M2 Ultra Lounge

I’M NOT SURPRISED THIS CRAPPY PLACE IS CLOSED THX GOD!
I don’t know what the previous review was saying about it being mostly an African American crowd? because I came here about 2 yrs ago and looked pretty nice with my sister we are not ugly nor dirty nor ghetto and was told at the door by a white guy «tonight is not your night» hint hint if your a minority this was not your night so if anything I experienced racism. we went to another place on 72^nd st.

what closed… I did not even know they closed, I mean sure they were super expensive and all. I did come sort of regular in 2007 and 2008. One of my homegirls was bartending here mostly on sat nights. She was pretty hot, but so were all the servers I guess. They did know how to hustle hard to get you to buy more drinks.
I had the hookup for drinks but yeah this was def not my crowd, way too stuffy for me. I just felt weird here too, some of these women acted like they made what I make in a year in 4 weeks (some probably did, but no need for that attitude).
Exclusive nightclub, I guess whatever. I hadn’t talked to that chick in a minute though, she probably left before they closed. I am sure of it, or maybe she went back to Canada.

We went Saturday night ³⁄₂₇
Ok — Our group had VIP and bottle service through a promoter and we had a good enough time — but we won’t be going back.
1. This is an African American crowd — which is totally cool — I just felt a little out of place as we were among the only white people there.
2. Mostly hip hop with some breaks in between of some dance. I really don’t like hip hop.
3. The DJ was REALLY pissing me off. He would play a good song, build it up to the good part and then switch to another song right before the «climax» leaving us with blue balls. I couldn’t believe he kept doing that. I wanted to throw my drink at him. He probably thought he was being funny.
4. Lots and lots of GHETTO gross women. Oh My God. I think they were prostitutes actually. Most were gone by the end of night (I guess they hooked up with their Johns?) The ghetto experience in the bathroom was horrifying. Vomit everywhere and hoochie mammas fighting. (Thankfully I soon found out we had our own VIP bathroom).
4. NO ONE WAS DANCING. I have never seen such a huge group of «gotta act cool and just stand here» group in all my life.
The dancing platform in the middle of the room is THE primo spot for dancing and it was all guys just standing up there looking down at every one. Then again, probably not surprising given the DJs annoying mix — and probably has something to do with point number 5:
5. Serious lack of beautiful women and 5 to 1 ratio in favor of men.
5. If you enjoy a smoke — Going out to have a smoke was complete bull sheet. Listen, I don’t smoke anymore, but I do enjoy a ciggy when clubbing. I’m happy that there is no smoking in clubs now, but please provide a convenient location for those who do. We were herded away from the building to two separate locations just to light up. Come on.
Interior was indeed beautiful (weird maze-​like entry though) sound system was amazing. If you really like hip hop you’ll probably have a really good time — just remember to bring your own pretty girls with you.

I had no problem getting in and I hustled my way to get comped. But I wasn’t with a large crowd, which helps.
Its the same old Mansion or Crobar, really.
Hip hop room rocked although it got really crowded and a lil bit ghetto. I mean that in the nicest way.
House/​main room was very euro. Lots of dudes with half opened shirts and long hair. URRR!
Bartender in the hip hop room was a real tool… typical…expected.
Bouncers typical rude but it’s only bc they have no other power in their life besides being a doorman, doorman. I may have mentioned that before leaving.
I must say something about this place though now that it is M2. It took a step down «scene» wise. I remember dressing to a t when I went out clubbing. But I saw one girl in a purple shirt, non skinnys and purple snow boots. UMMMM! and another group of girls who took their shoes off. WOAH! Actually the dudes were more put together than the chics. Strange.
I probably won’t go back until they change the name again. Unless my friends drag me there for one of their parties they promote.
Big clubs are SO 10 SEASONS AGO!
yawn.
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update: i was dragged back on an off night and the place rocked… don’t go on weekends… bridge and tunnel crowd… go during the week… great vibe

I went to M2 last night and I will NEVER set foot in that place again. If you like to go to a place that is classy… avoid! What turned me off is that even though numerous people signed up for the guest list, M2 decided to not acknowledge it and instead, charge $ 40.00 for ladies.
Never in my life have I paid $ 40.00 to party. Then coat check was mandatory. The bouncer wouldn’t even allow you to go downstairs unless you checked your jacket. There was barely any room to walk and the crowd was filled with females getting ready to do anything to get into VIP. I saw this with my own eyes… smh. It was a mess!
I laughed so hard when the DJ attempted to get a crowd response by saying MAKE SOME NOISE IF YOU HAVE A COLLEGE DEGREE. After realizing that most people in the crowd did not, he said MAKE SOME NOISE IF YOU HAVE A GED… only then did you hear a response!
Do yourself a favor by not going to M2.

