Guide and advice to the best Strip clubs in London.

London, the capital of the England and the UK, is one of those most famous cities in the world. There have been films made about it, books written about it and, for many people, it is a dream to visit and sample what the city has to offer. Such is London's popularity, in 2015, it was the 3rd most visited city in the world with a staggering 18.6 million visitors, only beaten by Bangkok and Hong Kong!

Strip Clubs in London run on a distinctive system that is unlike lap dancing clubs in the rest of Europe. Furthermore, clubs are focused on private shows over drinks and Champagne and American influences are pronounced. A lot of the clubs in London have ongoing stage shows but they are more pole orientated than feature shows. Therefore, there are Gentlemen clubs in London that offer a 'funny money' tipping system for strippers on stage. Most often girls only go topless, but there are some venues that offer fully nude. Feature shows are very rare in the London lap dancing clubs. Girls working in strip clubs in London make their money purely from private shows so it is very much focused on this. Management place less pressure placed on girls to hit targets. However, there is a lot of competition from other girls. Any time spent on the floor is for free, or paid for, so dancers have to be very self-motivated and ensure that they maintain focus.

Gentlemen clubs in London have a huge amount of potential with all the rich people coming to the city.

People visit London for the shopping, the nightlife and the culture. Many extremely wealthy Arabs will spend the summer time in London to escape the desert heat. Russians are also some of the super rich that frequent the city regularly. You will, in fact, find all kinds of nationalities with head offices of companies also being in huge abundance, especially in the central London districts. Gentlemen clubs in London have a huge amount of potential with all these rich people coming to the city.

The clubs in London and are unique in terms of style and work conditions to the rest of gentlemen's clubs worldwide. It is entirely focused on lap dances, or private shows, and very little is carried out on the main floor.

Some Gentlemen clubs in London will have a rotation of dancers on stage, but this is normally with very little of the showmanship compared to other countries. Drinks for girls cost the same as if they would for customers as there is no drinks or champagne commission offered to the dancers. All the money is spent and made in the private rooms.

London is known as the worlds night life capital and it has some of the biggest concentration of financial companies established here.

Lap dancing clubs in London is often visited by celebrities and Many of the Gentlemen Clubs in London has a very high standard and there is several big chains who has there flagship club in this city. London is known as the worlds night life capital and it has some of the biggest concentration of financial companies established here, so there is a big market for upscale Gentlemen Clubs in London.

Gentlemen Clubs in London run on a distinctive system that is unlike lap dancing clubs in the rest of Europe.

Furthermore, clubs are focused on private shows over drinks and Champagne and American influences are pronounced. A lot of strip clubs in London have ongoing stage shows but they are more pole orientated than feature shows. Therefore, there are clubs in London that offer a 'funny money' tipping system for strippers on stage. Most often girls only go topless, but there are some venues that offer fully nude.

"Strip Clubs in London, such as Stringfellow's, will have all of the girls doing a cat walk at one point through the night but this is as flamboyant as things get"

You will, however, find strip pubs which are very focused on the stage. Ultimately, these types of venues are completely unique to London. Girls will go around the club with a jug and encourage customers to put a pound, though often more, in the pot. Once they have collected their money they do a show. Clubs, generally, don't offer Champagne commission and drinks cost the same for dancers as they do for customers. However, this being London, those prices are still not cheap at all.

Girls pay a 'house fee' or percentage to work. Due to this, dancer numbers are driven up dramatically and it is not out of the ordinary to find up to 100 girls working.

Girls pay a 'house fee' or percentage to work. Due to this, dancer numbers are driven up dramatically and it is not out of the ordinary to find up to 100 girls working. Sometimes more" The dancers has to share there earnings by giving "tip" to the houseman, DJ and security staff. This is a common rule in the London clubs.

The history of London Strip Clubs.

Before any of the Gentlemen clubs that you will find in London today, London had its own strip pubs. This is where it all started and if you ask any of there old customers  and dancers they will say that they are deeply missed. This pubs had there own unique style and atmosphere and the girls worked on a tip system where they walked around in the pub with a hat and collected the tip. One of there most famous London strip pubs was; The White horse.

