the ultimate strip club list

October 12, 2008  •  Vol. 15, Issue 285

being that it`s near a military base i figured it would not be shady and to touchy feely but i just knew it would be alot of women there to entertain custermers. i was dead wrong. when i walked into the club it seemed like walking into a place that didn`t won`t u there. nobody greeted me and nobody gave any smiles. it was so flat. the music was rock at the time and somealternitive i didn`t stay long to check. the girls there were mostly caucasion and i saw one black girl entering before i left. i went on a thursday so maybe that was why. regardless the service should have been better. i was really dispointed because i didn`t want to go far and it was near the base which i was visiting. maybe on the weekends it`s a lil better, but i strongly doubt it.

Stopped in here on a Sunday evening and again on a Monday evening on a recent trip to Phoenix. Definitely not the greatest of decor. Since I was staying at the west end of town, it seemed like an easy alternative. Not much happening on either night, yes the beer is cheap for a club at $3, but when nothing is really happening, well I think you get the idea. Apparently they have just started being open on Sundays and closed at 9PM. The rest of the week is a 2AM close. Monday evening there was only one dancer, she chatted with me for a while, since I was the only patron, until some locals came in and then I was abandoned. Did not partake of any dances, so can't comment on that. At least the beer was cold and no cover. Other nights may be better.

I was at a friends party in Litchfield Park and at around 12:30 am (and after too much tequila) a trip to a SC sounded like a good idea. However, the only club I know about is ABC on Grand and that was a long way away. Fortunately one of the partiers remembered seeing this place about a mile away. So, why not!? Well, it's kind of a dive in a friendly way. $3 cover, $2.75 bottles. Can't beat the price. There were about 20 PL's and 2 girls working - and I mean working! Dance for 2 songs, run off stage, lap for 2 songs, then back on stage. Both girls were quite attractive. Very lapable. If they hadn't been taken the entire time I was there, I would have been up for laps, which were in the corner at a table and topless. I'm used to San Diego clubs, so it's great to see topless laps. Another difference, if you stand by the stage with your dollar, the girls would give you a little rub and hug. Not bad. I'll go back when in town again. Hopefully there will be more than 2 girls!

I made a disappointing visit to the Coyote Cabaret last night and will not be returning again anytime soon.

I arrived about 11:30pm; to my dismay, only two ladies were working, one of which was on stage at the time. The dancer left the stage about ¾ the way through the song, without ever taking her top off.

The 2nd dancer then disappeared for about 30 minutes; so song after song, it was an empty stage.

Just as I was finishing my beverage and getting ready to leave, the 2nd stripper re-surfaced and asked if I wanted a table dance. I decided to partake in one, to sample the local talent. It was a pretty disappointing air dance at best.

Disappointed with my 1st dance, I decided to try stripper #1…..that too was equally disappointing.

A sign hanging from the ceiling states a $6.00 minimum for dances, but both dancers told me it was $10 per song.

If you’re looking for a good quality dance, I recommend you skip this place and head into Phoenix.

Average Looks: 6 out of 10 Stars
Ambiance: 2 out of 10 Stars
Overall Experience: 3 out of 10 Stars


nice girls but only two customers at 11:00 pm. kinda boring. nice an clean place might go back an give it another shot on a differant nite. hard to find unless your from the westside. not far from westgate. found one nice girl working named jazmine who made the trip worth it maybe i can get her to work at bourban street alot closer to central phoenix.

Went here after a baseball game because you get free admission with ticket stub. The normal entry was $20 with 2 drink min for $6 each. No liqour, just juice soda and water.
The girls this night were very attractive and did 3 dance sets one clothed, one topless and one nude??? Only one girl went nude the rest maybe flashed if the tips were coming.
The whole purpose of this club is to get you upstairs in a private room for $140 for 30 minutes. I did not partake so cant vouch for the mileage. I did get a couple of table dances which were very low milage.
A good place to relax spend a few dollars on tips and just enjoy attractive women.

Maybe someone else can fill us in on the private rooms shows.

This place was pretty quiet on a Tuesday night. There were about 5 guys watching about 5 or 6 girls. No alcohol served here. It was $10 cover and they make you buy 2 soft drinks at $6 each. Table or lap dances are with no contact. The hostess really tries to push you into the high-priced VIP rooms upstairs (where there is still no contact). Maybe it will get better when they get their liquor license, but as of now I would not be able to recommend stopping in. One girl was telling me that even during the Super Bowl weekend (which was held in the same town, Glendale, the place was dead.

Pink Cabaret is located in Glendale, a subusrb in morthwest Phoenix, which pretty much means that you have to want to get here to be here. This puts it at a competitive disadvantage with the more established clubs like Hi-Liter, Bourbon Street, Christy's et al, all of which are located in reasonable proximity to places near where people work. There's gonna be very little, "Oops, I happened to be in the neighborhood, why not stop in for a few laps?" kinda foot traffic. As for locals, well, there's a reason they live on the west side, and not the east: cuz they can't afford to move.

Arrived at the club on a Thursday a few weeks back, after visiting Centerfolds. Got to the club around 9:30, and was pleasantly surprised to find the front parking area full, except for one spot right up front, which I snagged. A few people were grabbing a smoke outside (a much more common occurence in Phoenix now, thankfully) as I walked in. The gal at the front told me that cover as $10, plus I had to pre-pay $6 for my first drink. Both are very steep prices for PHX-based clubs. If you're gonna charge that kind of dough, you'd better be worth it.

