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RE: Paradise Saloon Strip Club Review
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Review
| Date at Club: 04/10/2010 |
Dancer's Looks: 7-8 |
Song Length: 3-5 min. |
Overall Rating:  |
Dancer's Personallity: 5-6 |
Club Quality: Great |
| Mileage: Hard Contact |
Additional Information
The Paradise is my favorite club so my scores should be judged with that in mind and they are certainly those of a customer with little dancer input.
The club is small -- I'm guessing less than 1,000 square feet. There's no kitchen -- although the first Tuesday of the month is customer appreciation night with a free spread of BBQ and fixings and all dancers on duty. I'm told there's no showers for dancers.
There's a main floor with bar, stage about six tables and a long bench running about 25 feet along the wall with tables. Behind the bench is a upper level one step up with the same bench and table arrangement. They recently added a VIP room behind the stage with a one-way mirror to the action, but I've never seen it used.
The reason for that is the club's signature feature: $10 full-contact laps. There's nothing offered in the VIP that isn't available elsewhere, and the loft offers plenty of privacy.
Dancers and customers would probably rate it as a high-mileage club. Most dancers grind and many do more. Full nudity is optional on stage, where dancers perform two dances per set, usually not losing their tops until the second dance. Tipping at the stage is minimal expect for the most popular dancers.
As you would expect in Lawrence, there's college coeds, dropouts and part-time students. But I'd say half the dancers are from the KC metropolitan area. That adds to the club's ethnic mix, although 90 percent of the dancers are white. During the evening, there are always one or two Black dancers and occasional Asians and Native Americans.
Dancers range from plain to gorgeous. Some of the less attractive you would think would accept they are in the wrong profession, but they seem to hustle more and make it work.
Turnover, I would say is moderate. It's highest among the younger dancers, but there are some who have been there for a decade.
The club opens like at 11 a.m. and usually has four or five dancers during the day. Evening and night shifts can be overbooked with dancers, which is nice for customers, with as many as 15 working.
Annoying for customers and dancers alike is the required bucket patrol for music money. Count on a dancer hitting you up for a dollar once every 30 minutes.
I'm not a drinker, but the prices seem reasonable for a strip club (water's an outrageous $3.25), especially with daily specials. I do buy dancers drinks, but their tastes can run to the more expensive offerings, which is OK. With $10 dances, I can afford to be generous.
The current wait staff of women bartenders is popular with dancers and customers. The bouncers seem mostly indifferent to all that's going on, but I've been told they pocket the extra tips the bucket girls get, which is supposed to be returned to them at the end of the shift. I've never seen an argument much less a fight at the club, and only seen a dancer sic the bouncers on one customer who shorted her.
A dancer review talks of prostitution and drugs. I don't know anything about either. I've had some OTC things develop with a couple of dancers but it wasn't pay for sex.
There's the usual drama amongst dancers, which seems to have been heightened recently by the recession and the excess drinking on the part of some. As the customer-to-dancer ratio is generally in the customer's favor, dancers are generally willing to engage with you as long as they know there will be a pay out, especially if you help them toward their 5-drink shift mandate.
To sum up from the customer's perspective: good value with quality dancers if selective in a laid-back atmosphere.
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