Circus After Hours

TL;DR — CRAP CLUB. WASTE OF MONEY
1) They DO NOT serve alcohol. Read that again. No alcohol. At a club.
2) Empty. There’s a small crowd but the place is so big, it feels like there’s nobody in there…
3) Terrible ratio. A lot more guys than girls. And some of the «girls» looked like guys.
4) Almost got jumped. Brought this to management’s attention and they basically said deal with it. At that point, I’d enough…
Save yourself the 40 bucks price of admission and go down the street to McDonalds and eat like a king. We went here because this was «the place to be» after all the other clubs were closed. Big mistake. After 15 minutes of walking around this club, we knew we’d been duped. Even the bachelor, who was too drunk to speak correctly, realized how awful this place was and decided to go home instead.
If this stops even one person from making the same mistake by coming here, this review will have done its job.

Have you ever asked a cab driver to take you to a good place to party? This was my first time and most likely the last.

3 men for every woman, you have to bribe the bouncer if you want to get in, and even then it’s a long wait.
At 6:10 AM on 8÷16÷14 my friends and I wanted to leave. A security guy actually refused to let anyone leave and said, «you have to wait 10 minutes.» Have to wait to leave? He wouldn’t say why and when we tried to proceed out the exit, he physically stopped us.
Avoid this place like the plague.

Wish i didn’t come here on a Sunday because i probably could have gotten a better feel for the club but nonetheless it had a relatively late coming but good crowd since it’s an afterhours spot. Seems like a place that some undercover «Molly» changes hands in fact in the bathroom i definitely saw some shady stuff going down. I was even asked if i was looking to pick up, umm no thanks bro i don’t know what you have laced this stuff with. Honestly my favorite thing at this club was the coat check girl and her massive rack city, couldn’t speak a lick of English but she was blonde and super hot. The music is pretty decent a lot of hard hitting dance music, very big dance floor, but i would say the only downfalls are the mandatory coat check and they charge you a crazy amount for alcohol and water. In fact the bottled water prices resembled buying a drink. ARE YOU SERIOUS?!? My suggestion make sure you get your partying in Thursday-​Saturday probably more options for you.

Ok, this review is strictly regarding the Gareth Emery concert last night. I am sure that on a regular night most people’s experiences might be different.
I am not going to lie, I have always been skeptical about coming to Circus. No particular reason, but I never made it until last night.
Circus is now the 17^th best club in the world according to DJ Mag. I have been to all the clubs in Ibiza and, although Circus is no where near the size of those mega clubs, the space was bigger than I anticipated. There were two rooms and lots of open space.
Since it is an after hours club, no alcohol is served, just water and Red Bull, so pregame somewhere.
The crowd for the Gareth Emery concert was really diverse, as are all electronic shows usually.
The bathrooms were not too bad either.
The sound system was amazing! Although, I still can’t really hear out of my right ear…
I will probably go back and check out a «regular» night.

Oh laaaaaaaaaaaawd, I don’t even know where to begin.
This place is open from 3am to 10am (this should have been our hint) and they charge a 35 dollar cover. You will enjoy this place if:
a) you are a crackhead
b) you enjoy listening to the same beat/​song for hours on end
c) you are a crackhead
d) you don’t like alcohol (they only serve red bull)
e) you are a crackhead
Get my drift? Save your 35 dollars and spend it on food!

