Oz after Irma not much different

I don't know why I keep ending up at this one club in the Pinellas County area, but evidently I think it's worth going to, because it keeps on being the one that I think about when I start thinking about strip-clubbing. I believe one of my first reviews about this club said something like, "Well, it wasn't a bad experience, but I probably won't go back." And yet I keep going back. WTH ... anyway ...

I wanted to visit after Hurricane Irma to see if things had changed much. In my experience, no, there was almost no change at all from before to after Irma. I arrived on the Thursday evening five days after the storm, spotted eighteen or twenty of the same dancers, and had just about exactly the same experience I had a few weeks earlier in the month. Through the course of this night's clubbing, in fact, I don't think I ever saw any girl who I could identify as definitely "new since Irma" to this location. I wouldn't know them all, but I think I am accurate at guessing, that the dancer population from harder-hit areas such as Miami hasn't moved to Oz in search of work. Maybe they've all gone to Tampa?

I can't say that Oz is really the "best" club in this area. First off, which "area"? My larger area includes Tampa, which has tons of good and great clubs in a wide range of styles. Second off, even if you mean just this smaller sub-area of Pinellas County and excluding Tampa or points North, I still don't necessarily think Oz is the "best" club here. It's ONE OF the good ones, but it sort of has a niche-market, in which it is the only club that is up to par in its field. That field is, trying to appear glitzy. Oz is one of the glitziest among all the Pinellas County clubs, and it charges the most of any of them for drinks and lap-dances. But glitzy or high-priced doesn't mean "best." In fact, there are times when my strip-clubbing desires gravitate away from anything glitzy, especially glitzy and expensive. I have quite often craved instead a club experience that is neighborhood-y, or down-homey and redneck-y, even if the nearby glitzy option also happened to be very high-value (which it seldom is, anyway). So let's try not to confuse "high end" (or, more accurately for Oz, "tries to appear to be high end") with "high quality" or "better" or "best."