Sapphire Lounge

Avoid Sapphire Lounge if you can. We ventured in looking for cheaper pre-​drinks before visiting a club, but the drinks were rather expensive. The atmosphere is non-​existent and overall the place was pretty boring. Despite the architecture being quite appealing, I wouldn’t settle for this place. Music isn’t great and the people are a little sleazy– definitely not my cup of tea.

The Sapphire Lounge is a club that fancies itself as being classier than all the other nightclubs.
But it’s not really.
The décor is classy, to be sure. The drinks are suitably expensive, as one might expect from a classy establishment.
But the crowd. it’s the crowd that ruins it. They, too, fancy themselves as being classier than anyone else, and it shows. They are largely pretentious, pompous, and it seems like everyone is there to hob-​nob and look down on everyone else.
The atmosphere isn’t very friendly at all, the music isn’t particularly good, even though there are several rooms/​dancefloors, and the staff are largely uninterested in the patrons.
Did not have a good time.

We’d just come out to the Cross from some pre-​drinks, and it was still really early so we were still deciding what we wanted to do. We came to the conclusion that we would just go wherever. One of the bouncers at Sapphire lounge asked us if we wanted to check it out — they had $ 5 cocktails upstairs, although he admitted it was pretty quiet. More like dead, really, once we got upstairs. Nice guy, he was a lot friendlier than some of the bouncers around the cross on a Saturday ie the bouncers at The Bank. The inside looked huge in all its emptiness and the bar staff were just getting ready for the night. My friends and I had our lycée cocktails and off we went — with a stamp of course, in case we wanted to come back.
Of course I managed to leave my ID upstairs, after having walked down the block to another club. So back we went. Luckily the bouncer remembered us and let me head upstairs — and voila, there was my ID, tucked safely behind the bar. Unfortunately we never did end up coming back, but I wouldn’t mind checking it out again just to see what it’s like when it’s full.