I’ve spent many a night in the Key Largo, more than the Del Rey. Likewise, I have found love by the hour in the Key Largo much more often than I have in the Del Rey, though most girls who work one work the other as well. No reason why not, unless they are too young to cross the street or too old. I avoid both extremes, and I suggest you do the same. But I digress…
The Del Rey and Key Largo are both owned by the same people, and as I just mentioned, most of the girls who work nights bounce between the two (not all). But the ambiance of the Key Largo is very different than the Del Rey. The Key Largo feels like a nice dance club. You don’t need much imagination to pretend those lovely (and sometimes not so lovely) girls are there, and the reason they are eyeballing you is because you are so DARNED HANDSOME!
The lighting is soft, and the music not so soft, but isn’t that how a dance club is supposed to be? Every night of the week there will be a nearly-live band AND a disco there.
There is more than one type of entertainment going on in the Key Largo, every night. Near the bottom of my list is actually listening to the music. The bands seem to share the same pre-programmed music and the disco… well it’s just not music I can tolerate, especially at 125db. Ah, but watching the girls dancing, or NOT dancing even, is good stuff.
There’s actually an art to girl watching if you don’t want to be approached by every girl in the place, which can become very tiresome. The trick is to look away just before you make eye contact. There, a free tip. No charge.
Another fun thing is to watch the Gringos dancing, or trying to. There is a French proverb: Love teaches even asses to dance. Boy howdy I’ll say! Not that these guys are asses for dancing with those hot Latinas, but a lot of them sure look like they have never been on a dance floor before in their lives, let alone tried to dance the Cumbia/Tico Swing. (I have some more secret advice… learn what a Meringue sounds like and try that, it’s the easiest of the dances and you get to touch your partner)
If you have a lot more money than you need, you can buy drinks for the bartenders and even coerce them into dancing on the bar, and letting you put $20 bills in their skirts. If you don’t have more money than you need, you’ll find cheaper and more satisfying company on the other side of the bar. By the way, the bartenders get 10% of whatever you spend, plus bonuses if they can get you to buy a bottle of champagne. Strangely enough, they all seem to prefer the most expensive drinks served in the place, what a shocker!)
If you’ve been there, you know what I mean. If you haven’t, you really NEED to check it out. I mean, REALLY!