I visited No. 5 Orange Pub...

I visited No. 5 Orange Pub a couple of years ago, when it was one of the highest rated TUSCL clubs, and was very disappointed due to the very few girls, their unattractiveness, and their dismal stage dancing. Perhaps it was because my visit was on a Sunday evening. So this week I was back in town and I thought maybe I should give it a second chance. My expectations were low due to my previous visit and because more recent TUSCL reviewers have been less excited about it, mainly due to the high cost and minimal contact of VIP room dances (a significant change for the worse since the old days). I was there on a Wednesday from about 10:30 PM to 12:30 AM.

And what do you know, it was no better. The place was full of patrons, but there were only about five dancers and a similar number of VIP girls, some attractive, some decidedly not. The stage dancers danced on stage for four consecutive songs with interminable two-full-song breaks in between. So one boring dancer meant that it was eight full songs (about half an hour) between entertaining periods at No. 5. Worse, none of the girls had the moves to sustain my interest for four songs. And I noticed that other patrons also stopped watching them after a while, too. In fact, most of the dancers themselves seemed to get bored after a song or so and didn't seem to care about their performance after that.

So the stage show really sucked. But maybe the VIP dances were better, I thought. To answer that question, and because by midnight I was otherwise totally bored with the place (and it closeesat 1 AM), I tried an ultra-expensive $50 three-minute one-song dance ($40 got you a non-contact dance, and $50 allowed you to touch) with Mercedes, who was the best looking VIP girl there. Also the other TUSCL reviews that I read said she was the best there. Well, she did finger herself a bit, which was nice, but she mostly kept her distance, and it definitely wasn't worth even close to $50. Compared to $20 full-contact private dances I've had in L.A., Kansas City, and Columbia, South Carolina, this was terrible.