TYPICAL POSH LONDON STRIP CLUB

Having added this club on here some time ago, I finally got round to visiting last night. It is owned by the same people as Platinum Lace a few hundred metres away. 14lsq is on the north east corner of Leicester Square (Americans and others should note that this is pronounced 'Lester'). Leicester Square is the nearest Underground station but Charing Cross and Piccadilly Circus are also close. There are lots of night buses if you don't want to use a taxi or uber afterwards. Last night they had a western theme for the girls' costumes and the music! I was told that dresses were normal later.

You go down the stairs from the door to a fairly classy lobby where they will also take your coat. Last night the damage was £20 for entry - fairly expensive by most standards but this is Central London! When you get into the club the bar is on your left. There is VIP seating around the stage and pole to your right. The area for standard lapdances is also to the right. I never found out exactly what the deal is with the VIP seating; at first I understood you had to pay but later when I was spending time with a girl it seemed ok to sit there with her providing that we were carrying drinks. Around the edge of the room there are a range of VIP booths with various minimum booking times and prices. I was told that some booths have no cameras but it did not seem to make any difference to the dances. As always in London the minimum price for a dance is £20; from there options range up to several hundred £s for an hour in a VIP booth. There was always a girl (at one point two) on the stage; but to my mind, the dances were fairly tame. Most (but not all) of the girls took their tops off on stage. In the standard lap dance booths and in VIP they get naked. But the dances are all air dances as in most central London clubs. The bar has a good range of drinks, including to my pleasure some decent single malt whiskies (e.g. Ardbeg, Talisker, Jura for those who care about these things) - but the prices are high - one measure of a single malt whisky started at £14. I was told that most of the girls were Eastern European but I found two British girls (one white, one black) who were both genuinely good company and happy to chat. It may be significant that the club was fairly quiet - if it had been crowded they might not have wanted to chat! The club may have been particularly quiet because the nearby linked Platinum Lace had a special party on last night. My main complaints are that the music is to my mind too loud, making it hard to chat, and that the club is excessively dark - the booths are slightly but not much lighter. All in all this is on a par with other posh London clubs like Platinum Lace or Stringfellows. Sexy, good looking-girls, air dances and high prices.