I am having trouble understanding how...

I am having trouble understanding how these girls received an 8 composite rating on this site. I gave them a regionally adjusted 6, which may be a touch unfair but this bunch could be found in some mid-tier club in almost any small city in America. This was not what I was expecting from a place as heavily marketed and as expensive as this, especially in Manhattan. I counted maybe 11 girls, 3 of them black and the rest white. Many of them had a bit of padding and almost half were not very pretty. What was most discouraging was to see two truly hot girls sitting at a side table together, only to learn that they were not dancers, but just massage girls. One girl explained that she couldn't get hired at Ricks, but that they sent to this club instead. This, along with the overall mediocre talent level, made me wonder if this is the club where the Ricks rejects go.

Another surprise was how small the club is. There is a bar in the back, a main stage to the left and a satellite stage not far from the entrance. They are definitely a table seating type of place, but there couldn't have been more than 16 or so tables. The bathroom is a small open room in the back corner of the club with 2 urinals, but the urinals are on either side of a corner and I could not squeeze into the open one while the other one was in use, at least without bumping the guy who was already pissing.

Now in all fairness on the value front, I did have my cover waived, but I paid it back and then some with $19 single shot drinks. My single shot Jack was a whopping $19 a pop before tip, as were the Kettle one mixed drinks I bought for a dancer. This is a place where one should go AFTER getting loaded elsewhere first, lol.