Providence
Vidoke Experience (3)
Food (4)
Ambience (3.5)
Space (2.5)
Convenience (5.0)
If you’re stuck on the road in the wee hours of the morning with nothing to do, better go to belt your lungs out at Providence. If you’re anywhere near Taft, all you have to do is go to DLSU and find corner Estrada St. Leon Guinto St. This place is open 24 hours – that earned them a 5.0 for convenience.
Providence is actually what the building is called – the first two floors are divided into small rooms with one vidoke machine each. Some rooms are really small – just enough for two people. But if you have enough dough, they have a spacious VIP room for P10 per song, compared to a regular rate of P5 per song. The rooms are well-lighted but most of them have really bad ventilation. It’s hard to sing while you’re sweating like a pig, right? They should have two microphones per room but some are dysfunctional, making your vidoke experience less magical.
The food is okay, quite expensive if you’ve already spent most of your cash clubbing or something. They sell beer for about P35 to P45 each and pulutan for about P150 to P300. But they serve rad fruit juices. Swear. If you’re a freeloader, you can stop singing and nobody will even notice you, except when the waiters have nothing to do.
Of course, there’s a downside. Most of the rooms are filled up until 4 AM, since the area is near Malate and Makati. You can wait for your turn in the lounge, where there are tables and chairs but the heat from the air conditioning from all the rooms is on full blast. The heat is tolerable but I’d rather not stay there for more than 30 minutes – the whole thing might kill my brain cells.
Over-all rating: 18/25
posted by Faith @ 1:06 AM
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Highly Recommended.
Almost perfect.
Will do. Nothing remarkable.
Smells like crap.
A dingy hole with drunk geezers.
