Nacional

10/26/2007 Posted by bryanmeyer

Imagine your company or school decided to throw an event at a club. All of your friends are going and there's a limit of 300 people that can be on the list and the cost is $45 a head for an open bar. The event is at the club Nacional in Hollywood. You show up at 10:15 and the party is already rockin' in that there are lots of people there already. Unfortunately, as you walk in you notice several things. 1. The place is crowded. Overcrowded. They definitely do NOT have capacity for 300 people to be comfortably hanging out. 2. The dance floor is on the first floor and it's small. 3. The music downstairs, with varying degrees of not good, is not loud enough. And they really don't have that many speakers to spread the sound throughout the dance floor. 4. Upstairs, they don't have speakers, so the music is barely heard -you can't dance there. 5. The bathroom - which consists of 3 stalls, is unisex. 6. The open bar for which you you paid $45-$50 only serves a small subset of drinks...rum and coke, kamikaze, house wine, foreign and domestic beer, some martinis. However, charging full price for good drinks like a midori sour ($12) or lemon drop. 7. The lighting is inconsistent and thus poor. The only thing this place had going for it was that it does have an open roof porch and ample parking lots next to and across the street ($8 - $10 lots). Avoid for large (300+) closed parties and if you are interested in dancing or listening to music.

Pros: Nearby $8 to $10 Parking Lots

Cons: No music broadcast upstairs, cramped rooms, 3 unisex stalls, bad lighting

07/26/2007 Posted by nacionalsucks

I signed up on this site just to express my feelings on how much I dislike this club. The staff is rude, crowd is beyond trash, and the music is mostly underground trash. I'd rather drink a 40 in back alley of the projects in watts than have a $12 mojito that tastes like assjuice in this garbage dump of a so-called "club". $20 entry + $10 parking + $12 for regergitation in a glass = the worst $42 I've ever spent in my LIFE! STAY AWAY FROM THIS PLACE! IT REALLY DOES BITE!

Pros: If you're researching the slums of LA...this place would help you out.

Cons: EVERY DAMN THING

07/22/2007 Posted by weekender2

I went to this club/bar a few weeks ago and they over billed me!!!! The bartender charged me twice even though it was only once that I closed my tab. His drinks were NOT even really good or anything. He wouldn't put time into making them. It seemed like he just wanted to get people out of his way so he could go home. THIS IS JUST ISNT IT IF YOURE LOOKING FOR A GOOD TIME. COME HERE IF YOU WANT TO GET OVERCHARGED!!!!!

Pros: Something to do

Cons: OVERBILLED & TOO CROWDED

07/21/2007 Posted by pjkp84

this club was probably the worst club i been to this summer 07. the crowd was fairly mixed which was good. the dj sucked tremendously, and he tend to have no theme to his music. the dj was very poor at recognizing the moods of the crowd, and was too pig headed to listen to the paying customers. the gogo dancers were wack to me, i swear they were like 40, and there musical act made the club very inconsistent and weird. the parking is the worst, u b better off parking down the street. also the person who invited me, assured i will get in free, and because of there poor organization, me and my 2 buddies were forced to pay 15. we stayed as long as we could, to feel like we got our moneys worth, and left as fast as we can.

Pros: mix crowd

Cons: dj/ bartender we almost fought/ everything else

07/03/2007 Posted by iamnotblack42

I CALL THE PLACE AND THE LADY IS VERY VERY NICE. HER NAME IS MECCA. SHOUT OUT TO MECCA. GO ON GIRL!!! SHE WAS VERY NICE TO ME SHE EVEN SAY I CAN HAVE FREE LIVE CHICKEN. I COME TO AMERICA TO HAVE FUN AND MECCA GIVE ME THAT FUN. HOPEFULLY AFTER MY BACHELOR PARTY ME AND MECCA COULD HAVE DRINKS WITH THE CHICKENS. I LOVE AMERICA!!!!!!! AND MY NAME IS BUNZHQUY

Pros: THE LADY MECCA IS VERY NICE SHE MAKE ME FEEL GOOD OVER THE PHONE. I THINK I LOVE HER.

Cons: BUT SINCE I HAVE BACHELOR PART Y ME AND MECCA CANNOT HAVE FUN LIKE I WANT TO. =( PS I AM FROM AFRICA

01/14/2007 Posted by ii2ose12

They lost my credit card and driver's license as well. On top of that they made it seem like I was drunk and lost my own stuff when I never even closed the tab. Apparently they checked and said I already signed out! Bar manager at the time was a complete b*tch! I will never ever go to this place again. Worst place ever....