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I’ve been there on a Friday & Saturday. The one time I went on a Saturday, it was after midnight. Big mistake. It was a last minute decision so cover was $ 30 — ouch.
Décor was terrible (in the hip-​hop room at least). Just had a bunch of curtains. What did help was its extremely high ceilings so it didn’t feel as crowded even though it was packed. The music was good though and prices were decent for a NY spot.
The crowd was mixed, mainly mid-​late twenties.

I don’t club, but since my company had a party here, I went. Because of this, this review is not indicative of a normal night out.
The place is huge, but it still managed to be crowded, which is good because my huge company is a good approximation of how the room would look 80% full.
The actual amount of pedestrian roadway to move around in is painfully small. Once people start parking themselves for conversations or gyration, you’re kind of screwed. It’s like Times Square before they cut out the cars.
Now since it was open bar, I did spend the night gettin’ my drank on with Grey Goose and Perrier. Like the sighting of Hale-​Bop, this will not happen again for a very long time.
Music was solid, danceable tunes. If I could dance, I would have popped and locked all over the place Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo style.
If you, as a guy, are mostly charming because of your personality and are looking to score, don’t come here. You will scream. A lot. And get nowhere.
If you are girl, there are couches to dance on. Doing so is appreciated by all parties involved. Usually.
At the end of open bar, a co-​worker wanted to put a drink on her credit card. In order to do so, she had to rack up at least $ 50. Then again, that’s not hard to do because each drink is ludicrously priced.
I won’t be back. But then again, was I ever really here to begin with?

This review is conditional: If you loooove trashy overmade girls and guys with extremely gelled hair, this review might not be for you. If you love being shoved constantly and standing hip to hip with some chica who doesn’t have undies on, then this review might not be for you. If you love weak drinks that cost 10 – 30 bucks, this review might not be for you.
I know to expect these things at a club, but I did not expect the total disappointment in the things I actually enjoy when I am clubbing and the disappointment of their New Years Party.
I Spent $ 150 on New Year’s Eve tickets to the M2 Ultra Lounge event and wound up with a broken toe and the impression that I was robbed at the «open bar». I am positive they oversold the general admission tickets. Everybody was packed in like sardines and were shoved around every time somebody moved.
The tickets for the party boasted open bar, but the bartenders wouldn’t serve you without a large tip. I’m sure that is pretty standard, but they shouldn’t call it an open bar if they refuse service.
The major complaint I have is a total lack of a dance floor. The only reason I ever go to clubs is to dance (as most women do – think Dane Cook’s dance sketch), but the dancefloor is taken over by a VIP seating area… wha wha wha!!! Who thought up that ridiculous design? terrible
We ended up leaving early. I would definitely not recommend this place to people, ESPECIALLY not for New Year’s Eve.

Plenty of other reviews, so I’ll keep this brief… This is the old Crobar space in NYC…
Sound system — AMAZING, 5 stars. You can FEEL the air from the bass cabinets no matter where you are on the dance floor. Which leads me to my gripe… TOO LOUD, and it hurts and WILL damage your hearing if you stay there all night… NOT so nice. Can’t we have a balance?
Décor/​Space — 5 Stars, this place is absolutely GEORGEOUS, top notch décor… VERY VERY NICE.
Dance Floor — 1 Star — WHO THE HELL decided to put TABLES and VIP SEATING RIGHT UNDER THE DISCO BALL??! I feel bad for the lighting guy, who has to light the SIDES of the dance floor rather then the center… What a joke. They had more then ²⁄₃ of the dance floor roped off with VIP tables, and only about ¹⁄₅ of the tables were actually in use. They were REALLY trying hard to push the VIP Bottle Service, but come on guys! Thankfully when then main DJ (Offer Nissim) came on, they did remove a lot of the chairs and opened a bigger section up, but it still breaks up the flow of the place.
Drink Prices — 1 STAR. $ 9 bucks for a RED BULL. $ 16 dollars for a Cosmo. This is insane… Ok, maybe I’m spoiled in San Diego where we pay $ 7 – 8 bucks for a drink, on average, but $ 16 is HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
Coat CHECK — MINUS STARS — The line was INSANE, like a 1 hour wait to get your coat. When you first check your coat, they give you the illusion that it’s an organized system, but when you go to retrieve it later, you will find out that it’s not. I lost my ticket (they are easy to loose when you pull your cash out of your pocket to pay for the drinks) and the security guy was VERY RUDE and told me (after we waited in line for 1 hour) that I would have to WAIT UNTIL THE END OF THE NIGHT when everyone left to get my jacket back. I kept begging him and finally he had them retrieve it for me. I knew the number, since my friends ticket was 1 less then mine, and also they put your INITIALS on the other side of the ticket, so it’s not rocket science…
Overall, the only reason I will go back to this place is if they have a big name DJ that I ** MUST ** see, otherwise, forget it. The prices are obsurd, and the staff is not all that friendly. In addition, the CLUELESS managers or owners of the place hired FEMALE GO GO DANCERS on a gay night. I don’t want to see female tits bouncing around on the gogo boxes, I want to see hot go go guys!!!

