
Originally Posted by
arielbriel
Why did you feel vivid was disappointing and when did you go?
Sunday night - October 5, 2014. The review I wrote on another site is as follows:
I am having trouble understanding how these girls received an 8 composite rating on this site. I gave them a regionally adjusted 6, which may be a touch unfair but this bunch could be found in some mid-tier club in almost any small city in America. This was not what I was expecting from a place as heavily marketed and as expensive as this, especially in Manhattan. I counted maybe 11 girls, 3 of them black and the rest white. Many of them had a bit of padding and almost half were not very pretty. What was most discouraging was to see two truly hot girls sitting at a side table together, only to learn that they were not dancers, but just massage girls. One girl explained that she couldn't get hired at Ricks, but that they sent to this club instead. This, along with the overall mediocre talent level, made me wonder if this is the club where the Ricks rejects go.
Another surprise was how small the club is. There is a bar in the back, a main stage to the left and a satellite stage not far from the entrance. They are definitely a table seating type of place, but there couldn't have been more than 16 or so tables. The bathroom is a small open room in the back corner of the club with 2 urinals, but the urinals are on either side of a corner and I could not squeeze into the open one while the other one was in use, at least without bumping the guy who was already pissing.
Now in all fairness on the value front, I did have my cover waived, but I paid it back and then some with $19 single shot drinks. My single shot Jack was a whopping $19 a pop before tip, as were the Kettle one mixed drinks I bought for a dancer. This is a place where one should go AFTER getting loaded elsewhere first, lol.
The LDs were done in the open, though there was one guy who enjoyed his in a half hidden char near the bathroom. I was quoted $20, along with $400 for a half hour room or $700 for an hour in the upscale room 2 floors up (they had stairs and an elevator to the more "private" areas). The contact on the LDs looked ok, but nothing special. It would have taken a much hotter girl than what was present in that club to tempt me into the upstairs rooms, which no doubt also would have included serious additional tipping expectations, especially if the girl was actually any fun.
It was fun checking out a new, if very over-hyped, club, but I seriously doubt that I will step back in there again any time soon.
Now don't take this the wrong way if you were working there that night - it is entirely possible that I did not see every dancer on shift. But it was just a bad overall experience for me.
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