Cons: everything

01/08/2007 Posted by chuugle

Wow, it’s amazing that I have pretty much the same experience as the previous reviewer, except this happened at the upstairs bar. We were there for my friend’s birthday party and my fiance had been buying rounds all night long. Around midnight, he bought 3 alcoholic drinks and 2 bottles of water from a bartender wearing a baseball cap and a wife beater. She looked like she was dressed to run errands at the grocery store. He tipped her $3 for the alcohol. And she had the nerve to demand more tip! It’s standard to tip for alcohol but not water. It’s not like she did any work for the freaking water! Anyway, he explained to her that he tipped her for the alcoholic beverages. And she said, no, you need to give me $2 more. And she refuses to give him his ID and credit card back until he gives her more money. (Which is illegal, by the way.) At this point our friend comes along and he’s trying to convince her to be reasonable and finally he gives in and gives her $2 more, which he totally shouldn’t have. And she throws back my fiance’s ID and credit card and tells him not to come back to her! What a biatch!!! At this point I’m really angry, so I tell her if she wants more tip she should show more cleavage! So she asks the bouncer to throw us out. As if we would stay after being treated like that! It’s just so ridiculous. When did tip become expected and demanded rather than something you get for good service?! I must say that the other bartenders were nice and the bouncer was very nice and polite too. (He actually told us we could stay if we wanted to.) I don’t know why this crazy b*&%ch is allowed to drive away paying customers like this, except that she’s sleeping with the owner or something. I always imagined my first time being thrown out of a club to be for actually doing something bad like breaking a toilet, not for buying drinks and not tipping for water!!

Pros: Paid parking lot

Cons: Crazy bartenders who powertrip

12/03/2006 Posted by annak7146

First off, I went here beacause it was my friend's 25th birthday and everything was just fine in the beginning. Until i had to buy some drinks, i bought 4 drinks at the downstairs bar and already had a tab open so i expected to not find any trouble. I ordered my drinks and told the bartender to put it on my tab and then close it. She then tells me that i don't have a tab and leaves to talk to the manager. She then comes back and asks for my name again and AGAIN says that they don't have my tab..shes looks to the manager and the manager looks at me and shakes her head...saying that she doesn't have my bank card and drivers license..even though i just gave it to the manager 15 mins ago. I'm absolutely shocked by this and all i can do is stand there being shocked! They then find my card and id and hand me the bill...of course at this point i am absolutely irate and i leave them a $3 tip...the manager looks at the bill and says" YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT!!!"..and she walks away. I am AGAIN shocked by this behavior from these bartenders and ask her for my bank card and ID back...she says "NO". So then i take it to the next level and go outside and get a security guard to come with me to get my card back. The security guard went with me to the bar and asks the manager to give my card and ID back and she gives it back to me then says" I KNOW YOUR NAME NOW, YOU ARE NOT WELCOME TO THIS CLUB ANYMORE!!!" So i told her that i would never want to come back to this club if i am going to be treated this way and i walked away. Next thing you know i walk away and see my boyfriend and tell him what had happend to me and he is completely appalled, then the security guard who helped get my card back came up to me and said that the manager wanted to kick me out and that i needed to go. I was absolutely disgusted that this manager was being a complete biatch because she treated me badly she wanted to kick me out. Basically I am telling you to NEVER go to this club!

Cons: RUDE AND DISGUSTING BARTENDERS AND MANAGER!!

11/30/2006 Posted by lokiikol

A huge group of my friends went here last Friday and it was AMAZING! The smell of the wood burning fireplaces is such a great replacement for the usual stinky Hollywood dance floor at a place this PACKED! The upstairs offers a relief from the crowd, but is still only steps away from the upper bar. The bathrooms are clean (LADIES you'll appreciate them). The crowd is trendy and HOT! The male/female ratio is pretty even..slightly male dominant (LADIES will appreciate this as well). After breaking a sweat on the dance floor, my friends and I went upstairs and parked at a table along the wall to chill and talk with the HOT Danish Hip-Hop Dancers that have made themselves regulars here on Friday nights (THE MONKEY BAR). Security is tight, and is guest list only, so if you're invited - DON'T PASS IT UP! This is my new Friday Night Hot Spot!

Pros: exciting, eye-candy, atmosphere, dancing, can be hype or chill (downstairs, upstairs)

Cons: Parking - Valet or street, loud

11/17/2006 Posted by elsa52

First time I went to Nacional was on a Saturday night about 4 months ago hosted by groove society. It was soooooo crowded it made it hard to dance. Not only was it hard to dance but hard to move. There was a good mix of people. Then i went back about a month ago and the place was dead! No a cricket in sight! At least I had room to dance but no one to dance with. You should check to see if any promotion companies are hosting an even there before you go. Cover was decent. Drinks were priced fairly about 7-10 bucks a drink although it took a while to get. Its not very big but the decor is really nice,fireplace down stairs and theres a second floor with a patio for all you smokers. Good place to go with a group of friends.

Pros: When its poppin its poppin

Cons: When its aint it aint