First Visit

I arrived at the theater shortly after 9 p.m. local time, which in retrospect is the perfect time to get there on a Friday; business is only starting to pick up at that point, so street-side parking can still be found in the same block and the second wave of dancers just clocking in provides the optimal dancer-customer ratio for the customer. Despite the high cover and drink charges ($25 and $6 respectively), I had been enticed to come here by the many stories I'd heard about how Admiral has both the highest average and floor for dancer looks, and that proved mostly true: of the 15 or so dancers I saw circulating, none were lower than a 6 and the average was probably around 7.5, which makes it the highest rating in both categories that I've given any Chicago-area club.

Each dancer did two songs on stage - typically one topless and one full nude - so they cycled through relatively quickly and spent a good amount of time circulating through the seating area in between stage stints. Some would sit and talk, while others would get straight to business about table dances - in other words, a typical dancer mix for that time of night. At only $10 for a table dance with at least some full nudity, I recommend using them to test-run dancers you're interested in. I ended up taking my most impressive test-run - a skinny blond who giggled a lot but was also the hottest dancer there that night - back for a 3-for-$75 booth dance deal and wasn't disappointed; she gave a satisfying amount of contact and the mirrors in the booth were a nice touch that I haven't seen elsewhere. Curtains weren't fully closed but no one seemed to be walking by checking on dancer behavior.

Aside from the pricing, the two other negatives about the club are that the chairs on the floor aren't the most comfortable and the songs are on the short side; I timed them at an average of only 2½ minutes. However, on a minute-by-minute basis you come out with no worse value on the 3-for-$75 deals compared to other clubs in the region that charge $30 for a full nude dance, and at some of those other clubs they don't even go a full 3 minutes per song.