Road Trips

A quick and easy method would be to use the "Clubs" link above by state and look at the top rated clubs in the states that interest you. Copy and paste the addresses of clubs that interest you into the directions section of Google Maps, which will allow you look at as many points of interest as you wish. Google maps would express succinctly any geographical shortcomings upfront and you could create a more orderly route. Kudos to this site for allowing the possibility of a monger's trip plan with an hour or two of research!

As a bit of a road warrior myself, a have a few ideas on this topic.

First, I don't really find the top lists on here to be much help. Sometimes there is no substitute for careful reading of reviews and some on the ground research.

Second, tuscl lists just under 2,500 clubs in the U.S. While that may seem like a big number, the number of clubs in any particular geographic area is usually manageable. So if you isolate a certain number of geographic areas that you are considering a trip through, you should be able to get a handle on the state of affairs with a couple of hours of work.

Third, in my experience, rarely are the best clubs located in the boonies, so targeting small to large cities may help you to further focus your efforts. I skimmed through the clubs that you have reviewed and, outside of the Vegas tourist traps, many of your club visits seem to be ROI plays. The U.S. cities in which strong value may be found are not exactly a mystery in these parts (Providence, COI and San Fran (CA), Detroit, Houston, Miami and Pasco County (FL), etc.).

Fourth, once I have my target geographic areas picked out, I find the tuscl map function to be very useful. It provides broad enough search results that clubs in outlying suburbs are usually captured. For example, if you search for Dallas clubs, the results are spread out as far as Fort Worth, which is 40 minutes away.

Now I'm not going to tell you what you should be looking for in your road trips, but I tend to like areas with good amenities and a lot of strip club options. Not only does this prevent a hit and miss SC visit from ruining my whole evening, but it also means that I can stay someplace nice and find a variety of good food and bar options. I am getting a little too old to enjoy eating Dominos pizza at a Motel 6 just because the hotel is next to some out of the way strip club.

Outside of the high mileage areas that I highlighted above, there are a number of other areas that have one or two high value clubs mixed in with a number of more restrictive places. These can be a little harder to find, but if you have isolated your search to a few target areas then you should be able to filter them out through a little research. However, if one is planning a road trip based almost exclusively upon strip club ROI, then one might be better served by targeting the areas that are known to be higher mileage.

Anyway, all of this is just my two cents for whatever it is actually worth.

rick - thanks for a thoughtful and informative reply. And I agree this site is a great resource. Next week I am off on a run and I have been thinking 'what could make this route planning easier?' for the last couple of days. Just wondered if anyone else had done the same and if they knew shortcuts that I haven't learned yet.

Very much appreciate the comments and look forward to any other replies.

I think Rick pretty much nailed it.

The ratings lists are F-ing useless. Savannah's on Hanna (currently #5 on the TUSCL home page) is NOT the best club in PA (unless there's something I'm missing on the mileage front) and it's NOT remotely comparable to clubs in TJ, Florida, among others. (I'm not implying that SOH is bad, just not that good to be top #10 overall)

I like and admire you idea, but any sorting attempt will be undermined by the inherent problems with the ratings in the first place.

My main complaint about the map feature is that the user cannot vary the search radius. (it is also annoying the the map by default centers itself on the club closest to a location not a arbitrary location on the map, but I can mostly live with that) When I'm in a metro area the current display radius is fine, but it's usually not helpful to me for rural areas. Being able to map along a route (like mapquest) would be cool.

Most of my travel is work related, so I don't get to pick when I'm going. I just try to find the best option(s) that are resonantly close to my destination. Plus, I hate night driving. So all my road tripping in during the day. Thus, not much open club wise during the day in most places. Again, I'm limited to what's close to where I'm spending a night. Also, it nice to have other things to do when the clubs are not open, so IMO other amenities of a location factor in as well.

623: Create your own spreadsheet with your requirements and plugin the clubs that your research shows hits your target zone. This site works well for the general area visit, but no site that I'm aware of has a hobbyists road trip by categories guide. This site does supply the info necessary to produce your own list and then plug ithe addresses into Google, or Mapquest, to figure out the logistics. There are also some articles on clubs in certain regions found on this site that could also be useful in your quest. I've never made a trip to an out of town club that I haven't researched ahead of time. TUSCL is my prime reference and hasn't led me astray even if my experience was different than expected. What I personally would like to see is a road trip section that recommends clean and convenient hotel accommodations to certain shouldn't miss out of town clubs.

mjx - excellent idea that would be most helpful, varying the map radius. The trouble I have with the current mapping/lists is that, in a strange area I don't always (almost never) know the names and general location of the towns listed as soon as they aren't the big ones.

Cutting and pasting into mapping options seems much too much like work when the data is already in a mapping interface.

When I am in a strange town for a couple days, it is easy to drive an hour or two in any direction if the promise of a must visit club is there, but many areas (CA, FL, TX and others) are too big to cover without significant preplanning. Also, what about bordering states?

Knowing the distance clubs are from a point would be a great addition, direction would help a lot too. (e.g. are all the best places north of me now? etc.)

This site used to have a proximity search option by plugging in a zip code but that disappeared several years ago. I don't know why, maybe it wasn't accurate enough then?

Others, most notably rick, has posted some good advice. In particular, his advice to choose a city of some significant size/population is sound advice. (Places like HH- Kokomo, etc, may very well be the exception, but see next paragraph.............)

To that, I'd add have some other reasons/activities in mind for a particular city in case clubbing visits don't pan out as expected. In short, don't let stripclubs be the driver for choosing your roadtrip destinations.

In a similar vein, you're being too analytical/programmed about choosing a stripclub destination. The time spent developing/prioritizing/point weighting of certain criterion, communicating aforementioned to founder, followup evaluation/ refinement would be better spent just reading between the lines in your "targeted clubs/areas" reviews section.

I think I'll put a sticky in my profile on how I scout out potential clubs in new cities. Basically, I select clubs with a significant number of reviews rated above 7 (in some cases above 6), then take a more focussed look at individual reviews to rank the clubs that I wish to visit. Not a perfect correlation (My rankings don't always correspond with clubs point rankings), but one that has generally worked for me.

Sounds like you don't have access to a map! Look at a map and find cities, towns and suburbs near your destination! I travel a lot and not knowing where I am or where I am going is not an option. But then I am a map junkie and others may not be?

I have had no trouble using TUSCL for prescouting strip clubs where I am heading. And I really like scouting out new clubs and new dancers so it is lots of fun. I have hit a few duds but thanks to TUSCL it has been a hell of a ride so far this year. Planning for a trip to Portland next month.

And I have not had any issues using the map function on this site. Google Maps works great too. Have fun and good luck. Looking forward to you future reviews.

@623... I don't remember a zip code search on TUSCL. There used to be a link to a blank map that you just clicked on and it took you to the nearest club when you click on the map. (the citie maps can be used in the same fasion if you zoom out and reclick the center)

The only zip code SC search I know if is on anothe site but I'm not going to promote them here becuase that site sucks and they don't update anything

mjx - The zip code search was most probably before 2009 when you joined. There used to be quite a few features that are no longer on the site - like a list of the most reviewed clubs and a list of the users who had contributed the most reviews.

I find the rating numbers to mostly be useful when comparing clubs in near proximity to each other. A 7.0 in new Mexico is NOT the same as a 7.0 club in Houston or Detroit.

Also, say you are traveling to Northern California so you look at the California listing - are you going to be within visiting distance to Rosamund, La Puente or Winterhaven. You could cut and paste to mapping software, or go old school and study a paper map but there could also be an easier way. That's all I was commenting on.