Attempte rip off at the Porthole Be advised
twentyfive
Living well and enjoying my retirement
Went to Port hole on Wednesday,7/20, arrived 7:05 PM, they're collecting entrance fee from 7PM now it's $10 entry, talent sucked, and I've never had an issue here before, but finally after seeing a dancer that wasn't totally ugly, maybe a 6, but she was a fun conversationalist, the dancer in cahoots with the chunky floor guy tried to rip me off for $20, after we did 4 dances I gave her $100 chunky floor guy tried to rip me off after doing 4 dances gave her $100 dollars and as I left they started in that I owed them $20 dollars more for the booth, I told them to get lost, and another chunky floor guy came over and tried to intimidate me, I quickly told them to get fucked, and left, just want to let everyone here know whats going on , and unfortunately I didn't get the dancer's name but she was a short thick AA with long hair and a big butt, I have been going to the Porthole on and off for at least 25 years, and never had anyone ever tried shit like this with me, I don't know if i will return as I'm not sure who the manager is any more, but guys be warned.
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With Cheetah up for sale, DD/PH seemingly in decline, and BT being it's usual inconsistent self, Solid Gold/Gold club could maybe finally take advantage and get established. Or the whole area could fall to shit and be nothing but a bunch of clip-joints and wannabe exclusive party spots.
Ever since Solid Gold reopened, I have been hoping to see them take over the Pompano market, but if the 6 cars in the parking lot yesterday afternoon is any indication, sadly this does not seem to be the case.
It was a double booth but the place wasn’t crowded and we had the booth to ourselves
@Iknowbetter
I agree I had high hopes for solid gold went there a few times with some other TUSCLers but I don’t understand why they can’t seem to get traction last few weeks I’ve been to Cheetah which has never been a perfect fit to me, but they are well run and they do have the best girls in the area, if cheetah would provide a bit more light and lower the volume they’d be better.
I think they might have tried to extort more, but I tend to belligerent real quick, and I don’t come across like someone who will take getting ripped off well, so that might have worked in my favor.
But yeah you have to stand your ground or they'll push you as much as they can.
Buy I've seen bouncers go as far as sticking their hands in guys pockets to take their wallets out. I think this kind of shit is going to get worse
Think you'll be afraid. It's very important to be assertive.
I don't know about there but in la some bouncers are illegally armed and in Vegas they have taser and pepper spray. Managers have guns in their offices. And cops tend to look the other way when something happens to customers
Jes sayin
One needs to be into dives and not expect a 7-up dancer-crew in order to enjoy this club – the more a PL is into clubs like Cheetah or Diamond Dolls or Tootsies; the less one will be into a club like Porthole – Porthole is at best a “niche club” and will not appeal to most SCers.
I think the time you hit it (start of nightshift) was likely a bad-move – in 2021 I hit this club a couple of times on nightshift and it was pretty-unbearable – especially later into the night, the club gets packed w/ a bit shady-looking crowd and it turns mostly into a house-party with everyone hanging-out like it was a seedy-bar (including a good # of female custies) and hardly anyone going to the booths for dances – perhaps if you hit it by 5pm the latest it may still be doable although this club has been trending downwards even b/f Covid but IMO nightshift even more so.
I’ve had an issue here or there with some ghetto-dancers but not many – and never really had an issue with the staff (except the nighttime Russian guy but he hadn’t been there in a long time and I wasn’t much of a nightshift visitor anyway) – but SCs are often in-flux and who’s running them can change at any time and thus change the way the club runs and its vibe – so who knows who’s in charge now especially who’s running the nightshift operations.
It looks like they were trying to hustle you w.r.t. the booth charge – but, there’s an outside-chance this may be a new change; perhaps only implemented at night – i.e. perhaps the club *has* instituted a booth-charge and perhaps only at night?
I know I've run into situations where a dancer has claimed that dances were more expensive in certain areas that were slightly more secluded even when no other dancer at the club charged more for that area. I generally do the same thing and stand my ground and leave at that point. I have never had a bouncer or other employee try to say the same thing like you experienced.
The way this club, and its sister club Diamond Dolls, works, is that the dancers gotta give the house $5 out of every song they do in the shared-booths (LDs in the shared-booths are $25/song and the dancer pays the house $5/song) – then there is the single/non-shared dance-booth which is 3-songs-for-$100 but in this case the dancer has to give the house $25 – pre-Covid some of the girls were saying the single booth was now 3-for-$125 but IDK if that was a new club rule or the dancer wanting to tack-on her $25 payment so she didn’t have to pay for it.
w.r.t. @twentyfive it could be that they were trying to run a new hustle were they wanna charge the custy the $5/song the dancer has to pay the club so she can keep the whole $25 instead of $20/song.
“Maybe if there were 6 or 7”
The coolest thing about getting old is we still think we can pick up the hottest girl in the bar and kick everyone else’s ass. I swear, I hope this never changes.
Is it really like that?
Pick the one you want, then FRMOS. Save booths and back rooms until you need them. For one thing these are toll gates. For another, it is easier to lead the interaction with the girl in the front room.
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FRMOS, save booths, back rooms and special seating areas until you really need them
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If you ever decide to return make sure there are some familiar faces there who you can ask about any changes in policy, room charges, etc. I assume the old guard is trustworthy since you never had any problems. If you don't see any familiar faces, just leave. You don't want to take a chance and possibly experience another rip off which might not end in your favor.