Tfi Mambos

Urmston has lots of nice restaurants, and lots a nice bars. But after a nice meal or a drink with friends in Urmston, there is only one nightclub to end up at, and that’s Mambos.
This is one of best examples of a cheesy 80’s nightclub you will ever come across.
A friend of mine describes Mambos as a giant living room, and it’s a fair description. It’s basically a meat market of women on the dance floor and men around it eyeing them up.
Mambos is fairly empty till about 11.30 and so if you go too early you will end up with the whole dance floor to yourself (which could be a good thing as it isn’t that big) but it does get very busy later.
It’s £5 to get in, and the décor and seating is best described as limited, and it is quite dark, apart from the dance floor area.
Mambos has a really big bar, which is a plus point because you always get served fairly quickly, but by contrast has very few toilets, and there’s always a massive queue for these, and occasionally a bit of argy bargy as people are trying to queue jump etc.
The drinks are reasonably priced compared to other nightclubs, but usually by the time I end up in there I have had more than enough anyway, and so I often just get bottled water.
The music provided by the DJ isn’t that great and is quite cheesy.
My friends and I always get the feeling that he that he only owns about 20 records. Everytime we goto Mambos we try to test this theory by asking him to play certain things in the charts (which are not outrageous or anything) all night and you get ignored and it is never played.
But if we ask for something tacky that we know he likes and he plays EVERY week, it’s on straight away.
Reading this you are probably thinking if Mambos is that bad they why do you go, but sometimes Tacky is good!
You don’t have to have any airs or graces in Mambos, you just have a laugh with your mates and dance about.
There are bouncers on the door, and I guess there is a dress policy, but I am unsure what it is, because there are people in there who look like they have come straight from the gym, or from doing their shopping.
If I arranged a nice night out I would rather be far better off ending up at a night club in Manchester City Centre or Didsbury, but for a fun, tacky night out with mates in Urmston unless a rival night club suddenly decides to open, then there is nothing to top Mambos.

Yikes, possibly one of the cheesiest ‘nightclubs’ I’ve ever been to
With a bit of a monopoly on late night opening in the town centre of Urmston, Mambo’s is always very busy. Usually at least £5 to get in it has a really long bar down one side of it and a medium size dance floor at the end. Décor is by the way really, it’s always dark with tacky disco lights and the smell of many a ladies pulling perfume!
I’ve had some real giggles in Mambo’s, usually when I am home visiting my family and my friends have dragged me in so we can carry on drinking. Usually I have to be pretty drunk to go in but if you are from the local area you are bound to bump into lots of people you know.
The DJ is dreadful, playing the usual mix of bad R n B, disco, pop and anything that people can grind away to on the dance floor or dance in a seductive yet drunk manner whilst eyeing up their potential victim it’s not as bad as it sounds but in all honestly I’ve always thought it was a bit of a meat market.
The bar staff are very efficient, the bouncers do their job well and the drinks aren’t too expensive.
If it was me I’d hop on a train to Manchester town centre and go experience some of the great bars that are out there, however for an occassional local one it does the job!