Why a good night out should ALWAYS be planned...(Rant)

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Sigh, i need to rant about most retarded night i've ever been out on...

Right it was a friend of a friend's birthday and the plan was to go to Guanabara in Covent Garden. So the first group left my University and i stupidly decided to go with some other friends in the next taxi that was arriving at 9pm. We got to Covent Garden at around 9.45 and already i was getting annoyed as the girls wanted to go and buy wine..whereas i was more interested in actually getting to the club. Anyways we turned up and to our horror there was a queue of around 1hr 30mins to 2 hours just to get in. :eek:

I started to queue up and because more of my closer/better friends were inside i didn't really care..i was dressed up and wanted to go clubbing. The other 5 i was with aren't exactly clubbing types and being blunt, don't have the right...attitude to fit in to a clubbing atomsphere. So they all wanted to go to Nando's and "sight see". I said i'd see them later on then, all good as i had friends inside.

BUT...

Security said no-one else was allowed in for the rest of the night as it was already 1 in/1 out and they cut the line around 2m in front of me saying that was it for the night. I tried to get in as it was just me by myself but he was having none of it. By now it was 10.30pm or so and a random girl said to me "Hey um, i'm off to an Electro club in Camden..wanna come with us?". She was pretty, i was bored so i joined her. Shock horror, she turned out to be 17 using her sister's passport and her friend was 16 and was trying to get into places with no ID and a fake European Driving License. :confused:

I realised my horrible mistake on a train to Camden and little things she said kept reminding me who i was with...
"Well, third plan could be go back to mine and bake cookies? That would be soooo cool..my boyfriend did that with me a few days ago".

......

Get to Camden at around 11ish and all the clubs/bars she wanted to go to/had planned also had a 1 hour queue..so i wasn't exactly happy. I got a text from a friend in Guanabara saying he wanted to meet up as it was rubbish, hurray. So back on the tube to Tottenham Court Road to meet my friend in Burger King. I ended up just hanging around for a while and swapping looks with a pretty girl. :o My friend arrived and we went outside to leave but as i turned around she smiled at me and i stopped, delayed in the doorway and walked back, just to say hi. Bit of a weird/awkward conversation made worse by my very flirty Japanese 29 year old friend chiming in and asking who she was and so on. :rolleyes: I got annoyed and walked away for a bit..returned and then he left me with her who i spoke to for a bit and apologised for my hyper/drunk friend..and then her male friend arrived and she left. Sigh. She actually wasn't that interested i don't think..and perhaps i should have left my number with her.

Ended up getting a bus and going back to University..back by 3ish...the result? I didn't go in a single bar/club, i didn't drink a single unit of alcohol and i was shattered.

The motto - go early and ensure everyone goes together. Rant over...
 
The clubs down there sound quite bad based on that story :p
Sometimes it's better not to be in a big group, more chance of some places not letting you all in.

Good thing there are never any bad queues around here and the later you go out, the better!
When I was in Finland, they didn't tend to go out until around midnight to the clubs. That's the way it should be :D
 
Awww . . . . You did go out rather late. A good night starts at 7 in a bar and then goes from there. Or is that a North East thing?
 
PhillyDee said:
Awww . . . . You did go out rather late. A good night starts at 7 in a bar and then goes from there. Or is that a North East thing?
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That's what i realised. :(

At the moment my friends and i normally go out to the student bars and we haven't properly explored London..the other half of my friends went at around 8pm and i was worried when our taxi was arriving at 9pm...
 
I went to a smaller town based uni so i didnt ever experience quite the same situation in my days but even so we learnt that going early as a larger group pays off in the long run. Much better for tables at the bars and then you get to the clubs etc earlier so wander in as a massive group.
 
Queues like that for clubs?! Crazy! Tube-hopping to random places too. Spontaneous nights out can be good, with a small group of people, to end up bumping into others. Should have got the randomer's number though :p
 
PhillyDee said:
Awww . . . . You did go out rather late. A good night starts at 7 in a bar and then goes from there. Or is that a North East thing?
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Nope applies down here as well. Latest you want to be out is 8pm really. Hit some bars first to catch up with your mates, then when everyone's fuelled up move onto the nearest club. School boy error to turn up at any half decent club on a busy night at 9:45 and expect to get in I'm afraid.

A lot of Londoners will hit the bars straight after work and spend the whole night out (Fridays of course) :eek: Damn hard core city folk!
 
PhillyDee said:
Awww . . . . You did go out rather late. A good night starts at 7 in a bar and then goes from there. Or is that a North East thing?
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My mates in the NE usually start at around 8:30 then go on from there (I’m originally from Darlo BTW) :)
 
The best nights out in my life have all been the ones that were never planned, the ones that just happened on a whim. Planned nights out always suck.
 
Some of the best nights I've ever had have been ones that were unplanned beyond "you fancy a pint?". I would admit however that it is rather easier when the clubs here don't tend to have huge queues, the longest I've ever waited is about 45 minutes and I knew before I even got to the front it wouldn't be worth it. 2 hours waiting for a club is madness, I'd go to a couple more bars instead and take my chances elsewhere.
 
Begbie said:
At least you didn't have to walk 2miles home, with a lot of alcohol in you!
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2miles? try 10 :)

nothing beats a drunken moonlit walk home through the countryside after clubbing :D

I usually go out around 7.30 - 8.30 and our nights are never planned properly unless its for someones birthday or something.
 
I dont usually go out untill around 8-9ish, and im usually with DanMc07, his mates usually turn up later and were out til around 1-2ish then we go..

Either for a takeaway where i usually make a complete **** of myself, if i havnt done already and then we go home.

My best nights out have always been unplanned. Im off out for a planned one for my mates 18th, shes got a limo booked, were off for a meal then off round clayton as some of our mates are still underage so we dont want to try get in clubs and get refused, should be an alright night i hope, if i can get the funds, im actually going to have no money that weekend.
 
Thank god for the bus route 25 and N15! :D Where ever I go in the city, I can rely upon these two routes to get me home within 45 mins rather than spending £20 on a cab to East London!

Clubbing with Uni mates is bliss :cool:
 
Scuzi said:
The best nights out in my life have all been the ones that were never planned
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Planned nights are crap cause the plan usually never goes to plan!

Random nights are usually my best nights. Generally i try to go out for 8 to a pub then leave for a club at 10-10.30 in Glasgow. I go to the same place quite a lot so no bother getting in or getting chucked out.
 
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