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This night club is one of the "hype" place in Moscow with a fantastic view to Moscow City and the Moskva river. With a couple of friend we decided to have a diner and then enjoy the music. I called the day before to book a table for 8 people and was asked to bring 50,000 Ruble as deposit (quite common in Moscow) because they told us that the restaurant was already almost full. As we wanted to try this place, I did it. The "manager", a girl who was probably not caring too much about client told us, when we arrived to put deposit, that there was no place anymore for 8pm. Strange for a night club. We insisted and got finally a table for 8h30pm.
When we arrived the next days at 8h30pm, the club was 100% empty, we were the first to arrive. We had a nice table and started to drink and eat. Food is ok, nothing special but we came for the view, not the food. Around 1am the real music started. Very nice DJ and people started to arrive around 2am. Around 2:30am we decided to leave and asked for the bill. On the good news the bill was quite small for Moscow standard and was not even half of the deposit (8 people eating starter + main course and 4 bottle of wine plus some cocktail for less than 25,000 Ruble was a first time for me in the night live of Moscow) . Good surprise BUT the bad surprise is that they told us that the will not reimburse us the difference between the bill and the deposit.
This, of course, was not told to us before when we booked the table. When we tried to negotiate for a coupon for next time, we were told, "No, you need to spend the money just for today". We then decided to stay a little bit more, ordered champagne and cocktail but around 3am we were still below the deposit. We finally ordered 3 bottles of wine and took them home.