This Isn’t really my scene, I’ll admit it. My days of running up and grinding on random pretty girls, paying 13 dollars a drink and yelling at the same young lady’s in order to say hello in my «club voice» ended back around 2004… Alas there I was making every attempt to reminisce the fonder days of clubbing and remember what the scene was all about. And just as good as any other megaclub this one reminded me. (Ahh, yes big clubs are about drugs.)
Besides that small Ah-​a moment this place ain’t terrible. A hip hop floor where you can get your grind on (sweet smells in the air) and a house room where you can see colors (or other hallucinations). Stage dancing girls all around, in case you need an example of how to dance before proceeding and plenty of really expensive drinks and VIP tables for everyone. Yes this is where you go to meet up with all the non american New Yorkers. A party that people around the world can relate too. If I were into big clubs I would give this a 4. It does it as well as all the others. I mean it’s obviously no Limelight or Webster Hall but they are Limelight and Webster Hall.
So drink beforehand and find a ride and remember the red light makes every chick look good so take her into some natural light before you take her home.

What the!!!
We tried this place during our long awaited re-​visit of NYC because our friends knew some insiders that assured us we’d get a good deal. Granted we got there kinda late, but when we were supposed to get in for free, and the bouncer picked our group to get in pretty quickly, at the cashier inside the door we find that our «comp» tickets were still $ 20 each. Our friends decided to bounce at that point, suddenly leaving just me and my husband.
The venue was large but crowded. Main floor was packed and they were playing hip hop, which is usually right up my alley, but to my utter surprise, NO ONE there could dance… even the chicks that looked like video vixens and guys that looked like rappers. I couldn’t see a single one that was really rocking the floor, and many were just standing around dazing too. We walked over to the other floor that turned out to be the VIP section, and the entire floor was roped off so if you wanted to dance with house music, you couldn’t. Unless you were a «VIP»… although no one there looked important.
My husband and I decided it was pointless and got the heck outa there. Perhaps we went on a wrong night… I meant to go out with everyone on Wed but I got sick and couldn’t really go out until Friday.
But like someone else said, this place is ghetto all around. What a shame and what a waste of money. We were at a smallish lounge called Glass earlier and I would’ve been so much happier if we stayed there and got myself 2 more glasses of Metropolitan instead of paying $ 20 at door and few more bucks for coat check for this lame place.

This is the 3^rd place that T, E and I hit up on Halloween Night.
I didn’t even know where the hell we were going after place #2.
Even though we didn’t have to pay the ridiculous $ 60 dollar cover charge, this place still sucks!
All I got to say is GHETTO… GHETTO and more GHETTO!
Gross!
WTH — what kind of place charges 60 bucks for me to see two levels of ghettoness?
Totally not my scene and not my crowd!
The night of heavy drinking was creeping up on me here and I couldn’t stand up wearing heels anymore.
Wasn’t into the scene nor the vibe… I decided to leave but too bad if I knew they were going to leave 20 minutes after me — I would have hit up the 4^th place with them.

I’ll be honest, I really wanted to hate this place (like I hate all megaclubs). But my first visit here changed my perspective on that. I went to a private party in the balcony section. Drinks were free which is always nice of course. I loved the exclusive feeling of being on the balcony, yet also loved the inclusion the section had with the rest of the club. Most VIP sections are tucked away in some dark corner where you miss out on the party altogether, I love that M2 Lounge didn’t go that route. The décor was extravagant and over the top, but it totally works.
Second time I came here, was another great night (well, at first). We were sitting at a prime table in the corner balcony. We had grey goose, patron, and even some fiji water. I was really loving it. That is… until 1am rolled around and the bouncers started treating VIP like the main floor. There were so many people on the balcony that I could barely move. The space was trashed, everyone was sweaty and banging into eachother. No one could move let alone dance. It took an hour to get to the restrooms… The fun was totally sucked out, and it instantly felt like I had been transported to some Jersey club. I understand they need to fill the space, but they should really enforce a stricter VIP policy and keep it exclusive.
Other than that, I recommend coming here for private parties, early in the night, or during the week.

