525 Juanita Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80909
El Paso County
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by Galen Shanaa on (this review is about The Park's nightclub/bar portion, not the restaurant) First off, this place is an architectural wonder and HUGE. Like, three-level, converted-warehouse huge. There's a main dining area, a main bar area, a downstairs bathroom area, a patio-esque garden, a Red Room (redrum?), and a very large upstairs. Despite the bevy of rooms available, it seemed constantly crowded, especially upstairs, which is where the DJ was spinning decent music with crappy transitions, though you could hear the music throughout the rest of The Park as well. That's probably because everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, was gunning for that upstairs. The crowd here is a very weird mix of several minority groups and middle-aged white men sporting black, thick-frame glasses and scarves and carrying around champagne. In fact, it's very much like the crowd you could find at Opus 22 up the street, but at least here the groups actually mix instead of stand off in impromptu West Side Story reenactments. Most people seemed to come in big groups with friends, so I doubt this is really the place to meet someone. Overall, as far as NYC club crowds go, though, you could do far, far worse than the people found at the Park. Normally, that's the type of review I'd write for a three-star place, but two things caused that last star to come off. First, the drinks here are ridiculously expensive; I understood that my top-shelf vodka-tonic was $12, but a tequila sunrise with regular tequila for $11? What? And $7 Coronas? WHAT?! Maybe that'd be ok if there wasn't a mountain of ice in my drink, but unfortunately there's wasn't much that was worth the money in either of my drinks. Second, my friend had called ahead of time asking if the upstairs would be open at 11; the host said it would be, but when we showed up, it was closed for a private party until midnight. What's more, we were kicked out of the Red Room, for a private party of only a handful of people, to stand in the main bar area with 500 million other people. Great. Bathroom Grade: 6.5/10. What is with this tendency for clubs to build their bathrooms at the bottoms of very steep stairs? Minus an additional point for that. Otherwise, the bathroom looks pretty classy on the outside, less so on the inside. The stalls are small and reminded me of the bathrooms in my first grade elementary school, though I could still fit. And I think there might be a bathroom attendant, but I wasn't sure if she was actually an employee or if she was just hanging out in the bathroom.
by sarah i. on i took a last minute roadtrip to atlanta from dc, and i think we were probably on the road for as long as we were in atlanta - about 24 hours each. BUT, now i can say that i've been to hotlanta. though, im not sure if anyone still calls it that. i think most people have moved on to the ATL or A-Town, but im stuck in 1999. plusses: how did i get to be so lucky that the one night we went out in atlanta...was the night that there were all these famous rappers at dreamz???? it was a hotlanta dream come true. rick ross, lil scrappy, young buck, young jeezy....man! hotlanta, indeed. (of course, if outkast, usher, and jermaine dupri were there, dreamz would get 5 stars, no doubt). con: NO ONE WAS DANCING. maybe it was partly bc when a rapper came through, his big ego had to take the mic and say something, cutting the music to talk ish about 50 cent. buck, can't we all just get along? also, i was very inspired by the gogo dancers. they were working hard for the money all night. in california, gogo dancers at clubs usually come on and writhe around for like 1-2 songs. but the girls here were working it! i think that being a gogo at dreamz might be the perfect job. you get to dance/work out--and get paid? sign me up! though...i guess i'd request a more conservative work uniform.
by Jessica S. on Like most, my expectations for this place were the lowest of the low since the original Busby's is my personal hell. The mere fact that this one is within walking distance from my place and that its WAY bigger than the other gives it a couple of stars. The actual interior upstairs is quite cool. To the left there is a huge room with large dance floor and tons of modern tables and chairs- with one main bar in the back. The music they played was fun and the dance floor never got too crowded; shocking, i know. The bartenders were ALL women and really quite bitchy. Don't give me attitude when I'm trying to order a round of drinks and then throw my receipt and credit card down in a huge pool of spilled beer. And just because you all have to wear corset tops, doesn't mean you should. Didn't get to fully experience the other side, where the sports bar and other random rooms are but it also looked pretty big. Clientele was a bit better than the other (but like Jenn L. says, that doesn't take much).
