WILD RIDE

Saturday night visit, 6:00-7:30. Free parking, $10 cover, $5.00 bottled water at the bar.

This club has only been open two months, and based on a couple of the reviews here, I thought I'd check it out. Not the best time of day to visit (and the Astros were playing in the World Series that night in downtown Houston), but there were two other clubs I wanted to try and this was my only shot on my brief business trip to Houston. There were only three or four girls working, and only two of them were in rotation on stage the whole 90 minutes I was there. This is a BYOB place, which means the girls can get naked on stage at their discretion. One did, one didn't. It's a big place, very plush, with a couple of stages and lots of seating in different areas. There were only a handful of customers – a middle-aged couple, two other guys (solo), and me.

I was approached by a girl who asked if she could sit with me, and I ended up interacting with her the whole time I was there. We talked for quite some time. The music was a little too loud, but we could hear one another if we leaned in. She explained that dances are done in one of two places – for a $10 wrist band you get dances (with whichever girls you want to take) in a large area with decent, but not private seating, or for a $50 wrist band you get dances in a room that was described as "more private" – whatever that means. In either location, dances are $20 topless, or $30 nude, per song.