North-FL/South-Ga Roadtrip - TR 1 of 3
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NOTES:
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+ this is kinda a long wordy review of a small-black club visit, thus skip it if short on time or patience or the subject-matter does not interest you
+ this review is part of a 3-part PL-trilogy/road-trip - all 3 reviews will have the same Intro section thus no need to re-read the Intro section if reading the other 2 reviews (reviews are for Tru Playas, Sinsations, and Inner Room)
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Will break up this review into 4-sections:
I) Intro
II) Club Layout
III) Visit
IV) Conclusion
I) INTRO:
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Been a SCer going close to 20 years w/ the last 5 years or so of hardcore SCing after having joined TUSCL and becoming a professional-PL - over the last year+ my SCing felt like going thru the motions and didn't excite me as it had done in years past (kinda a "been there done that" feeling) - I assume I had just overdone the SCing over the last few years, or maybe it's just other things affecting my ability to enjoy SCing as I used to, IDK.
Anyway - it was Thursday and had the afternoon off and had Friday off - I was feeling bored and unmotivated to do anything so just went with the "fuck-it strategy" and decided on the spur of the moment to take a little weekend roadtrip to get away from the same-ole same-ole.
In the past when I felt like this I'd hit Inner Room in Cocoa Beach about a 3-hour drive from my crib in Miami - it was a nice little getaway and I liked Inner Room and Cocoa Beach as they were both a very different vibe w.r.t. Miami (both the club and the area) - but Inner Room has not been as much to my liking post ownership change ~2 years ago.
My PL-roadtrip consisted of a stop in Cocoa Beach on Th afternoon; a layover in Jacksonville Th eve - and then hitting the Hinesville area in southern GA on Fr eve to hit a little-known small little black club in Midway GA called Tru Playas that got on my radar via TUSCL a little while back - also hit Inner Room in Cocoa Beach as well as Sinsations in Jacksonville which I will also review.
II) CLUB LAYOUT:
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This "club" is located in Midway, GA in the outskirts of Hinesville - Hinesville is a smallish-city but seems to have a little of everything (i.e. it's not as if you are in the middle of nowhere) - I've only lived in Miami and Dallas and I'm not well-traveled thus I don't have much experience w/ small towns and cities around the US and didn't know what to expect - the Hinesville area has the large Ft Stewart army base which I assume is what gives it a lot of the resulting infrastructure but IDK what else may be of note in the area - per Google:
"... Garrison facilities at Hunter Army Airfield. Fort Stewart / Hunter AAF houses approximately 21,000 active duty members, 29,500 family members and more than 3,500 personnel, including civilian employees and National Guard Soldiers ..."
The club being in the outskirts is kinda on a bit of desolate semi-country road - the "club" is actually set back about a 1/4 mile off the road down what is pretty-much just a trail that as far as I could tell ended at the club - I couldn't really tell it being nighttime but it just seemed like some old abandoned farm that is being used as a "strip club" - the "club" itself seems like an old farmhouse or some kinda old farm building
About a quarter-mile down the trail you first encounter a little standalone shed where you pay the cover and you get a wristband (the wristband allows you to leave and comeback the same night) - then you proceed about a 100 yards past the shed to the actual "club" where you get patted down at the entrance by a friendly southern gentleman (no fee for parking).
Once past the entrance the main-room where the dancers are is at the end of the building to your left - the front of the building has some open rooms with some tables and chairs/sofas and a TV or two where a few people seem to sit and hangout.
When you reach the end of the building and make a left, there is a small-area which is a dance-area - the dance-area has a couple of sofas out in the open as well as 3 or so small-booths w/ a curtain - in the corner of the dance-area is the entrance to the main-room per se where the stage is and most of the custies and dancers are hanging.
The main-room is a smallish rectangular-area with a low rectangular stage in the middle of the room that runs most of the length of the main-room (stage is low an open w/ no barriers thus easy access to the dancers) - there are chairs against the wall along the perimeter of the main-room - the whole setup is very basic and looks like something just thrown together - very basic and why I use "club" in quotations - it's more like an old farmhouse where someone is throwing a house-party w/ a few strippers (no fancy lights, sound-system, nor DJ that I recall, no bar, etc) - just a stage, some chairs, and some sofas and booths - there is a "bar-area" outside the dance-area but it's just a counter of sorts that you walk up to where you can get some change and buy some beer and wine which is stored in a refrigerator like one would have at home.
