Sin City Nightclub Gold Coast

It was panic after booking the plane tickets – Clubs in Sydney were closed on Good Friday. But what relief to find out the clubs in Surfers Paradise all opened after midnight – score! So off we went to Sin City nightclub – here we go!

Easter Good Friday @ Sin City Nightclub
Assessment Time: 12:30-3:00am
Opening Hours: 12:00am-5:00am (Special opening times due to Good Friday)
Lockout: 3:00am
Website: http://www.sincitynightclub.com.au
Address: 22 Orchid Ave, Surfers Paradise Gold Coast, Queensland Australia
Dress Code / Door Policy: Casual ok.
Entry Fee / Cover Charge: $15 standard. $10 or possibly cheaper on guestlsit
Guestlist: See website. They have events everyday to which you can submit guestlists to.
Inside: Walk in with a bar on the left with podiums for girls and tables. On the right is the main dancefloor and DJ area. Dancefloor holds about 100-150 people. Elevated platforms around the columns. Balcony like area, and second bar as well on the far end. VIP lounges in the back corner. Everything is carpeted except for the dancefloor.
Cloak Room: None offered.
Bar: 12 Tequila sunrises and 12 Chatreuse shots for a total of $243
Music: A mix of modern rnb and commercial house. There is also some top 40 music.
Crowd: Being surfers paradise, mostly backpackers or people holidaying this weekend up in the Gold Coast. Most are of caucasian background.
Entertainment: All the waitresses are dressed in corsets and really short skirts / lingerie. Enough said. There are also permanent podiums for dancing on.
Atmosphere: Considering it was Good Friday, did not expect a big turnout, but since it *was* Surfers Paradise – there were a billion backpackers looking for a place to party!
Video: 360 of Sin City

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Timeline:
No Photos of the waitresses
I was so excited that the waitresses were wearing lingerie so I took a photo of a waitress and she SNAPPED at me. “No photos, you have to ask” she yells at me. Fair enough. I deleted the photo and asked for a photo. “NO” she says curtly. How did I not expect that answer. So anyway, always ask before doing

My hat is popular with backpackers
I am dancing with my friends, and not even 1 minute on the dancefloor, two girls have already asked to take a photo with me. Seriously, why? I am just wearing a hat. Well I seem to be the only one wearing one in here, but I found it strange they wanted a photo with me. It might be their pick up line, but they didn’t want to talk to me after the photo. Really really strange.

Later throughout, random people just pluck the hat and put it on and dance with it. It’s for me to give out to others, not for you to pluck! Way too many men chose my hat for my liking that night.

Fight!
We are hanging out in the dancefloor and suddenly a fight broke out, right next to us! Usually in a fight you step back 5 or 6 steps. This one turned from a fight of 2 or 3 people to a 5-8 peron brawl, requiring as many steps back as possible. It was going off for a good 20 seconds before security jumped in to save the day. It was one of the most vicious brawls I’ve seen in a nightclub, probably because we were right next to it. A minute later, everyone is happily dancing again.

Sexism

Ladies only on the podium - SEXIST!!

This sign says it all – total sexism!! Well, I got up anyway, for a photo.

Take THAT you sexist nightclub!!

Arrivederci
We left due to too much drinking.

Recommendation
Atmosphere of this place is very good, and the crowd is pretty friendly. Good music for everyone here also adds to the atmosphere. Cheap entry too.

Sin City Fridays – 8.0/10

A guestlist was submitted, and again as previous night, we had a truckload of drinks before we left, so here we go!

Sin City Nightclub
Assessment Time: 11:30pm – 1:45am
Website: http://www.sincitynightclub.com.au
Address: 22 Orchid Ave, Surfers Paradise QLD
Dress Code: Casual OK.
Cover Charge / Entry Fee: I’m not sure. $10 I believe. Free on guestlist. Free entry before 11pm if you obtained a voucher. Vouchers are obtained from a stand outside the club., making the whole process irrelevant.
Guestlist: A friend submitted the guestlist through the website. Guestlist also includes 3 free drink vouchers.
Inside: Walk in and you are faced with a seated area. To the right is the dancefloor that could hold about 100 people or less. Two podiums on either end. Elevated standing areas along one walls, and a DJ booth along the other wall. At the back is the bar, with lounges on either side. 2 or 3 VIP areas are in the very back corner.
Music: Commercial House
Bar: $50 Fishbowl Long Island Teas. Awesome. Waitresses in skimpy outfits. Double awesome. Photos below.
Crowd: Locals and tourists. Mixed nationalities tonight of Aussies, Euros, Asians and Indians. For some reason there were quite a few guys in here, I would say a 70/30 ratio of guys to girls in here.
Atmosphere: For a Sunday night, it was quite good. By midnight the bar and dancefloor were pretty packed. You could easily confuse it for a Saturday night out. People were pretty friendly too.

Walkthrough Video of Sin City Nightclub (Sunday):

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Timeline

Bypassing the line and getting free drinks
We walked up to the bouncer and said the magic words: “We’re on the guestlist”. The bouncer let us right in. No security check. There was a line of about 20 people looking at us walk right in.

We walked up to the door girl: “We’re on the guestlist”. She let us right in and gave us 3 free drink vouchers. What the hell? No name checking?? No voucher check? I LOVE SURFERS PARADISE. Later though the 3 drink vouchers encouraged more drinking, so Sin City probably got their money back and then some.

When a photo ninja becomes just plain annoying:

Our little group of people are happily drinking away taking photos. I made a grave mistake of hi fiving this Indian dancer. He saw it as the opportunity to hang out with our group and invade every photo we took. First he started by doing behind the target ninja photos (pic removed), which is fine. Tolerated.

Secondly he started sticking his grubby fingers in front of the camera which is definitely not cool:

How to fuck up other peoples photos #2 - stick your hand in front of camera

Then finally he just jumps into the damn photos:

How to fuck up other peoples photos #3 - stick your head in front of camera

WHO WAS THIS GUY??? Even though he danced ok,   I REALLY REALLY REALLY HATE HIM RIGHT NOW. Even as I peruse through these photos, feelings of anger and hate well up inside of me as I relive the moments we were terrorized by this demonic photo whore. UGH!! ANNOYING! So many horny guys are out on a Sunday night. I do not have one clean shot of the nightclub crowd without his f*cking head popping in. We actually told him to “stop it”, but of course, “stop it” means “oh yes, please.. I’m begging you to go harder at it”.

Fishbowl drinks:
$50 Long Island Tea Drinks, served to you by waitresses in corsets. Enough Said:

Sin City Nightclub Surfers Paradise: Cute waitresses and alcohol = win!

Meeting some japanese women
Rooster wanted to hit on women. Tonight I just wanted to dance. Ok sure, so the plan was to hit on the ugliest ones and work our way up the beauty chain.

We went up to two Japanese girls and straight up asked for a dance. Funnily they said yes, and so I ended up stuck with them the rest of the night. Rooster had tried to get other girls, but they weren’t so receptive.  So here I am with Jap girls and we dance the rest of the night away. Sadly they don’t speak much english at all, so we drank instead. I like that kind of arrangement.

Coda: Friends get kicked out
an SMS from Rooster: “we got kicked out”. A friend had got trashed and so it was good enough to be kicked out. Oh well. Me and Jap girls leave for food.

Recommendation
This is quite a nice spot for Sunday night. Good music and atmosphere too. I do recommend it for Sunday clubbing.