The Den

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18 West Central Street,
Holborn,
London,
WC1A 1JJ

(020) 7240 1083

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Reviewer Silar
26/02/2012
Worst place ever do not go here! The bouncers are rude and seemingly turn a blind eye to the guys selling drugs to people in the queue. Expect to be standing in the queue for ages too, and watch out for fake ticket sellers who are seemly hired by the club to con money out off tourists. Overall a shocking experience and deserves to get 0 stars if it was possible. Very surprised this site gave it a 3 out 5 maybe they should try it out again and readjust their score.
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Reviewer Katt1babe
29/01/2012
Would have given zero if possible, the worst rip off place in london £10 entry tried getting £20 each cos we'd had a fair drink £20 for a few wines full of underage kids AVOID
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Reviewer prittygal
05/01/2012
lovvvvveeeee thhhiiiisssss place LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS PLACE XX
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Reviewer luisLUIS
04/01/2012
Awful place
Bouncers and bar staff are rude
Entry £20 drinks minimum £15
Staff will harass you all night
or eventually will ask you to leave.
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Reviewer john_1
05/11/2011
Please **DO NOT GO** there. This place is a complete shambles and a disgrace. £20 to go in an average of £14 per drink then literally sat down in an unoccupied area before being literally harassed by a bouncer!! Supposedly mangement staff were RUDE and totally uneducated. Basically was asked to leave the club for ... pretty much complaining. Do not waste your time. please AVOID. The even more shocking thing is that there are very similar experiences by other reviewers!!
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Reviewer markdamyon
29/08/2011
Be careful here as this place has a real 'edge to it' and the Doorstaff seem to have their own agenda. We paid £20 each to get in, (2 persons) and then £15 for 2 bottles of beer. After a short while and 2 more beers we left, so basically we paid £70 for entry and 4 Corona's. A real shame as it has the location and potential to be a great club, but seems to too far up its own 'a*se' to care about its punters. Its one of those Central London rip off venues that has staff with an aggressive 'take it or leave it' attitude and a very poorly managed door team. There were also a fair number of pretty dodgy guys offering dubious services right outside as we took a cigarette, but were not challenged or moved on by the doormen. On the up side it was open til 6am, the Podium Dancers / Fire Eaters are very good and its handy for Central London but thats about it.
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Reviewer kgalilee
07/08/2011
the end was good.

not sure about this. espec. bite on monday.
apparently you get in free if its yo birfday. guess what didn't happen. i didn't get in and it was my birfday. so i stunned the guy at the door. teach him a lesson hey.

also there's some strange no talking policy outside when you're smoking. what tha f!

