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| - Sigh. I was hoping this place was going to be better.
Let me do a breakdown of this place
STRENGTHS
- takes reservations
- large space, tons of different rooms
- serves food
- does room service
- wide array of boozy and non-boozy drinks available
- great mango slushies!!
- clean
- they will take you to your room if not all of your party is there
WEAKNESSES
- no song books. You have to use the screen, and the sorting is odd. Eric L was looking for Incubus, and when we would scroll through the alphabetical artist listing, sometimes it would show up, sometimes it wouldn't
- very limited choices. Some of the songs they had would have no lyrics. These wordless songs were a bad taping of a MTV or Much Music video.
- no Drake
- no System of a Down
- creepy. Echo is in a little mall at Spadina and Dundas. The parking garage underneath smells like wet dog and urine. When you take the elevator up to the second floor, there is a security guard there. He checks your ID (which, at almost 33, this was a compliment!), and stamps your hand for re-entry. At one point when one of the servers came in, I thought he was wearing a bullet proof vest! When you leave, you can't go out the front door, you go out the side door. Hello...was I at a karaoke place or an oral surgeons?! In order to take your money, the staff go into a little room with a window. Weirder, is you can pay by debit, but there is a bank machine right in front of the window.
- expensive. Of the four karaoke places I have been to, this was the most expensive. If the song selections were better, and I didn't feel like we were going to be mugged or something, this place would be return worthy.
All in all, the best karaoke place has still yet to be found.
Echo is open from 3 pm to 3 am.
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