SINsation

I went to three or four SINsation parties and talked to dozens of others who share my viewpoints, so my review is accurate.  To sum it up, SINsation is complete shit.  The party is hosted at Carousel Club on W36th Street, which is a complete shit-hole.  There is no selectivity at all.  Anyone who contacts them is put on the guest list.  How do I know?  I recently contacted SINsation from a fake email address I created and submitted a picture of a nasty couple I found online.  Yes, I was accepted.  Most of the couples are middle aged and range from below average to average looks.  Part of SINsations’ advertising is always “40+ couples.” I NEVER saw 40 couples, or anything close to those numbers at their parties.  In fact, the crowd was typically pretty small – a dozen or so couples, many of whom leave.

The hosts of the party, if you can even call them that, Chris and Flo, exert absolutely no effort and it shows.  The one thing that SINsation does is provide a complimentary mixed drink to guests.  Yes, other than the drink, this is exactly like any other night at Carousel Club, a terrible crowd at a terrible place.  It might actually be worse considering that the majority of the couples attending are new and too scared to have any fun, or even talk to anyone.  For most of the night everyone will be on the sides of Carousel Club like its a middle school dance.  Very few couples ever play at SINsation because the vibe is just awful and the couples aren’t very attractive.  Not as bad as the crowd at Le Trapeze, but at least there is action at Trapeze!

So how does SINsation even exist?  Why would anyone go there?  I attempted to find that out for myself.  At the last party I went to, a few months back, I tried to talk to some of the couples attending.  Pretty much everyone had found out about SINsation from Craigslist.  A few couples had attended a party before, and hoped that this party would be better than the last.  I also found out that if you hassle the owner of Carousel enough, you can get your money back.  I did 🙂

So that’s the strategy.  Using Craigslist to lure in a steady supply of new members with attractive advertising and slogans like “Be a part of what everyone is talking about.”

But then, before writing this post, I tried to find out more.  I browsed the SINsation website and found out that Chris and Flo have run SINsation events for a few years now.  They’re milking the SINsation “reputation” for as much as it is worth — essentially beating a dead horse.  At some point, SINsation might have been half decent.  Old flyers reveal that they held events at places like Pacha, Green Room, Sutra, Kemia, Oz, and Azaza.  Of course, all those parties would have been off-premise without any sex allowed.

So, what happened?  Why is SINsation so SHITsational? My guess is that hosting at Carousel Club is just easy money for SINsation.  They don’t have to do anything except post on Craigslist and maybe a few swinger sites and gather up a few couples (there has NEVER been close to the advertised 30-40 couples per party that SHITsation claims). Bring in a few grand worth of business and get a nice return sounds like a great plan, though.  Carousel Club seems pretty dependent on parties like SINSation to draw in a crowd for Saturday nights, where it fails miserably to places like Checkmate and Trapeze.  I guess the old man who runs Carousel Club doesn’t realize how easily he could do the exact same thing as these groups do.

So, my advice is to stay FAR AWAY from SINsation… it SUCKS!  Again, one of the WORST parties out there…  It’s not worth even half of the admission price they charge, and it’s always a dud.

VENUE: F– it’s ALWAYS Carousel Club, why even bother with the “secret location” bullshit?

HOSTS: F – Chris and Flo clearly don’t give a shit, except about padding their wallets in the easiest way possible.

VIBE: F – a lame, middle school dance feel;  No one interacts

GUESTS: D – occaisionally a good looking couple, but they never play; most of the crowd is Craigslist trash.

Introduction

Due to the lack of any decent swing clubs in NYC, independent swinger parties run rampant.  It takes a substantial investment of time and money to investigate each party in order to find the best.  Each party has similar marketing, but there couldn’t be a bigger discrepancy in terms of their quality.

I was in the “lifestyle” with my girlfriend for several years.  We recently broke up and my new girl does not want to swing.  For that reason, I have nothing to lose in posting the truth about each of the swingers parties in NYC.  I’m not affiliated with any party or club, and I have no doubt that many will hate me for posting this.

This blog started as a post on Craigslist, and I took the time to develop the blog.  The comments are open for you to discuss my posts and continue to set the truth free.  I will also post any other reviews that people send in, as long as they seem credible.  If you are a party promoter, don’t bother to contact me or offer a second chance to check out your event — I’m not interested.