The London Pavillion,
Piccadilly,
London,
W1J 0DA
(020) 7287 8008
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Just NO - unless you like being being approached by horny men and dancing to dreadful music/sound system.
Beware. On Anon is the worst I have ever been to in my life. And I am 28. Do not believe when people write something good about On Anon as it is the management themselves. Could have gone to many more clubs in London for £45 per person. Even the 1 start is Undeserved. If I could give it -10, that is what I would do. I went to On Anon with a group of friends for the ney and was very Dissapointed with staff, drink prices, club in all was not as on the images (there was nowhere to sit (at all) only on the floor. Pictures show seats and lovely themed rooms, well guess what. You do not even get to step inside as this had to be "pre-booked" or some bull like that. Then these teens where looking for a fight and started basically just ranting and I called one of the workers there but she just looked at me and the people who wanted to get into a fight with my friends for no reason at all, and just looked away and basically wanted nothing to do with it. If you are a classy over 25 person, On Anon is not for you. There were allot of 17-19 year olds who basically were there just to pick on people. No one even bothered to check id's (and I am always asked for my id as I look very young for my age). I will stop now as I cannot be bothered to write any more I am just disappointed for going there when I could have gone to my usual clubs and had a fantastic time. The night was meant to finish at 4am but all the over 25's started leaving at 2am and there were only the kiddies left so we ended up leaving at 2.30am as-well. Basically the club was only out to make money and did not even care if people were enjoying themselves. Hated it and am Quite angry.
What! Three stars! . Alright people On Anon or should I say dive is undeserving of three stars, try out 1 for size. Normally these kinds of clubs are not normally my scene but as a couple of my friends from uni were going clubbing there. I decided it really couldn't be that bad, not one of my finest decisions. I got there a couple of minutes later than my friends and asked the bouncers if I was at the right venue, they just stood there staring at me with very hostile looks on their faces, another customer had to tell me that I was at the right place. I then tried to get in and the bouncers started on me about not being able to come inside on accompanied, I explained to them as politely as possible that I had friends inside I also explained to them that id met an old friend at a club some nights earlier and shed told me she would be at On Anon tonight id taken her number but somehow managed to get it mixed up and I showed the bouncers the text messages all previously dated so theres no question that I made it up. They still didn't let me in and they told me that it was for my own safety and that if I got drunk there would be someone to take me home so I called out my mate who explained to the bouncer that we were together, and for his troubles they threatened to throw him out. Turns out the club is incapable of getting women to their venues and want the customers to do this for them. I most certainly will not be going back and would advise others not to.
Onanon is the place where I met my husband for the 1st time. I decided to go there to commemorate our first anniversary. The guy who I agreed to have a "birthday extravaganza" was very polite. I told him that it was an surprise to my husband, that he didn’t know that all our friends were coming too. I went earlier to have a little dinner with my husband, we got a table at ground floor, on a place where he couldn’t see ours friends coming in (where I had agreed with the guy 2 b4). I couldn't enjoy my dinner because the front door was completely opened. I was so cold that we had to dinner with coats on and a scarf on my legs. After finish dinner we had to go upstairs where was warmer, but not close to our reserved table, as was waiting some friends to arrive. The day I paid, the guy told me that he couldn’t tell me where my table would be but, someone would take my friends directly to my reserved table. Then the 2nd disaster… 3 of my friends told my name on entrance but nobody led them to the table, so they started to walk around in the club to see if the could find the table, but before they find the table they found me and my husband… so, my surprise didn’t work! I took everybody to my reserved table where there was already some friends and all of them told me that they had to find the table for themselves. The girl who seems to be in charge of our table was very kind, food and quantity was good, but the drink (cake) they brought to us was juice and ice… I don’t like strong drinks but that one was far from an alcoholic drink. Very poor dressed area, no baloons! Dj was ok. 3rd floor was closed. We went to cloakroom at about 2.15am to take ours coats and went to ground floor to put them on as basement was a bit crowded. But a security told us to get out. So I asked him to wait as I was putting my coat on yet. So he said to everybody to wait me outside, my brother didn't accept that and he was even more rude, telling us to get out! Althought the club closes at 3am
Note to MD:
change the security team please! They are very rude, very aggressive to the point of pushing you. They shout and scream when they could just talk to you. This was not only one member of the security team who behaved this way but was repeated with many. if anyone behaved like that in the street the police would arrest them so why is it deemed acceptable for your security team to behave in that way??
advise anyone not to go to this place or any other venues this company operates.
i will not be returning
I held a charity event there on Saturday night and the club itself looks great, the dj's are fab and the bartenders are very friendly and helpful. Unfortunately I cannot say the same for the manager. We hired out 2 bars upstairs for our private charity event and were charging people who hadn't pre-bought tickets at the entrance of the bars we hired. I was told that we weren't allowed to have any signs telling people to come straight upstairs and we couldn't have anyone standing on the door to make sure that they weren't charged £10 by the club on entry. Apparently the club would make sure that our clients would be sent straight upstairs to us after saying our name on the door. Instead, it turns out that the club was telling people that they had to pay £10 downstairs even if they were there for our party. They were not given a refund and therefore the charity couldn't take money from these people. The manager told me that it was my fault for not having people downstairs on the door, (which I was told I wasn't allowed) and that the charity would have to refund them. He was rude and aggressive, threatening to throw me out for swearing when I said that it was ridiculous. I'm sure ridiculous isn't a swear word! In short, these greedy people took hundreds of pounds worth of charity money and I will never recommend On Anon to anyone.
I went to On Anon with my boyfriend a few weeks ago, we stumbled across it when looking for a drink after going to a comedy night. We didn't realise it was a multistorey club!
When we were told the price (£10) to get in we decided not to bother, but the lady bouncer tapped me on the shoulder and ushered us in for free.
Once in there we started off on the top floor and had a cocktail and then moved onto explore the club after that. We only planned to have one drink but ended up staying till 2-3am and had a really good time!
Everyone seemed to be having fun and there was no pretentious atmosphere or hostility. We did witness the bouncers escorting some people out but they could barely walk so it was probably for the best!
We will definately visit again!
From A french in hollidays in london:why I don't give 5 stars? The security service! The door supervisors are very rude. Guys, you are not in war zone, you are in piccadilly! I am French door supervisor in Paris and suburbs and in some clubs, if they have the same behaviour, they could be shoot by the badboys! A suggestion for the security service: smile, be friendly, it had never killed anybody and you are not in a warzone(i know I repeat) like Bagdad or Fahloujah. A suggestion for the On Anon manager: change the security service!
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