DJ's Island Review Request

[daveneedsfun 15]

Hello, my wife and I are thinking about going to DJ's Island. We were wondering if anybody else has been there recently and can give us the scoop on the club? Thanks in advance.

[SW_PA_Couple 4,027]

It is the classiest place in the tri-state area. If you like to get up onto a dance floor and go to it, DJ's Island will definitely be your kind of place.

 

~Michael

[vanillaknot 99]

wondering if any body else has been there recently and can give us the scoop on the club.

 

DJ's will be 13 years old this month; we've been part of it since before it was built.

 

As SW said, it's the classiest club for many miles around. A very nice place, it's laid out as a sort of a supper club with a dance floor plus private rooms and a large hottub. You have to sign up and make a reservation online before you show up the first time, no one gets past the lobby without both. It is, in technical terms, a members-only club. This is a legal mechanism that keeps DJ's from being subject to a bunch of regulation that applies to "public accommodations," which DJ's needs not to be. Among other things, it allows nearly any state of (un)dress, except that when on the dance floor, something must be worn; but in all seriousness, sometimes that means an otherwise entirely nude woman has put on her husband's necktie. (This is because local regulation against nude dancing was intended to prevent strip clubs from moving in. So anything that makes you not entirely nude is legit.)

 

When you show up, you sign off on your membership, pay your fees, and then you get a tour by the host couple for the evening. They'll show you around, giving you the short version on etiquette. Core principles are obvious, like "ask first" and "no means no," but they cover the bases so no one can ever claim "I didn't know."

 

BYOB: DJ's hasn't got a liquor license, so bring your own. You drop your liquor off with the bartender, who will refrigerate things if needed, after marking your bottle(s) with your ID card number. When you want something, you tell the bartender your number and he gets/mixes your stuff. Soft drinks and tea are self-serve at the left side of the bar.

 

The main large front space is a dining area. Dinner is included for your evening's cost, and the menu is quite nice, especially on Saturday evenings (Friday has fewer people and a somewhat restricted menu). The dance floor is part of the dining area, and the d.j. will be busy with music all evening. Early in the evening, it's quieter, as people eat dinner and are generally social; after 9:30 or so, there may be some announcements but then there is commonly Pink's "Let's Get This Party Started" played, the music volume goes up, and things get going more.

 

There are 10 private rooms down the halls past the bar. No reservations (or early claiming) of rooms, it's just first come first serve. Each has 1 king or 2 queen beds, plus its own bathroom including shower. Some rooms have toys in them, like a sex swing, or room 9's wooden bondage frame (the "50 shades" room, sigh). The hottub is big enough to hold 20 or so, though these days I seldom see more than a half dozen at a time. There is an open room at the end of the main hall, with a single king bed and a massage table. There is a loft beyond the open room which can be restricted to couples only, and 2 more very small rooms up there which have no bathrooms.

 

It's a great place. You can be a wallflower if you want, or you can be as social as you can stand. Fridays are lighter (in terms of how many people) than Saturdays. Depending on time of year, that means less than 100 versus upwards of, or even past, 200 people.

 

There are theme nights. You don't have to dress to the theme, but many do. There is a dress code: Basically, no jeans on Saturdays, and no ballcaps or sneakers or other "athletic clothing" at any time. Exceptions to this are made for certain events, like 4th of July, which starts mid-afternoon on whatever Saturday is closest with a barbecue on the patio, and there is no dress code for that day.

 

We still go maybe every other month, usually with some bunch (highly variable) of friends. You will find that groups who know each other take over several tables. Don't be surprised by this, and generally speaking it's not cliquish. I recommend an evening there; you will enjoy yourself. Introduce yourself and chat up whoever's nearby.

[sunbuckus 3,569]

What a great, detailed response, vanillaknot. Thanks for sharing this with the OP and other members who may be interested in DJ's!

[cplnuswing 4,713]

Thanks for a posting such good first-hand knowledge vanillaknot, that's great info for those thinking about visiting the club.

[daveneedsfun 15]

Thanks, appreciate the responses. This Saturday we are going to a place called Party at Scout's for our first time. She wanted to go there because it is a little farther from home. She is afraid of running into some one she knows at DJ's. When she feels comfortable we plan on trying DJ's as it is a lot closer to home.

[vanillaknot 99]

we are going to a place called Party at Scout's

Scout's is the former Mountain Retreat, under new management. It's waaaaaay out in the sticks. Not a bad place (we've been there a few times) but a very different vibe from DJ's. Now run by a guy who was once a semi-regular DJ's visitor.

She is afraid of running into some one she knows at DJ's.

I will never understand this...just never. If you run into someone you know, then you have new understanding of each other. What better thing to discover about someone you already know, than that they share your interests? It's not like they have something to hold over you that you do not similarly hold over them. Discretion is always paramount.

[daveneedsfun 15]

That's what I told her, but it has taken me a long time too get her to go to a swingers club. I am going to go at her pace and see where it goes. I was talking with her last night about it and told her I would love to go to DJ's next since it is much closer to us. She seemed agreeable to that.