This is illegal when it comes to MasterCard and Visa rules. It is against their rules. The club should not be allowed to take credit cards when they bully patrons into this. Here is the problem… You go into a club and the bartender tells you he must hold your id and your credit card and you must buy a minimum of $60 in drinks. This happens way too often in Miami at clubs like Discotekka . The problem with this is not only will this be a quick way for the club to go out of business fast it will also be a way for the credit card companies to be contacted and stop any transactions in that club. Discotekka should be seized of all credit card transactions for using this bait and switch tactic.
I was at Discotekka last night in Miami which is located downtown and is a 18 to enter gay club on Saturday nights with 3 rooms. I walked in two different rooms which had a broken ATM machine. The ATM in the front was down and the one by the bathroom was out of order. This should have alerted the bartenders that hey they should not charge this minimum of drinks. Listen you jerks… if your ATM is broke you should not charge us a minimum for drinks or require a minimum of a ridiculous $60 or so. Living Room the bitchy club in Ft. Lauderdale also requires this and their ATM was broken as well.
The ironic thing is that one of the bouncers was outside at Discotekka having people sign this petition to stop the clubs from being closed at 3am instead of being open later. Well who cares when your clubs are open if you cannot even get a drink because your ATMs and your credit cards policy is so scandalous. You guys need to learn how to run a business better and treat your customers better.
I will say that Discotekka was a fun club once you get past all the rules of the bars. They had three rooms with dancefloors and one semi-outside bar to break away from all the smoke. They had a drag show performed by TP Lords and a nice VIP section. It is located not far from ParkWest and Space in Downtown Miami.
We also noticed that Mansion did the same thing in Miami. Their ATM machines were out of service and yet you had to have a $40 minimum tab to open a credit card.
One Miami alert from the weekend is that police are randomly stopping or profiling gay clientele at Club Aqua at 2991 coral way. Someone made a rather dramatic post about this but we cannot confirm that this is going on at this Aqua Club (which I have never heard of). Stick to supporting the gay clubs!
If you see most of the magazine reviews of Dallas, TX you normally hear about the gay strip where you have 
It was not all that fast to get a drink inside the place. The bartenders did not seem prepared for a large crowd mainly because of the credit card machines not working. I hope these kinks can be worked out for the next big party. They also do not have a late night permit yet at this location so they closed at 2am which is unthinkable for a Circuit crowd. We like our afterhours but there are some places to go for afterhours when the Brick closes and those are 1. Station 4 (off Cedar Springs), only open until around 3:30am to 4am depending on the crowd; 2. Insomnia (off i-35 and Manana), a mostly straight afterhours beginning at 3am but the music will keep you moving around until 7am or so.
Who looks more like Lady Gaga? Most of the nightclubs in the world are going Gaga crazy and not just for the drag queens that can dress up like Lady Gaga but the females impersonating the female Gaga within them. People are doing it just for fun or to win prizes such as Lady Gaga concert seats.
We were on a visit to Austin, TX USA last night and thought it would be a sort-of-quiet Sunday. We were in town to see the Sordid Lives creator Del Sores and his husband Jason Dottley over at OCH (Oil Can Harry’s). Which was lots of fun by the way. Jason sung his new single that will be released in September and he even had a cold and did a great job dancing and performing (pics to come). They had $4 wells over at OCH, $3.50 wells at Rain if you can handle the Karaoke on Sundays. But get this we found out they had $2 wells over at a place down the street and you won’t believe where because I was sure amazed.
Tonite Thursday, July 16, Tigerheat rolls out with Pop Princess Lady Gaga’s new Paparazzi song making it Lady Gaga night. Avalon is where Tigerheat is held and offers $2 drink specials for over 21 and has the best venue in the nation for 18 and up crowd on this one night a week (every Thursday). If you are in LA this week make sure you check out the CD release party of Paparazzi and check out the video it is amazing and I think one of the best videos of 2009 if not the best video. If this video does not win an MTV VMA Award then they suck!