the ultimate strip club list

a guy's guide to strip clubs

July 8, 2008  •  Vol. 15, Issue 189

I have been to the Penthouse Executive Club on about a half dozen occasions. The atmosphere was casual and the women are amazingly beautiful. I have had dances from girl from the US, Finland Russia, Columbia and England. All were very professional, although the lap dances in the front are very average. In the private rooms it is a completely different story, although YMMV. On the negative side, the place can fill up with young investment banker types who can be overbearing. Once, some party absorbed most of the dancers and the ratio was not very good. The private rooms are not very comfortable. Overall, a very positive experience. Worth trying even though there are many choices in Manhattan.

Quite upscale club but don't expect to go and only spend $100, especially for the VIP area upstairs where champagne goes up to $3500 per bottle plus 20% tip (i kid you not!). Moderate hustling so make sure you are clear how much you are going to pay. For example a girl might tell you it $20 per dance (reasonable) but then doesnt tell you when one dance is over!

My advice: Stay downstairs, chat to girls you like, buy a few $20 dances and let the girls do all the hustling.

Overall: Clean, professional club but VERY expensive. Varying mileage.

I have been to the Penthouse Executive Club on two occasions and have enjoyed myself on each visit. Downstairs in the main room it can be a little stiff. Many of the girls are looking for the big, high roller party. I travel to NYC on business and so I am not there as part of a big Wall Street entourage. The trick here is finding the girls that are willing to "settle" for some one on one time in a private room. You also have to cull through the ones with attitude. As previous reviewers have stated, the girls here can be amazing. But don't come expecting every girl to be a 10 but you will certainly see some lovely talent.

On each of my visits, we were afforded extreme privacy in the rooms upstairs. On my first visit we were in one of the larger rooms. There were two entertainers with me. The manager closed the door and we were left to our own devices. If anyone was able to watch, we sure couldn't tell. On my second trip I chose to spend less money and took one dancer to a private booth with a curtain. There wasn't any difference in the degree of privacy and I received even more mileage in the booth. Each time, I left happy.

The bouncers downstairs totally sell the privacy upstairs. Several times I overheard a bouncer correcting a dance or patron and follow it up with "But I can't see anything upstairs." This place will set you back but it can definitely be worth it.

Not much soul at this club. The girls are all in amazing physical shape, but that was a little bit oppressive -- they didn't look like real girls. Lots of fake boobs, perhaps 75%.

Steep admission fee, steep drink prices, and total air dances in the main room. It's a cavernous place, with a staircase leading up to the restaurant up top. Not a comfortable feel, really, though the seats were extraordinarily nice, so if sitting and drinking high-priced drinks while watching girls with six-pack abs and fake breasts is your thing, go for it.

Hustle factor wasn't too bad, but there were two seating areas near the main stage that seemed to be some kind of VIP, and the girls who came off the main stage seemed to go there first. Which means if you saw a chick you liked on stage it might be a long time before she got to circulating in the main part of the club. Ah, Zoe, some of my dead presidents could have been yours...