M wanted to go Shark Hotel. Erm.. ok, lets check it out again then – here we go!

Puls8 (Pulsate) @ Shark Hotel
Assessment Time: 11:00PM – 04:00AM
Opening Hours: 10:00AM – 05:00AM?
Lockout: No lockout.
Address: 127 Liverpool St, Sydney
Venue Website: http://www.sharkhotel.com.au
Promoter Website: Self Promoted.
Occurrence: Every Friday and Saturday nights
Dress Code / Door Policy: Casual is ok. Not too dirty. Hats were allowed in here. Guys mostly wore casual and girls were a mix of casual and well dressed, from the rnb clubbing event at Space.
Entry Fee / Cover Charge: Free all night.
Guestlist: N/A due to free entry.
Inside: Walk upstairs to the Shark Hotel area. The dancefloor is pretty much in the middle to hold about 50 people cramped. On two sides are pool tables. the other two sides are tables and stools and the main bar. Outside of the dancefloor the area is carpeted. Dancefloor itself is elevated about half a metre from the floor and is extremely well lit. DJ booth attached to the back.
Cloak Room: No cloak room services.
Bar Prices / Line: The lines were about 1 or 2 people deep. Prices are reasonable here. A Smirnoff black is $9 I think.
DJs: Unknown. It’s a resident DJ.
Music Style: Contemporary RnB in the initial few hours, then after 2:30AM-ish its classic old school RnB and West Coast Hip Hop/ Rap. Songs are generally played in their entirety with minimal crossover mixing. Momentum that is built up in one song can be easily lost in the latter half of the song or simply having a different song being played here tonight.
Crowd: During the contemporary RnB phase there are lots of young people. Mostly Asian, primarily because of the Asian RnB ‘zaia’ event upstairs. There are also internationally based Asians and backpackers. Aussies, Indians, and Africans are here too. It’s a bit of kind of everything here. The local Asians who were here, were here for the upstairs RnB event.
Entertainment: None
Atmosphere: Since the area was well lit, it may be a bit intimidating to go forth and dance first, but once you are up there, its not so bad, except everybody sitting around is pretty much staring at you dance. Other than that its friendly and people who go up have fun.
Timeline
All my friends run upstairs to the other venue.
Bumped into quite a few friends and acquaintances here. One group were here for the Zaia event upstairs and sadly, I couldn’t join them as I’m not welcome to the event anymore. Even the girl I am seeing went upstairs. I probably would have said no anyway even if I was welcome upstairs. The drinks are cheaper down here at shark, and it’s not as hot and squishy upstairs, plus I have never been a fan of Space Nightclub as a place for clubbing.

Another group recognized us from about 7 months ago, when we met here at Shark Hotel. That was kind of funny. They just came from the one-off urban agent event that we were originally going to go to @ Home Bar – reports were that it was pretty packed, but they were kicked out for being too drunk and so they made the hike here. One of girls ran off with my top hat last time!! (http://jamestran.net/?p=1563) So that’s who it was… I made her promise to give it back to me.. She better!

People who can’t wait for their alcohol.
It’s just me and someone else at the bar. I’ve been here for a few minutes. A lady joins us. The person in front of me is served. Then subsequently the bartender has to pick who to serve next. I see the girl has money out, but I have the right to be served. We both raise our hand, but the bartender chooses the girl. She has blatantly pushed in and doesn’t even acknowledge that I was here first. Fucking bitch. I hate you so much. Whenever *Im* at a bar, I always give right to someone else who was there before me, even if the bartender chooses me first! That’s because I’m bloody nice like that. Lining up at the bar – it’s a farce.

Again, screw you bitch.

An early death
Pretty much at around 1Am-2AM, the place began to die quickly. Most of the Asians went upstairs and the rest of the crowd went to different places. We opted to stay here tonight, since well… it wasn’t worth paying entry for another venue for just 2 or 3 hours.

Arrivederci
It got kind of boring dancing with nobody for about an hour, so I stopped at 3:30AM, and we left at 04:00AM

Recommendation
It’s pretty packed from dinner until around midnight/ 1:00AM, so come here for some pre dance drinks before continuing to another venue for more dancing before it dies down. Come with friends too because there will be some dull moments. However I still like coming here if nowhere else to go because of the cheap drinks, clean atmosphere and free entry of course.

Puls8 @ Shark Hotel – 5.5/10