A girl from Vegas and a guy from Florida walk into a Denver topless club...
Sorry, I have no punchline, but since we are from the 2 strip club capitols of the US, our standards were very high. I must say, this place is really quite nice. Most of the girls are very pretty and very accommodating to females. The place is clean, great DJ, several stages, and lap dances are only $25.
The drink prices are a bit ridiculous... Then again IT IS A STRIP CLUB!
Overall, we had a good time and I would return again.
Its worth a visit for the nostalgia.
This is EXACTLY like 1983. The loo, the feel, the music, even the mullet fashioned, cut off sleeved patrons.
Big haired strippers dance to Prince, pre-squiggle. Writhing to Thriller and Billy Idol. Its dated, but somehow fresh.
They even have a happy hour buffet. EWWWWWWWWWWWWW. Strip club buffet always disgust me.
The dancers are sweet and not too pushy.
COVER: Â I keep coming back to this place! Â No cover for Active Duty Military. Â
CLUB SETUP: Â As you've probably read, seven freaking stages. Â Don't come here too late on the weekends or else it'll be standing room only. Â There are always girls dancing...girls everywhere....breasts everywhere...a$$ everywhere...it's all truly glorious. Â I love it!
GIRLS: Â Most of the girls here are BOMB A$$ SEXY! Â I love it here. Â I couldn't count all the girls working here...must have been at least 40 girls. Â All about 7-9 in rating. Â
DANCES: Â One of the biggest negatives about Shotgun Willie's is the fact that the lap dances are now $25/song. Â There isn't much room for haggling with the girls either. Â Low mileage, topless and 25 a song makes this a four star strip club. Â
MASSAGE:  There's also a massage girl there that charges 30 bucks I think for a three song massage.  I came here once on a slow night and  got a massage in front of one of the stages.  A truly wonderful experience getting a backrub while a half naked woman on stage gyrates for you.
In addition to titties, they've got food here. Good food. Go for the steak and eggs, trust me. Also, I dig the tacos (not THOSE tacos, you pervert).
This place is very unique in that they really try to maximize everything. Too drunk to drive? No need to call a cab, they'll drive your car home for you (seriously). Truck a little dirty? They'll wash it (not kidding). Hungry? They have food (duh). All around, this place tries to go the extra mile to get your dollar.
You can smoke inside, which is a plus for smokers. If you don't smoke, don't worry, there are fans and vents running all the time so that atmosphere isn't clouded.
Cute girls. Good bar staff. Polite bouncers. Probably the best you could hope for in a strip club.
Went here with some buddy's for a bachelor party on a Thursday night, the place was a lot more sleazy then some of the other strip clubs I have been in (more sleaze less club). Â Anyway, no real issue there and we were all having a good time until all the decent looking girls left and amateur night started. Â Two words describe amateur night "flap jack", enough said. Â Nothing against shotguns, I am sure some people like this place, I just prefer a more upscale environment but that's just me.
Review Source:So...
...you go out with your buddies for beers and go club-hopping, and eventually, there's a 20% chance one of them will drop the "Let's hit a strip club!" phrase.  Some will drool and have their eyes glaze over, some would shudder and cringe at the thought of getting within 1000 feet of such a place, and some would be like "Meh...sure, we're  hammered, why not?" -- like myself.  Truth was another person texted my 2 friends and asked them to come to a "hair-styling charity competition" and support his girl.  So that's how we ended up there:  under the pretension of a "charity event". (adjusts halo slightly)
It's what you expect...and more.  And in some ways, less.  And interesting.  Oversized Glendale police officers stand by the door and mingle easily with the doormen, or occasionally, the working girls.  There is an ATM near the door.  It charges an obscene $6.50 fee for cash -- ridiculous.  Get $140 in cash out to make it almost palatable and stuff most of it in the bank the next day, treat your friend who's begging you to buy him overpriced beers, why not.  (I can't complain about the night we were there, I believe it was $2 PBRs and 1 other kind of beer, so it makes it very easy to tip  $3).  The women there are stunningly beautiful in that stripper way you'd hope for [not always the case at other places, if you frequent.]  They're young.  They WILL chat you up, when they aren't working a stage, if you give them the opportunity and aren't there solo like a creeper.  And 1/3 of those chatters will ask if you want a lap dance.  Predictably.  We went on a Sunday, a day you'd think most people would be at home -- not the night we went.  I don't know if it was due to the event being hosted, or if it's always like that on a Sunday night, but *streams* of humans, of all shapes, sizes, colors and both genders, wound their way around one another -- and amazingly, when collisions occurred, were gracious and/or courteous to one another.  Imagine...I guess maybe the combo of beer and...you know...really does work together to pacify crowds. Â
The one thing you should be tipped off to realize here, if you haven't in the back of your mind, is that this is *a business*. Â A business filled with scantily-clad girls wearing light scent, glittered costumes, and other paraphernalia -- all that way to make money. Â There is nothing personal behind their motivations, no matter what you might experience there -- it's a business. Â Clearly, the working clientele want you to have a "good time" there (not TOO much of one...). Â Happy customers are money-dropping customers. Â Keep that in mind, and you'll do fine.
