or a comped drink, would IMHO be a far more effective way to entice business from here than using shill posts.
On my follow up posts of January 8, I specified some of the reduced/waived covers and other specials offered by Lido, as well as the fact that there is no extra charge for the semi-private lap dance room.
So what's the point?
However, I agree with Emperor999 that with 8+ million people in NYC that any bickering is silly and that there is plenty of opportunity for all of these events.
I heard that the Lido Room's new Thursday night venue in Midtown West is sick.
The first floor has high ceilings, a full licensed bar, and a hookah seating area.
The lower level is devoted exclusively as a lap dance room with about 20 full size leather couches.
Above the second floor is a rooftop deck for hanging out and having a cigarette or cigar in the warm weather.
In February 2015, the username Emperor999 was formed to promote another party on this thread that is about the Lido Room.
All 4 of these usernames are fake usernames formed by a jealous competitor of the Lido Room.
Everything said by Lavins77 hillbert454 RedJohnson is false and malicious.
Everything said by Emperor999 is self serving promotion.
I give credibility to Username b0ssh0gg who has been a member of TUSCL since June 2009 and
has 16 reviews of 13 different clubs.
I agree with Username b0ssh0gg in his April 2 comment that the Lido Room dancers are "young, very attractive and low pressure" and "all natural" and that there are "not any extras to be had" at the Lido Room.
I will stand by my review comments of January 1 and February 8. Since then the Lido Room has only gotten better. They have expanded from two nights a week (Wednesday and Thursday) to four nights a week, by adding on a Tuesday event in the West Village venue and adding on a new Friday night event at their Rockefeller Center venue.
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Fill in the information including your email address for email updates and cell phone number for text messages.
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SJG
On this recent visit I first met this really cute blonde spinner from the UK. She couldn't have weighed more than 90-95 pounds but was proportioned well enough that she didn't look anorexic. She said it was her first event - friendly and good conversation although it seemed like she was either a bit drunk or on something, but can't say for sure. Anyway, went for a dance and at some point into the second song started DFKing me like no tomorrow. Maybe the most intense DFK lap dance I've ever had. We continued with this and mutual groping for a few more songs. When we finished I thought we had done 6 or 7 but since she's new I was only asked to pay for 4 dances. Not sure if she was keeping track. She looked at me and said "this is so surreal". I was like, um, yeah!
I then had dances with a couple of cuties that I knew from the Rock Center location. One was a cute American blonde named Charlie and the other a cute girl from Ireland named Heidi. Both give a great grind and allow titty sucking, although didn't DFK with them. One strange thing about some of the girls from previous visits is that they would DFK the first time I met them, but then wouldn't on my next visit. Not sure what that's about, but if I can have another experience like I did with the British spinner I won't worry about too much.