Night Shift Club in Baltimore is Not What it Used to Be

Night Shift in Baltimore used to be one of the best clubs to go to for bachelor parties, birthday parties, and any other event where you wanted to view completely nude female entertainers. The club was absolutely huge back in the early and middle 1990’s. It was known for having blaring hard rock music and some of the hottest female entertainers in the Baltimore area. The club itself was huge back then in size as well. It had several bars, several stages and some fun and sociable bartenders as well as the entertainers.

A lot of this has changed in recent years though. On a recent trip to Night Shift for a bachelor party I was extremely disappointed as was the guys that attended the bachelor party. In the 90’s Night Shift was a strip club where you could bring your own beer and just pay a high cover charge of about $20 per person. Your beer was kept behind the bar and you gave the bartender a code to identify your beer and she gave you one from the beer you brought in. The days of Night Shift being a bring your own beer bar have ended though. The cover charge on Saturday nights is $10 now, and they make you purchase your first beverage as you enter the club. This means in effect your cover charge is close to $15-17 depending on your first drink. As you can see this is extremely close to what it used to be when you could bring your own beer. In other words, in the end you will pay much more to drink at Night Shift now than you did when it was a bring your own beer establishment.

The other thing my friends and I noticed immediately is that the bar is much smaller now. Maybe it’s just how they have it laid out, were didn’t measure it or anything, but it’s something well all noticed and commented on. Honestly it feels like it’s about a third of the size it was in the 1990’s. There are three very small stage areas. The girls there still remove all of their clothing , getting completely nude. As far as the dancers go this is still one of the best strip clubs in Baltimore. The physical interaction with the dancers on the stage while giving tips is much less than it was in the 90’s as well though. One last thing to note about Night Shift is that like many places the cost for lap dances has gone way up in price. The last time I was there was probably about five years ago for another bachelor party and we could get the bachelor dances for about $30. For this bachelor party I attended just recently, the cheapest a lap dance cost was $60. The other thing that was sort of odd was that the entertainers did not circulate around the bar as much after their dances trying to offer lap dances to customers. It appeared this might have been due to a smaller number of entertainers than in the past as well working that night.

In the end, Night Shift is still one of the better strip clubs in the Baltimore area. Just don’t go to Night Shift expecting it to be like it was in the 90’s, or even five years ago. If you do, you might spend the first part of your night there slightly disappointed remember the previous days of this club. As a final note, there was many more female customers there and couples on this recent trip than there had been in the past which might be attractive to couples wanting to go to a club together.