After COVID-19: Just a Decent Place to Go for Drinks and Eye Candy

Tiffany's hasn't been a place to go for thrills for a while now, but it's good for semi-cheap drinks and $5 lapdances that are better than $5 lapdances should be. That was pre-COVID-19. Now at reopen it's just a decent place to go for drinks and eye candy, because the "lapdances" are over 6ft away. Yes, that means they are not lapdances, they are private dances that are farther away than you can stand while stage tipping. If you're trying to make sense of that in your head, don't bother. It's what happens when a city government has nothing better to do than intervene in niche entertainment. If peer pressure is a thing, maybe San Antonio will take a lesson from Houston where strip clubs are concerned.

I arrived for a Saturday night shift. Second day open. $10 cover with a dash of hand sanitizer from a dispenser mounted to the door girl counter in the front lobby. Touchless temp check and a quick run down on the rules. No mask requirement for customers. $5.75 you call it liquor drinks at the tables, and when I was there the customers were being spaced a table apart. When a customer sat down, the servers put a yellow card on the table next to them to enforce social distancing. It had text in English and Spanish for guys not to sit there. There wasn't the same practice at the back tables by the VIP area (which is temporarily where all the dances are happening) but those tables are already spaced farther apart. Drink service was good and the waitresses were attentive. Oddly enough the dancers here were probably the strongest in overall talent out of all the clubs I've seen so far post-lockdown, but I'd say no dancer was over an 8. There were more 8's here than other places, but Sugar's has the best top end talent out of the chute during the strip club reopenings. Mix of ethnicities, latina, white, asian, and dancers that look black but might've been mixed or darker latina.

Tiffany's had all three stages going, using the main runway stage and two side stages to the left and right of the main floor. Dancers were not in masks on stage and walking around. When they sat at a table with a customer, though, they were supposed to wear a facemask. The same went for the waitresses if they sat down at a table. Tipping at the main stage was done from behind a yellow tape line, and the side stages used chairs and yellow tape to keep customers distanced from the dancers. As I mentioned earlier it was $5 a song for a private dance at 6ft distance. Probably a little over, since you're in a chair on one side of the VIP room area and the dancer is in a chair against the opposite wall. It's basically a private stage show. While it's not as awful as it sounds if the girl has good moves, the girl is so far away you have to yell to talk with her and breaks her concentration while she's trying to look as sexy as possible. Then if there is more than one dude in the VIP area you don't want to yell because he's trying to enjoy a 6ft private dance and probably thinking WTF the same as you are.