Bottle Popping in the upper level aint cheap

Saturday night at about midnight, I went to Tootsies with a couple of friends. One of the guys I was with frequents the club a lot and likes to do the VIP thing. Mind you it’s Art Basel weekend, and there is a fight going on, so the price he paid for the upper level vip on Thursday, was not the price we would get quoted on this night. To get into the upper level VIP they wanted a minimum spend of $2,000 (I think he spent 500 on Thursday for the same). This was way too much, and even for someone who is used to paying for bottles and some reserved seating this was too much. They made the next offer which was the lower level VIP off to the right side of the stage, which had better seating than the regular chairs (which to be fair are horrible). Basically the regular chairs at Cheetah Hallandale are what you are paying for at Tootsies. They want $500 for this. Still a bit high, and with some negotiation we found that if we paid cash for this, we could get it for $300. With that we decided to do it and headed inside. The thing about Tootsies is that when the girls are off the stage, a good number of them tend to go upstairs to the upper level vip, thought being that the money is up there. So up there, you will get a LOT more girls circling around you than in other areas of the club. I found this to be the case that very few girls did rounds through this secondary vip area, and for the most part customers would go bring girls over to the section. While I am glad that I wasn’t asked to pitch in on a piece of a 2 grand couch with two bottles, I think that we did lose out a lot on the club experience. The Waitresses did come with the bottles over to us, with the LED sparklers on them. I’ve seen this in the club hundreds of times, but frankly with them standing in front of us holding these bottles, it really did feel silly.

About the club = Don’t really need to describe Tootsies much, we all know what it is. Saw about 85 girls listed on the video listing. Didn’t seem like that much (again, a lot of them were probably squirreled up in the upper level VIP), but there were a lot of girls. However as the night went on, the crowd continued to increase to the point where you weren’t swimming in a sea of dancers at all. Also the crowd makes it difficult to find or hunt down a dancer. It has been a while since I’ve been to Tootsies but I noticed two changes. One: they’ve raised the quality control on the hiring. Not the beauties that the club had 15 years ago, but there are some dancers who were working 2 years ago, that can’t get through the door now. Second change is that the club’s dancers have gotten even much more Cuban. Didn’t see a Latina dancer that didn’t look NOT Cuban. Also the AA dancers seem to have thinned out considerably. Saw two Asian dancers (also a lot of Asian customers – certainly not a big thing in all parts of the country – but stands out in terms of what we see in South Florida). Saw one dancer who was obviously going for a Kim Kardashian look, who was probably the hottest looking girl in the club. But as long as you can like something within the range of Cuban girls who look really Cuban then you would find something tonight in the club. I finally settled on what I wanted (dark haired Cubana with an ass that was fat from before enhancements, and a bikini top too small for her boobs. Boobs weren’t super big, just the top really didn’t fit), but couldn’t find her and with her probably being upstairs was a lost cause. A pair of older Cuban peroxide blondes came through the section and started doing dances on us in exchange for dollars. This is common at places like Booby Trap, but rare at Tootsies. I don’t know if it was a think that goes on in VIP or on this type of night but it happened. Both of them were wearing the fishnets over their ass & legs. In the pantheon of Cubana dancers, I’d seen this type many times before. A little older, peroxide blonde, with enhanced tops & bottoms (and underwhelming faces if you stare long enough). I never end up having good times with any of this type & usually always regret getting involved. Not even really what I like to begin with, but for whatever reason they have some Kryptonite qualities on me. Being in a place where I really didn’t feel comfortable mongering (with a mixed crowd), in a difficult place to monger (Saturday night at Tootsies), and not being able to find my dark haired girl wearing her younger sister’s bikini top, I decided to call it a night.

It was my first time out in a long time, and I enjoyed it. I did miss just seeing bare ass walking by. So while it wasn’t a great night for mongering, it was a good night to be in a strip club. Didn’t get quotes on any extra services. The only dancers who approached me about a dance were the two older blonde Cubans, at a later time. On a night like this, if you are not in the upstairs VIP you have to go get what you want, when you see it.