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03/05/2006 Archived Entry: "Antro report: "Hotel" (score: 2/10)"
I’m a confessed fan of a disco in San Jeronimo called “Worka”, yet many of my friends mentioned another very popular place, on the “fresa” end of the scale, named “Hotel” and located on Insurgentes Sur a few blocks after the turn to San Angel.
I found few redeeming characteristics in “Hotel”. Though they apply the “foreigner preference” rule at the entrance, the pack of kids wanting to get in is so dense that it takes a fight anyway to duck under the chains and come into the cavernous place. This is actually both an advantage and a drawback – there is LOTS of space in “Hotel”, perhaps too much, which makes it difficult to build up an atmosphere.
On the negative side, prices are not worth what you get for. Pesos $200 cover for men, Absolut Vodka bottle at Pesos $870 and waiters positively begging for their tip and following you across the disco like stray dogs until you agree to give them a few Pesos. The music was bland and boring, with a sound system designed to make possible friendly conversations but not drum ‘n bass sessions.
The crowd is in their early twenties mostly, slightly older than the babies who just crawled out of their nappies in “Worka”. Not as many beautiful people as in the “Cluv” of Bosques de las Lomas or “Worka” for that matter. Overall, a sore disappointment given the cost and a disco where I won’t go again unless the ownership changes.
