We were strip club hopping looking for a venue for a friend’s bachelorette party when we heard this was a strip joint. This couldn’t have been further from the truth if it had tried. First impression from the outside was it looked like a dirty dive bar and smelled like skunk right before we went in, yet shear curiosity made us go in. What we found left a lasting impression to say the very least. Horrifying was when we realized the outside of this place smelled better then the inside, which smelled like a combination of dirty pine sol water and sewer. Let’s talk clientele. This place was filled with what looked like druggies and hookers you’d see in the movies. Quite honestly, I don’t even think there were strippers here which I would say was lucky for us, because this place was pretty scary looking. Needless to say we didn’t stay to have a drink or find out, and were out of there in less time then it took us to walk from the parking lot to the door.
LO K.
Rating des Ortes: 1 Detroit, MI
Wow, this place is depressing as hell. Back in the day it was a great spot. I decided to come back 13 years later and all I see is a drug addict chick trying to get a dance or picked up, average girls asking to give me a massage for money out of the blue, and guys asking me to feed the jukebox. There is a woman right now pretending to be interested in an older guy than her… as long as he keeps buying her drinks. Oh wait! Look! A local at the bar and one of the girls are hustling a guy to play pool for money… alright, I’m ready to go back to my hotel now. Thanks for the drive down memory lane.
Alex A.
Rating des Ortes: 2 Chicago, IL
Cheap beers, expensive jukebox, one pool table, piss trough. This is a true dive bar with a decidedly divey clientele. The bartenders are friendly though. This is one of four Stone/Melrose Park area«lingerie» bars where you can get a lapdance if you’re so inclined. Girls at this place are usually pretty janky but occasionally there’s a diamond in the(truly) rough!
Joseph G.
Rating des Ortes: 3 Barrington, IL
no more girls now only food, free pool, drink specials open to 4: am daily. Nothing special or bad to say just you run of the mill late night bar.
Mike D.
Rating des Ortes: 3 Villa Park, IL
Tough club. Have patience. Cheap beer not a dangerous crowd but not high society. Games on the tv and friendly bunch worth a look.
Mario M.
Rating des Ortes: 1 Chicago, IL
Playpen is utterly disgusting. You use the restroom and it smells like the Chicago Sewage. What happened to the maintenance and decency? the place needs a rehab. You feel like you are in the middle of skid row? Down on your luck and on your last dollar for gas. Now some of the girls in the place ? Lets start for one. I can understand maybe some of them are hard on luck with cash and have a history of dys-functionalism. I don’t want to elaborate more on those issues because its not my business to judge them. Anyways, I will write an experience on one girl named Angie. I will call her ATM Angie. LOL. She charges way too high for her so-called crotch dances like $ 20.00. I mean the playpen is not like some upscale gentleman’s club like Atlantis or some other place that have an impressive décor. Its literally skid row trash town bar reeking like the Chicago Sewage that serves crappy watered down beer/drinks. Why should I pay her for $ 20.00 that doesn’t have any communication skills, stutters, twitching eyes and can’t even focus eye contact during conversation? Her dances are lame and she doesn’t have any movement. She will ask you to bring a certain amount of money from the ATM and suggest how much you will spend so you don’t go back and forth to the ATM . She earned her nickname ATM Angie. Now she will ask you questions about your work and have instant recall memory on your attendance at the playpen. I haven’t gone to the playpen for a long time but she could remember my attendance from over a year ago in the summer? thats very alarming, freaky and desperate. I had gone there a year ago and two years before that. And she can recall people faces but not their names? Woman sounds weird and desperate. like once in a blue moon. The woman is insane. What does she do? Keep a spreadsheet on all of the customers and record their attendance for her to forecast a sales? LOL How desperate too? I asked her .How long have you worked in the place? She responded she had worked in the place for 7 years and could not get a higher paying job… sounds loserdome. I would respect you more if you were cleaning and doing maintenance than work in a place like playpen. You will never meet Donald Trump or the Duke of Seville at the Playpen. LOL. ahahahahahaha. I am sorry your career choice just made you retarded. I should not judge anyone because I haven’t met Queen Elizabeth at the playpen. A dance at the plapen is not worth $ 20.00. Its like $ 10.00 or $ 15.00…Not anything over it… I gave her $ 60.00 dollars just to analyse her behavior. Basically she thinks her manipulation gives her some type of success. LOL. hahahahahahahah I can say for $ 60.00 you could get a better deal going to chinese masseuse for one hour. Save your money and go to a chinese massage parlor. thats all I can say.
