Renaissance Room Karaoke

Do not go here if you are not KOREAN. I repeat. Not korean = bye bye. As a disclaimer, i’m not korean but my wife is. So this is a legitimate advise. This place is not a typical karaōke place. This is a korean style karaōke where you spend $$$, order bottle service and depending if you are entertaining guest/​business travelers you request a lady friend that you have to pay to sit with them and pour drinks. That’s how they do it in Korea. So… if you are not KOREAN or understand the KOREAN karaōke ways in Korea then shut-​up and step out. Now if you want to experience how it’s done in Korea then bring a Korean.
When in Rome do as Romans do?!?
Just don’t go to Arirang. Owner is shady.

All the reviews are pretty spot on. Would also like to comment that if you are not Korean, don’t even think of trying to go here. I used to go here back in the day and we would always have to have one friend book in Korean. They gave us very dirty looks when we showed up and not everyone was Korean. I thought my friends were kidding when they said this but we’ve had two attempts to return, with none of our Korean friends around, and both times they turned us away. Both times we tried to beat «the rush» but it was during daylight hours and completely empty! I totally see the truth. I mean the last time we tried, they literally ran to the door to try to stop us from even entering the threshold. That’s how bad and obvious it was.

I made a 30 min drive out here because they say they close at 3 am but when I got here they told me they close at 2 am so update your Unilocal hours so you don’t have people wasting their time making a drive out here for no reason.

Horrible service for karaōke. I’d rather go to Camino KTV or Arirang or music tunnel. This place is so overpriced and the Korean old ladies are so mean and rude. I’m not sure if it’s because they are immigrants but their manners are so bad I’ve never felt more insulted or confused on how people can be so ignorant. The main thing is that they are so shady with their pricing they overcharge as they please. The workers are also racist if you’re not korean. Come here at your own risk but there are so many better places for NRB in this area.

Here do not like the service here is bad bakkumyeo owner complete freedom to charge more money and staff time, there is a very good service, I will regret it. Never go there do not like it

OMFG, customer service can’t get any worse! When your having a good time, singing karaōke, buzzed in a dark room, you don’t think of looking at your watch or cellphone to check the time. You could have politely knock on our door and give us a last song courtesy notice. Nope, not these peeps. They barged in our room, turned on the lights and literally yelled at us to get the hell out, that they were closed. WOW.
In disbelief, we left cordially. Paid our bill. Didn’t talk back. But I’m writing this bad review.
If you want to be treated poorly, come here.

Came here last night and had an okay experience. I will say that the other reviews are pretty spot on (yes one of the microphones doesn’t reach the far of the table so you will need to keep plugging it back in all night).
Overall I would say I would not go out of my way to come here again due to how pricey it is and also what I had heard about the management and my personal experience here last night.
The price for the rooms is fair but the food and drinks here are expensive $$. Also, the way management conducted business here is a little shady and I would highly recommend double checking your bill before you pay it. A friend in our group said he had been to this place recently, and he said that the last time he was here, the management billed them for three extra sojus they did not order. Given that each soju is $ 14 each, it was a very obvious error that the management made.
Last night, when we were finished we came out to pay our bill and they had billed us for 2 sojus when we only ordered 1. The error was solved easily, however this reminded me of my friend’s previous experience here. Hmm…
As I mentioned earlier, the price for the room was okay. We were in the big room which ran $ 70 per hour but it was the food and drink that was expensive. 1 soju is $ 14, beer $ 8, snack platter (pretty lame for how much it was) $ 17, and water I think was around $ 5 each for regular sized bottle. Our total tab came out to $ 170, which also included tax. O. o
When our group was trying to pay, we put our money together and the man in the front counted it up. We were short $ 11 so everyone opened up their wallets again to throw in a couple more dollars. The man counted the money back up and said «four more dollars, just four more dollars», with his hand out. Something about the way this transaction happened really irked me and left a bad taste in my mouth.
Long story short:
Go to sing, don’t order food and drinks, and triple check your bill.

A little bit overpriced?
Service is okay.
The place is okay inside, big selection of music to choose from, and you get your own private room so that’s cool.

Not even worth a star. Such a rip off. They kicked rest of my group off as soon as I left after paying for an hour more and 2 bottles of soju (and left big tip as well). I talked to the owner/​manager and he said my group stayed a full hour, but I called them as soon as I got home which is only 30 mins away. Seriously?