Oh boy. An After Hours club called Circus. Tell me, what do you expect? Before I get to my review, i’ll tell you a crazy story. My friend Patrick and I decided to go out at 2 a.m. after our friends had fallen asleep. We decided life was short and we went out. After hitting a sexy lounge bar that closed at 3, we were desperate to find another place. We ran into two young people who were slightly buzzed and they mentioned Circus and Parking and pointed in the direction they were walking in. So we followed them and chatted. The woman, Geneviéve, asked us, «Hey, do you want to see our broadcasting studio?» We looked at each other and agreed excitedly. She and Antoine showed us their studio and we marveled at where Fringe and Big Brother Canada was made. Soon after they pulled a cab for us and sent us on our way.
It turned out that Circus is in a great location, right by our hotel on Rue Denis, close to downtown Montréal. We looked at Circus, the sign was red and glowing and we knew we had to get in. It was expensive for us (as broke college kids) $ 25 entry, and the coat check was about $ 2, but you just had to have seen this place. There were two giant rooms, one on the left was a legit massage parlor, tables laid out with half naked bodies writhing in pleasure. The bigger room ahead of us was dimly lit, stages of all sizes were scattered throughout and poles atop of them. Bodies danced to catchy music with beats to no end, young people, older people, and extremely diverse! I was happy to see so many people of different races dancing and having fun together. They don’t sell anything alcoholic and water is expensive as expected. The bathrooms aren’t too bad, just overused.
Me and Patrick just let loose and danced our hearts out and I even got to have a romantic encounter with a French man who has never been with an ‘ahshian’ girl before! ;) The DJ played songs that built up and had amazing sound epiphanies that just made everyone yell and shout and jump even higher! It was amazing! Overall, this after hours club was definitely one of the best clubs i’ve been to – and I’m not the clubbing type of person. At all.
And there weren’t even that many creepers! What a relief!

Was there back in September… Awesome after hours spot! Everything in Montréal closes around 2 am so this is where you go to continue the night! There are different rooms but the place is mainly house music! Had a blast with my group of friends. the place (from what I remember.) had massage tables where you can actually can get a massage, how cool is that? It’s also very big and had lots of yummy lookng guys!!! Definitely would go again when back in Montréal!

There are really hot girls here as most of them are strippers and tourists that want to party. The party goes till 10:00 am + on weekends. It is very interesting vibe, there are massage tables where you can get massages, bars where you can buy water and redbull. This all seems AWESOME and the perfect way to end the day and get laid inside of a bathroom stall right… until you look at the cons.
Con1 — Con-​Air. You can smoke in here. I am a smoker that hates the smell of smoke so honestly i’m not a huge fan. They do have great ventilation but you still smell like an ashtray when you leave.
Con2 — Con-​Artist Cover. 25 bucks on Friday. 35 bucks on Sat. Yes i am an asshole that went here twice. Cuz my friend refused to go to anywhere else
Con3 — Con-​They Get better DJ’s
The main room is for electronic i dont’ know enough about the genre to really judge it cuz i hate techno and think it was made for people who can’t dance. But i swear to god the same song went on for 20 minutes. DJ’d should have switched it on them. A side room is for trance i guess or a harder version of electronic compared to what is played in the main room. It was better in here, cuz the real electronic dancers were here… not the x heads… well maybe they were x heads too, but they at least had the steps down.
The other room was for reggaton, reggae, dancehall, and a little bit of hip hop. Dancehall is cool, but i like a mix… for the most part they played straight dancehall. The beatnuts were here on saturday and brought it back with some Golden Era NYC hip hop. But then they returned to dance hall. The girls were O.D. Gorgeous here tho.
Con-​4 — I Connot Speak French.
French Canadian women are absolutely beautiful. If only i could understand them.

This place is not for the faint of heart. It’s also not for the dancer who actually enjoys real music. It IS for the dancer who needs to twirl on a stripper pole, get high on X, or bump and grind with a 45-​year-​old tranny. Yikes!
A note about the bathroom — if you find it off-​putting to watch men and women strut buck nekkid or to be offered various drugs, you may just want to hold it til you get home.

This place is bizarre. Extremely bizarre. Take it how you want. I like the colorful sign and my company, but… the music sucks. Balls. It made me think of how much better music is in Denver, Colorado, and that is really more of a slap in the face than anything for a Thursday night crowd.
I’d still recommend checking it out, kind of pricey cover charge of 20 for the foreigners/​tourists/​faded crowd.