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| - This review is just for the bar/dancing area. Haven't had dinner or anything over there yet.
Pros:
If you go early-ish (before 7:30/8) it is fairly easy to get a table, especially earlier in the week. Waitresses are also fairly attentive, again, the earlier in the week the better.
No cover! I hate hate hate paying covers. They also have pretty good drink specials
I have never been on the floor when it was too crowded to dance. Have certainly come across your typical drunk chick doesn't know what she is doing type dancers, but overall there is room to get away from those people and not be squished against the person next to you.
If you get a table next to the bull, you not only have easy access to the dance floor, but great people (on bull) watching as the night progresses.
Dance lessons M-F at 7pm.
Music is a reasonable, can carry on a conversation at your table, volume
Cons:
Can be loaded with tourists, which can make you feel like an animal being watched in a zoo while dancing...maybe that is just an issue for me though
Everyone (tourists, regulars, waitresses, etc.) will walk straight across the dance floor, which is generally know to be fairly bad etiquette. When the floor is empty, it isn't the biggest deal but I have turned during a dance and nearly taken out a bus boy walking right through a line of dancers.
Floor is so-so, fairly sticky as far as dance floors go.
Overall, I like Gilley's. The older I get, the more I appreciate the more laid back, not as loud, not charging you for everything under the sun, not being slammed into by barely conscious club girls vibe that is getting more and more difficult to find out here. Keep in mind that kids are allowed here until 10pm, which may bug people, but there have never been that many kids there. I think the general family friendliness is part of what keeps the "club" crowd away, so I'll take it.
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