Asian Night at Havana - Thursday 1st April 2010
Good Friday is on tomorrow and all the clubs in Sydney are closed that day, so they are open Thursday night in lieu… Just left Space with Daz, to meet up with M and some other female friends, so here we go!
Candy Dreams Lingerie Party @ Havana Club de Luxe
Assessment Time: Midnight – 02:30am
Opening Hours: 10:30pm – 03:00am
Website: http://www.havanaclub.com.au, http://www.teamhkr.com
Address: 169 oxford st, Darlinghurst Sydney
Dress Code / Door Policy: Casual ok. I had dress shoes, a vest and collared shirt on. Others wore t-shirts and some girls wore corsets tonight.
Entry Fee / Cover Charge: $25. $20 on guestlist before midnight. I employed use of my free pass from the last week I visited Havana.
Guestlist: See promoter website
Inside: Walk upstairs two flights of stairs to the top level of the building, where Havana is. Main dancefloor for 250 or so people, with 3 bars on 3 sides, and DJ on the 4th wall. Lounges and carpeted areas surround the dancefloor.
Cloak Room:$4
Bar: Didn’t drink tonight
Music: RnB with the occasional House mashup
Crowd: Mostly asian with a mix of the others such as euro, aussie. Mostly local.
Entertainment: Podiums in the middle in front of the DJ and next to him. Dancing poles are not installed tonight.
Atmosphere: It was a Thursday, so it wasn’t as packed as a typical Friday night, nethertheless it was still busy enough to keep it away from the status of ‘dead’. Later around 2am it did die down considerably.
Video – 360 View of the main floor around midnight
Timeline:
It’s a Lingerie Party and well.. where was the lingerie?
Well all my female friends here were dressed in corsets. Altogether in the club I could probably count about 10 or less females in corsets/lingerie including my friends – I wanted to perve on girls who I didn’t know! Nethertheless it was a welcome sight for pervy eyes. A shame there were not more girls dressed skimpily. They should have a club out there that has dress up themes every week! Oh wait.. that’s The Retro.
Girls up on the podium dancing
We busted each other
I went on a date with a girl a two nights ago. Tonight I saw her grinding with some random dude tonight, and she saw me granding with a girl. Our eyes meet, and it was totally not awkward. hahaha.. and yet I wonder why I am single.
The 2 hour grind
After being in the club for 20 minutes the girl who I was dancing with at Space, got bored and followed me here to Havana, and so I did my part and grinded with her and Daz for about 90-120 minutes.. sandwich style in the middle of the floor. Basically she would face me grinding, and then after a while turn about face and continue. EVERYONE in the club is staring at us. Some are smiling, and some are disgusted. Most are guys of the former category. You would think something further would happen, but it never materialised.
Video: 2 girls up on the podium shaking their stuff
Arrivederci
After the arduous grinding session, the three of us leave. Friends were shaking their heads at me. C’mon, what is wrong with two guys and a girl leaving a club, holding hands?!? Gimme a break!!
Recommendation
Well tonight was a once off Thursday event – but it was better than Flow’s once off event on Christmas Eve – Would come here again. More people would have been better, but this was a pretty good turn out for Thursday – Similar to Space Nightclub – Entry price however should have been cheaper for a Thursday. Flow Thursday last year was only $10.
Candy Dreams @ Havana Club – 6.5/10