Octave 18 Karaoke

SING SING SING
Came here w/​friends after having some food & drinks a little ways down. It was the closest & open location for kareoke at the moment & I was super Happy that we came here as well since I got to see an OLD friend from a my highskool days that used to work at another kareoke place I used to go too!
This place is spacious & the entrance area is big & bright!
Sound system is great & music up to date.

Tips. Haha what a joke. Owner should be aware of employees ruining the business. Btw i did tip n they wanted 3 dollars more n made a big scene out of it. There are better places than this shithole

I’m only making this review bcuz of all the hate. Of course ur going to think other people r rude to u just bcuz ur not the same race. Everyone assumes that and makes an ass out of urself and them. Koreans aren’t bad, but what do u expect for to be paying for luxury rooms? The prices aren’t bad, if u want cheap. Then I suggest u go to a run down place in ghetto areas. This place has the best things! I love going here, I use to go all the time with my friends and the boss and everyone is super nice. I’ve been in to about. Every room in this place, dead and alive. But ppl shouldn’t complain about the key pad being in Korean… UR IN A KOREAN KARAOKE PLACE! Like what would u expect, most their customers r Korean and fobby, so of course their going to keep things more aimed to the Koreans. If u want american or something else, find another local bar of something for stand up karaōke nights. Because this place DOES keep up to date with almost all songs. All u do is flip though a book that has all the listings. And the book has Korean, english, etc.

We came here during the last hour, around 1:15am. We got to stay a bit after 2AM, so we still got our hour’s worth. We paid $ 30 for the last hour.
Song selections were kind of limited. Some old school songs were not even there. If you want to sing Chinese, you have to ask them for a separate Chinese book. They do serve alcohol here, which is why we ended up coming here at this time. It’ll be better if they opened til 4AM though.

Warning: If you’re not Asian (or even Korean, for that matter) do not bother coming here. After a night of stuffing our faces with KBBQ and drinking makkoli at the nearby bars, my friend and I decided to close the night out with a bang by getting our Whitney Houston on. Upon entering this place, their stares made us believe we had food in our teeth or monkeys on our heads. Not welcoming at all. We asked for a room and they threw us in one in the back with no instructions whatsoever. Well, the remote and song book were both in Korean. While I have been trying to get past the first level of my Rosetta Stone, I had no luck deciphering what these words meant. We buzzed for help and the guy came and had to show us how to do it and we were good to go. Got a bottle and we sang away. After a few songs we were interrupted with the bill, which one young man left on the table. I figured we would take it with us to pay when we were done since we were told they charge by the hour and it was still not time to close. About 5 minutes after getting our check, the guy returns to tell us to pay because they’re closed. Um, it was 1:30am. Sign says closing is 2am. Well, the guy did NOT move until we gave him our credit card. While he ran it they decided to cut off the music and my company and I looked at each other in disbelief. As we left the room to leave, we heard other rooms partying away and singing their hearts out. To add insult to injury, I told my Korean friend what had happened and he was shocked. His reply? «That’s so weird. I usually stay there until 3am or 4am.» Well my friend, I need to bring you next time. Actually, not there. Ever. So if your eyes are round and you lack knowledge of the Korean language, stay away. A smile and desire to spent money at their establishment is not enough of an incentive to treat you well. Too bad, because we drink like sailors and tip like lotto winners.

Pretty nice that they have this karaōke (noraebang) in Orange County.
The place was pretty clean, they had up to date song selections, and they served alcohol and food. Loved it.
The price was decent as well. Not cheap but not ridiculously overpriced like some places in LA.
I will definitely be back if I’m ever in the need of some NRB! :)

Wow this place is G-​H-​ETTO! Not the ambience, per sec. The rooms are fine and everything is pretty standard. You order drinks and some munchies from your rooms. Room prices are a bit expensive. But here’s the kicker. You come out to pay. They print out a receipt and they stare at you while you sign your name. If you leave no tip, they say, «Aren’t you gonna leave a tip?» I was drunk, so I thought I was hearing things. Tip? All I did was sit in a room and sing. Crazy! I felt pressured so I left a tip. Then I was outside. Some chick was leaving to her car and some guy who works there ran outside after her saying,“hey! You didn’t leave any tip!” Lol. Are you guys serious? Here’s a tip. Ask your boss to pay you a decent wage so you don’t have to run after customers or try and punk your customers for tip. All you did was show me to my room.

