Dubai Hookah Lounge

If I could rate zero star, I would. Negative even. Just no. Don’t waste your time or money.
We came here because it was one of the very few hookah places that was open on a late Saturday night. My usually spots were all full. I’ve heard about the business that used to take place here before and I don’t think it’s improved much.
First of all, the front door was broken. The cracked glass was taped together with scotch tape. I kinda regretted it the moment I saw that. We went inside and there were 2 doors. One had a piece of letter sized printer paper with some «rules & restrictions» on it which included: «no guns or weapons».oh Paterson #facepalm. When we opened the door, out popped a bald dude who was supposed to be the security. He was a buff dude but prbly a few inches taller than me which isn’t saying much for a grown ass dude.
After a thorough pat-​down, he let us in and there was a mini «red carpet» with one of those red velvet rope thingies to keep people lined up but there was nobody waiting at the door to keep in line. another facepalm.
Inside was pretty empty. We were told to pay $ 10 each to just enter. At that point, we were just trying to go inside. So we paid, then found a place to sit down. It was dark; place was big so plenty of room to move around. We sat down then was told we «HAVE to get 2 hookahs» for 4 people and they were gonna be $ 50. I was fed up at that point so we placed our order. Some skinny dude brings us the hookah without even coals. Then he had the audacity to ask us to pay right then and there. One of my friends ended up picking up the tab because it was CASH ONLY. Nobody else had cash and the place was too sketchy to use their ATM. After 10−15mins, they finally brought coals for the hookahs and one of them was broken or sthing because I almost passed out trying to smoke out of it as it was clogged. We tried to flag down the «servers» who were walking around but after they had taken our money, they wouldn’t respond to us. My friend had to bring the hookah to the «kitchen» to exchange for a newer one.
On top of it, they gave us FOAM cups for the red wine we brought with us. Yes, you read it right. I’m talking about flimsy $.99 for 100 FOAM CUPS. We paid $ 10 each to get inside to drink wine out of foam cups; I wanted to kill myself. Thankfully, I was in good company.
On to the crowds. It was laughable. If you wanna pick up fat chick wearing clothes that are way too tight for them, then this is the place for you. They looked like stuffed sausages with fats spilling out of their ill-​fitting skirts/​dresses. They were all grinding up on each other hoping it’d attract the guys around them. I’m not sure if it worked because nobody went up to them and after the song ended, they went back to their tables cuz I guess they got tired. Btw the DJ wasn’t even that great. Barely anyone danced except those thirsty-​ass girls.
The guys weren’t much better. Some were wearing sunglasses inside. My biggest pet peeve. Others were wearing clothes that were way too tight for them or pants dropped all the way below their buttock.
On a unrelated topic, there was a table next to us who had too many bottles of beer apparently and started selling some to my friends. ratchet as hell but that’s none of my business.
The only saving grace to my night was being with my friends. We smoked, talked and chilled among ourselves.
All in all, I would not come back here, EVER. I’d rather drive all the way to NYC next time if I had to. It was not worth the amount of $$$ we paid. Do not recommend at all!!!