III) VISIT:
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As has been mentioned in the few previous reviews, this place is only open on Fr and Sat eves after midnight (again, not really a club but more like a "club").
I arrived on a Fr eve around midnight - paid the $15 cover at the shed that's a 100-yards or so b/f the actual club (not sure if the cover increases later in the night - was told the club goes till about 5 or 6 in the morning but there's not exactly a set time for closure) - when you pay the cover you get a wristband which allows you to leave the club and come back w/o having to pay a cover again (no charge for parking).
Made my way to the back of the building where you hang a left to go to the "main-room" area - prior to entering the main-room there is a staff person there asking if you if you have $1s - huh? - from what I could tell you can't enter the room if you don't have $1s even if you have $$$ (WTF is this?) - I was kinda prepared for this having read a previous review where the reviewer had mentioned this "idiosyncrasy" - I said I didn't have $1s so the staff person told me to go to the bar-area and get some - I got about 40 in $1s and went back to the main-room but not b/f the staff-person asked me to show him I had $1s b/f letting me enter the "main-room" area (WTF).
Went inside the small-rectangular "main-room" - the "club" was mostly empty at this time just a bit past midnight - maybe 2 or 3 PLs and maybe 5 or so dancers - along w/ their obsession with $1s there is a large painted sign on the wall saying "Make It Rain!".
On any visit I like to sit for a bit and get my bearings especially in a club unknown to me (especially a "peculiar" club such as this) - no "getting your bearings" in this motherfucker - as soon as you sit your PL-ass down, every dancer comes up to you to shake her ass in front of you expecting you start automatically and immediately relieving yourself of all those $1s they force you to get - almost feels like a damn racket and like you're getting jacked - they force you to get $1s - the dancers know you can't be in the room w/o $1s - so they pretty-much come up to you w/o permission nor you asking them to come over and seem to want/expect you just start throwing your $1s - black-clubs are my thing b/c I love the black-woman's body, but that fucking tipping-$1s and rain-making obsession I personally find annoying AF - to each their own of course - it's just that it almost seems obligatory or at least expected in many AA clubs.
Anyway - I was there 10-minutes and probably went thru 30-singles with different bitches walking up to me shaking their ass in front of me (not even making contact) - I was able to do some groping but still that's not the way I like to club - I like, and used to, just paying a set price for a dance - w/ the tipping $1s shit I'm never sure if I'm paying too-much or not paying her enough, I find it annoying especially with the girls coming up to you uninvited and shaking their ass in front of you expecting you give up those $1s (I'm pretty sure I could have just waved them off but then I'd just be sitting there twiddling my thumbs looking at the wall; felt like a "when in Rome ..." kinda thing).
There were only two other PLs there and they were also being attacked and giving up the $1s - so it's not as if I could hide and just sit there although I suppose I could - anyway after tipping about 30-singles the dancers kept coming back and I just started waiving them off - briefly talked to one of the girls and she said the club doesn't get going and more girl arriving till after 2am when the other spots in the area (dance-clubs, etc) close - decided to head back to my hotel b/c my only choice was to sit there twiddling my thumbs or be continuously tipping $1s for some mere ass-shaking.
Since I had come this far - I decided to come back after 2am - ended up getting back to the club a bit b/f 3am and there was a pretty-good crowd by now w/ maybe 12 to 15 dancers or so which was a decent # for this small club (didn't have to pay a cover again by showing the wristband they had given me earlier in the night) - but it was all disorganized and shit - again this place is more like a house-party someone is throwing than a club - went to the "bar" but there's no line and people just bumrush the counter - anyway got some more obligatory $1s and bought a Bud-Lite for 3 or 4 bucks - went into the main-room and it was like a disorganized house-party - chicks dancing on and off the stage and around the perimeter of the room - no stage-rotation or shit - just do w/e the fuck you want - pretty-much it was just chicks shaking their ass and brothas obliging with the tipping-$1s for mostly just some ass-shaking - too disorganized for my taste - again I prefer to just pay a set price per dance and get a proper dance.
