Strip Club Memerships
samiel
DFW, Texas
About two years I bought a one year membership at my local club. Cost was $750 + tax + tip which amounted to about a grand. This included unlimited cover ($10-$20/day), unlimited VIP ($50/day), and unlimited cabana access/seating. If I went once a week, that would $3000+, so I thought it was a decent deal.
A few months later, another manager offered me 10 bottles for $1000 and a one year extension on my membership. I bought it for peak time access which was difficult to get at this club. Again I paid tax + tip.
I'm curious as to what membership has included for you guys or if you don't think it's worth it.
Additionally, I was wondering if I really needed to tip because I'm now thinking that the majority of that money is already going into the manager's pockets.
Coincidentally, my membership is expiring soon and I'm thinking of getting one at a new club. The initial offer has been unlimited cover, VIP access, and one hour in a skybox per week for $1500. Additionally, I'd get cabana access and access to other paid areas of the club included.
A few months later, another manager offered me 10 bottles for $1000 and a one year extension on my membership. I bought it for peak time access which was difficult to get at this club. Again I paid tax + tip.
I'm curious as to what membership has included for you guys or if you don't think it's worth it.
Additionally, I was wondering if I really needed to tip because I'm now thinking that the majority of that money is already going into the manager's pockets.
Coincidentally, my membership is expiring soon and I'm thinking of getting one at a new club. The initial offer has been unlimited cover, VIP access, and one hour in a skybox per week for $1500. Additionally, I'd get cabana access and access to other paid areas of the club included.
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BTW why the fuck would you tip for a membership even if you’re a sucker enough to buy one ?
As with everything in the hobby, it depends on the club and the management. If I was in a place like DFW (where samiel does his rounds based on his reviews and tagline) I'd look at memberships given the lackluster reputation of the scene for tuscl-approved mileage ITC.
Plus clubs have been pretty shaky for over a year now, and some towns are just getting rolling again. A couple of clubs local to me were taxing the hell out of VIP room access in 2020 because having up close and personal dances could get the whole place shut down if the wrong people saw them. If you wanted private dances ITC, it was VIP or nothing.
Then there was another year pre-pandemic where I was stuck for months in a town notorious for low mileage. The casuals weren't wrong in their reviews, but there's levels to the hobby and memberships were a way to power up once the girls were ok with more fun.
The only club I have bought a membership in lately was Diamond's Cabaret in Dayton because they require a membership to enter. I think it is something like $10 for a 2 month membership or $50 for a full year.
Also, no reason to tip on something like this, it would be like tipping when you buy one of the dvds magazines or cheesy shirts they sell at some clubs.
I see a membership investment similar to buying an extended warranty – i.e. not into them – not into paying big $$$ upfront for something that has a decent chance of not coming to fruition – w.r.t. clubbing, I’m a variety guy both w.r.t. dancers and clubs; so it would be hard for me to commit to big bucks upfront to a particular club but I can see it being worthwhile for some SCers.
I don’t plan my SC visits and mostly club when in the mood – there's also the risk a club may start becoming shitty for some reason – plus being a variety-PL I can’t see myself hitting the same club over and over and over again; not my thing – so for these reasons a membership would not appeal to me.
But now that I recall – I did sorta buy a “membership” once at Hardbodies in Arlington, TX back in the 2000s – the club had a communal dance area out-of-view of the main-area that cost I think $20 to use on a per-club-visit-basis (if I remember correctly) – I used to go to this club maybe 2x or 3x per month and they had a thing were you could pay I think $100 (for a year I believe; or maybe lifetime; can’t remember) to use the dance-area instead of paying per visit – anyway it was a fairly good deal and not a big upfront investment and I took it and used it on a couple of visits till I lost the card they had given me; after some time the club subsequently started sucking anyway and a couple of years later closed when the city wiped out the SC scene.
Did they offer any extensions on to it membership due to COVID closures?
As for me it wouldn’t be worth it because I travel too much and am not in any single club enough in a full year to justify the costs.
Back to the OPs original question - I have never seen offers like that at the clubs I frequent before. I could only see this happening in bug strip club cities like Dallas, Vegas, Phoneix, Tampa, Miami, etc. Not in the cities I frequent like Detroit, Cleveland, Columbus.
PTs just recently started offering VIP membership.
It’s a BYOB club.
$2,000 gets you free cover for you and two guests
($12-$25 value per person)
VIP area access $35 per person. Only good for the the member.
Free Skybox access for one hour for two instances ($250 value per instance)
Can't speak for the OP, but since I wasn't really traveling last year and was seeing the same clubs over and over I looked into a few memberships. To keep it simple, in my area the trend is about half the usual cost for what's looking like twice the time if bought around pandemic peak. Math like that works out pretty well.
No disrespect to anyone, but customers who spent most or all of last year on the bench aren't really grasping what the SC scene was like when any amount of dollars was getting attention ITC.
"I could only see this happening in bug strip club cities like Dallas, Vegas, Phoneix, Tampa, Miami, etc."
It's not the size of the city per se it's the size of the club/revenue and the types of customers it serves. Most of the people at the membership tier can pay the VIP cost per visit, but would rather put more of the cash toward the dancers. More fun for everyone that way.
At the time a 1 year card cost $250 and a life time card $500. I would not have paid for one. You never know how long a club is going to stay in business.
I don't do Club Lust, but I've thought about it. One guy I talked to said he likes it because he can go on a busy weekend night and get some separation between him the loud crowds, and the punters in a bachelor party. So, in some forms the membership might be tailored to older guys looking for quieter times.
As others have said, it depends on the club's management and layout.
My tribe has worn enough suits, stroked enough managers, and greased enough bouncers for lifetime access everywhere we go.
It’s great to be a rick! ROAR!!!
It's usually the other way around from what I've seen. The VIPs have already shown they'll spend if inclined. Managers don't have to sort out if it's worth a little extra effort for potential gain, so it's easier to get to yes.
I guess it depends on management, but clubs will take care of members first as a general rule.
My friend thinks I am the prince of Rhode Island strip clubs, when I go maybe 2x on a flush week.
That's all the VIP I want.
Alternatively, I could pay $300 (is it still that?) for quarterly membership to Lust, to talk to the same girls in a different setting. Same mileage, same girls (maybe a few more bashful ones), better food (which I don't SC for). I don't see the point of it.
Not to derail the thread, but notice the most hated TUSCLers are the ones who tell people the "right way" to club. Unless it affects me, I won't.
I remember regular clubs used to let you buy a bottle and have it at the club...so free entry and seating and drinks from your bottle.
I don't think club memberships are worth it when you factor in expected tips for the services included in it.
The risk is that you won't go often enough to reap the benefit, or the club has to close for a pandemic and can't provide the service you paid for, or changes management and the new ones don't honor the membership, etc.
No club here in Louisville offers such a membership that I know of, and even if they did, I'm not sure I'd trust any of them to not dick with it to make it worthless.