Not my favorite karaōke place. The place is rather empty for K-​town Santa Clara, which isn’t a good thing. The price of rooms are cheaper than average (ie: $ 50 an hour for a big room that fits 10 people), but how they get you is the food and beverage. No free water, bottles cost $ 2 each, same for soda. A handle of grey goose vodka will run you $ 170. Food $ 15 – 25. The music selection was huge at least, but the background videos replay the same 10 random korean dramas and every time we sang, the score prompted a zero, that’s broken. Also, the wired microphone cords are too short and couldn’t reach the back, that’s a big problem.

Looooooooooooove this place! This karaōke place has the best song selection and private rooms.
Unfortunately, I have not been blessed with any kind of singing ability, so I appreciate some privacy when I feel the urge for some karaōke! Other places are not so private, e.g. just a stage or don’t have a great selection, but this place has both private rooms and a great song selection!
Food is only okay, but I haven’t really ordered much here. (I’m not here for the food!) Prices are a little high for what you get.
Yes, the songs are not organized well, but they have so many songs, it’s hard to alphabetically organize all the newest songs into the giant binder of songs they already have. I understand that, and thus, I am more forgiving than other critical Unilocalers about the fact that yeah, I had to dig around the Recent Songs folder twice (in two separate visits) to find «Somebody I Used to Know.» What is it about songs you can’t stand to hear on the radio anymore making the best karaōke songs?!
Anyway, service is all right here as well. But the last time we were here at 1:00 am, we were forced by a lady employee, who works here, to leave at 3:00 am, even though the sign said they don’t close until 4:00 am. To be fair, they did tell us that we had to leave at 3:00, but I still don’t understand why. So, mid-​song during «Teenage Dream» but at 3:00 on the dot, the woman jumps into our small room and says «All done!» while turning off the mics, screens, and lights in the room. Very odd. But other than that one weird occurrence, we always have a great time here.
Love it;we’ll be back!

I’ve been here a couple times but never liked it. Only went because a few of my other friends choose it as their go-​to spot. Last night made me realize that I’m never coming back.
We had about 5 people in our group, and the lady made us go into their medium room, which was $ 50 per hour and can fit many more people. We asked for a smaller room, but she said none were available. That seemed kind of strange since the parking lot was completely empty and the place was very quiet. However, we decided to not think much of it and took the room anyways. We ordered a plate of chicken wings, which was not good at all. There was about 8 pieces on there and it had no flavor whatsoever.
When it came time for us to pay for the bill, we saw that the chicken wings cost $ 18.99 (total rip off), making our total $ 68.99. However, the owner rounded up and told us the total was $ 70, AND he even had the nerve to ask for tip when we only gave him $ 70.
My experiences here have been nothing but negative. The place has horrible service, tries to take your money for crappy service, and doesn’t even update their songs list. I feel like I’m being monitored by my grandparents every time I come here. Definitely not coming back. I’d rather go down the street to other karaōke places where they offer better service.

Haven’t been here in forever, that last night’s venture showed me that they now serve alcohol. Definite plus, get drunk and sing your lungs out.
Our room got super hot, that someone had to tell them to up the AC. Good selection of songs, but could really use some update on their videos that play in the background.

You ever have one of those Monday nights where one thing leads to another. This is one of those nights.
It was my friend’s Jess D.‘s birthday and we went to Harumi’s in Cupertino, where I definitely recommend you to go to if you want to shout at the top of your lungs and get sake bombs on any weekday, but not for their sushi.
We finished getting ratchet here and somehow in the blur of the night, we made it to this place.
Now, this place is amazing for many reasons, as they have a full bar and the service is really friendly, but the best thing about this place is that they do not harass you to buy food and drinks. I know a lot of places have a drink minimum or food minimum.
It’s funny, because I am seeing a lot of negative reviews on this place and maybe because we went out on a Monday and it was not packed, so they were nice to us.

The food was hot, fresh, and delicious and the wait staff are friendly and attentive without interrupting the flow of your evening. Some of the furnishings are getting a little worn and the sound system still had wired and wireless mics. The wired mic had a lot of issues over the evening, regularly coming unplugged from a very loose socket or the cable not being long enough to reach the back bench at the table.
The song selection is okay, a good selection of recent English hits and plenty to love for those that want to rock out in Chinese or Korean. Plus, they have a book of just the updates from the last few months, but you have to remember to ask for it.
If Arirang is booked, this place is worth a try.

They have gratuity charge here when all they do is steal your alcohol and check up on you mid-​song to see if you smuggled in some liquor. The music book is organized hella weird. They mix all their languages into 1 page which is weird and makes it hard to find the new song lists.
While chatting with the owner about their bar options, the owner poured my friends and I some Strawberry Soju (which sucked like hell by the way). I didn’t ask for it so I automatically assumed that it was on the house I told him we were having a birthday event in our room.
I came back out to buy some beer and then when I went to pay for the beer, he had the Soju on the bill… So the owner friggen poured me a drink and charged me without me asking for the drink. Good game. So I just payed up so that my friends wouldn’t know about the charge of alcohol since I told them that it was on the house from the owner. Good game.
This place sucks.

