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Review of New Years Eve The Great Gatsby Ball

Overall rating: 2 Verified review

The theme was almost non-existent except for a few balloons, it was still basically a nightclub. But it was the music that was truly dreadful - it was all the same trance stuff and definitely didn't have us up dancing the night away - it was also totally not anything to do with the theme. The drinks tokens worked well. But the VIP access all areas? Seems like everyone was VIP access all areas and there was nothing special about it. The tables that they had were booked and so there wasn't really anywhere else for anyone to sit - except some tables up thee top that had the hardest most uncomfortable stools. Then when we wanted to leave the coat room was shut - we weren't the only ones leaving as soon as it struck midnight and there was a queue waiting for the coat guy to come back. It wasn't very full and didn't have any atmosphere. Nothing special about this night - just a seedy nightclub like any other Saturday night. Waste of money.

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Would you recommended: No

Review of New Years Eve The Great Gatsby Ball

Overall rating: 1 Verified review

Nope

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Would you recommended: Yes

Review of Christmas & Disney Party Special - Sunday Family Funday

Overall rating: 1 Verified review

The event was really underwhelming, considering the price I would have thought it would have provided more entertainment. We went for Minnie Mouse as my daughter is obsessed and the event was advertised with Minnie but she was a no show. We ended up leaving early as my daughter was too upset

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Would you recommended: No

Review of Christmas & Disney Party Special - Sunday Family Funday

Overall rating: 5 Verified review

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Would you recommended: No

Review of Christmas & Disney Party Special - Sunday Family Funday

Overall rating: 1 Verified review

Crowded no organisation, really hot fruit shoots and crisps x 3 cost £15!
No where to sit

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Would you recommended: Yes

Review of Christmas & Disney Party Special - Sunday Family Funday

Overall rating: 5 Verified review

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Review of Christmas & Disney Party Special - Sunday Family Funday

Overall rating: 1 Verified review

Booked this sunday for my grandaughter on the promise of disney princesses but did not see one. The entertainment consisted of a middle aged man and his i phone. the characters were in dirty costumes and the venue smelt of stale beer. wood not recommend

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Review of Christmas & Disney Party Special - Sunday Family Funday

Overall rating: 1 Verified review

Very unorganised. Not that we expect when they promoting this event. Never again!!

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Would you recommended: No

Review of Mamma Mia The Musical Bottomless Brunch

Overall rating: 3 Verified review

There was not a selection of pizza as advertised just plain cheese which was cheaply made. The drinks advertised were not offered, no bottled beer/soft drinks just cheaply made c**ktails from a carton or low alcohol and cheap Prosecco. The Music was good by the performers and DJ. Rude managers when questioned why I was not allowed a fresh drink and was told to drink someone else's. Not worth the price paid in my opinion! The nice touch was the shots at the end and the bag of pick n mix sweets on exit.

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Would you recommended: No

Review of Mamma Mia The Musical Bottomless Brunch

Overall rating: 3.5 Verified review

The dj's selection of music was good, but the mic was awful and it was hard to make out what he was saying. The singing was ok but we were expecting a show, not just singers. The pizza was burnt and hard and the c**ktails were too sickly to drink more than one.
The staff were great and very attentive.

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Would you recommended: Yes

Review of Dreamboys Bottomless Brunch

Overall rating: 5 Verified review

Had such an amazing time, excellent food and drinks service and the performance was enjoyable!

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Would you recommended: Yes

Review of Dreamboys Bottomless Brunch

Overall rating: 5 Verified review

Amazing! 100% would do it again!

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Review of Dreamboys Bottomless Brunch

Overall rating: 4.5 Verified review

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Review of Slow Jamz Bottomless Brunch

Overall rating: 5 Verified review

Venue was fab and the atmosphere was brilliant. Fun bottomless brunch.

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Would you recommended: Yes

Review of Christmas Opener - Drag Bingo Bottomless Brunch

Overall rating: 4 Verified review

I've had time to process my experience at Ballins Christmas drag bingo and will give my honest opinion and review. I am also autistic so might help anyone else who is autistic who wants to visit the venue.

I was organising on behalf of friends and contact between the venue and myself was brilliant while trying to organise.

