I left a tip but I need to give them the rating they deserve. One star. Please don't waste your time and money. $24 to play pool for an hour is ridiculous. Not only that we were charged for three hours when we only palyed for not even two hrs. Overpriced for no reason. The only positive thing that happened that night was the prompt delivery of our food from houlihans. Never going back.
Review Source:DO NOT GO HERE!!! $65 (SIXTY FIVE DOLLARS) to play POOL for TWO HOURS!!!!... Â (everything I'm about to say was witnessed by THREE other people who will swear in a court of law, one of which has a Masters degree in education and is a local/reputable school teacher).
The sad thing is, I really liked this bar before this incident... People would say bad things and I would ALWAYS defend it and talk about it's positive points. After tonight I can no longer do that.....
I had been going to this bar on and off for well over two years, if not three. Whenever I play pool, it had ALWAYS cost $12 per hour (league price is the usual 50% discount, or $6 per hour - league prices are advertised all over the bar, so I know I'm not going crazy nor have I had a lapse of memory).
My gf and I went to the bar for karaoke and had a couple of friends meet us there as well. There was no karaoke this night, apparently due to tropical storm Andrea causing fear/panic/no crowd. We arrived around 10:20pm and decided to hang out and make the best of it without the karaoke (I have a text message on my phone to prove the time of arrival, when I texted one of my friends saying "You leave yet? It's completely dead here" -10:20pm). The first of my friends arrived around 10:30 and after playing some video games, we decided to get a pool table (Time is now about 11pm/11:15ish).
By 1:15am I am at the counter returning the equipment. I'm told I have to pay $65 dollars for the time spent. I ask the manager how much it costs to play pool there, I'm told it's $12 for HALF an hour/$24 DOLLARS FOR AN HOUR!!!! I look around and don't see ANY signs posting regular prices (other than the league price) and I ask where exactly the prices are posted (I could see the sign they USED to be posted on, but it was now blank). I was then told "We don't post our prices" (right, so they can make any price up they want to). I tell the manager we've only been playing for about two hours, seeing as how we started playing about 11/11:15 and it's now 1:15. I'm told that THE COMPUTER charges for the full hour and can't tell the difference between 10:59 and 10:01. My reply was, but "YOU can tell the difference!! You mean to tell me that I'm being charged for the whole 10pm-11pm hour AND the whole 1pm-2am hour!?!" She (the "manager") told me there was nothing she could do about it. Since I'd been going there for a long time, I saw the owner as he was sitting over at the bar. So I go to him and say "Hey how's it going.. You've seen me in here before on many occasions, we've even talked, I sing karaoke, I bring my friends here and thus bring you business... I like it here and I want to give you the chance to fix this situation before I walk out the door and never come back.."
I then explain the situation to him. The "manager/bartender" eventually cuts in, CHANGES HER STORY, and says the computer had me marked down as playing at 10:15pm. Now I get mad and say that "a second ago you couldn't give me a time that I started, EXPLICITLY stating that the computer DOES NOT give an exact time, and now you're saying the opposite?" The owner then turns to me and says that I "must have had too much to drink, lost track of time and that I'm mistaken"... I have the text in my phone to prove I'm not mistaken(and Verizon now has the phone records), I do NOT like being called a liar.... and for them to treat a regular customer like this only foreshadows the treatment anyone else can expect in the future. Listen to these other reviews, stay away from this place.
Oh, I almost forgot... in all fairness, they DID offer a compromise.... they offered to refund $2.... (smh)
A few of my friends and I randomly stopped here to shoot a couple games of pool. Â I was highly disappointed. It's extremely overpriced for the venue. The drinks were about $8 or $9 for a weak vodka cranberry. Â The place wasn't clean and it reaked in the bathrooms. Â It was basically empty for a Saturday night. There were about 3 other groups of people playing in a hall with about 16 tables. During our last game they shut off the juke box, so we played our last game hearing crickets, besides our voices. Â When the waitress walked by we asked her why the music was off and she said because Karaoke was starting but they were having technical difficulties. Â When we went to pay for the night we got the bill and were shocked! It was over $40 (we played 2 games) which was not worth it considering we paid for bad drinks and food from Houlihan's to be delivered (they have no food service might I add). Â Magically after we paid, Rihanna started chiming in the background...music on. Â Something tells me they cut it off on purpose. Â Trust me they didn't have to kick us out, this place is a mess. Â You couldn't pay me to come back.
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