Did anyone dance in Auckland, NZ? How is it?
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Did anyone dance in Auckland, NZ? How is it?
im going there in december & am curious too!
I'm going there as soon as I can.... maybe over december break, maybe next summer. there's a club called mermaids that looks really cool- there's underwater shows.. isn't that crazy? I'm obsessed with new zealand and i'm really excited to go.
Not sure, but I have been emailed by a handful of NZ dancers who have expressed interest in coming to Australia to work on our contracts.. not sure if that has anything to do with how it is at the moment!
let's go together!!!!!!
i want to work at mermaids too & also have a strong new zealand obsession.
i pm'ed you
i work at mermaids in wellington and quite a few girls have moved up to auckland mermaids. there's more and easier money to be made there, i'm pretty sure it's the best club in auckland for money.
p.s don't get too excited about the "underwater shows". our tank is about 2m square, customers come in all excited about the mermaid and can't even see the tank till it's pointed out to them coz it's so small and hidden away in a corner. i don't think the auckland one is much different.
cool... I'm planning on going to auckland over my winter break from college.. mermaids is probably where i'll go. i want to visit the north island first anyways.
where's murdock???? she lives in NZ.
Mermaids in Wellington..i remember the days when there was just 'Liks'
and back then it went by the name 'Tiffanys'...
When i was dancing in NZ about 11 years ago, the only American/Australian style club with lap dancing (the only way you made real money) was Showgirls in Auckland, which I hear has strongly gone downhill. Otherwise there were the clubs 'round the corner on fort st, like The Firehouse, or Sunset Strip, they were just stage/tipping clubs...or as that crochety old bastard (and owner of SG) Ron King called them...the Fort st fuck-heads.
I hear Mermaids, Auckland or The Whitehouse is the place to be now.
So whats Mermaids WGTN like?
What other clubs are there back in my hometown?
Wellingtonian living in CT USA xx
liks was there 11 years ago dear lord! i hear it used to do very well back in the day, being the only venue of its type. ever since i've been old enough to know what a strip club is it's been run down and derelict looking.
however i was lucky enough to pay this place a visit about 2am one friday night after a tad too much vodka it seemed an excellent idea. so in i walk to the bar downstairs.. there are two elderly gentlemen drinking who both proceed to offer me shots which in my drunken state seems all very exciting.
i am then informed that the upstairs stage area is not open due to lack of girls. 15 minutes later we are allowed upstairs. there is one girl walking around the club on her hands. another on stage who i later find out smells like she washed herself with a dead rat instead of soap in the shower, when she sits in my lap as an attempt to get a tip.
it was not very nice.
so it closed at least a year ago i think. i don't know how it lasted so long with things that way.
Walking on her hands???!!
thats freakin sweet.
So hows Mermaids? Good money? Same owner as Auck? Anymore new clubs in WGTN?
I forgot to mention...
Back in the day Liks/Tiffanys was the place to be. I remember a rather daring girl from my high school out in Petone was working there on the weekends part time...Every once inna while there would be some group of Aussie Penthouse girls or some random feature dancer performing there, actually i think that girl went on to tour with those Penthouse girls..hmm.
i think liks went downhill after new clubs were open in better locations.
there's santa fe. it used to be on taranaki street, but has moved closer to mermaids on the main strip and it's now called dreamgirls. it's a second best to mermaids but still an ok place to go.
mermaids is pretty good. i'm pretty sure it has different owners to the auck one. from what i've heard about auckland, the girls get treated alot better and it's easier money. e.g. here we get $30 for a non contact dance or $50 with touching everywhere except between the legs (10 mins) whereas in auck you set your own price for touching.
the top earners here make between $400 and $1000+ a night, with most girls making $2-400 on a average weeknight.
Good to know if I ever wanna move back to my home town, but I might be a little too old now...Im 33. I danced back when I was 21-26.
They might be all like..
"Get off the stage Nan."
I think i got spoiled working in NYC too, under no circumstances does a dude touch you and you got 20 bucks (us) a song.
Although you were allowed to let the customers touch you at Showgirls.
I still look good though...no kids. Heh, I might show those lilttle girls a thing or 4.:bullwhip:
Then again, who wants to be in their 30's, and run into their high school boyfriend who by now is a high powered attorney.
There was a Mermaids in Queens,NY dont even think about going to that one, dear!
It was a hole in the wall and the chick onstage was rockin' an eyepatch!!
Aaarrhh matey!
mm there are a few older girls they all do fine. it is pretty rough getting only $50 for touching compared with so many other places.. i'm just so used to it now.
Are you speaking about the Santa Fe in Townsville as that is THE only SFG in the whole of Australia at the moment.....?