Poppie Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 According to their Facebook page .... opening day of Johnsons Tampa will be Friday, September 2nd. Gonna be a HOT Labor Day Weekend! + sam.fitzpatrick and + Vegas_Millennial 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ jeezopete Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 6 hours ago, Poppie said: opening day of Johnsons Tampa will be Friday, September 2nd Sweet! Thanks for the update Poppie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poppie Posted September 2, 2022 Author Share Posted September 2, 2022 According to their Facebook page, featured this opening weekend will be porn star Jessie Colter. Matt is bringing some of the South Florida boys up and importing a few from Swinging Richards and Montreal. Should be a BLAST. Chidude and + Vegas_Millennial 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chidude Posted September 4, 2022 Share Posted September 4, 2022 Any firsthand accounts of how the soft opening weekend went? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poppie Posted September 5, 2022 Author Share Posted September 5, 2022 We decided to wait until last night, Sunday night to check it out. The bar looks great. We were pleasantly surprised to find a favorite dancer from the FTL club behind the bar. Sawyer looks better and better every time we see him. The other bartender was this Hot Huge Muscle Man with INK. Sawyer tells us that opening night was crazy busy. Gave us a tour before he hit the stage. The upstairs VIP bar with lap dance rooms is not completely done yet. A bed for the boys to "dance" on looks to be much more erotic than a pole. Entrance fee is $10 in lieu of the entrance fee to the lap dance rooms in FTL. Dancers started to arrive at about 7pm. A mix of a hot twunk boy, big muscle guy that was totally hot and a few more somewhere in between. Living so close to the new club, hope to make frequent visits. SO glad Matt opened another bar. Keep an eye on their Facebook page! + Vegas_Millennial and Chidude 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ jeezopete Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 So what's the parking situation? As I recall, there weren't many spots at the club, & not a neighborhood with a lot of available street parking. I'm getting over my first case of Covid or I would have been there for sure. Look forward to becoming a regular. I miss the old days when I'd stop in at Baxter's & then the Male Room on Fri & Sat nights to check out the dancers. Hopefully this will last a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poppie Posted September 6, 2022 Author Share Posted September 6, 2022 Parking is pretty tight. But at least there is some. The club in Ft. Lauderdale really doesn't have any parking. Still the place is packed. Ahhhhh .... Baxters and the Male Room. Getting a serious flash back. And a GOOD one too 😋 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lerbut23 Posted September 7, 2022 Share Posted September 7, 2022 Really well attended on Friday and a noticeable drop off on Saturday. My personal opinion is that they opened 2-3 weeks before they were ready. Lap dance area not complete and not many dancers. The club itself will be spectacular when completely renovated and completely staffed with dancers. It will be a struggle to staff that club with dancers in Tampa but if anyone can do it, It would be Johnsons. + Vegas_Millennial 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chidude Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 Any updates for weekend #2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buff Daddy Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 Yes any updates?. Buffdaddy and my friend Chidude need to make a road trip before the year is out. 😜 Chidude 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ jeezopete Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 (edited) I was there Fri, Sat, & Sun nights for a bit. (OK, yeah I'm glad to finally have a club like this in Tampa!) Fri night there were 2 or 3 dancers at a time on the stage, for 3 song sets. Sat night they were up there 2 at a time. Sun just 1 at a time (I think there were maybe 10 dancers total Sun, maybe less). I didn't arrive till after 11 each night. I didn't realize they started at 8, so I'll try going earlier next time. Each night there were a couple of really good looking dancers, some OK, others didn't keep my attention at all. (This is purely my opinion & others may see them differently for sure.) I didn't check out the upstairs VIP area till really late Sat & Sun and there was nothing going on then. Again, I'll try earlier next time. (Note: the upstairs isn't finished yet, but has a bar serving there, a bed instead of a stage for the dancer, and curtained lap dance rooms.) The club is really nice, big drinks, good pours, for a good price. All the employees were friendly. One night the DJ came over to thank me for tipping a particular dancer who he said had been having a rough night with few tips. I thought that was really sweet of him to be looking out for the dancers like that. Biggest news: a pole was installed in the middle of the stage Sun. It didn't get much use, but we'll see. Good size crowd on Fri & Sat, really small group of customers on Sun. Any other info I can gather on future trips? I'll be glad to go as often as I need to in order to report back. 