Hong Kong Club Reports

[Sol12]

That is when they are extremely busy.

I don't go to the bars when they are extremely busy since I try to avoid as many people as possible when I visit.

[Sol12]

If you break your 20's to 1's they expect a tip. If you order a drink from them they expect a tip. If you use your free ticket they expect a tip. Talking about the bar tenders. Heck if you ask them to clean the table by the bar in front of you they expect a tip.

Again I've never experienced anything like this and many guys on this board will specifically order drinks from the bartenders because they're not as pushy as the waiters in their opinion. Also not sure why they intimidate you because once you pay and get your change you shouldn't be looking at the bartender but the girls dancing.

In regards to bartenders or waiters expecting a tip for your free drink why is that unacceptable? If you go to a restaurant and have a coupon for a free meal wouldn't you still tip the server based on the value of the meal because they are still doing the same service?

[Zenduka1]

Most bartenders never pay attention to weather I tip or not because they are busy with the drinks.

That is when they are extremely busy.

[Zenduka1]

That's 100% true for meseros, but I've honestly never been given a side eye from a bartender for not tipping. Though it might depend on the time you go. I'm usually at HK during peak business hours (10 pm-3 am range) when the bartenders are usually way too busy filling various orders from customers and meseros to worry about which customers are tipping and which aren't. But I'll also note that I do usually tip, only times I don't tip is when I don't happen to have that extra $1 (or $20 peso) in my wallet or if I'm low on cash and wanting to save that dollar for something else.

If you break your 20's to 1's they expect a tip. If you order a drink from them they expect a tip. If you use your free ticket they expect a tip. Talking about the bar tenders. Heck if you ask them to clean the table by the bar in front of you they expect a tip.

[BrotherMouzone]

Bartenders will eye up and down if you don't tip them with a $1.

That's 100% true for meseros, but I've honestly never been given a side eye from a bartender for not tipping. Though it might depend on the time you go. I'm usually at HK during peak business hours (10 pm-3 am range) when the bartenders are usually way too busy filling various orders from customers and meseros to worry about which customers are tipping and which aren't. But I'll also note that I do usually tip, only times I don't tip is when I don't happen to have that extra $1 (or $20 peso) in my wallet or if I'm low on cash and wanting to save that dollar for something else.

[Sol12]

Bartenders will eye up and down if you don't tip them with a $1.

Most bartenders never pay attention to weather I tip or not because they are busy with the drinks.

[Zenduka1]

Well $6 is expensive but it's not exorbitant LOL. And if you order directly from the bar (as opposed to ordering from a mesero) you can skip the tip if you really want to save $$ As someone who's very frugal myself, I like to stock up on beers from OXXO or more frequently one of the supermarkets nearby (Soriana on Revolucion or the Calimax a few blocks away) and pre-drink in my room or the small sports bar downstairs before heading to HK.

Bartenders will eye up and down if you don't tip them with a $1.

[KetoAndKettle]

I'm guessing you have become a guru at getting to the point with the chica before the mesero arrives like speedy fkn gonzales to demand a drink sales.

Well $6 is expensive but it's not exorbitant LOL. And if you order directly from the bar (as opposed to ordering from a mesero) you can skip the tip if you really want to save $$ As someone who's very frugal myself, I like to stock up on beers from OXXO or more frequently one of the supermarkets nearby (Soriana on Revolucion or the Calimax a few blocks away) and pre-drink in my room or the small sports bar downstairs before heading to HK.

[Sol12]

With beers going to $6, just inquiring what the cheapest drink is now?

I'll drink soda or water, I don't really care. I can drink beer / booze cheaper elsewhere before or after.

A lot of time I drink Coca-Cola in HK. I believe a coke from oxxo would be just over $1, so wonder how much HK can try to gouge for that.

If HK still has the 2 for 1 coupon it's only $3. Or if your VIP you get a free drink. So you still have cheaper options. Now if you want to sit and drink In HK your paying for all the scenery.

Plenty of cheap places to drink in Tijuana you just won't be looking at girls as attractive as HK.

If HK is smart they would keep the soda price and water price the same as beer.

[BrotherMouzone]

With beers going to $6, just inquiring what the cheapest drink is now?

I'll drink soda or water, I don't really care. I can drink beer / booze cheaper elsewhere before or after.

A lot of time I drink Coca-Cola in HK. I believe a coke from oxxo would be just over $1, so wonder how much HK can try to gouge for that.

Well $6 is expensive but it's not exorbitant LOL. And if you order directly from the bar (as opposed to ordering from a mesero) you can skip the tip if you really want to save $$ As someone who's very frugal myself, I like to stock up on beers from OXXO or more frequently one of the supermarkets nearby (Soriana on Revolucion or the Calimax a few blocks away) and pre-drink in my room or the small sports bar downstairs before heading to HK.

[Zenduka1]

Beer prices going down means P*sy price going up? I wonder.

[LuvMexicanas]

A lot of time I drink Coca-Cola in HK. I believe a coke from oxxo would be just over $1, so wonder how much HK can try to gouge for that.

Then tell us what you paid. Why are you asking the price of Coca Cola when you said yourself that you've drank it a lot of the time in HK?

[Rainman306]

With beers going to $6, just inquiring what the cheapest drink is now?

I'll drink soda or water, I don't really care. I can drink beer / booze cheaper elsewhere before or after.

A lot of time I drink Coca-Cola in HK. I believe a coke from oxxo would be just over $1, so wonder how much HK can try to gouge for that.

[Explorer8939]

The fate of HK is that prices will continue to rise, until one day nobody goes. And they will never come back.

Like Adelitas before it closed.

[KBToys]

It's pretty funny that the more the new HK management tries to gouge prices and play games with customers, the more we work around the system. Nowadays I also take them out to eat away from that shitty attached restaurant and skip Cascadas all together. Even on the weekdays. I think tipping the bathroom guy is about the only consistent spending I still do at HK.

Always found it odd to have a bathroom attendant, but then saw them in LV clubs too. I doubt HK misses the lost patrons at all since they keep raising prices and it is still a sausage fest in the place. I'm thinking if they keep raising prices and have a cover charge, then it would reduce the number of patrons. Sometimes the place is standing room only and I see plenty of tables with bottle service, but then again it is probably mandatory in order to reserve the table.