And, as always, "tip generously", peeps. Â [They work hard for the money. O:) ]
I ended up at Shotgun Willie's after a dinner/celebration conversation turned to "We should go to a strip club." To which I replied, "Sure, I don't have any other plans. Why not?" I imagine that's how many people end up there. So, half an hour later, I was seated in front of one of the stages, cigar in one hand, water (yes, I was stone cold sober when I went and stayed that way all night) in the other.
I hadn't been to a strip joint in about 4-5 years before that, so my comparison is pretty rusty, but I had a really fun time while there. I wasn't drinking, so I actually didn't end up spending too much money given the potential for money-spending here. But I still had a really great time. A couple of tips if you decide to go:
Get cash before somewhere else. Their ATM has a $6.50 fee on it. I mean, it's genius, because, of all places, this is the one where you absolutely must have cash, but if you plan ahead, you can save enough to buy you another drink while you're inside.
The cover is $10. My guess that's the standard rate for most normal nights. Don't put up a stink about it when you get there. Also, the bouncers working the door were some of the nicest dudes I have ever encountered in a club of any type. Kudos, guys!
There's a $10 minimum on credit cards and you can't open a tab. Either buy a round for your friends or pay with cash.
Don't go if smoke makes you sick. This place is heavy with cigar and cigarette smoke and you will go home reeking of it. If smoke makes you feel sick or gives you a headache, you might want to avoid this place.
And most important.
Be respectful! Yes, these women are taking their clothes off and dancing nearly nude, but that does not give you the right to treat them like second class citizens! No touching, don't be a creep and be nice to them. Trust me, you'll get a lot more attention if you're nice to them than if you make a complete ass of yourself.
Not a very good strip club. It's good to go hang out at I suppose, but go the mixed drink route rather than the beer route. They ass rape you.
One thing's weird: the only money that I see being exchanged is the ones from the dancers and the cash at the bar. Unless there's a VIP room that I don't see, there's an underground economy that I won't guess at.
...
One of the girls explained to me that you can either by $25 lap dances (one song) or you can pay $400/hr to "take a girl off the floor" which basically means that they sit there and chill with you for an hour. There's no VIP room and no "touching" technically allowed in the main room. I don't know what type of local laws this place is trying to avoid breaking, but that is the lamest thing ever. Oh. Wait. I thought this was Denver, NV. My bad.
And that's why I rarely go to strip clubs. Â :-)
By the way, my rum and diet cost $7.50. My Bug Light cost effing $6.50. I'll let you be the judge.
Aside from that, $10 cover.
Awesome Club!
Big Birthday bash here, arrived in style in a strech limo with a crew of 25+
Even with a group as large as ours there was plenty of room, seats, and girls! Service was fantastic from the bartender's and the dancers!
Very impressed with some of those moves those ladies can do- amazing. All of us girls thought it would be a hoot to wear fake mustaches and the dancers thought it was funny too.
They were all super sweet.
You can't take pictures in the club, but if the bartender takes the photo away from the stage you are in the clear.
Drinks are not cheap by any means, but they were pretty stiff....along with most the men in this place, haha. Zing!
Music could have been better.
As a girl I find this place awesome! I love the ladies dancing there, they are diverse and there are ladies for every taste, unlike a lot of other strip clubs that only hire one type of girl.
The clientel is awesome, and the guys going there are actually quite good looking for the most part! Great place!
Thanks to Yelp for sending me here on a recent business trip. Great times.
This place looks almost like a hokey folksy family restaurant from the outside. On the inside it sometimes feels like an old Reno casino or a neighborhood dive bar. This is not a bad thing.
