Carl’s Lounge

If you don’t mind your wallet being stolen then this is the place for you! I sadly made that mistake when visiting this place. I told the personal that I will contact the police department and miraculously the wallet appeared!!!

This place was HORRIBLE! we drove 35 minutes to get here from down south to go to this place. As soon as we start walking up to the place, this bouncer guy said he ain’t having none of this crap. I was with two black guys. He let’s us in, we go sit down at the bar, and we have a 3 dollar patron shot. (which was decent) and then we decide to go play a game of pool. Which costs a dollar fifty. I put my first quarter in, and before we could even put the other ones in, the guy comes and kicks us out because he went to grab change our his pocket and hits boxers were showing a little bit. Tells us to leave. Talk about discrimination. DO NOT GO TO THIS BAR!!! They are horrible, and everything is over priced other than the special shots of the day. I can’t even believe places can still be so racist. I got recommended here by someone and they did I wouldn’t be disappointed. Boy were they wrong… Horrible place. I will never go here again. And nor should anyone else.

For the sake of the nice, young women here, I should give this place five stars *evil laugh* but I’ll just be totally honest…
Where do I start?
Carl’s is in Stone Park, meaning — you shouldnt go 3mph over the speed limit or you WILL get pulled over, especially at the late hours of the night/​wee hours of the morning that you might be prowling around at Carl’s. :-) The place is in a small complex, that you just might miss, if you are doing that 3mph over the speed limit. Parking is very tight. Although there is a parking lot, the space is not that forgiving, however there is parking available in the adjacent lot.
Carl’s itself? *evil laugh again* I’ve always paid about $ 5 to get in, if it ever was anything more, I was too inebriated to remember. Security at the door are off-​duty officers and they are pretty awesome. Inside, the place is actually pretty huge: six pool tables, huge bar area, upstairs lounge area, which allows plenty of places to get «dances.» The drinks are potent. Try the jungle juice — I promise it will have you (male or female) thinking you are sexier than the female dancers in there! The music is provided by a jukebox which can get annoying since you have to listen to EVERYONE’S choice of music. It can be a total drag.
I will advise you to watch your belongings! I know one of the workers there that had a man stumble into the bathroom, take her wallet, took most her her belongings and what he didnt want, he dumped in the toilet. Also, as in any typical bar, the men-​folk (ladies arent crazy for once) drink the courage juice and can get a testy of one another.
All in all, its an okay joint. It doesnt close until five in the morning and there is a restaurant a couple of doors down that stays open to tolerate the belligerent crowd (They have surprisingly good scallops!)

Carl’s is a big bar with a few pool tables and a high ceiling. I like their $ 3 Heineken Light 16oz can and $ 3 Sierra Nevada Pale Ale bottle prices. They may have other rotating drink specials. Thursday nights they charge a $ 5 cover but Miller Lites are a buck a bottle.
This is one of those infamous Stone Park «lingerie bars» where scantily clad ladies walk around hitting you up for lapdances or massages or drinks. Most of the women are pretty ugly, fat, or both. But occasionally you get some nice ones. I had the tiniest little South American girl one time. Maybe 5’2″ and so toned and cute.
Get a price quote on whatever the hell you’re getting as recently a little nursing school Asian girl robbed me of $ 20 for a crappy 5 minute massage I didn’t even want but felt bad for her because it was so slow at the time. I *assumed* it was $ 10. Felt angry as hell when she said her services were one for $ 20 or two for $ 30. Bump that!

Whores, all these girls are whores and «fancy» prostitutes. $ 20 dollars to get a cheap lap dance and not much more to leave the place and get pounded out at a nearby motel on skuzzy Mannheim Road.
LADIES: if your man goes here, Id find a new one b/​c thruth is hes probably 95% getting way more than a lap dance.
MEN: If you go here– your a sick pig and deseve to be a room full of filth with a whole bunch of piggies!
Most of these woman are druggies and alcoholics and have no morals.

Unfortunately, I am able to leave a review about Carl’s Lounge.
I was dragged here with friends after a pretty fun night bar hopping on Madison St. in Oak Park. While on our way home, my friends decided they weren’t ready to go home, and we stumbled upon the horrorshow that happened to be Carl’s Lounge. I had no idea what to expect, as I’ve never heard about it; and I now know why.
Carl’s Lounge is an «adult entertainment» bar/​lounge. The place is actually pretty big; tall ceilings throughout, two floors, two separate bars, many tables/​booths, and a half dozen pool tables.
The problem is, well, everything else. The crowd is much older, which is fine, but they were clearly unwelcoming to our younger group; which makes sense considering we weren’t «regulars» and were easily spending the most money out of any group there.
Anyways, there are 10 – 15 «dancers» that walk around the lounge in bikinis & lingere. Typically I’d be right on board and leading the pack, full steam, tunnel vision, ready to «make it rain» as soon as I walk in… this wasn’t the case. Alright I’m aware that this isn’t an exotic dance club, and the women aren’t supposed to be strippers, but when you portray it to be that way, then women should at least live up to expectation. A couple of the women clearly recently gave birth, one of them were missing teeth, a handful were slightly overweight. I mean, come on! Yet guys were actually paying the $ 20 for dances from the women, but the catch is (as if bad looks wasn’t a catch enough) that the dances aren’t private. You sit right there in the middle of the bar or wherever you’re seated, and they give a «dance» in front of about another 100 men. Who wants to pay for that?
Within five minutes of walking through the freakshow, I lost my blissful buzz that I worked so hard to get earlier in the night.
There was a $ 5.00 cover, not sure why.
When we were at the bar at the top of the stairs, I ordered a drink, and the bartender said she’d get it after she takes a cigarette break.
There’s much more that can be said, but I think you get the idea, I did NOT have a good time, and it ruined my buzz.