AkanmuAbuja@gmail.com
Rating: 5.5/10
January, 2013
"Klub Vaniti – House of Cubana" – Night Club
130 Ademola Adetokunbo Crescent,
Wuse II, Abuja, Nigeria.
Please see the bottom of this letter in the Highlights/Review section, as well as the bold sentences for the brief
version of this letter/review.
Letter to Klub Vaniti Management
Dear Vaniti – House of Cubana Management,
This is a strongly worded letter to express my opinions following
my experience at your establishment. I should inform you that this letter is
being made available to the public through the internet, primarily for the
purpose of empowering or entertaining other consumers curious about your
establishment.
From my review of your website and the
interpretation of those I spoke to who have been attending this night club
frequently for many months, it seems as though the House of Cubana (HOC) is an
entity, within which there is a night club called Vaniti. Your branding
approach being acknowledged (and in fact admired by me), all I know is that I
entire a large mansion-like building with the word Cubana in large neon lights
and do the ‘clubbing’ there.
There is nothing in particular that
you are doing wrong. You just are not a very fun night club for a night of,
well, clubbing. The first time I went here, we got a table, got a couple of
bottles, a hookah, and initially had a good time because we arrived just when
the DJ was finishing up his round of 3 or 4 bad tracks and then played 5 good
ones in a row, before playing 7 bad ones again, and then 3 good ones, and 5 bad
ones, at which point, we decided to move on to the next club. Here’s a hint, if
people are not going wild and dancing and bumping to a track the DJ plays, it
sucks.
Moving off that tangent, this is a
decent club to go to with a group of 3-8 friends on a night when the group pays
for a table/bottle and have a decent time. However, for a regular night of
clubbing where people literally want to walk into a club, get a drink or two
and have a good time dancing and socializing, the experience at Vaniti is not
worthwhile.
The first major issue is that there
is really nowhere for people to just stand and dance and chill without getting
a table, in which case, because you allow any Tom, Dick, and Harry into the
club, on a busy night all the tables are quickly taken up as is all the little
standing space there is. Now, it is a large club with various sections, but this
works against the club because it still doesn’t give that illusion of
exclusiveness and the only space available for the casual clubber is in front
of the bar (often crowded, making it hard to get a drink), and some awkwardly
placed high tables and stools here and there. All this would not matter of
course if the music was consistently good and there was space to dance. But the
music isn’t and there wasn’t space. The music is 3 good tracks to every 7
average or bad ones. It is just very hard to get a straight solid hour of
enjoyable clubbing here.
Once again, there isn’t anything in
particular that this club does that is wrong. There just aren’t that many
things that are impressive about it either.
All in all, I think you have done a
decent job and simply need to find a better DJ and a way to make your clubgoers
feel less awkward. Even on the nights when I decided to go with my friends
without getting a table, it got so awkward we decided we would like a
table/bottle but didn’t even know how to go about achieving that, or who to
ask, or which section to go, or if to just go and occupy a free table like we
did the last time we got a table/bottle. Perhaps a waitress walking around
asking what people at high tables need in the way of drinks would help and
allow people who want to enquire about taking up a table and getting a bottle?
Warm Regards,
Akanmu
Highlights/Review
1. There isn’t anything particularly wrong
about this club, except that it easily gets boring.
2. It is still a place where crowds go so
perhaps that could justify going there on a weekend night.
3. Want to enter a large place with a lot of
people, darkness, and extremely loud music? If yes, then Vaniti would suffice.
Want to have a great clubbing experience? If yes, Vaniti should at best just be
a stop along your way to it.
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