I had lunch here - the first time I've ever been able to pay for a strip club visit on the expense account. The steak was not bad and not expensive.
At lunchtime there was a huge number of dancers at work. The place is huge, and there are multiple small stages, and the girls rotate among each of them, so there are typically two or three dancers going at once. This is a great thing.
The dancers themselves tend to be really sweet, in my experience. Really great dancers, very pretty. The lap dances are regulated by a watchful management so you can't get too naughty, but that's all to the good. And you can just buy a girl a drink and chat with her. Very easygoing low-pressure place.
In contrast to most strip joints on the West Coast, this place plays a lot more rock and roll and a lot less hip-hop music.
Say hello to Wednesday for me if you go here...
I had a really great time here!!
I don't hit alot of strip clubs. Usually I'll go with some friends to hang out, have a few drinks, and enjoy the entertainment. I met up with some friends here, who were sitting right in the middle of one of the tables. I ordered a Makers and coke ($10, and it was hella weak. No points docked for this though, it's pretty much standard at any strip club for mixes drinks to be weak). I was impressed by all the girls- they were hella bendy. Seriously. I've never seen so many splits, backbends, and.... uh.... whatever else it was they were doing. Lots of variety in the girls. Some had tats, some were un-inked. There were all sorts of body sizes, and every one of the dancers looked pretty 'into-it', as if they were genuinely enjoying themselves. I've been to clubs before where the girls just look like they've had root canals while they were dancing- this wasn't one of those spots.
I've never tried the food here. I'm... not... really... sure... about eating at a club... not to say that I wouldn't ever do it, but it's not usually the first place I'd consider for a meal.
All in all, I had alot of fun here. There wasn't a predatory, creepy vibe. Not at all. I like the feeling of just being able to hang out, enjoy the scenery, throw some bills around, and not feel scummy for having done so.
Paisley sunglasses, a towel cape, and a whole lot of disinfectant could have helped salvage this night. (for men) If you have been to a strip club or two in your life, you should know that going with lady-friends will increase your experience by 10 fold. With this in mind a couple of female friends and I payed our first visit to this establishment and felt very misled by my fellow Yelpers.
If I go to a strip club, I want to see strippers, not young coked out 18 year olds that are trying to compensate for their daddy issues.
I prefer my nude bars filled with "lifer" strippers, I'm speaking of women who see the time-line placed in front of them; and are eager to make as much money as possible before their C-Section scars look more like a Cambodian knife fight wound instead of a less painful method of childbirth.
SW, I give you a flaccid "I just accidentally slammed my wiener in a cupboard door" ranking.
Hey, where is the "good for kids" question on this review?
Well - I did go back - a couple of times actually, and things have just gone completely downhill at Shotguns.
The girls used to be clean, cute, talkative but now it seems they only hire 18 year-olds that look like they just grabbed their dirty underwear off the closet floor. Â Greasy hair, ratty hair extensions, smudged make-up and zero customer service skills. Â One girl actually demanded that I give her more money last night because she danced for three songs then she did this weird stalkerish thing when I refused. Â Oh, no no no!
All the dancers congregate in the two-stall women's bathroom when they aren't on stage - or on a lap - so it's a little disconcerting to walk in and see these girls under the harsh and unforgiving flourescent bathroom light. Â Not a pretty sight - not at all. Â
I should point out that our waitress was very nice: Â Blonde, petite - super-cute, looked flawless. Â Also - the bathroom attendant was very nice and friendly. Â In hindsight, I should have given all my money to those two!
Any other Saturday night the club would be packed, but the last couple of times we've gone the crowds have been pretty weak. Â I'm sure the economy has something to do with waning crowds and Cujo-like strippers. Â
I was a fan but after the last two visits, I'm convinced that I don't need to go back. Â Shotguns...bang, bang - you're dead to me.
I've been to a lot of strip clubs in the Denver area, and Shotgun Willies is without a doubt one of the best. The women are top notch, and it's much more of a "party" atmosphere that most strip clubs. There are a LOT of stages, so there is plenty of eye candy to choose from, whatever your flavor.
Review Source:Probably the best strip club in Denver. We went there for my bachelor party and I had a great time. The woman there are all good looking, and are friendly. Well, they are paid to be friendly, but it's obvious that they are having a good time. Very fun environment to hang out and have a good time with they boys.
