TGIT at Astoria Hotel - Increased Cover Charge
As of this week, TGIT has revised its cover charge upwards from AED 20 without drinks to [b]AED 35 including one drink[/b]. The cover charge applies every day in the evenings (after 6pm) and throughout the day on Thursdays and Fridays.
Apparently, this new cover charge came into effect starting last Saturday. However, since I only go out during the day, I did not find out about this till yesterday afternoon. The result is that the report I posted yesterday morning is already obsolete (although only a tiny bit)!
Yesterday afternoon, there were far fewer men at TGIT than on the last two Thursday afternoons. I am not sure whether this was because of the higher cover charges or whether it's just a coincidence. A couple of new faces of African descent were visible but they don't look like they're new in town. Another new girl is being carefully shepherded by her manager. The manager is Uzbek. I did not bother asking about the girl because she looks like jailbait. A couple of other men there also think it could be dangerous to take her.
When I gave my "drink ticket" to the Bartender, Mr Ijaz, he told me that the cover charge is for the infrequent customers and that I should not have paid but should have simply told the collector that I was a "regular". I don't know if this would have worked out as the collector naturally only sees me every Thursday. I'll try it next Thursday.
Trying to be optimistic, I consoled myself by reasoning that on the past two Thursdays, I had paid AED 20 to enter and then AED 23 for my first pint to make the total AED 43. Yesterday, I paid AED 35 that also included my first pint. Which is actually an AED 8 saving. Easily covers the price of two Durex Featherlites from a 12-pack.
[b]On another topic:[/b] Yesterday, I took home my first Chinese lady ever. Excellent experience. Will try and write the full report on Sunday when Vee is off to work (she hasn't woken up yet so this is a safe period for this brief report).
[b]On yet another topic:[/b] Piper is a real gentleman. As if you all did not know that already.
Ruffeek
[i]Dubai Under Construction: Chill out with your drill out.[/i]
Off topic and somewhat pointless but what the hell...
Doing a bit of homework prior to my business trip to Dubai on Sunday. Looking through all the posts; the erudite, the informative, the funny, the slightly deranged and the long winded and dull (my spiritual home), it suddenly struck me what a broad family, the ISG community is. Mongering is a classless activity enjoyed by all colours, creeds and socio economic groups. That being said there must be a fair smattering of the great and good, amongst us, hiding behind the pseudonyms (Norman Brightside obviously isn't my real name it is of course Brian). To test the theory I ask any radio presenters, reporters, film and sports stars, MP's when you get a chance to drop the name of Norman Brightside into the page or conversation. Nothing too flashy but just enough to "tip the wink" to other ISG members. Go on don't be shy, you're amongst friends.
Wednesday Metro, Thursday Barasti (yes, Barasti)
My gf has been over on a visit for a couple of weeks so mongering was a bit off limits for a while and Wednesday was first real chance to go out. Before gf came here I was also travelling a bit so add that into the mix and I haven't been to Metro in about 4 weeks. A few things were apparent very early on:
1. They seem to be very strict now about allowing girls in before 9pm and only well know PRC seemed to get an entry pass
2. The quality of PRC girls seems to have taken a real nose dive and there were some distince York\Astoria style girls on the go
3. A number of regular PRC have disappeared but there were still enough familiar faces around to have fun
4. Some of the new PRC seem a bit aggresive with one in particular jumping in on other girls action even more aggresively than the Africans from York. She did cause a bit of a row and I don't think it'll be long until she gets a slap if she doesn't calm down
It got very busy later on but by then I had drunk a few so not sure what the ration was but certainly looked favourable for the men there. A few of the guys there also seems a bit aggresive, Brit boys on tour it seemed like......its not the Costa Del Sol boys! Anyway, the night ended up pretty much same same with my usual PRC export I left after the bands second set.
Princess L is pretty much my live in these days so for a change of scenery we went to Barasti on Thursday night. she has been there a few times with me before but on quiet nights or afternoons. She was absolutely shocked at how busy the place was and looked like a fish out of water, she did dress down so didn't look like a WG but still not the many Chinese there although I did spot a couple in tow and certainly a few Filipinas. We met a girl from my work there, that was fun wathching her try to figure out what the score was. She was pretty pissed anyway so she probably added 2+2 to come up with 19! Barasti is obviously not known as a mongering destination but there were definitely some CIS there working the drunk crowd. Not sure what the success rate was as we were wandering a bit but on the way out I certainly noticed one hooked onto so drunk dudes arm. I have no idea what rate they go for but I'm guessing not cheap. They may well be girls that go onto GH if no early score but again I'm guessing. In one way, I'm surprised that there aren't more WG's infiltrate there, its full of stupid, drunk, horny, young western guys looking for a shag. Mind you its also full of stupid, drunk, horny young women looking for a shag so maybe the competition is too much!
Keep it Cocked,
Zing
Wed night - Rattler. Thurs night - Finnegans, Premiere and KuBu
What was supposed to be a one-hour session of after-work drinks Thursday night with couple of work pals turned into a long night of club-touring.
Started at Finnegans around 10pm - after a lull, there are now usually about 10 WGs amongst the crowd. Chinese, African, CIS. Too bad The Palm Hotel, including Finnegans is going to be demolished in June to make way for another ultra-modern highrise building. It has it's own pub-style charm.
Pals and I decided to try somewhere different apart from the usual stop at Rattler. Thursday night at Rattlesnake is too crowded, so we by-passed it (besides, we were all at Rattler until closing time the night before - it was great - hardly any guys, and a full contingent of girls desperate for business). So, onto Premiere Club at Hyatt Regency. Arrived at 1:30am, only to find a long queue of about 40 agitated guys waiting to get in. WTF! I said let's get out of here and try KuBu.
Unbelievably, at nearly 2:0am KuBu also had a queue of guys waiting outside, but only about 10, so we waited and five minutes later we were inside. No cover charge, but cram-packed full of guys, with only about 10 girls. This was bad bad bad Finally we found a corner of the room where we could actually move without being crushed by the crowd. A nice Malaysian chatted for a while - she wanted 2,000. Then two Uzbekis chatted to us for a while - one of my pals was just about to make a deal with her at closing time, but her friend called her away, and she came back to apologize but she had to leave as she and her friend had a customer.
We finished our drink, and left the club at closing time, walking behind a Russian guy with the two Uzbekis - one on each arm, and a big smile on his face.
Outside at the taxi rank, there was bevy of beautiful black babes sitting on a bench. I made some eye contact, a couple of them gave the 'come and get me' smile, but it had a been a long night already, with a lot of work to do today.
One of my pals had earlier suggested we go to Barasti - one of his favorite places, but stupid me said there were no girls there (based on the few times I've been there). After Zing's post, I'm kicking myself after a long night of driving all over the far side of town to clubs crowded with guys and not many girls.
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I'm in the doghouse at the moment, so I'm doing what any good man should do when his wildcat is pre-menstrual, fuming and not talking - hitting the clubs! A few more hours of work and I'll reward myself with a visit to another club around midnight, or a last-minute meet up with one of the on-line girls.
