I waited for two weeks to sum up the comparison of Boston's and New York City's nightlife. Being European, means that clubbing is a very important part of my life. When I came to Boston, two and a half years ago, I wanted to check out the Boston night life scene. On my personal disappointment, there was no place in Boston for a fan of house music. Most of the Boston's night life is based on pubs, which is, of course, based on the Irish culture which is very present in the city, and clubs where hip hop, r'n'b and rap are the main musical choices of local DJs. Furthermore, all the clubs in Boston close their doors at 2am, which is incomparable to Europe where the peak of the night is at 2am.

In order to find a good place with house music, I was referred to New York City. I had to wait for two and a half years to get a good coop and afford such a trip. NYC is very expensive, and as I found out, you need to put aside $200 for one night. If you intend to go clubbing in New York City, you need to be prepared. In NYC, there is everything for everyone; you just need to find it. So, how does it go?

First, my friends and I checked out several places online and decided to go to the club "Guest House". This place had good review, so we decided to give it a try. We took the Chinese bus to NYC and four hours later we were in NYC's Chinatown. We went to eat something in order to obtain some energy for a long night in front of us. After the dinner, we went for a half an hour long walk from Times Square to West 27th street to the "Guest House". In order to avoid any inconveniences at the entrance, we came early and entered the club practically as first guests. Soon after, the place was packed. DJ started with his house selection, and you must expect that I was thrilled. Unfortunately, I wasn't. Since New York City is considered the center of the world in every aspect and that means for artists, too, every artist in this city is looking for his/her chance to succeed and become famous. Our DJ was one of them. He was creating his own music and his own style, which wasn't very good, at least according to my standards. Instead of entertaining us with the beats from famous DJs like Bob Sinclar, David Guetta, Roger Sanchez, etc., he bored us with his music for hours. If we were in Boston, we would probably leave, but now, since we were on a bus for 4 hours to come to NYC, we decided to stay till the very end and that was at 5am. At the time, your body needs some protein, so we had breakfast. We weren't very prepared, and we didn't really know where to go, so we ended up in McDonald's on Times Square. We sit there for a while, and then took the subway to the Chinatown, where we took the first bus to Boston at 7am. So, as you can see it was a hard core clubbing, but a disappointing one.

Two weeks later, actually last night, we decided to give NYC another chance. We picked another place called "Sol", which had nice reviews and offered more main stream music than just house. The trip to NYC was the same, but we started our night at Marriott hotel on Times Square in a bar "View" which is located on the 48th floor. Entire restaurant"s platform slowly rotates, so you have a wonderful view to all the sides of Manhattan while enjoying the buffet ($30) and your drink (>=$16). After that nice start (it is worth it, believe me), we walked for about 15 blocks until we reached "Sol". The place was promising with its very interesting interior, high ceiling, and sounds that we could hear through a closed door. Type of people that visits this place was completely different from "Guest House". "Guest House" was more stylish than this place. Here, people were more in hip hop style with either very tight or very baggy t-shirts, golden chains, pumped-up. Definitely not my style. I might sound snobbish, but I did not like it very much. Anyways, the DJ started playing main stream music, with a great choice of songs in general, but… Yes, there is a very big BUT. I do not know why, but for the entire night, the DJ was playing only 30 seconds of each song, with no transition in between songs and styles. It was like you take all your music on the hard drive and play 30sec shuffle. You just catch the rhythm and start feeling it, when he changes to something completely opposite. A disaster. After 18 years of clubbing, I believe I can be a judge of this. The only good thing that night was the dance challenge among locals that were definitely regular guests at this place. Electric buggy and break dance moves were like in videos of Fat Boy Slim. It was really fun. However, if we don't count that, and include some other things that I will not mention in this blog, NYC blew his second chance. Money spent for these two clubbing nights wasn’t justified at all. I am now sure that if we take price-performance analysis of Boston and NYC, and if we base it on these two attempts to have a good time in NYC, I must say Boston is better. I might give NYC a third chance, but not in the near future. I need to forget a little bit and find something different that will attract me to invest that time and money into it.

At the end, I must emphasize that you need to be over 21 years of age, to enter any of the clubs both in Boston and New York City. If you want to go clubbing and you are younger, well, go to Europe, and I can definitely recommend Serbia.

P.S. Now, I am going to get ready for the Super Bowl and cheer for Patriots on their way to history with a perfect season (so far 18-0, and hopefully 19-0 season). Go Pats!!!