Typically great music but last Friday we were there, a horrendous experience.
Last Friday my girlfriend and I went to This Is London as the music and the atmosphere have been very good in the past. This time, however, in spite of paying $40 for both of at the door (even though we got there way before 11PM) we quickly found out that the second floor with better music was closed to guests entering through This is London's doors (Turns out on Fridays, we should have been entering through Red Square entrance). In any event, we ask the bouncer in the club guarding the stairs to the second floor how we can get to the second floor. He says, "Wait 45 minutes, when it gets busy, I'll let you in". We weigh our options: (i) wait for 45 min, dance onthe first floor - mediocre music and get up to the second floor shortly; or (ii) go get a refund and go around through the other exit. The gullible idiots we are, we dance for 45 min at the bar. When we come back to the bouncer and ask him if we can go to the second floor, the guy goes, "$10 for you and $10 for the girl". My jaw fell to the ground. You pay comparatively high cover, find yourself in a more or less upscale club and then you turn around and get treated as if you were trying to get into a club in communist Cuba. F-king ridiculous. Never going there again. Oh, by the way, the bouncer's name is Stefan.