They do what they're made to do. I'm not a fan of the new input remote as it was the same as 2 AM's and very difficult to use. There's not a whole lot of service needed other than when ordering drinks, so it's not easy to judge this. As long as I get my singing in and the machines are constantly breaking, then I'm all good.
Review Source:I've came here several times, and generally felt ok about the place.
The rooms are still new in general, but the equipment malfunctions pretty often for some reason (mics, tv).
Most recent visit is actually the worst, where the tv didn't work out 4-5 times and we ended up leaving in 45 minutes.
I think the worst part about this place is actually the staff, as they don't seem to care about your issues (which stuff just don't work time to time) and sometimes just tell you to deal with it.
If there is a better alternative then I'll definitely go to another one, but unfortunately the east side only has one karoke place for now.
You DON'T have to be 21 to come here to sing! Â I came here with my group of my friends in which some were under 21 - they check your ID just in case anyone wants to buy alcoholic drinks. Â
A little pricey of a place $27 per hour for the small room - but what can I do? Â I really wanted to karaoke and Seattle was out of the way. Â The staff was friendly, the rooms are clean, and their new touch-screen system is interesting to use. Â But there's a lot more song selections if you just use the older system with the books. Â
The song selection is good. Â When leaving though and given the price we had to pay, the guy kept saying "This doesn't include tip....." Â which was a weird thing to say considering they didn't do much.. Â I guess it's a decent place if you want to stay on the Eastside and in the mood to sing.
don't come here for the drinks.. its weird and over priced.
Come to enkore, to rock your hear out :) happy hour is a steal. $25 an hour for a small room. Has quite the selection of "ENGLISH" songs (yay!!!) haha cause I can't read anything else.
Nice, clean, new rooms. A lot of the songs also have the actual music videos, which is always a big thumbs up!
The only thing I suggest, is have a second way to select songs, instead of individually going up and song selecting through the large "ipad-ish" screen. Song book lists is a classic, and gives the karaoke vibe. Stick with it, and at least other people who are waiting to sing, can also have a go at song selecting :)
This is an unpleasant experience!! They charged us 20 dollars for food that we bought from outside, so crazy!!!Why they do not sell any snacks ?? we need something to eat, not only drunk .Well,anyway, the service staff should tell us this thing before we started. Then we will avoid that.
Song was ok, but the service was so bad, i think he just wanted to go home early and kept pushing us to leave!! So uncomfortable.
If somebody want to have a good relax, please do NOT COME here, it's so bad and it will cost you a lot!
NEVER COME BACK AGAIN!!
We were Eastside and had a need for Friday night Karaoke so we booked a room at Enkore.
The rooms were very spacious and the equipment is really well kept but the English selection was sort of pitiful. Also after every song a screen in Korean would come up and say something about a score of 0 points and then reload before bringing up the next song.
We were in there for about 2 hours and for the 4 of us it came out to around $12.50 each. Not bad. The rooms are $25 per hour no matter how many people you have so if you bring more, it would be cheaper and the rooms can certainly accommodate more than our small party. Â
No one came to check on us, nor was there a phone on the wall and none of us wanted to leave the room so we didn't end up ordering any drinks or even water. Though a bottle of beer was $4 I probably would've ordered a couple if someone had come in and asked. Perhaps it's just not the way it's done there.
If we had better knowledge of Japanese or Korean songs I'm certain we would've had a better time. For us though, we'll probably just go across the water for our karaoke needs.
Recently, I had my karaoke itch scratched... if only just a little bit. Feeling rather spontaneous to sing/rap a few, me and Allie went here to check 'em out...
...Ooooo, aaaah! They definitely got the fancy digs going on... but the combo isn't complete without a great room experience: meh. Comfy and spacious. However, as Allie summed it up so well, their english selection is rather sparse when compared to other more extensive-listed places like Marco Polo Bar and Rock Box. Also, some of the lyrics to ones I've found are 10% off - also, MIB's tempo is too fast! DOUBLE-U-TEE-EFF? The list queue is easy/fast to control.
The bottom line? We probably had more fun [trying to] navigate their wall-mounted foo-foo touchscreen than singing.
I do give them props to having a decent amount of original MV footage (like Superstition).
Oh! And the sound doesn't seem quite right and they still need to add door locks to their bathrooms.
When I used to go to enKore in the U. District, Seattle didn't have very many karaoke boxes -- now, we have a ton of them. And enKore doesn't feel like it's really kept up with the times [except the fact enKore Bellevue is a 21+ facility]. This place LOOKS really nice. And the staff is nice, but that's not enough to keep my karaoke allegiance [which is a shame, because this place is SUPER close to my apartment and I was psyched about potentially hosting my birthday party there next month!].
Although they utilize a touchscreen system, it's nowhere near as user friendly as Rock Box's iPads. That, and this is definitely targeting Asian users, as there are not a whole lot of English songs to choose from -- and although I know enough Japanese to occasionally stumble my way through a song... even that category is lacking.
DDD and I came here this evening and partook in some karaoke goodness. The company was great and of course singing is fun, but it was unnecessarily difficult to find things to sing and many of the songs are labeled as MV -- which means that it's just the music video. So if you want to rap along to Mo' Money Mo' Problems you'll be sad to find you actually can't. Sucks to be you!
I'm disappointed but I'm glad this place exists. So I'll give it a three. For now... If I need karaoke and don't want to venture across I-90, I'll probably be sticking to 2am.