Galaxy Karaoke

Keep track of your own hours and peeps. We were over charged for our bill and when we asked to have it corrected the servers were nice but the managers were extremely rude.
The room we were in had the AC cranked, and was really cold, the server said there was no way to regulate this.
Free strip mall parking and rooms are of varying sizes to fit your group.

Galaxy is awesome!
Good sized private rooms that are relatively sound proof.
Decent selection of alcohol at decent prices.
Good selection of songs and relatively easy to look through them, once you get a hang of the giant remote.
Great service, although splitting up the bill can be laborious at the end of the night (not really Galaxy’s fault).
Overall definitely my favorite karaōke venue.

We went on a Friday evening with 7 people.
Bring ID! They do not allow minors in after 7PM, and they kick out minors at 7PM (If you are there before 7 and don’t know if you’ll stay past, they’ll come around the rooms close to 7 to check) as well as deny you entry if you plan to stay past 7PM with out ID.
Now I’m not sure why they set it so early, but I had a friend who did not bring ID (she’s been away from the country for a year so she didn’t have anything like a driver’s licence). We didn’t know about the 7PM rule so when asked if we were staying past 7, we obviously said «yes» and was denied service. We ended up having to go to Lips instead.
Walking into the place, it gives off a very «small» feeling but it feels very modern and clean. It is $ 5 an hour per PERSON. So for example, if you have 4 people with you, it is $ 20 per hour.
Room: We were assigned a room and it was actually pretty big for a karaōke room (compared to the other ones I’ve been to) with a table in the middle you can move and everyone can stand up and dance! (well mostly everyone). They had light up tambourines you could shake, and the best part was THE DISCO BALL THAT WOULD LIGHT UP WHEN YOU STARTED SINGING! However, those rooms are VERY STUFFY AND VERY HOT. You HAVE to ask them to turn on the fan if it gets too hot, because it gets VERY HOT. We didn’t tell them (we didn’t know we had a fan) but we kept opening the door to let cool air in, and I think they got the hint and turned it on (or they started cooking… we did smell food…)
Rooms are also NOT sound proof (like every other karaōke) so yes, regardless you will make a fool of yourselves, and yes, everybody WILL hear it. Might as well have fun :)
Songs: The great thing was that the list was updated! They also had tons of songs both English and Korean. Their English list wasn’t as updated as the Korean one, however it is still usable. They also offer Japanese, Chinese, Thai songs, Philippine songs as well. I’m not sure how extensive those lists are. By the way, THE MENU IS ENTIRELY IN KOREAN
The keyboard was very easy to use. It is a Korean and English keyboard. If you want to sing K-​Pop, you should be prepared to type in some Hangul band names as some are listed using hangul, and others using English. For example, BEAST, TVXQ, SISTAR, SNSD are all listed in hangul. They do have an applause (on screen cheer lol) button though as well as a pitch adjuster.
I am not too sure how you would find Japanese or Chinese songs using the keyboard though.
As for the mics, we had one wired and two wireless. To be honest, they were very very very VERY quiet. Even turning up the mic volume we couldn’t hear through the system. You would probably have to shout to be heard. In fact, it was the same using the mic vs not using the mic (we ended up just singing with out them most the time because it was pointless).
On to the music, although with a vast song choice, you get the legit karaōke version. Not a ripped of mp3 with karaōke lyrics. However, The music video’s actually proved to be problematic.
Some videos would have the actual MV, but most the time there wasn’t. You were either staring at some animated people «dancing» to the song (sometimes with the correct dance, others not so much) OR you’d be staring at the sunset, birds, the beach and waves crashing,
OR YOU WOULD BE LOOKING AT THE MV FOR A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT GROUP ON REPEAT. If you were lucky, maybe you’d get the right group, but wrong MV.
This we found to be the most frustrating. For example, I have seen Muzik 6 times in one night to completely different music. It doesn’t matter if it’s a boy group or a girl group track, there will be some kind of music video that you will see over and over again through out the night. Near the end they would switch MV’s too. You’ll be seeing a 2NE1 MV reach it’s end and it will switch to 2PM’s heartbeat until you finish the track. This was very very distracting.
Have you ever tried to sing BEAST’S «Soom» with Rainbow’s «A» playing in the back? Or how about SS501 with A Pink’s «Hush hush» playing in the back?
Service: Service was actually pretty good. When we walked in, we had to wait for some friends, but she led us into the room and asked if we wanted to wait or start the time. She also offered us water. She was very friendly and nice and told us the features of the room and made sure to point to the service button. Bonus: She was cute too
Food and Drinks: I don’t know about food but I remember being told they don’t serve food before 6 or so. (I believe it was either 6 ot 7). Regardless, it is Karaōke so no doubt it’ll be a bit pricier than usual. I’m not sure if this was allowed, but we brought in our own food and they didn’t say anything…
Overall: Would definitely go back. Would recommend this place only to English/​K-​Pop singers. I don’t think the song selection would be as great for any other language.
Song choices: ⁴⁄₅
Quality: ³⁄₅
Service: ⁵⁄₅
Overall: ⁴⁄₅

how to find it: in the same plaza as olive chicken. look for blacked out windows on the second floor.
impressions: i like this place. i can sing all the korean songs i can’t sing at lips or k-​one and it’s not filthy like nanta. too bad the tj media system doesn’t have many chinese songs so my chinese-​singing friends would go with me.
+ clean
+ private rooms (not that many though, maybe 10? idk.)
+ well updated song list (use
on your smartphone or
on your computer to search up song codes instead of wasting time looking through the gigantic binders)
+ wireless mics (unless you are incredibly anal about sound quality)
+ good selection of drinks
+ not terribly expensive ($ 20 an hour i think?)
+ the tv displays how much time you have left to sing
— hard to understand how to use the remote control and system if you don’t know how to read korean
— food is overpriced and portions are small