😜 https://www.instagram.com/johnsonstampa/ Edited September 13, 2022 by jeezopete added link mikefl81, + Vegas_Millennial and Chidude 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poppie Posted September 14, 2022 Author Share Posted September 14, 2022 I understand that the Grand Opening will occur in a few weeks. Pole for the dancers going up in the main room downstairs. Upstairs VIP area, when complete will be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lerbut23 Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 I hope they can make it work in Tampa but it will be very difficult. IMO the quality of dancers is very limited and quite lacking in comparison to Ft Lauderdale. I have been in and out since they opened and have yet to stay for an hour. EZEtoGRU 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EZEtoGRU Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, lerbut23 said: I hope they can make it work in Tampa but it will be very difficult. IMO the quality of dancers is very limited and quite lacking in comparison to Ft Lauderdale. I have been in and out since they opened and have yet to stay for an hour. I tend to agree with you. I expect it to be a tough go with a Tampa club. It’s just too close to FTL and too small a local market. If the dancer quality is greatly inferior to what is at the FTL club, why bother? Just travel to FTL instead. Matt has been in this business a long time so he chose to open in Tampa for a reason. We’ll have to see how it goes. I would have thought something up the east Coast (DC, PA, NY, MA) could have worked but what do I know. Edited September 16, 2022 by EZEtoGRU lerbut23 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 On 9/16/2022 at 8:52 AM, EZEtoGRU said: I tend to agree with you. I expect it to be a tough go with a Tampa club. It’s just too close to FTL and too small a local market. If the dancer quality is greatly inferior to what is at the FTL club, why bother? Just travel to FTL instead. Matt has been in this business a long time so he chose to open in Tampa for a reason. We’ll have to see how it goes. I would have thought something up the east Coast (DC, PA, NY, MA) could have worked but what do I know. Tampa on the west coast of Florida is over 3 hours & 250 miles away from Fort Lauderdale on the east coast. How is that too close? The population of Tampa is almost 400,000 with the metropolitan area even larger. Hardly a small local market. fedssocr1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rojjodc Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 He'll probably at least last the winter/spring with all of the dancers from up north and Canada coming down. He probably has a gold mine in Wilton Manors given the location. Boardwalk is still open but they never advertise anymore. Plus I can walk to Johnsons from where I live, although I have not been going due to Covid and Monkeypox (and the friend I usually go with are up north for the summer and fall). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msclwrsper Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 I can't wait to see Johnson's Tampa! I know it's a challenging city to staff compared to FTL but there are plenty of hot men in Tampa to dance. And when they eventually see that they can make the money dancing for men, the "homo-phobia" will fall to the wayside. Matt will find them. The other dancers will start bragging. It'll bring all the folks from the West Coast of Florida out of the woods and into the big city! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poppie Posted October 6, 2022 Author Share Posted October 6, 2022 I've only been there once. The place looks great. The dancers are HOT. Since my visit, they have installed the pole on the stage, and I understand that the upstairs VIP area is done. Can't wait to go back for more ... a LOT more! + Vegas_Millennial 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ jeezopete Posted October 7, 2022 Share Posted October 7, 2022 Their grand opening is Friday 10/14 and their latest instagram post says "30+ Dancers!" I'm sure the place will be packed and it's not that big. Plus the parking on a regular Fri or Sat can be challenging, so I'm going to have to pass this time. I've pretty much become a regular already, going once or twice each weekend so I'll probably check in Sat or Sun and see if some of the dancers hung around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettnyc Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 Wish I could have visited while I was in Tampa on a Wednesday...but they are only open Thurs to Sunday apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jelly_fish1982 Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 anyone been over the last week or two? going to be in tampa in late october and would love reports. any idea whether wednesday or sunday would be a better night to go? Chidude 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lerbut23 Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 Presently they are not open on Wednesday although that is expected to change soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ jeezopete Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 And Sunday is a slow, low key night, the couple of times I’ve been there. Few dancers & few customers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chidude Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 Any updates on how Friday and Saturday have been the last few weeks? Any new local talent? I went last month abs ran into some old Swinging Richards acquaintances and it was a blast. + Vegas_Millennial and Devon 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chidude Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 How did the Grand Opening go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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