My friends and I in the graduating class at URI went here for senior week and were completely taken advantage of. Â The bartenders waited until late in the night when they figured most people were drunk and started charging ridiculous prices for drinks. Â One bartender demanded 7 dollars for a plain gingerale! Then the same bartender charged us 4.50 for a bottle of water and we watched him charge someone else half that price for the same bottle of water a few minutes later. He would not give us an explanation when we asked why. Â The place is a dump and the people that work there are crooks. NEVER going back.
Review Source:Its cheesey...its silly...it has that old label of being a trashy place but you know what...ive never had a bad time there. Â If you get bored you can hop around to the different rooms. Â Its a fantastic spot to people watch. Â I've also found the bigger your crew the better the time. Â The Drinks are decently priced, too...for a club.
My cover band has played here on several occassions (including some big holidays) and its ALWAYS been a blast. Â Everyone just dances and sings along and is clearly just there to enjoy themselves. Â
Don't thumb your nose at this place, seriously give it a try some night....warning..you may come out covered in napkins since the bartenders throw STACKS of them at random.
Um no. I feel like I could leave the review at that and it would be enough. But then I think of the plastic sharks and the disco ball and I must elaborate. $4 for valet parking, almost no free parking unless you count the lots of nearby businesses, and a $7 cover charge when there is almost no one there. And this place is way out of the way, not even downtown. Really? Total waste of money and the gas to get there. If I am going to drive 40 min to get to a club it damn sure isn't going to be here. Boston is just as close and I can't imagine the closer clubs in Providence being any worse. If you showed up here drunk at midnight it possibly could be fun, and if I lived down the block I may not even mind being one of those drunk people now and then but I don't. The idea of the place (the 2nd star) is better than the execution. I like places that have something for everyone but it is beyond cheesy. And the crowd is just bizarre. I'm going to have bad dreams tonight haunted with creepy mannequins and flashing palm trees. This place makes me feel violated...and not in a good way
Review Source:I don't even know how to start with this place.
I have some sort of love/hate relationship with it...
Like you can go to watch all the train-wreck townies...
but then you hate coming out feeling like...
these people actually come here... like for reals.
There are some cool things about it... there is a rodeo inside...people are serious with their line dancen' like whoa and there are several options for different rooms...live music + 2 other dj spaces--one 'hip hop' and one 'pop'.
But the place is just feels DIRTY + the clientele is just... I have no words.
There is a stripper pole PEOPLE oh + a hooker swing oh + a toilet paper gun.
Need I say more?
Go at least once..... but know... this is NO MARDI GRAS.
It's just scary.
What can you expect from a place with neon palm trees?
If a lil less classy is your style, this is the place for you!
This place is hysterical. Let me tell you a little story, my husband works in Cranston and tends to go out on friday's with the boys for a few beers after work. Great! Awesome! Love that he does it - i get the remote to myself :-) Â one particular friday night i'm on the couch, in my pj's and i get a call "honey, YOU HAVE TO COME CHECK THIS PLACE OUT. HYSTERICAL! GET DOWN HERE." Boy am I glad that i did, not only is there 4 rooms of dancing 45yr olds trying to mate, but the dolphins on the ceiling and the larger lady swinging across the bar in a swing bolted to the ceiling... oh wait, i forgot the 21 year olds walking around selling jello and test tube shots for $2.50 a pop. Goodness. Please tell me people don't go her to seriously "go out" thats just way too sad...
Review Source:A few drinks at Tazza later and we decided it would be hilarious to bring our group out of the city and visit Mardi Gras. Oh, the stories we'd heard.
We swore if the cover was more than $8 we'd turn around, and sure enough, it was $8. Phew.
At first, it was too much. A woman on a swing over the bar, big bouncers, neon flamingos, bubble lamps, black lights, go go dancers, pirate decorations, toilet paper cannons, a separate bar just for country and line dancing...
Then we all embraced the madness, had a drink, and it was all good. If anywhere, this is a judgment free zone.
Everyone is here to enjoy the evening and it's not hard to fit in. A group of strangers asked me to join them in a photo because I was wearing plaid. Our friend got on the swing over the bar. And then, we were all Mardi Gras fans.
If you've come to this review you know by now this is a 4 room club. I've spent time in 3/4(I'm not much of a country fan) and overall it's akin to that townie dive bar everyone like but nobody likes admitting their fondness. The decor is kind of off kilter, I wouldn't call it dirty(but it's certainly not immaculate), and the drinks are so-so depending on the bartender you go to. The rooms are pretty well sealed from each other but easy enough access. Plenty of bathrooms, hardly ever much of a wait for use. The music is OK, you're not getting the freshest of anything. The clubs play current music but their DJs are slow to change their routine. JR's generally has tribute bands play(not horrible ones but that's the recurring theme). They have valet parking(pay) but it fills up sometimes, they DO have a coat check($1) and the cover is generally low(avg $8). I come here because I live in Washington county and it's close, I almost always have a good time, and it's really good for people-watching. It's easy to get, she ain't pretty, but she's always
Review Source:Let's get two things straight: I love the nightlife, and I like to boogie. My friend, the infamous Sarah VM knows this, and took full advantage of the fact that I'd had two cocktails with dinner, and persuaded me to go with her to Mardi Gras.