As I walked in, the club's interior seemed smaller than one would expect, but still qualified as a midsized club for this area (prolly twice the size as Hi-Liter, to give some sense of scale). There is a small, semi-circle stage in front with one pole that does not go all the way to the ceiling--now THERE'S an OSHA accident investigation I'd love to see on The Drudge Report. There are four leather booths along the east wall, with 20 or so small tables scattered throughout the floor. The bar is along the west wall, adjoining what appears to a topless couch lap area. Lots of mirrors everywhere to give the club the illusion of being bigger than it is. Upstairs, the east alcove is completely empty and apparently sealed off--just an absolute waste of valuable square footage. There are 18 (!) private rooms upstairs (more on these later).

This club seems to have taken the "Skin" route, meaning it is counting on having a sound system that most definitely goes to 11, along with a number of plasma TVs (3 flanking the stage, plus another larger one facing the stage on the north wall, all of which play either the music video accompanying the song, or, in a nice touch borrowed from the Deja vu chain, shows pictures of the dancers currently working there. However, this tactic cuts both ways, as, with the surprising exception of Bourbon Street refugee Priya Ray, none of the girls seemed particularly noteworthy. In point of fact, the hottest girl in the club was the bartender, which is never a good sign for a club full of strippers.

Of course, when I said "club full of strippers" I really meant 8-10 of them. But, hey, they did outnumber the custys about 4-to-1 while I was there. All those cars out front? Staff, apparently, which from a dancer's perspective means lots and lots of tipouts from a bank that seems nonexistent. While I was there, I saw one dancer give a custy two laps on the couches, which were closely monitored by a floater, making sure the custy didn't enjoy himself too much (and thus, making sure the dancer didn't sell many dances). Onstage, dancers do two song sets here, stripping down to topless on the second song. No stage tipping while I was there. I saw one semi-hot dancer named Allie, who was wearing black kneesocks and had me somewhat interested, but her morose attitude was a complete downer when she moseyed by my booth.

When one dancer planted herself at my booth and I didn't immediately shoo her away, the waitress scurried over to give me the lowdown on the private rooms, which are Pink's raison d'etre. Rooms start at $140 for a half hour. The girl is nude, but there is no sexual contact (waitress' words, not mine), and then they escalate up to $280 (with an implied but not spoken understanding that contact *could* happen if you spend more. FYI, as with most clubs like this, that is the room fee. The dancer's "tip" is extra, and you could expect to shell out $200-$250 more before a dancer will even get near you. What raised my concern was the dancer I sat with, who, during the course of my convo with her, mentioned she used to work at Dream Palace in Tempe, where this kind of bait & switch practice is common. She also told me that the club will never get its liquor license so long as they have the private rooms, so don't expect to be downing any brews here soon.

Pink's, to me, is another good idea gone bad. The club took forever to open, failing to generate clientele before the summer offseason started. Management has yet to even update their website to let people know they're open, nor have they ever followed through on their mailing list. They stopped giving away VIP Free Admission cards to those few custys who did venture in here, which tells me that they are desperate for the cover charges to pay for the lease and other hard costs they aren't making in room fees. Cover on the weekends is even more expensive, going up to $16 + $6, making it the most expensive club in the Valley.

To sum up, you have a club that is off the beaten path, overpriced, understaffed (talent wise) and offering a service they have no plans to actually provide. I'm guessing they're trying to make it through to the next Cardinal's season, hoping to drive custys here after the games. But if their business plan means Sunday is supposed to be their busiest day of the week, then they are also going to have to find strippers who will work it, which, especially in this town, is nearly impossible. Pink's, we hardly knew ye.

CP


I gave this club a pretty low rating based on no alcohol, no full nudity, low contact dances, latex on nipples. I think this club has really made a good try at being a great club but local laws are preventing them from doing so. Everybody from door man to waitresses to dancers to the guy in bathroom were extremely friendly.

The club does not have a liquor license yet and from what I was told by the waitresses and dancers it will be anywhere from 3 to 6 months before they have one. Water and cokes are $6 each. This isn't necessarily a problem but usually clubs that have no alcohol at least have full nudity. Not at this place. No alcohol and no nudity makes me wonder how this place is going to make any money. When Christie's opened in Tempe a few years ago they didn't have a liquor license at first but they offered nude dancers. I wish this place would do this as well but maybe it is a Glendale law.

There were about 8 dancers on a Thursday night and all were very attractive. I would say ranging from 7 to 9. Not a dog in the whole bunch. Didn't look like any were making a lot of money so not sure how this place was able to land so many hot chicks. They were doing two songs on stage, the first fully dressed and the second topless.

Lap dances were available for $10 on the floor, or as one girl put it "$20 over there" as she pointed to a slightly more comfortable couch in a totally non-private area about 10 feet away from where I was sitting. The club is two stories and I was also told that $140 would buy me 30 minutes upstairs. None of the girls that I had dances with really tried to upsell this to me though. I elected for $10 dances not wanting to have to pay an extra $10 just to have my dance an extra 10 feet away from my table and my $6 water.

The dances from three different girls were almost entirely air and not quite worth even the $10. Watching girls give some other patrons the $20 variety did not look like they were much higher quality. The most disappointing thing was that the girls had their nipples covered with latex which was not very sexy.

So with other fully nude clubs nearby as well as topless clubs with alcohol and no latex covered nipples I was really trying to figure out if there was a reason to ever come back to this place.

I feel kind of bad for the club because it looks like they are really trying to put forth a great effort and they had lots of friendly staff as well as friendly and hot dancers. The hot girls were working even on a slow night but I'm afraid it won't be long before they are looking at other clubs where they will make more money.

A nice new club. They are off to a great start but have some improvement to go. The dancers seem to be new to the business at least when I was there (last Thursday). A bit timid with the dances, but that made it sexier. Prices for drinks, etc are the same as anywhere else. I'll go back to see how this place develops.