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| - More like "Plan on not being able to get a drink." Ugh.
When this place first opened, it had a lot of promise. The space is nice overall, and the very stale Madison gay scene was in need of some serious reinventing. Unfortunately, everything that made this place cool has either faded or disappeared completely, leaving behind a rude, overly-pretentious crowd in a club that is desperately trying to give off big city vibes. It's not working.
Let's start with my biggest problem: it is virtually impossible to get a drink here. Bartenders are beyond slow, terribly inattentive, and usually downright rude. I've never seen a bar with so many barbacks, and yet the bar is never appropriately stocked. At any given time there could be as many as five bartenders or as few as one behind the main bar. They frequently disappear for long periods of time, leaving crowds of people desperately fighting for space at the overly cramped bar. Moving some of the chair/stools out of the way on busy Friday & Saturday nights would help with the space problem, but you'd still be fighting to get the attention of a single bartender. There is clearly no system in place for working the bar here, as bartenders don't stick to one area, and it's completely possible to stand at the bar for 20 minutes without being noticed. This is totally unacceptable to me, and it's not because this place is popular. I've been to many, many clubs across the country on some very busy nights, and have never waited as long as I did at Plan B.
The second major problem is the people. While this was created as a gay bar, it is clearly not any longer, having been completely overrun with college-aged women who have no qualms about pushing, shoving, and kicking their way through the crowd on the way to the dance floor. I've never been pushed in a bar so many times in my life, and it was almost always by straight women. I get that Madison doesn't have much for dance clubs, but it's unfortunate that the straights need to behave so rudely in a space that was not created for them. I certainly think straight people should be more than welcome in any gay space, but they need to follow the rules of basic etiquette. If I wanted to be pushed around in a straight club, I would have gone to one.
Sadly, the owners don't really seem to care. Although the club has been open now for well over a year now, it still looks largely unfinished in places. The bathrooms are a mess, and the walls are terribly bare. There are still major ongoing technical problems (an extremely poor/spotty sound system, cheap and uninspired dance floor lighting, and music that frequently just drops out mid-song. DJ's generally spin bland pop music with no idea how to work a crowd. And did I mention the awful staff, who are far more apt to spend time removing their shirts and checking out their own bodies than actually serving drinks? Don't bother trying to make suggestions or constructive criticisms on the club's Facebook page, as you'll only wind up being deleted. Very classy, Plan B.
Bottom line, this place isn't worth the time, effort, money, of frustration that a visit will undoubtedly cause. I won't be back, and you shouldn't either.
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