One thing I really don’t like is shadiness. Shady owners who tries to rip people off are the worst. Hate themm! Sadly, an impression I got of Renaissance is exactly that. Shady!
A bunch of us went to Renaissance late Sat night and got their biggest room. First, the song selections were ALRIGHT. They didn’t have many of the newer songs but they had a lot of the older songs from the 90s even the 80s which were fun to sing to but newer ones would have be fun too. They didn’t have a lot of Chinese song selections either. Not even Jay Chou, can you believe it!!! WHYYYYY!!!
Anyway, we were in there for a total of 4 hours (at $ 70/hour…dang!). Throughout the time we were there, the owners kept barging into our room and turning on the light and then leaving. WTH?!? They literally barged in. Later I found out from my friend they do this because they were afraid people would leave one by one and not pay. Ok, understandable, but still annoying and kind of rude!
We left around 2 (I guess it’s really 3am since it was day light savings haha) and we were at the register about to pay. The owner charged us an extra $ 42 for TIP!!! I don’t know why tip was associated with karaōke so of course I had to ask what the tip was for. He ignored me a few times. So I stopped him from counting the money (that we still weren’t ready to hand to him yet since people were still putting in $) and asked him. He said, «food» UMmm. WHAT FOOD? You mean our 1 bottle of water that you charged us $ 2 for? Ridiculous. Sh-​sh-​sh-​shady shady! I refused to pay for tip and he took it off our bill without a fight. Crazy.

We came here because we wanted to drink and sing all night long. It closes at 4 AM so that’s definitely doable. When we got there at around 10 PM on a Saturday, it was crowded. We had to wait about 15 minutes (they said we only had to wait 5) for a room to clear. I understand this is prime singing time but it’s best to underestimate and overdeliver. We got into the room and there was still food bits on the torn cushions. One of the mics was slightly broken (sound kept going in and out) but at least it worked.
Our favorite part of the experience was ringing the doorbell for the guy to come and get our order. Hands down. We ordered more beer just we could use it. We also ordered a lemon drop ($ 5), squid ($ 20??), bottles of water ($ 2 each) and a liter of [OB] beer (said it was $ 16 if I remember correctly). The lemon drop was absolutely, hands down, terrible. GROSS. Tasted like warm (yes the temperature itself was warm) lemon juice with 0 alcohol. Maybe the lemon juice effectively masked the alcohol? The WATER was colder than the beer. Ugh. Squid was delicious and it was awesome grossing out my other friends with it. On second thought, that may have been the best part of the experience.
The mix of songs was pretty standard. Pretty bummed they didn’t have Jewel’s You Were Meant for Me (a classic drunk karaōke song) but they did have Alanis, Sisqo (THONG SONG!), and Aqua, to name a few.
I don’t think I’d come back here unless my friends wanted to. Just too expensive and not pros to outweigh the cons.

The only place in the area I know that serves alcohol inside! They open really late, until 4am and the rooms are decent sized. They serve beer, sake and you can buy bottles of whiskey and such. If you don’t finish it, you can store the bottles there for next time!
Once I came with friends and we had to wait for a room. The owner was so cool, and drank with us at the bar. The food is really good here, but be careful because you can rack up a big bill easily. A fruit platter was $ 28. The dried fish was my favorite here, and they have tons of authentic Korean snacks.
Song selections are ok, but not as current as some other places. The rooms are nice though, and they have laser beam lights that give the room a party atmosphere. Anyhow, I always have fun here when I come. Just go early because it gets packed pretty quickly and you never know how long a group will take in their rooms!

Renaissance looks a little shady from the outside, but it’s actually quite the classy karaōke joint. My friends and I stopped by for a two-​hour session after dinner and had a great time.
We were put in the «Myth» room and it was pretty nice. Nothing luxe, but everything was clean, nothing was taped up, and there were no holes in the upholstery. As you can see, I’ve been in some unattractive karaōke rooms.
The song selection was standard, with lots of Korean and Japanese songs and a small but crucial list of English hits in the back. We sang «Summertime,» «Bohemian Rhapsody,» «Say It Ain’t So,» «Gangsta’s Paradise» and the like, with dramatic Korean depictions of car accidents and cancer streaming on the screen.
We ordered some pomegranate wine and the bill was still pretty reasonable for five people. I want to say we paid around $ 15 a head. Renaissance was reasonable for the amount of fun we got out of it, and I’ll keep it in mind for my next visit to the bay.