Not a place to relax unless you've got a lot of cash
My intuition told me to use the car service, Barcelona Strip Club (or Strip Club Barcelona, there are 2 different websites promising the same service). If the websites are to be believed, they'll take you wherever you want for free, and get you in for 25 euros entry and 2 drinks (there are other packages as well). They also offer you the choice of looking first before settling in for the night. Instead, I opted to go on my own, so I was hit with a 50 euro entry and an offer of 20 euros for 2 drinks. ( I could have chosen 40 euro entry and one drink for 10, but after being informed that drinks inside were 20, I opted for the hit up front.)
I knew it was trouble as soon as I paid. The place was packed, but not with customers. There must have been 25-35 girls packed into a small bar with a long, skinny oval dance stage in the middle of the room. A set of banquette seats and tables were off to the side. Rooms (presumably) were nearby. Upon entry, I was immediately set upon by 2 dancers, one Iranian and gorgeous, @ 28, simply stunning, and another, older spanish girl in her early to mid 30s. They would not quit, despite stubborn and consistent demurrals on my part that I was there for the show and not for company, at least not till I'd settled in. They refused to leave for a solid 20 minutes before the older one left the Iranian to go it alone. I speak Spanish well, but they also spoke English well, so we flitted back and forth between the two languages.
We talked a little further and the Iranian pushed for me to get a room to take her upstairs. She wouldn't go into how much anything would cost, just that my good time would "depend on me." When all I wanted was a dance, she offered a half an hour's dance for 50 euros, but I'd have to buy her a drink for 20 euros. We talked a little further about what "a dance" included and just how long "30 minutes" was before buying her a drink and moving off the barstools. The 30 minute dance was really just one extended dance for @ 1 song and a half. Then it was back on with the clothes and the upsell. I agreed to one more try at dancing and paid for it, and though it lasted a little longer, and there was plenty of contact above, there was none allowed below and strictly no kissing allowed.
She kept pushing for the room upstairs and the time we would have which "would depend on me." I never did find out just how much would depend on me, but I could tell it was gong to be more than I was willing to part with. The room was going to be 200 euros, that much was definte. There was going to be a bottle of champagne involved, I don't know the price, but I don't imagine it was going to be cheap. That left the pricetag for any fun still to be determined, but if a straight fuck at a bare bones brothel like Apricot is 95 for an hour, it's a pretty sure thing she was going to want twice that at a place like Bacarra that fancies itself to be upscale. So the evening, if carried to completion, had a strong chance of reaching the 5-600 euro mark, and that's too rich for me.
On the way out, the bouncer pushed Club Darling on me as not very far away and worth seeing, so I would imagine they're owned by the same folks.
That Iranian was outstanding, I'll give her that, and she was definitely one of the top 5 in the club that night. Mostly a lot of 6's and 7's. But not worth the aggressive upsell and the overpriced drinks.
