What are the google reviews like for some of your favorite spots?
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And how does it compare to the TUSCL reviews of the same place?
I was about to write this as a reply to another thread, but I figured it may be interesting to make this its own discussion.
I looked up the google reviews of Magic City in Atlanta. The reviews were mostly about the chicken wings.A couple of reviews mentioned waitresses. The reviews on dancers were few and far between.
I looked up Desire in Rhode Island, and one dancer’s review was pretty scathing albeit nitpicky (complaining that if you don’t carry your cash with you everywhere, then your money will get stolen? I’ve only known ONE club ever where dancers felt comfortable just leaving their cash in the dressing room) Most of the reviews were one sentence reviews from male customers saying something positive about the club.
I know a few years back, thanks to Google reviews, Palazio in Austin was shamed into allowing a couple of token black dancers work there, when they previously had none. They also were shamed into explicitly cracking down on some vip scamming nonsense. (Because somebody complained about getting rung for 5k when some dancers joined him in a booth unsolicited and he had no idea he was on the hook for paying them for their time and by how much)
I was gonna look at more clubs later from there. But honestly, I just don’t pay attention much. Google reviews has tended to be the tie breaker for me in the past. As in, if I didn’t know whether I wanted to go to club A or club B in a city, the amount of google reviews would sometimes be the tiebreaker. But then that often didn’t help me either, and sometimes I’d end up liking the other club better anyways.
I was about to write this as a reply to another thread, but I figured it may be interesting to make this its own discussion.
I looked up the google reviews of Magic City in Atlanta. The reviews were mostly about the chicken wings.A couple of reviews mentioned waitresses. The reviews on dancers were few and far between.
I looked up Desire in Rhode Island, and one dancer’s review was pretty scathing albeit nitpicky (complaining that if you don’t carry your cash with you everywhere, then your money will get stolen? I’ve only known ONE club ever where dancers felt comfortable just leaving their cash in the dressing room) Most of the reviews were one sentence reviews from male customers saying something positive about the club.
I know a few years back, thanks to Google reviews, Palazio in Austin was shamed into allowing a couple of token black dancers work there, when they previously had none. They also were shamed into explicitly cracking down on some vip scamming nonsense. (Because somebody complained about getting rung for 5k when some dancers joined him in a booth unsolicited and he had no idea he was on the hook for paying them for their time and by how much)
I was gonna look at more clubs later from there. But honestly, I just don’t pay attention much. Google reviews has tended to be the tie breaker for me in the past. As in, if I didn’t know whether I wanted to go to club A or club B in a city, the amount of google reviews would sometimes be the tiebreaker. But then that often didn’t help me either, and sometimes I’d end up liking the other club better anyways.
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Nothing like most TUSCL reviews, most of which give some idea of lineup, and prices, likely mileage to be had.
Sometimes just a single sentence can contain a lot of value. Oftentimes, a tuscl review can have info that doesn’t add value.
You really can’t rely on just one source.
@gsteph, do you think any comment about the bouncer is useful? I remember dancing in this small town (def smaller than Springfield/Eugene), and people commented on how prickly a certain bartender was, and they were correct.
Ww-yeah I do the same. Though I have to admit I completely ignore yelp. I actually deleted the app on my phone because I just don’t use it anymore. (Including for fast casual food)
@manuella Oooh, as in the dancers are required to wear cash rubber bands on them? Maybe that’s what that dancer meant. In that case, I retract what I said earlier and her complaint is completely legitimate. Ewwwww
Clubs I frequent have better reviews elsewhere.
The big problem with yelp or google is too many club ads as reviews.
If I saw a number of comments about bouncer, that would be worth taking in account, but a rare one might just be an Ahole like this fellow.
If someone is writing a fake review in order to get vip access, find the best clubs and visit them.. that means they should be visiting clubs and thus are able to review them.
My favorite club ever is Hong Kong, Tijuana. It looks like Google does NOT offer the opportunity to review the club itself, which is odd, because Hotel Cascadas, the adjoining hotel the club, has 800+ reviews, overwhelmingly positive, with an average of 4.5 / 5. I'd say that numerically, this aligns closely with HK's ratings on TUSCL where with a rating of 8.19/10 it lands number 1 on TUSCL's top 40. What the google reviews lack is any useful information about prices or mileage or any kind of explicit detail that you can get from TUSCL.
I also compared my current favorite US club, Booby Trap Pompano. On Google reviews it averages 3.8/5. Overwhelmingly people rate it a 5, but there's a minority of reviewers who had bad experiences and ding it with a 1. This is pretty similar to the trend on TUSCL, where BT's rating of 7.21 nets it a spot at number 26 on the Top 40. On both sites BT gets mostly positive reviews with a few bad ones sprinkled in.
But again, what google reviews lacks is any kind of explicit detail about mileage or prices that you see frequently on TUSCL.
I would say, google reviews would probably only be useful to me if I were in a new city with LOTS of club options. Google might be a way to narrow down which club I researched further on TUSCL.