First off, I've never been a big fan of the Flamingo in Anaheim. It feels too much like a warehouse or hotel ballroom and the bouncers/floaters/etc. seem too hate their jobs too much.
That said, I decided that I'd give the new HB location a try, if for no other reason than to say I'd been to a strip club in facist Huntington Beach.
As has been indicated elsewhere, the entrance is in the back. Not unusual for a strip club. The interior of the club has the same semi-temporary feel as the Anaheim club, ballroom chairs, high ceilings, etc.
The staff seems to have been transplanted from the Anaheim Flamingo en masse...no smiles, no greeting. The doorman was so incompetent that he watched me exit my car in the lot, walk to the door, pay the cover ($10), answer whether I lived in HB and walk through turnstile and then ran into the nearly empty club when I got my first private dance to insist that I "need to pay cover first". Though I got him to back off, it was off-putting.
Stage dances were typical and rather bland. There seems to be a distance rule in effect on the nude dances. Dancers did two song sets...first song covered and at the rail, second song nude on stage.
Private dances were Flamingo standard: mega-low contact but priced at $10.
None of the dancers were outstanding, but there were no real dogs either. All of the dancers were pleasant which was a welcome change from most clubs.
Bottom line: Nice club if you're in HB already, but not worth a trip. Low rating for the club speaks more of the overall design and doorman/bouncer than to cleanliness, etc.
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