Anyone worked up there recently with good reviews? Feel free to pm me thnx!
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Anyone worked up there recently with good reviews? Feel free to pm me thnx!
I live in Portland. Cool place to hang, NOT a good place for money, especially if you are traveling.
I was wondering how it's been lately as well. Haven't been there in a few months. Know a few girls that have travelled there recently some claim $500 nights, some say $200 nights. I agree with you (based on my own limited experience), that Portland is more of a cool place to visit but not get rich.
There is definitely the potential to make that money in certain clubs, but that hustle is HARD and exhausting. Not only are you dealing with the over-saturation of the market, but the clientele tends to have this disgusting sense of entitlement. There are fifty something clubs in Portland, and maybe ten of them are worth working for. The clubs have gotten so dirty. You're constantly competing with dancers who are doing extras on the side for the same damn amount of money, which makes things very difficult. When I first moved here four years ago, the money was fantastic. It is not anywhere near like that anymore. I'm racking my brain trying to think of where dancers are making a consistent five hundred dollars a night. I know that some of the hard core hustlers at Casa Diablo definitely make that on a night shift, but be aware that Casa is full contact, full friction dances. If that doesn't eek you out, I'd say give it a shot. (Note: By full contact, I mean customers are permitted to touch everywhere except for what is covered by panties.) One to two hundred is a more realistic expectation in most clubs in Portland.
^^ I visited Casa Diablo and saw some stuff onstage that really shocked me.
Yeah, that'll happen.
I heard Casa was great $$$ so went there. I wasn't comfortable with the audition process. The girl who claimed $500 said she worked Acropolis and Stars Bridgeport.
I've heard nothing but great things about Acropolis. I personally never worked there, so I can't vouch for the money making potential, but the girls seem very happy. A lot of them have been there for years. No idea about Stars. I tend to stick to Portland proper.
The clubs downtown are worth a shot. (Mary's, Magic Garden, Club Rouge, Spyce, Golden Dragon) They can, however, be very difficult to get booked in to. Most of the nicer clubs in Portland require an audition and a 1-2 week wait period. I think that the best thing to do as far as considering clubs in Portland is to save up enough money elsewhere so that you can come down and just take a few days to physically scope out the clubs and do your auditions. It is very important to visit the clubs beforehand, because the rules are so incredibly different. A lot of them may surpass your comfort level, some of them have no pole, some have incredibly rude staff and a catty, vicious atmosphere, all things you want to know before you come down here so you don't end up miserable.
psh if I could handle dancing 6 years in LA , I think Portland would be a breeze. I'm not saying I love the contact levels or anything but I'm ready to experience something new. Dancing in a very strict bikini no contact club has really been stressful over the last few months & i'm ready for a change. Are the clubs up there very picky when hiring? I'm tall & curvy but not fat just full with tattoos :) I'm ready for a more "rocker" vibe. I've heard that the golden Dragon will let you work the same day you audition? I knew a girl that worked over there & she said the money was decent. I'm excited to try it out for a few weeks at least.
When I auditioned at Golden Dragon they were going to let me work that night. They said we could come in whenever as long as we put in a 5 hour shift. No experience working there because my travel buddy didn't like the juice bar aspect of it. The girls they use in their advertising are fairly slim and look young. Not sure if that's just advertising or truly represents their type.
Rose City Strip let me drop in and work a weekend last summer. It's completely a rock bar...like that is all they play. I liked it, low house fees, good stage money and nice private dance areas. When I worked all the girls had an alternative look. I actually stood out because im NOT heavily tatted. No one bigger working than prob about a size 7ish. I've heard bad things about management but cant verify that because I was only there two nights.
cool, thnx for the heads up :) Im gonna head up there in a couple of weeks hopefully. Ideally, i'd like to have some cash put away just in case I can't get hired or what not. At any of these clubs you mentioned ^ did they allow you to pick your own music for stage?
At Golden Dragon they just asked me what genre I preferred.
At Rose City I'm not sure if they let you pick. I'm a hip hop/rap type of girl and know NOTHING about hardrock or metal music so wouldn't have even known anything specific to request lol. The DJ was very nice to me so I'm guessing he'd be the type to hook you up unless it's against club policy.
The Golden Dragon is a great club for traveling dancers. I have worked there for over a year now, and we get many girls from different cities who come to work a night or two, and end up making great money. It can be somewhat difficult to make a lot of money if there are a ton of girls there at once, because most of us know how to hustle pretty well. But if you do too, you'll be just fine. The girls that make the most money are the ones that sell VIP shows, not just lap dances. But selling shows at Dragon is not as hard as it sounds.
Thanks! I'm planning on trying that place this week while I'm in the area :)
Mary Mortis and Tourdefranzia are totally right. What I heard from girls who danced at Acrop is that you have to pay stage fees for your shifts 2 weeks in advance in order to dance there. Depending on the shifts they are either 25 or 50 so that could add up having to pay it all at once. Also if the manager calls you for an additional shift, if you do not pick that shift, you lose ALL shifts, even ones you already paid for.
Golden Dragon is closing down. They will remain open until the end of 2014, but will shut down on 1/1/2015 permanently. Their lease is up, and the owner is going to retire instead of relocating.
where did you hear that?
I am pretty certain she is getting the Golden Dragon confused with the Magic Garden. The Magic Garden is closing on 1/1/15 as they lost their lease due the the property owner wanting to do something else with the building. I am the owner of the Golden Dragon and I have no intention of closing it down anytime soon.
Is not having consistent money in Portland for real??? Because I found my experience last week in PDX to be very very different... I did extreeeeeemely well; and was planning on moving back there but I need to do more dance trips before I know. I found the exact opposite of what girls said here about NYC to be true as well, seems if you escort in NYC you can bank but not clean/no touch dancing. I know there is nudity and more contact in Portland, but damn I thought there would be more consistent money there than what I am hearing....
It depends, what club did you work at?
I love how dancers believe that they can find a way of making money that does not include contact. It can happen, sometimes, but the more someone dances, especially in Portland, the more you realize that being touched is very much part of making money. There is no way to truly ignore this fact. Just get used to being touched, you may even enjoy it, at least you are being paid. Portland has its handful of "posh / upper-class customers" clubs but the MAJORITY of clubs in Portland are DIVE BARS where prostitution happens on a regular basis. I have no problem with prostitution personally. Like I said, if you want to make money in this town you eventually learn how to do it, and that it to allow some contact. So, the handful of dancers, lucky enough to dance at the nice clubs, may be able to say, make money without being touched ... BUT THE MAJORITY of Portland dancers work in dives, make bank, and allow all types of contact from full on sex, oral sex to just fingering and making out.