The oldest club in London is the Windmill theatre.

The Windmill International is the oldest strip club in the UK.  Having been in business for over 80 years. This iconic club’s history can be traced back to 1932 when the Theatre introduced nudity on stage for the first time in Britain.

The club remained defiantly open even at the height of the Blitz during the Second World War.

While bombs were raining down on the capital. London’s Windmill Theatre club gave countless future stars the chance to try out their comedy routines, including Harry Secombe, Bruce Forysth, Peter Sellers and Tony Hancock. One of the prime conditions – in fact, the only condition. When The Windmill first acquired its licence for nudity was that the naked flesh on display would only be permitted on the basis that the dancers.  Ahem – models – would be the equivalent of living art. Today, the club has undergone radical changes, not least of which is the jiggling of that once statue still female physique. There are choreographed shows that see Brazilian, Chinese and Afro American perform anything from hip hop to carnival. The emphasis is strongly on entertainment, rather then 5 star pole dance displays.

The Gentlemens club scene in London has had many great characters and the best known one was Peter Stringfellow.

He was a pioneer of strip clubs and is known around the world.  Also Paul Raymond , who started the boom in British strip clubs by opening “ Raymond’s Revuebar” in 1958. He died in 2008 aged 83 one of Britain’s richest men. The new venue Raymond’s Revuebar was to be a private members club as such not covered by the Lord Chamberlain’s rules. Then be able to offer moving nude dancers for the first time in the UK. The club was a great success and by 1960 it had 45,000 members. It was visited by many of London’s celebrities of the time like John Mills, Peter Sellers, and Stanley Baker. The authorities were still very straight laced in those days and still tried to restrict the acts leading to a series of what now sound ludicrous complaints. In 1961 Raymond was fined £5,000 {the price of a new Rolls Royce then !}. For allowing the audience to ring the bells of the Ding Dong Bell girl ! The various complaints actually acted as good publicity and as the notoriety of the place grew so it got even busier. The new much more raunchy Revuebar saw the closure of the old Windmill.

Well known locations of Lapdancing Clubs in London.

London has over a 100 Strip clubs. It is, surprisingly, number 18 in numbers of strip clubs per capita in cities in the UK. There are 1.3 strip clubs per person in London. This is, proportionately, a massive number, compared to other capital cities around the world and is an indication of the popularity of strip clubs in the UK.

London contains the flagships of many international and national Gentlemen club chains. These include:

• Stringfellow's, Peter Stringfellows famous club. In 1980 he opened his most famous and longest running venue-Stringfellows in Covent Garden and went on to open more gentlemen’s clubs in Paris, New York, Miami and Beverly Hills. The US clubs later on closed. He also opened a Stringfellows in Soho. This club also closed after some years. Peter Stringfellows died in 2018 aged 77. Hes Covent Garden club still lives on in hes spirit.

• Spearmint Rhino, John Grey` s US Gentlemen club giant and one of the worlds biggest club chains with clubs world wide. Opened the first UK club in 2000. The club chained opened its first club in 1989 in Calefornia.

• Larry Flynt's Hustler brand, The well know Larry Flynt Hustler club chain. Also has several clubs world wide, but most of them in the US.

• For Your Eyes Only, UK owned club chain, well known with clubs all over England.

• Platinum Lace, Uk owned club chain, started by ex CEO Simon Warr and has now several clubs around in England.

• Secrets. The Secrets chain is London’s largest and most successful with 6 clubs in central London and was one of the first organisations to open a club in the UK as long ago as 1997 . The newest club which opened in 2009 is in the vibrant nightlife area of Covent Garden and represents the chains newest addition incorporating over 10 years of experience.

The war between established Stringfellows and newcomer US giant Spearmint Rhino.

In 2000 John Grey of Spearmint Rhino established the first Spearmint UK club in London. This club became a hard competitor to Peter Stringfellows, famous and well established Gentlemen club Stringfellows. Peter Stringfellows had already faced bankruptcy ones with hes US clubs and was facing it again. Later on he has told the story about how they sent girls to spy on the US club and that they never came back again. Because the money was better there.

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