Temptations Bar Review: Mango Avenue, Cebu – by Foreigner & The Chinese
Name : Temptations
Location : Mango Ave, off the main strip – walk past the main bars heading in Ayala direction, turn right at the Caltex gas station
Layout : 3/5 Actually quite a sizeable bar with pretty good layout. Upstairs has a load of pool tables – couple down stairs as well. Plenty of places to sit – either with the girls or by the bar, correctly positioned for going viewing of the dance stage. A little bit too light, so could be improved by dropping the lighting down a bit.
Price : 4/5 Prices are messed up and all the place. Manager as bent as a two bob bit and runs an endless series of scams to on guests and girls alike, so who knows what you’ll pay. Recent strange pricing includes
- You have to buy at least 3 lady drinks before you can bar fine a girl
- Koreans were recently charged an entrance fee of php500, this had the effect of drastically cutting custom – another scam from the very questionable , but well off Filipino manageress.
- Mysterious and numerous calculation errors, in favour of the bar, which seem to get more frequent, the more you drink. Another manageress driven incentive?
Skinny bar chick – this time in analog
Management : 1/5 When the foreign owner is away, the cat will play. Manageress supplements her income by pulling as many scams as humanly possible, including
- Back dating, originally questionable fines for years, so that in the future, if the girl bar-fines, mysterious deductions are made when it comes to time to settle up – myserious fine to the girl invariably is 200, out of the 1000 owed to her from the bar for the bar fine, leaving her just 800 and the manageress 200 better off.
- Massive and frequent fining of girls. Girl breaks wind, and it doesn’t smell right – better watch out if the manageress gets a sniff of it!
- Following the girls to the popular bars after kicking out time so that an additional penalty can be given to them if she catches them with a guy. Any penalty that is dished out, will be taken out of future earnings, so not a lot the girls can do about it.
- Final bill calculation errors – as mentioned above.
Manager forever ticking of the girls, but when it comes to resolving a real issue, suddenly becomes deaf and very quiet.
Just check your bill.
Girls Looks : 3/5 Full range here, a handful of reasonable ones, but most are decidedly average. Sometimes there is a good number of girls in the bar, esp. when the owner is back. The number invariably drops, sometimes to remarkably low levels when the owner away – due to girls leaving for the reason mentioned above
Attitude : 3/5 Girl attitude not bad, not great either. A lot just sitting around looking pretty miserable, but a few nice ones that will come over and be pleasant. Management attitude is HIDEOUS, the worst of all the bars.
beer bar?..
Fun Factor : 2/5 Can actually be good fun, reputably the origin of the now famous sport of “human jousting”, where two opponents pop a screaming girl onto their shoulders, lower their head ready for battle – thus presenting the girl forward as a substitute lance, then proceed to charge at each other and other panicking girls to create general unruliness and mayhem! Really needs to be witnessed to be fully appreciated!
Overall : 2/5 Could be a great bar as has potential – but, bad management, hanging around like a bad smell has drastically reduced the quality of this bar. Apparently the temptation for some to make a little extra, was/is too overwhelming. Time will tell with this bar, plonk a decent manager in there and it might really turn around.
yah!..i agree all of those story about club temptation is true… theyre g-manager is not a decent one and
feeling professional but totally not.and a very un-educated manager inshort, as they said that feeling goddiest lady gm is scandalistic woman when the foriegn owner is not around..she only show kindness to the customer when she knows that its a bigtimer guest but if not! will,your sorry…..to all the customer who is close to her,you better think it now because the manager only taking you for granted..only… thats the behavior we”ve known
when we had a bar hopping in that club as will as they say so ,,about the manager’s character..
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Massive Korean bar owned by the same guy as Hot Rod and thus has similar looks.
Girls are in general reasonably attractive and good fun to know. Never been upstairs yet not having felt the urge.
Would put it on my roster of places to go but know many other guys that wouldn’t. Pretty hit or miss sometimes.
Upstairs is a office not sure why Cebuexpat would want to go upstairs? To me they cater the Japanese. The rules regarding touching suck. Not my kind of bar.
mamasan happy bithday…
i have been to all the uptown bars, and i have to say CLUB TEMPTATION is my favorite place. the layout of the club is nice, the dance floor winds thru the middle,giving every one a decent view.the staff and management are friendly.(steve)the bartender is very good at his job! in over 3 months of partying in club temptation i never had a problem with my bill. the owner, TROND from norway,is a GOOD guy,who likes to chat and (DRINK) with the guests.PLEASE NOTE** the ladies are discouraged from agressively pressuring (attacking) customers for ladies drinks. after experiencing that in some of the other bars,a first time visitor to temptation may get the wrong impression to this low key aproach.butif you see a girl you would like to talk to,and YOU WILL. just tell your waitress,she will bring the lady to your table.yes this club is popular with japanese and koreans. but all are welcome here,and i never saw any trouble in the club.if i had to find something to complain about, it would be that they try to have all the dancers wear the same dress,and charge the girls a nightly fee for the (pleasure) of wearing exactly the same thing as the next girl.(variety of dress is what id like to see in a bikini bar). overall, if you are planning a night of bar hopping on mango ave,club temptation is just around the corner from the caltex and is difinitely worth a look. many bikini bars dont start heating up till after 9 pm.but if you come out to play early, hit the el gecko resto bar (infront of the caltex) for drink or three,hehe
Was here on Saturday night. Things were not good. Woah; where are all the girls gone? Very poor selection
Popped in and went to the bar, lots of uniformed girls sat around staring into space. About 3 other customers in there. I went to the bar and waited and waited and waited to be served, 5 minutes of not even a good evening or a hello , let alone what are you drinking I left. I will not be going back anytime soon.
i’m a regular of CT. girls are good and just drink there if u want. ladies drink are not forced to customers. no entrance fee is what i like most
The owner of Temptation and some other bars
is only about short money.
The most brainwork he does is how to manipulate
the minds of the girls, so they trick the foreigners in his name (even so they don’t like it, but they have to do so, if they like it or not).
Which means, if you get close to a girl which is working there (even the waitress), they will get the advice sooner or later to rip you off.
Some of them just tell you, that somebody stole their wallet and they lost everything, so you just feel pity about her and give her money.
At least, this money will be shared with the other girls there, but of course, the most part goes for the owner.
There are also some other tricks to press out some cash (like…my mother is sick, or i am sick and need money for medicine…and so on).
Actually, that’s not the idea of the girls themselves.
After the bar is closed, they all have to stay there sometimes for another hour and then they just get brainwashed about the business.
And of course they don’t wanna loose their job…
Temptation sucks and also the owner!
Charles U. Farley
This look like a other bar trying to snitch customers from Club Temptation, and this is the way it works. AIDS scams is also all over the internet about bars.
I know the owner personally and he is all around a great guy! I doubt that these scams are something he is involved with.
Ofcourse, 99% of all girls working in the bar are out for your money and the 1% are looking for a better life. And how foreigners still get tricked into paying money for the medicine, the wallet and the whatever it should be make no sense to me.
Most of the bar girls are already in a relationship. Drug abuse is a big part of a bar girl life to get through what she has to do everyday.
I have spend many many hours in club Temptation and I still will be visiting the place to play pool and drink beer.
Be critical to what you guys read about in the internet. Live life, go hoppin and make your own oppinion.