All the clubs where I live have alcohol, decent to great contact dances, and the dances only cost $10 (and some places even $5). How much do dances cost where you live?
How can you afford to go to places that charge $20, $30, or more for dances and still have fun? I need at least 10-15 per trip to enjoy myself, but that would be extremely difficult if I had to shell out $30 or more for dances, especially if the contact is minimal on top of that.
In the high end Detroit clubs, dances cost $25, and in the lower end clubs they cost $20. Bogart's has $10 dance specials on Tuesdays, but I think the price is too high for these dumpster strippers.
In my favorite clubs the dances are done in private booths. I generally spend $300 to $400 on "lap dances."
Be very pickey
I need cheap prices because I'm underpaid for all the work I do. Then they always ask me to get it done in miracle time. Then they want me to save them thousands of dollars a year too on some cost savings project and also want me to figure out how to work 4 times as fast as the year before, plus find more projects to work on as a goal. Then my boss fusses if I do not do everything exactly like he wanted in record time.
Fortunately I club in Atlanta just like you. Occasionally I get out on the road and hit clubs in other towns. I have my personal limit of no more than $20 per dance. I have never paid more and I refuse to do so. I would rather go without.
In my area [MO/KS] $20 per is pretty much the going rate with one notable exception [$10 per in an 'open' VIP area]. The $10 per is in a private club with both alcohol and potential full nudity on stage. But dancer quality and quantity varies a lot, dancers often spend most of the evening with regulars, and often don't go fully nude even with tipping.
If you want lappers you pay $20, wait for a few 2fers or go without.
Nevertheless, you become very selective with potential girls and respond quickly to changes in dance 'quality' at area clubs, always prepared to switch clubs when out clubbing.
Where you live in U.S. makes a big difference -- "When in Rome....."
I spend upwards of $40 - $50 sometimes for nude dances. It's worth it for the quality of dancers that it buys. About 20 miles away the nude dances are $15 - $20 but the quality of dancers is marginal at best. It depends on what you are in the mood for and what you can afford.
Yeah, it's going to be different in different places. Travel around the country and you'll see quite the range in prices.
In Milwaukee, $20/dance is the lowest anyone goes. Even the "special" is two for $40, with the "special" featuring a T-shirt, a hat, a free admission pass, a cheap porn DVD, whatever. The high end is $35/dance with three for $90. Keep in mind, there's only a few clubs around here with a halfway decent selection, otherwise you're driving 45-120 minutes out of your way.
In Chicago, cheapest I've seen is $25/dance. $35 is common. Go to Indianapolis, however, and Brad's used to be $10/dance (think it's gone up since the last time I went). It's hard to gauge the pricing scheme in Detroit because so many other services can be negotiated.
There's only so much control we have over the market.
I consider myself fortunate to have a club 10 mins away now where I can get 2-way contact, topless lap dances @ $20.
For years my choices were $60 ($100 for topless) for 2 cut-short songs at the Paper Moon, or drive 1.5+ hours.
Lapdances are almost universally $20 or $22 here. PTs is $30, with two for one during the afternoon. A couple othe places do two for one at the $20 level for part of the day shift.
I can "afford" that because lap dances per se aren't what I go for. I get one or two at a time from a select few dancers, generally one or two per visit, and then go to VIP for some negotiated fun.
2 for $25, 5 for $50. Topless only but sometimes you get a peek of the kitty. Songs are about 2 min. each.
I don't have a problem paying up to 25 per dance, but any price above that is unreasonable in my view. I try hard not to support clubs with prices above that level, but occasionally travel makes this impossible. Los Angeles seems to have the most clubs with prices in the stratosphere from my experience. I even went to a club there that was trying to charge $50 for one dance. Insane. If I must visit a high-priced club because it is the only thing available in the town I'm in, there are several strategies I employee to minimize the pain.
Be very aggressive about seeking volume discounts like two for ones. Don't wait for the hourly specials. If you want to dance from a girl, tell her you will do it but only with a volume discount. As long as the club is not particularly busy, I find a lot of success with this. This usually gets the price down to a reasonable price per dance.
If there is no volume discount offered, I'm only paying a high price for a girl that is exceptionally beautiful, and one that promises lot of contact. In other words, I get far fewer dances and am much more picky at high price levels. I don't have as much fun, but I save money in the end.
By the way, charging outrageous prices is a horrible way to manage a strip club. It is absolutely clear to me from talking to many people that the club and the girls make less money under this sort of a system. Everyone makes a lot more money at lower prices because most of the guys are buying a number of dances. It's the same principle at work that makes Walmart so successful.
Where I go prices vary. The most expensive club has $30 dances, but they are 2/45 3 days a week and often include a hj or bj, so is a bj for $90 expensive? Another has $25 dances, but they are $10 from noon to one every day and 2/30 m3 days a week. The third club has $20 topless dances and 15 min cr's at $100 and 30 min cr's at $190. My fav has $25 topless dances in full privacy where you can test drive the women before a $130 15 minute cr with full nude, full contact and extras. The Inner Room cabaret in Florida where we golf has $10 full contact dances.
$15/$20 topless, $30/$40 nude are the norm around my parts. I spend a lot but then again, extra, extra, read all about it.
I'm in a TERRIBLE area for SC's.
I have 7 clubs where I live (all pastie clubs), and ALL of them have over-priced dances. The Paper Moon has a 2 for 1 "special" but it costs $50 bucks and the two songs are short. And to make things worse, you have to pre-pay.
You can't get an actual lap dance at the Paper Moon without paying anything less than $50. I say actual lap dance, because they do offer table dances (for $20), but these are complete air dances and you'd be better off flushing your loot down the toilet than buying one of these.
$20 per dance is expensive. I usually pay only $12 to $15 per dance by buying two or more.
I'm buying less and less dances. Many of the dancers want too much money or two for ones are only offered once an hour in one club. It's not as much fun just to watch girls on stage. However I am saving a lot more.