Who'd a thunk you could have fun in Grand Junction on a Monday night?

So I found myself in Grand Junction, CO of all places and discovered, through TUSCL, that there is a strip club here. The last review was about 9 months ago so obviously not a lot of reviewing monger get out to this neck of the woods. The club is in a sort of desolate area south and west of Grand Junction proper. There is a large parking lot (free) and the neighborhood does not appear unsafe (unless a Coyote gets you. . .)

On Monday at about 8:30 I paid a $10 cover charge, walked into a fairly large club with a main room that has a large oval stage the takes up the center of the room with two poles and individual chairs around the stage. There are a couple of sofas set back between the stage and the bar and then there are some loveseat type booths on either end of the oval stage that had "VIP only" signs on them. I guess you have to pay extra to sit in them like they so in some of the FL clubs. There is a pool table to the left of the entry where you pay the cover. The bar takes up the entire back wall. The bathroom is down a hallway on the right side from where you pay the cover entry and it was clean (no door on the room itself but everything is recessed back). They do not give you change for singles but there is a bill changer that will -- I brought in a bunch of $1s so I don't know if the money changer charged a commission. There is also an ATM but I didn't get any money out.

I bought a Modelo bottle for $6 (plus tip) and spoke to the bartender as there was absolutely nothing going on in the club. No music, no dancers on stage and really no patrons. I was the only guy there at this time. I told the bartender that if he got some girls out to dance, I would tip them and so he got the DJ to start the music and call dancers on stage. A couple of other patrons came in shortly after so there were 3-4 of us but only me and one other guy were really tipping.