They play an eclectic array of music from metal to rap. You'll hear all the classics there like Girls, Girls, Girls, and newer rockin' tunes like Crazy Bitch. The club is very rock and roll. Â
I've never felt pressured to buy drinks at SW either, which is nice because I don't drink alcohol, and there are only so many soda's you can drink before exploding. Bouncers are friendly, the environment is cool, very laid back.
They have many stages so it's easy to roam around the place, or just get lost in a corner. The parking lot is always full, but there seems to always be a place to sit in there. It never feels too crowded.
What to say about one of Denver's better-known strip clubs? I've only been there twice, and was mostly recently there on a magazine assignment. They do have some of the most attractive dancers in the area.
In my experience, though, strip clubs typically have one of two types of environments--neither of them very appealing: either frat boy central or pretentiously upper crust (ties, cigars and highballs). Shotgun Willies is the latter. It's not the worst place in the world--and as far as strip clubs go it's pretty nice. Just make sure you hook yourself up with a stoagie and enjoy your stay.
Shotgun Willies is just about the only place you will ever hear advertised on radio stations like 103.5 the fox. Â Which means? Â I don't know actually. Â You will have to find out the hard way. Â But if you have any inkling of this station you will feel like you may be in for some crass trash and bad humor. Â BUT if you have never listened to the station, then on the contrary you may just be pleasantly surprised by well groomed ladies dancin' to Coolio. Â Put down a couple of martins and "dance" your heart out.
Review Source:Best Strip Club Ever! Â I've been to quite a few and this one takes the cake or pie more like it... Â Once you walk in you feel like a junior high school student in a new town walking into the cafeteria on your 1st day of school. Â You don't know what table you should sit at and you're scared shitless yet excited as hell. Â I nearly inked in my pants and I females aren't up my alley. Â It was the first time that I rolled into a strip club and felt that 8 out of 10 ladies were stunningly hot. Â There were like 8 or so mini stages and the women would just rotate every 10 minutes or so. Â The boys that I went with kept changing tables trying to get variety but I would recommend sitting at one spot for most of the night to make the ladies come to you. Â Purely entertaining and you definitely don't want to miss out on this experience.
Review Source:when a strip club owner wakes up and sits on the edge of the bed  with his head in his hands softly crying and wondering how he came to be the weak and worthless man he is today, you can be sure he is cognizant of one incontrovertible fact - his strip club is not Shotgun Willie's.
while muhammed ali can certainly make a case for the G.reatest O.f A.ll T.ime, Shotgun Willie is no slouch. Â i could go on at length about the 32oz. beers for $5, the fact that the place probably had 75 dancers on a wednesday night, the 7+ stages, the large screen tvs, the clean bathrooms, yadda yadda yadda. Â but what really sets SW apart from all the other pretenders is the simple fact that all the "performers" are having a good time. Â they are actually enjoying themselves and smiling. Â it is a little awkward and startling at first because you enter expecting to be greeted with the acrid stench of desperation and shame and instead you get a 12-ring circus that feels like it might just be your birthday and everyone decided to blow it out big-time in your honor. Â you don't even care about spending money because instead of an Estonian bottle-blonde with gang tattoos barely concealed behind neutragena sheers mineral powder foundation trying to pull it out of your pockets, you get two cosmetologists(cosmonauts) Â who are too busy making out with each other to even notice you standing there floating SW dollars at them. Â one girl stuck a dollar in my pants when i wasn't looking! Â seriously, if you ever just wanted to have a good time and not feel like your whole night should be ensconced in a plain brown wrapper hit Willie's and let the good times roll.
hot tip: if you happen to have a corporate expense account, fear not. Â you can charge EVERYTHING to your heart's content because the receipts show the business name as "The Bavarian Inn" which is the restaurant attached to SW where they process all their credit card charges.
JCTSFR: 878,738,473,286,327,512,313.51
The 5 best restaurants in the 2015 Denver Restaurant Week
3,607 Views | Category: Denver
The complete list of 2015 Denver Restaurant Week businesses
1,970 Views | Category: Denver
The tourists' guide to Portillos: 5 must have dishes
3,306 Views | Category: Chicago
Pho = Pronounced "fuh" not "foe" for pho-king sake
2,905 Views | Category: Denver
Indulgery selected to exhibit at Collision Conference
2,983 Views | Category: Press Releases
Not Logged In
BUSINESSES
Local Businesses
Near Me
My Favorites
SOCIAL
Blog & News
MY ACCOUNT
Login
Register
Contact Us
Add Your Business