Perhaps one of the last massive clubs in the city, M2 has a little something for everyone, however with a $ 30 door fee, you best wait until you can get either a free RSVP or reduced rate ticket.
Divided into two clubs, one with hip hop, the other with euro-​dance, this club offers completely different feels for everyone. If anything, this place does look like one of the clubs you would see on television. However if you’re a female, expect to be harassed at some point by (as a friend described it) Euro-​trash, or some wanna be Mac Daddy (yeah, we’re taking it there). Some of these guys have no shame, grinding up to women until they jizz in their own pants (yeah, that actually did happen). The euro-​dance room seems like the place to be «seen» since the VIP tables ($ 5000/​per) is located at the center of the dance floor and literally is within everybody’s eyeshot.
The hip hop room is just an all out grind, standing room only, with people everywhere up on each other. The music wasn’t bad though.
I might go back. if they give me a free VIP pass and open bar for the night.

If you have a group of friends who are fairly mixed with regard to the number of people who like to go clubbing and the number of people who like to just grab a few drinks and hang out, this is probably a pretty good spot for a birthday bash or whatever celebration. The music will satisfy the dancing folks, the décor (ie projected screens) will entertain the hanging out-​ers. The prices aren’t insane for beer, nor are they too outrageous for well drinks.
It’s a good location because there are several bars nearby to head after the main group breaks up later in the evening. You can feel confident that nobody will walk in and be like ‘No f’n way’. They’ll want to party with you, because it’s big enough for the whole family.

oh hell no. this is why I hate NYC clubs. I went with Renee and a few other folks on Saturday night. I only went because she had a hook up for free entrance. When we arrived that actually didn’t happen and we weren’t even going to get into the club. My friend who is visiting from California turned up the California charm with the doorman and he let us in only for us to be met with yet another line of people trying to pay $ 40 to get inside. No thanks. This really is not my scene anyway, so we bounced. Thank goodness we didn’t go in so we’d have the «privilege» of paying $ 20 for a plastic cup of cranberry juice.
No worries Renee, we still had a fun time no thanks to Mansion though

Back when it was Studio Mezmor, I went here and the front door people were extremely rude and snooty. eh. However, there were 2 rooms (one small hip-​hop & one HUGE trance). I saw elderly Asian People getting down on the trance dance floor and that was pretty comical. I thought, «what are my grandparents doing here!!!» While spacious, the club was filled with skeezy old sweaty men, one of which put his hand up my friend’s skirt =/​
The trance selection was good & the room was HUGE (2 floors!) while the hip-​hop was pretty redundant. The room was also cramped, which makes excuses for pervs’ wandering hands.
The crowd was very diverse but the drinks were too expensive and while I was slightly inebriated, the experience was not MEZMORizing.

: REALLY hot waitress who undoubtedly clears $ 200k/​year in tips comes over :
Her: Can I get you a drink?
Me: Two vodka sodas, please.
Her: What kind of vodka?
Me: Well vodka.
Her: You mean like Grey Goose?
Me: No. Well vodka.
Her: Oh, like house vodka?
Me: Yes.
My receipt:
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M2
530 W. 28^th St.
212−629−9000
345 Axana
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TBL ⁸⁄₁ 3599 GST 1
FEB 12’09 8:28PM
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2 Grey Goose @ 16.00 32.00
4.00% 1.28
16.00% Gratuity 5.12
LIQUOR 32.00
Service Charge 6.40
Total Due $ 38.40
THANK YOU AND SEE YOU SOON*
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*Not likely.

Big ol Dance Club but so 2005. Don’t they know that no one pays $ 20 for cocktails anymore? I guess they don’t seeing as we shelled out $ 40 (before tip) for two vodka sodas. If I hadn’t been here for a charity event (please note, the drink prices did not go to charity. If they had, I wouldn’t have grumbled so much), I would have high-​tailed it somewhere that didn’t rob me blind.
Come on, recession specials are IN. Cheesy dance clubs are OUT.
Oh, PS: Just found out the ATM fees at M:2 were a whopping $ 6.95:
Laaaaaaaaaaaame!