saving grace is that drinks are priced very nicely. so if all else fails, get crunk.
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Reviewer wadsee
25/07/2011
An absolute disgrace. Money grabbers, with no actual entertainment, avoid at all costs.
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Reviewer elisaYG
17/07/2011
I had an awful night in there, I would not recommend it to anyone and I am certainly never going back. I always try to be as unbiased as possible when giving an opinion and the best way that I can do that is to simply describe my experience. It was five of us and the bouncer was rude to start with and denied entry to my boyfriend, of course that was resolved with a bribe which is absolutely pathetic (£20), however after reading other reviews it looks part of the job. The whole place looks dodgy and the bouncers got scared when a man they thought to be an undercover policeman wanted to speak to the manager (?). When we went inside the interior does not belong to a place in Central, however for a club that plays house electro and trance that's forgiven. I didn't like the whole atmosphere in there, firstly I didn't feel safe, security guards were nowhere to be seen and everybody was on pills. When my friends went outside for cigarettes, staff were rude and aggressive, they kept telling us to be quiet. It's a bloody nightclub! To top off the night a guy kept stealing our drinks, he must take taken about four while we danced next to our table; That's not the clubs fault however it's the kind of clientele they attract. Some of the music they played was fine, what didn't make sense to me though was that the most popular songs were being played in the small room which was too crowded and the large area was practically empty because of the sh** music they were playing, why couldn't they swap it around, it makes perfect sense to me. Ok. That's all
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Reviewer Darry85
12/06/2011
GOD AWFUL AVOID! Absolutely abominable what they have done with that place, such a waste a brilliant potential. Was a HUGE fan of the "The End" in its day, utterly disappointed with what they have done to it now. It seemed like the head of security was picking on black guys last, was a bunch of them just left outside pleading to get in. I felt kinda bad for them. They refused entry to the two black guys in our mixed group (6 guys 4 girls) on a basis of 1 guy/1 girl, what rubbish! We got in fifteen minutes later after they each paid a £10 bribe. Bartender was an absolute arse! I asked him to come a bit closer to hear my order and he got arsey and started mouthing off that he's not my dog and he's not gay! Then when I paid on card he held my card and took another 4 peoples orders before processing my payment. When we went out for cigarettes the security were very aggressive and rude when we weren't the ones talking loudly and got right up in our faces. We decided to leave and refund our money (been inside less than 20 mins) the receptionist refused and claimed we had been inside for more than an hour! The DJ should be shot, a far cry from what it previously boasted of. If you ever liked The End I would recommend you stay far away.
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Reviewer Crunk
07/05/2011
Great for after party.
Came here Thursday night after a great night out at Penthouse but we wanted an afterparty. We were a group of mixed girls and guy, it was £5 for girls, £10 for guys. Music was RnB/Dancehall/Hiphop etc, so really enjoyed that. Bouncers were usual and pretty nice to us to be fair. Def going back for an after party next time in London.
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Reviewer Crunk
07/05/2011
Great for after party.
Came here Thursday night after a great night out at Penthouse but we wanted an afterparty. We were a group of mixed girls and guy, it was £5 for girls, £10 for guys. Music was RnB/Dancehall/Hiphop etc, so really enjoyed that. Bouncers were usual and pretty nice to us to be fair. Def going back for an after party next time in London.
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Reviewer kamia86
10/01/2011
Horrendous. Have just written them the longest complaint. Nasty rude bouncers, one got right in my tiny friends face and shouted at her. Friends were sent to smoking area then refused re-entry. My sick friend wanted to go to the cabbie on the corner and bouncers told her she couldn't come back so basically she risked going and being quoted more than she could afford then being stranded in the street alone or having to stay in the club unwell. Went for saints don't sleep which was great, great electro and the organisers Luke and Sam were lovely. The Den itself is so badly run and employs complete arseholes. At the end we got stuck down a tiny stairwell getting crushed by the crowd. Frightening. Eventually got down to the main club and the music was not electro house hard house as they claim, it was appalling commercial sh! T r'n'b etc. Gross. That was it we had to leave. Took long enough to get the hell out. Never ever stepping foot inside there again. If you are a serious clubber like I am I suggest you avoid at all costs. I even had to shout to people wanting to go in not to because it was so awful. My friend used to go when it was The End and she said it was great back then and was disappointed at how awful this replacement is. Thank God I'd gotten in free as it was my birthday and I had sold 10 tickets (saints don't sleep promotion). I have begged Luke and Sam to use another venue in future. Ps even if you are 35, 40, 50 you need id. My 35 year old friends were refused entry. They claim it says on their Website all need id for 'security Precautions' but That is bull I checked when I got home and it says F*ck all about id. I club at big clubs like Fabric and Egg etc and have never experienced such awful treatment in my years of raving.
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Reviewer Sherman200
13/09/2010
Like: They shut @9AM, good location from Picadilly (prior Clubbing), Really good but unfriendly dj's:P
Dislike: Canned Beer 4£
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Reviewer P Mills
19/10/2009
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They put soda in my gin and tonic. yuck. but after 3am so who cares and should I have really been drinking a G&T?

Maybe it's the time of night that makes this place work. Fire breathers and circus stunts by dancers in leather and fishnets. Girls on the bar sloshing watered down JD into punters mouths and shook up champagne showers.

The guy on the next table was annoying. He kept asking us to move if so much as a butt cheek strayed into his space but he had two good looking Japanese girls with him that were ignoring him completely, so maybe that was it. Good end to the evening.
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Reviewer RicciG
11/05/2009
Thought it was pretty cool in there last Saturday!!

Not much really has changed since The End...whcih is a good thing, apart from they have a new lighting system which looked wicked!

Apparently they still have that booming sound system! So reckon I'm gonna have a quite a few top nights there this summer! Bring it on! x
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