I'll be back

Based on the scandalized reviewers of a site aimed at the general public, I decided to visit Tropical Lei on a recent Monday night. Paid the $15 cover and walked in to see a grand total of zero girls. Well, one girl, if you count the bored-looking server who spent the bulk of her evening chatting to the bartender. After ponying up for a beverage (no alcohol served), I settled into a comfy chair and took stock of just how wasted my $15 cover was going to be.

There were four other guys sitting around who were either looking at their phones, gazing off into the distance in the manner of an opium-den regular, or pondering the empty stage while the music played on. Not promising. Had I not paid a cover, I would have bailed.

I must have showed up at just the exact wrong moment because this went on for about 15 minutes before a mediocre-looking girl appeared and tried to hit me up for a drink. I passed, and she went up on stage for the next song. Finally, some actual stripping going on in a strip club!