I have been here numerous times with friends and family. We always have lots of fun and sing our hearts out. The staff is friendly. We always get a room right away and the rooms are pretty clean (as well as the restroom). The rooms overall need cosmetic work. The walls and seats have holes in them. The floor needs attention as well. A lot of times parking is an issue. Overall, I would still come back to enjoy another noraebang night!

I’m a rock star! Really. You would not believe the applause I receive for my singing.
True. You would not believe the applause that I get if you have actually heard me sing. I try to be kind to my friends, so I rarely sing. When I do, I keep it contained in a noribang. Besides, there really is canned applause at the end of every song. It makes me smile.
Octave 18 is a nice place. Clean. Big. Plenty of parking. The room that we were in was in good shape. The song book was full of fun tunes to butcher with my voice.
We got here too late to eat, but we didn’t care. We sang our hearts out and had a great time.
Somehow the paparazzi had left and didn’t snap any photos of me as I left the building.

I had a lot of fun here tonight! Came with a great group of friends and had 4 bottles of soju (Yummm!!!)!! They have a good selection of food and drinks, however, I didn’t get to try any of it except for Soju + Sprite.
They had a good selection of songs, but it was a little difficult to go through them and find ones that I like. They alphabetized them by name of the song, but I think it might’ve been better if they alphabetized it by artist. Also, would be nice if the mic volume could be adjusted because at times, we were singing really loud but couldn’t hear a single thing!
Rooms were roomy, sometimes the videos that accompanied the songs were hilarious haha LOVED that «Fantastic» dancing guy whenever you get a high score haha
All in all, we all had a great time tonight, the people working there were kind and always came when we rang the little bell. At the end of the night, I thought we were going to get a huge bill because we stayed there for about 3 hours and had 4 bottles of soju plus chasers but when we paid, the bill came out to be very little. Awesome-​sauce =]

Very clean and modern spot. Great for large groups. The only downside is on Sundays, their kitchen is not open.

We never have a big family night without ending it with crazy drinking and Karaōke. Ill never Karaōke in public though. I has to be private rooms where only my family gets to hear me :) so after dinner and hanging out with the family, the youngin’s all rally and go sing our hearts out and booze it up.
We have been to quite a few Norebangs, but this one was probably the one I liked the least. They served boozes, so it got atleast 2 stars, but the songs were hard to find. Luckily my cousins have been here a few times and they knew the drill.
I always have a good time with my brother and my cousins. Can’t wait for the next time! It probably will not be here though.

Overall this place was okay. The mics and speakers wernt that great like they where wayyyyy to echoy so then it made like all the notes i sang where held out too long. Singing without the mic made me sound better. The service was decent and the song selections ehre okay.

I meant to put my review on this place a while ago but i forgot! xP
In Korean karaōke, they give a separate room to sing, and since the room is small and if you are the only one singing, it sounds sort of messy with all those echoes. This is the only place where the rooms are large enough to cover all that.
This place is very luxurious which lures lots of elders and adults. Like the reviews said, it is bit pricey but reasonable considering the service and the ambiance. I came to this place like 3 times now and never hit a bad day.
They sell alcohols but, as for me, i only go to karaōke to sing. rather than being drunk and be all clumsy and embarrassing. (I can’t even drink anyway)
Service? was decent unlike the reviews. According to my friend who’s been here a lot, their ownership changed last year or something and they’ve been doing good ever since!
As for the price, i really want to give them 4 stars and all but I really like going there and after all, i don’t even care spending money if I enjoyed it! :)
In my opinion, I think this place is better than going to other karaōke joints where all the scary people and drunk and smoking people go. Octave 18 is at least a bit clean and luxurious enough to feel all cozy and safe.
*i don’t know why it’s been filtered, so i’m making a hassle to write again. :(

First impression, the rooms were nice and spacious. But def not worth the price and not worth smelling like you spent the night in a Vegas casino. The entire place smelled like cigarette smoke. It was really gross. My hair and clothes smelled of stale smoke once we left.

