Umm, $9 at the door?! Who do you think you are? Those of you who like to party after 2am, might be either gay, lesbian, trans or just love a big crazy dance floor will know exactly what establishment I’m talking about here…I am TOTALLY sickened by the idea that this place has recently started to charge $9 for cover! It makes me so friggin mad to think that it forces a pretty specific group of people to pay almost twice as much cover than any other bar in this city. Way to bite the hand that feeds you!
And before you post comments that people should just go somewhere else, please consider the other ‘options’ for clubbing after hours that would be as accepting and comfortatble as this place has been. Options are limted. I think a boycot should be in order—maybe a couple of bad weekend turnouts might convince the owners that this was an underhanded move? —A Big Middle Finger for Ya
This article appears in Mar 18-24, 2010.
Sure $9 is a bit silly, but everywhere else in the city is still $6-7.
So your point while worthy also seems a mite exaggerated.
It’s $7 as long as you’re there before a certain time… I’ve never had to pay $9. The only time I’ve ever paid more than the regular cover is if they’re doing a fundraiser or some special party (assuming I’m there before that specific time, I mean).
A boycott won’t change anything. No one cares that much. Do you think people that go to the bar every weekend are going to care that they’re spending an extra two dollars? They already spend a shitload of money.
If you’re a student, go there on Friday nights before 1 in the morning. It’s free with student ID.
I also give a big middle finger for ya. There’s two middle fingers already, jdp21.
It’s $9 cover because no one that goes there, or any other club for that matter, buys anything once they get in. They’re all either loaded from pre-drinking at home or at another bar that closed earlier. Or they’re poppin pills and doing lines in the bathroom. The bar’s gotta make money somehow.
well shit o.p., they did that just for you, so that you could come here to bitch about it. do you really think they read this section, or even care?
$9.00 pure cash. You think that’s going in the books? It’s going straight into someone’s pocket.
I have never, and will never, paid/pay a cover charge anywhere unless there was a good band playing.
I show the doorman a few 20’s and tell him either I get in and spend it, or I leave. They have some discretion.
The bar in question has been dying a slow death for years. Their service is horrible, the dance floor might get mopped once a month and they lost most of the communities interest years ago and they are doing nothing to bring us back.. I mean free student Fridays with z103 what a sad joke!! The bar will soon be forced under r out anyway as that building, once the Discovery Centre finds its new home will be razed to the ground to make way for a parking garage and / or the entrance to the Twisted Sisters complex. Give you a hint … there is a much nicer and friendlier club in the North End!
wat place u takin bout slice, does it hav a good rep or is it lame like u 4 bitchin about the cost,cause u have no dollas
I’m not gay but I still love Rejections, though I agree with the OP that $9 cover is a bit much for that place. Always an interesting, crazy and weird, mixed crowd there (I don’t really even consider it a gay bar anymore since us straighties have infiltrated) and different things happening on different nights of the week. Rockin’ for Dollars (Monday nights) can be fun and is a totally different atmosphere to Friday and Saturday night. Plus the drink specials from 11pm to 1am are pretty sweet – $2.50 bottled beer and $2.00 shots, yeah baby! I wish they’d be open on Tuesday and Wednesday nights again, though.
Supposedly it will be moving to Gottingen when that entire area is taken down. I’m not sure when that will be, though. But that’s what I’ve heard, anyway.
I refuse to ever pay cover in this city. How come other cities can get cover right and Halifax can’t. Other cities offer 1-2 drinks included with cover….here you get nothing. Screw that bar, it sucks (literally and symbolically) anyhow.
I think Rejections has implemented a high cover charge because that place has 3 types of regulars:
1) The dancers – they only go to dance, listen to the music and maybe buy a couple drinks or a bottle of water.
2) The users – they go to dance/hang out but they’re all on chemicals of some sort and don’t buy anything except maybe the occassional bottle of water.
3) The hook-ups – they go for the annonymous sex in the bathrooms.
There are very, very, very few people who actually go there to drink at all. The place has been bleeding money for years. I mean hell, look at the decor in the place. You’d think a “gay” bar would be a whole lot nicer.
“You’d think a “gay” bar would be a whole lot nicer.”
couldn’t help but snicker at that…
the best places in the city – in my opinion – don’t have a cover … the couple places I actually enjoy frequenting anyways…. and they seem to be doing fine.
especially when they provide free nachos!
Could go to the forbidden Naboo and pay $10 instead.
How is it manipulation?
Never Wrong has hit the nail on the head.
That place is a fuckin dive. On my 29th birthday, I walked on a broken beer bottle within 5 minutes of getting there, resulting in a tetnus shot. (happy birthday to me)
The bouncer took me into the back room to clean my foot up, and was appalled that I wanted tap water to pour over my foot, instead of paying 2.50 for bottled water. To pour over my foot. Hmm…
And don’t even ask about the state of the back room. It’s a wonder I didn’t get hepatitus.
That’s any bar. Watch where you’re walking.
just stop going out. how old are you? you must be getting tired of it all by now. is it really fun? really? can you be honest with yourself and say that it’s fun? the lines? the attitude? the drunky drunks? well, the drunky drunks are kinda fun. but the line up to leave? the getting a cab?!?! ugh. sick. the cab enough is to stop me. the cab.
just take it as a sign. stay in with friends. or just stay home with your radio. like i do. every. weekend. i really prefer it that way. though.
or. you could think of that high price as a status symbol. people in bars love status symbols. so. there you go. hey big spender. 9 dollars.
Aren’t drinks fairly cheap at Rejections?
It’s been a LONG time since I’ve been there though so I’m just guessing.
I don’t mind paying the cover as I consider this the price of the BJ’s I receive in the bathroom. Better than cruising the sketchy online dating crap.
Refs has three hour power hours on a nightly basis from 10pm-1am. On Fridays, students get in free I believe.