When I got to the door, the security guard asked me what name the booking was under. As I had told the venue if was for a Christmas party, I wasn't sure if he meant the name of the group it's for or the name of who booked the tickets so I gave him both names. Long story short, he wanted the name of who booked the tickets and once I given him the name, he felt the need to give me a snarky comment which was completely unnecessary and made me feel crap and put me in a bad mood. So much so that I didn't want to be there anymore.

We go in we were given a glass of Prosecco and shown our table, I could see that there was a lot of staff around and the tables were slowly filling up. I was still feeling crappy from the comment and tried to shake it off as I had been looking forward to this drag bingo for a few months. Overall I couldn't fully shake the feeling the whole time I was there and it affected how much of a good time I had, I just wanted time to hurry up so I could go.

The drag queens, Sophia Stardust and Tiana Biscuit were brilliant!! Very entertaining, funny and enthusiastic.

We had pizza given when we sat down but it took a very long time for anymore pizza to come out of the kitchen, I would estimate it took at least an hour before we got the next lot of pizza and towards the end of the brunch, it was a constant stream of pizza which by this time we didn't want.

The bottomless brunch was ok. I did notice that there was a lot of ice in the pitchers used to refill our drinks. I ended up with a cup just full of ice & no actual drink at one point but was able to get rid of the ice in an empty Prosecco glass.

The event was called Drag bingo, there was 1 game of bingo on a 3 lined bingo card. I was expecting a bit more than that. Think the wording of the event needs changing.

Think the venue should look into having tires to the bottomless brunch. If it's 1.5h for £39.50. For 2h bottomless should be like £45/£50 then 3h bottomless should be like £70 or something. Think people would do this.

Might sound harsh to compare to a previous event I went to at Ballin roughly 18 months prior, that event was fantastic, had an amazing time and that was 10/10 for me and I was expecting the same with this one ... sadly not.

Overall, it wasn't as great as I was hoping for, it didn't start off well for me. Luckily the drag queens were good and entertaining.
Now I know what it entails, think some people I know would enjoy this and I'd recommend. I'm hoping it was just a fluke and I would come back and hopefully, best out of 3, would mean that next time I'd have a much better experience.

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Would you recommended: No

Review of Christmas Opener - Drag Bingo Bottomless Brunch

Overall rating: 5 Verified review

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Would you recommended: Yes

Review of The Ultimate Musical Bottomless Brunch

Overall rating: 4 Verified review

Booked to go to a Grease/Dirty Dancing event with a group of 11. Overall we had a great time but felt the show was different to what we was expecting and had been advertised. Wasn't much of a show as the ladies only sang 2 songs at a time and went for a break. The songs weren't Grease or Dirty dancing themed until near the end. Also couldn't hear the singers much but we was sat by the speakers thumping out bass. Was mostly DJ songs .
Unlimited pizza turned out to be 1 pizza between 6 for the first hour, then once the free drinks stopped pizza started arriving , all margarita . So food was a bit of a shame ?"
Drinks kept coming throughout the unlimited time and the hosts and staff were all friendly and helpful.
Would come again but maybe eat first and check schedule for any changes to the show. 😊

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Would you recommended: Yes

Review of The Ultimate Musical Bottomless Brunch

Overall rating: 2.5 Verified review

The entertainment wasn't as expected
It was just a few girls doing a bit of an act a bit karaoke to be fair

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Would you recommended: Yes

Review of The Ultimate Musical Bottomless Brunch

Overall rating: 5 Verified review

Very good venue and good value for
Money .
Staff lovely and look after you ,
Entertainment excellent and DJ .
Pizza could be better but the c**ktail s
and Prosecco was flowing 10/10

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Would you recommended: Yes

Review of The Ultimate Musical Bottomless Brunch

Overall rating: 2 Verified review

The ultimate musical brunch... or so we thought. It was awful. The very few vocal performances were too quiet to hear above the djs stupid bass. The music in between the 20-40 minute breaks was not relevant to musicals, when I spoke to a manager, he told me it wasn't advertised as musical theatre, it was musical movies... he had no answers for why the music being played was not relevant to either category. I spoke to several other parties who felt exactly the same.
The bar staff however, were friendly, smiley, welcoming and kept glasses filled. Just a shame about the poor attempt at the theme of the day.

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Would you recommended: No

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