Fuck this place. Fuck this place so hard. Don't come here and waste your time! It's sketchy as fuck. I don't normally cuss this much i'm just trying to emphasize how much this place is the devil's ass hole.
This is everything bad that I was warned about in downtown playa. I had a great experience in this town *up until tonight.*
So first we went to Fah restaurant for live music which was amazing!!!! Then we went here for the appealing roof top bar. The people on the street try to sell you wrist bands, and told us it was $5 so we were like ok fine, we are just doing 1 beer here (we wanted to try a few bars) and then she runs the numbers and says it's $8, so just lied to us the first time. We question her, she does the math and tells us it's $8. Not mad about the price just the lie. She told us that it's 2 for 1 drinks, trying to convince us to come in. Ok so we pay and head up stairs.
We are asked if we speak English or Spanish (we aren't with our Spanish friend tonight, which always makes me feel uncomfortable) and they lead us up to the roof top bar, give us a table near the door / bathroom and that's fine... we order 4 beers, and they come back with the bill, we are charged full price! We ask about the 2 for 1 deal and we are told no, so we explain that the only reason we paid to come to this bar was for that deal that the girl downstairs told us about. The waiter calls another guy over and we explain the same, and he calls the people downstairs on the radio, and tells us that they only have the deal for shots and margarita.... what we didn't order of course... trying to get us to spend more money.
So side note, we hung a small shopping bag under the table with 2 t-shirts from the first bar we went to. Big mistake, we had a feeling we'd forget...
Ok so here comes the bill and they ask 1) for a 20% tip for 1 BEER EACH. My friend, a white, red headed mate says he's like to pay 10% and they hounded him to pay no. We all said "no we only got 1 beer each, this is enough." Next they DEMAND HIS PASSPORT to run his credit card and he didn't have it on him, but also I said "absolutely not, there's no reason for a passport to charge the credit card, we've never once been asked for that." So they stop asking and charge the card. But they had TWO men at our table trying to pressure us so fuck that.
The most sketchy part was when my boyfriend went to the bathroom and the attendant next to the door asks him if he wants coke (Cocain) and he says no. He goes in to pee and both stalls are busy, 1st stall looks over the stall into the 2nd stall, the exits the stall to go into the 2nd stall with his friend. He asked my boyfriend again if he wants cocain, he declines.
Right after that; same thing, our guy friend goes into the bathroom and is asked twice if he wants coke. I hear these guys work for the hotel / security ????
So we finally leave the bar, like as quick as we can to get far away from this place. We get half way down the block and remember that we forgot our shipping bag under the table with the 2 t-shirts. My boyfriend goes back, wrist band still on him, and I anxiously wait his return.... no shirts... he just said to the waiter "I left my..." And his response was "no sorry can't help you." He asked the 2nd guy that we saw earlier and same response, so unhelpful and immediately unwilling to even hear him out!!! So obviously that they found the bag and refused to give it back and played dumb about it.
I will say that the people on the street were nice and felt bad when we told them what happened, but at that point they couldn't help. This bar is so fucked up, sketchy and try to scam you, steal your money, drug you, and pressure you into paying more for shitty service. This is the epitome of everything bad I've ever read about downtown playa. So disappointing and frustrating. I warned some young people (18 year olds) to "be careful... but it was fun." But that was before we left our shits there. I regret sooooo much telling them this bar is anything worse than the devil's ass hole. I wish that I walked up to the roof top, saw the small crowd and heard the shitty music, and turned around. We just stayed to make the price of the wrist band reasonable. But please... Don't. Ever. Go. Here. read more