It's not what you think. From the outside, it looks like some crazy Caribbean wonderland with brightly-colored palm trees and disco lights. Then you're hit with an $8 cover charge (random, right?) and THEN you go inside.
Blacklights. Go-go dancers. Multiple levels, multiple bars. Toilet paper being strewn in the air. It all hits you at once, so it's genius that they've put one of the many bars right there so you know what to do with yourself whilst trying to make sense of the chaos, and at $4 a beer, it's a great place to start.
So then we danced. And then I noticed another room, and could see through the glass that people were LINE DANCING. 10-gallon, boot-wearing, rodeo-loving line dancin' Rhode Islanders. Yup, such a thing exists, and they all converge at Mardi Gras.
From there, I went to the Hard Rock room, then the tiki hut room, and then back to the main dance floor. Around the world in under an hour.
I won't lie, the whole thing was totally strange and totally cheesy. But would I do it again? You bet your coconuts I would.
Where to start, what can I say this place is pretty epic.
Where else in the world can you dance your ass off, rock out, and square dance all under the same roof? Came here on a Saturday is was pretty crowded but not too crowded. I liked the Monkey Bar which was one of the dance clubs, and Johnny Bahamas the main area was pretty cool. This is not like average Providence club seen full of college students, it is the older crowd. So I you are part of the college student crowd I suggest grabbing a few friends and checking it out anyways because it was a lot of fun, had a ladies night here and it was great. Â
I feel like this is one of those places which is more fun with friends, so why not grab some friends and check it out.
Where do I start? This place is a trip; built for someone with total ADD it is split into 4 different theme rooms each with their own tacky name. One has line dance, 2 are dance clubs and the other is a "rock" club where they have bands play.This "club" is right on the Cranston/Warwick line and caters to an eclectic group of individuals.
Pros
its is not wall to wall people like clubs in Providence
cover is cheap(normally)
drinks are a bit cheaper than you would pay in the city
people watching
variety?
free parking
I might make fun of this place and it's light up palm trees but all in all it is not so bad. I'm not a club scene girl so that fact that this place isn't super loud and full of juiced up guys trying to molest me kind of has its charm. It is a nice random place to go and dance with your girlfriends, the music probably won't be great but have a few drinks and that shouldn't matter as much right?
PS they have a swing and a stripper pole if you are feeling really saucy.
So I head down here to check this scene out a couple of weeks ago on a Saturday night. Â The last time I was here was probably three years ago, with my wife and my friend from Nigeria and his somewhat corpulent girlfriend. Â I had a pretty nice memory, but this time I go with an older friend and another friend in his twenties. Â We pull up to the parking lot across the street, four guys pull up next to us and relieve themselves in four different directions. Â Meanwhile they are whooping it up and my older friend is a bit freaked, she has probably not been near a club since the mid seventies. Â The foursome realize that they are a bit crude and come over and graciously apologize and give me the low down about the club. Â So we get in and it is four rooms like I remembered, but the rooms are much smaller than I remembered. Â One room has some live act, I think it was some kind of rock maybe, than the other room has top forty, one room has western music. Â Upstairs the room has a very good sound system and seemed to be the coolest room. Â But we left after ten minutes. Â I got claustrophobic, between the size of the rooms and the size of the patrons, I felt very cramped. Â Maybe someday when I can get my body fat up beyond twenty percent I would feel a bit more comfortable. Â
The crowd seemed to be having a pretty good time, and it is the oldest crowd I have seen since I went to that country club turned dance scene in Westboro Mass. Â Anyways we ended up at the Colloseum where the music and the crowd was much more aligned with our energy level.
So, Mardi Gras is made up of 4 different "areas"
- JR's Bourbon St. Rock House (bar w/ live bands)
- Monkey Bar (dance club)
- Diamond Rodeo (country)
- Johnny Bahamas (another dance club, apparently w/ a Caribbean theme)
A friend of a friend of a friend was playing in a band at JR's, so that's where we spent the majority of our time. Â The drinks were fairly priced ($4 beers or sangrias) and although i never appreciate being forced to pay a cover, $7 wasn't outrageous.
They've really put some effort into the motif, but some of it does look a bit contrived and/or forced. Â I guess in terms of making each of the areas look different, they need to turn up the dial on the theme elements.
The sound system at JRs was adequate, and they have a few flatscreens with internal feeds of the band placed around the bar. Â During set changes they have a projector screen that comes down in front of the stage and they show concert footage from a popular band (foo fighters in this case) - i nice change-up from just pumping in some background music to pass the time.
The crowd is certainly on the older side (as an older twenty-something i felt like one of the younger folks in the room) which did take away from the atmosphere just a bit. Â Obviously, depending on your perspective, this may not be an issue for you.
Can't speak for the Monkey Bar, Diamond Rodeo, or Johnny Bahamas, but JRs is an adequate place to watch a band perform.
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