Maracas New York Night Club

This place serves well for 18 year olds who wanted to pop their club cherry, before they have standards.

I'm not a person quick to judgment, but this place was so wretched that I felt I had no choice but sign up for yelp just to write them a review. There were many things in particular that were just irksome but not major enough to write this place off. however, placed in conjunction, these issues created a perfect storm of shit.

The setting: There isn't much to say about this, the address says it all. All I will say, is that I walked a bit faster than normal on the way to the place and on the way back to the car (I was designated driver.) Also, the pat you down at the door.

the bar, the bar, the bar: First off, it is not a full bar. Second, and most importantly, the bartenders are the worst bartenders I have EVER been served by. Now, let me paint you a picture of what i mean about ever. I tend to go bar hopping in the city often. I have experience fantastic bartenders to not so fantastic bartenders. But this place, my god, the bartenders should not even be called such. They are an embarrassment to the profession. The bar, at the peek of activity, was at least three times less crowded than a good bar in the city, yet it took at least 3 times longer to get any attention from the bartenders. They move so slowly it pained me to watch them serve.  It took me ten minutes to get their attention and then a further five minutes to get my drink. My drink was not even complicated, a gin and tonic for my girl and a beer for me, yet it took forever! There were apparently three bartenders but only two were doing anything. There were visible sections of the bar that were just unattended, where no one were getting serviced. The lady next to me was getting visibly aggravated as she was there before me and got her drink the same time as me, which blows my mind.

Drinks: couple of pet peeves here. The first, was when I got my beer. I got a Heineken, which they poured into a plastic cup. Though the entire bottle fit comfortably in the cup, the fact that they did this was telling about the establishment itself. It tells me that they don't want a bottle out there on the floor to be used as a weapon. The only other option was that they didn't have the wait staff to pick them up, which from observation, was not true. Second, they sold bottles of water. Now, this was just bullshit. At the surface it may seem fine, but it really shows that they don't give a shit about their customers. Why? well, any bar, any bar would give cups of water to their customers FOR FREE. This is because bars generally want their customers not to get so blitzed drunk, because, well, that's just bad for business. I mean, it is common courtesy.

Bottle service: Now, if you pay 200 dollars for a 30 dollar bottle of liquor you are not just paying for liquor, you are paying for an experience. Some of my friends bought bottles. Now, the bottles did come with sparklers, and it was fairly evident to the entire place you ordered a bottle, which was nice. But they just placed the bottle down, and the service after that was less than impressive. Now a lot of people got bottles and I could not help but thinking that those people got bottles because the have been here before and they know what the bar was like.

Sound System: The music was so loud that all you hear was bass. you could barely tell which song was playing. when they spoke on the mic I could not understand a word they said.

SMOKE: they sell hookah here, and it is pretty good. however, the ventilation was so bad that at the peak of the evening the air was saturated with smoke.

Now the few good aspects. The place was well dj'ed. The crowd was very mixed in age, which was different from what I am used to, but was still nice.

This club is one of the few that lets in 18 year old. Now, I am not that old, I'm 22, but I still would rather not party with 18 year olds.

sucks. im going to report how they take all the tips from the bartenders when they all work so hard. they made up their own rule that the bartenders make 20% only of the the sales they make which means if someone gives you 50.00 you only get 10.00 from that. they are snakey and i hope the work force shuts them down or makes them change this fake rule they use. i am reporting them and alot of my friends are as well. snakes!!!!!!

I made the mistake of coming here this wkd to show my cousin around the neighborhood.  I witnessed at least 4 fights breakout within one hour.  I don't know if it's the drinks or just the bad energy that the club brings out but it was not fun at all.  The place itself is nice and spread out.  They have a $20 cover.  I could see the appeal of this place for an 18 year who wants to have their first club experience with music they are familiar with.  I'm one of the nicest people (I think) and I felt like I was going to have to get in a fight, I hate experiencing that when going out and this place seems like it's about that.  I promised myself to never come back here.  I wish I knew of good nightlife options in my neighborhood so I don't have to trek to the city or Astoria or BK all the time.