CIAA review
I had a really bad experience at 5th Element during a CIAA day party. They were just entirely too disorganized for my taste. To start off they had no concept on how to let a group of people into an establishment. There was chaos as to where you should line up, what line you should be in and no concept of fairness when it comes to getting in.
As with most CIAA events my group and I got our tickets in advance, the day of the party was wet, rainy and sleet falling. We get in line outside of the building and the line is not moving instead the security is telling everybody we aren't letting you in unless you do exactly what we say but then they didn't tell us what we needed to do to get in. So there are three different lines going on and the security was randomly picking who should be allowed in with no rhyme or reason. Some people were in line for 45 minutes and they would let people who just walked up in, finally after getting soaked, the security finally decided I guess we did the right thing to let us in.
If the club was nice I wouldn't have minded the wait but the club was wack, two floors, oddly spaced out and no real fun at all.
Bathrooms were flithy as well, I mean how hard is it to send a cleaning person in every once and awhile to clean the place up.
Totally disappointed with my time at 5th Element and I have no plans of returning.