The girls were avg - most of them slim or slim-thick at most but didn't see any supa-thick ones which is my pref - some cute ones here or there but for the most-part just avg looking chicks and my standards are not high - the talent didn't inspire me to wanna get dances and the vibe also didn't inspire me to invest my funds - at least at this time (past 3am) it was busy w/ a good # of custies that seemed to enjoy the tipping-$1s exercise so I could just stand to the side and just observe w/o having chick after chick coming up to me for $1s (I don't mind spending $$$ and usually spend pretty-well, but I like to spend it my way) - I assume I could have gotten some non-ass-shaking-tipping-$1s dances in the dance area (area w/ some sofas and a couple of booths) that immediately precedes the main-room/stage-area-room, but:
+ the dancers seemed to just prefer to shake their ass for $1s
+ there were people hanging out and just standing around in the dance-area so no privacy
+ I saw one dancer giving a dance in the couch area outside the main-room and it seemed almost the same as in the main-room/stage-area, her shaking her ass in front of the guy
+ the booths seemed private but all of them had the curtains opened and unused as if this is just a shake your ass and tip $1s kinda place
I assume I could have had some decent action other than just tipping $1s, but the vibe nor the dancers nor the disorganization inspired me to part with my funds - this club may be alright for some, but didn't work for me - after being in there 10-minutes on my first visit around midnight, I only spent about 30-minutes when I returned near 3am and decided to end the experiment.
And that was my Tru Playas experiment - by the time I left ~3:30am there were a good # of cars in the lot and more people arriving so it seems a thing to do in these parts on late weekend nights - there were a good # of female custies also - again felt kinda like a house-party but the mood was light and friendly w/ people just enjoying doing their thing (didn't really feel too-thuggy as compared to many black SCs I hit particularly on nightshift).
As a side-note - the road the club is on is kinda desolate and it's 4-lanes and not much traffic - so easy to speed - seems there are cops that lurk in the shadows of the main-road - I saw a car pulled over as I was heading back to the club near 3am - when I was driving back to my hotel 30 to 40 minutes later, the cop still had what looked like to me the same car pulled over (or maybe he had pulled over someone else but seemed like the same car) - i.e. if you find yo self in this area late at night, take heed.
IV) CONCLUSION:
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As mentioned in the Intro, this roadtrip was more of just getting away from the same-ole same-ole for a couple of days vs looking for some great SC action. My Tru Playas visit was more out of curiosity just to see what it was like - I didn't necessarily go in w/ any high expectations but was kinda curious if there would be some different type of girls kinda small-town/city kinda country girls and wondering how they may look; I thought perhaps there would be some hidden country/small-town gems since I don't have experience w/ small cities/towns - the talent was alright, I could've had a good-time w/ some of the girls - it's not as if I was turned-off by them; just that the club M.O. was not for me (I assume if I was more familiar and comfortable w/ the club that I could have a good time in the private-booths but I just didn't click w/ the vibe of the place and again the visit was more of a recon/curiosity thing) - I got the impression the girls were kinda parttime dancers that just shake their ass for $1s on the weekend for some extra cash, vs them being full-time career strippers - they didn't seem to be too-proactive about doing much else other than shaking their ass for $1s.
I was kinda disappointed w/ Tru Playas but not necessarily disappointed I made the trip - it was interesting to see a different type of America from what I'm used to - I assume typical of most small cities/towns, the people I encountered were friendly and unassuming so I did like that small city/town laidback friendly vibe in the day-and-a-half I was there although I couldn't see myself living in an area like that (I'm not a boondocks outdoor-loving kinda person) - it was interesting to see little country-roads shooting off of the main-road especially in the outskirts and seeing small-houses on large-plots set back from the road w/ large distances b/w houses - again not something I experienced b/f so it was an interesting to see.
I wouldn't make another trip to the area but if I ever have to drive past this area on I-95 I'd probably stop in and give it a bit more of a PL-effort. As a last-note, if you ever find yo self contemplating a visit, not really worth-it b/f 2am unless you wanna be continuously pestered for your $1s while practically being the only PL in the main-room
Da End.
