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Large, spacious club with a large, spacious parking lot. Come at night and you will sometimes see a couple of bouncers in the front, but I have yet to be patted down or ID checked. Probably because I look like such a good, upstanding citizen. Cover charge was $20.00 and comes with a green wristband which means you can go in and out as you please without worrying about paying the charge again. Restroom is the cleanest and nicest of all the Sacramento clubs, but that is really not saying too much. No toilet troll so don't worry about carrying a tip into the restroom with you.

I arrived around 10:00PM and the place had a decent number of customers and a decent number of dancers. Gold Club Centerfolds hires a certain type: young, white, pretty with implants. If you look hard enough you will see a couple of Latinas and sometimes even a black dancer. Young, white, and pretty is great for me, but implants can be a major turn-off, though obviously by the crowds the club can attract it's not too much of a turn-off for a lot of other men. I've noticed that when the club starts to pop off is when the shark comes out of the dancers, and that's regardless of the club you're in. I was approached by a pretty, slim, blond and blue-eyed Ukranian dancer who asked me for a dance. She was certainly quite pretty, but in my experience Eastern European dancers are serviceable but very mechanical with their dances and they telegraph their money-hungry tendencies a little too obviously. Yes, for all dancers it's about the money, but the Eastern Euros can make the fantasy a little bit harder to feel at the club. I took her up on the offer and her dances were slightly mechanical but when you have a girl that pretty in your arms it's never a bad experience. That said, I've had better for equal to lower prices. The next dancer who approached me was a pretty redhead who actually took the time to sit and talk for a few minutes, which I actually enjoy. When I went to the back for a dance she gave a very good, very steamy performance. She let me rub my hands all over her body and she gave good grinding including placing her bare vagina a couple of inches from my face while fingering herself. I had a great time, until she told me what I had to pay her. What she had failed to mention, but what I supposedly was already should have been aware of, was that for heavy grinding dances I had to pay an extra premium for each dance. Again, the dances were very good, and if she had been more upfront about the price I would have actually been OK paying for it because of the quality of the dances. It was what I felt was something of a deceptive practice that made me mad. Thinking back, I realize that if I had pushed for it I could have probably been able to negotiate her price down but my irritation meant I paid the money and left. I learned an important lesson that I should have already known: when you pay for something make sure you know the price before you buy it.

Overall, it was what would have been a pretty good night except it was blunted by a bad moment that left a little bit of a sour taste in my mouth. I realize I was naive just to assume that every dancer would abide by the prices mentioned at the front counter. Get the price upfront then negotiate down as much as you can. An obvious but still important lesson.