I don’t understand why the hate. Sure, it’s expensive as hell but my friends and I are convinced that it doesn’t matter how poorly you sing, you will shine like the diva you truly are at this karaōke place. And, besides, there’s a price to pay to be fabulous.
We were greeted warmly by the staff when we entered on a rainy Saturday night around 9PM. The place was a little bit slow. We were ushered into a room with swanky couches, enough room to dance, and state of the art flatscreen tv’s and cordless mics. Decent English song choices with some surprisingly current songs («Tik Tok» by Ke$ha). And the most current kpop songs («Oh!» by SNSD).
My advice: PRE-​PARTY (or sneak some alcohol in). Or shell out the $ 400 for unlimited karaōke and bottles of Crown Royal.
Last note: their corn cheese is just meh.

This review is based on TWO experiences. I decided to give this place the benefit of the doubt after our first experience but I really wish i thought it over.
Positive: the rooms are nicely kept (with the exception of smell, see below) with new TVs.
Negatives:
#1 — Price — $ 40 for a small, $ 60 for medium and $ 80 for the large per hour. They also add tax. Then they expect you to add gratuity??! Food prices is on par with Disneyland’s.
#2– Price — drinks — I get that establishments need to markup alcohol to stay in business. But $ 14 on a small bottle of soju?! And boy are they slow to ring you up. Don’t forget the tax and to tip!
#3 — Drinks — You can’t bring drinks to this establishment. Not even a personal bottle of WATER!
#4 — Smoke– Want to feel like you just exited the lobby of a Vegas Casino? Octave 18 is your place! The room smelled like cigarettes. Funny thing was, it happened in the second hour after the AC was flipped on. Turns out, the OWNER was smoking in his own establishment! His smoke filtered into the ducts and spewed out the vents in our room.
#5 — Cake — An hour before our party arrived, we brought a cake to Octave 18 to be held until we are ready. They left the cake in the front. Unrefrigerated.
#6 — Remote — I suggest you take a class in the Korean language before you step into this establishment. The remote is in korean and the people aren’t much help.
#7 — Restroom — Piss all over the ground. I politely informed the front desk that the restroom needed attention. An hour later, the restroom still looked like a battlefield after a heavyweight bout of Sword Pissing. Gross.
I wish there were more establishments like these around the area. There is one in Cerritos called Luxor (166^th and Pioneer?). They allow you to bring your own food and drinks.

As fancy and nice as this place might be, the pricing makes it not worth it. I came here during Happy Hour, and i still ended up paying more than I would have for an hour else during normal hours.
There are plenty of karaōke joints that offer the same service for a better price.
However this is one of the few karaōke joints in the area that sell alcohol and food, so I guess if you want come and get drunk, eat, and spend lots on it then come here. If not, save your money and go else where.

Luxury Yes! Paying luxury on drinks… NOT!!!
I only given great reviews so far on Unilocal… but this place totally deserves 1 start, if only I can give less than 1 star.
Just really disappointed on how up-​tight they are when it comes to drinks. I understand its a business, but do you have to be ridiculously unreasonable with how much you charge for drinks. They are marking up all there drinks 500%!!! $ 14 for a bottle of soju!!!
And the song selection and the remote… please bring a Korean translator because you will definitely need one to understand everything.
The rooms are nice… spacious, especially the largest room that they have. But sooo not worth it if you are out to have fun with a couple of drinks.
If you are rich and not mind paying 5 times or drinks and food then this is a place for you!!!

This is a new karaōke spot that advertises its luxuriousness. The rooms are a good size with fancy furniture and hi-​tech karaōke song systems. The song selection is okay but not great. I was expecting more new songs.
Their room prices are decent but a little high. $ 25 per hour for a small room, $ 40 for a medium, and $ 80 for the largest room. For the area, kinda desolate and borderline ghetto, it seems a tad high. They serve alcohol, mostly beer and shoju (Korean place). I think they also offer whiskey but no other hards. Their food prices are unreasonable. We ordered fried rice for $ 13 and the portion was small.
We experienced good service but upon paying, I vaguely remember getting into a little spat with one of the waiters. I was piss drunk so I have no idea what it was about but the memory of it was enough to remove a star from the rating.