Scoutlounge is different to any other beach club I've been to. People come here to relax, chat with friends, dance and listen to music. They don't come here to win money, there are no zyngo machines, dancers or contest. There are some high class, designer store selling suits and dresses.
4 am in Second Life is usually quiet, but today, at Scoutlounge, it was quite busy. There were between 15- 20 people throughout the 2 and a half hours I was there. The beach club is situated on a gorgeous Sim called Swiss Media, and the club is modern and stylish with seating and large dance floor. The current DJ performing is Sithut Tammas playing tribal, Latin and vocal house music. Music at this club is predominately house and chill out style, so don't come expecting anything else.
Scoutlounge is well established and very popular, they have 1866 group members and their traffic is 24099. The clientele at Scoutlounge are sexy, stylish and cool to match the decor of the club, it's a great mix of people and everyone's friendly and chatty.
The club have their own website which has everything you need to know about Scoutlounge- the DJ's, calendar of events, podcast, radio station link, galleries and interviews with their staff. Have a look at the website to see what's happening at the club.
If it's early morning and SL is quiet, head down to Scoutlounge, it's the perfect place to slowly wake up. The beats get faster as it gets later in the day and when you finally wake up your ready to party!! And there are always people there! Go and have a look for yourself.
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I have been to the scout lounge several times,and i amazed that you say this place is friendly and chatty..Every time i have been here it has been nothing but SPAM for the whole time..there is no chat, there is no conversation,If u call SPAM chat or conversation then i seriously think you are very misguided.Perhaps the 2 1/2 hours that you were here they may have chatted and been friendly for the sole purpose of your review.
I have been welcomed once here by a host in all the times i have been here..How could you ever rate this as 4 stars?
I think maybe you should vist a club more than once and with out telling them who you are or what purpose you are here for, just to get a REAL idea of what the club is truly like before you make such a judgemental decision.
4 Stars ? how on earth do you arrive at 4 stars ? i'm completely confused by this review, you've spent all of 2 hours and 30 mins at this club and have somehow taken it upon yourself to suggest it only does predominantly house and chill out music?
not once has a host welcomed me unless that host happened to be on my friends list, the hosts do welcome people i'm sure .. but only if the're on there friends list LOLZ, these are the same hosts that expect tips ROFL.
btw, with the volume of dj's that work at the club its very fair to say that the tunes are varied among many genres ㋡
The design and setup is indeed very professional.
I had a chat with the owner who is a real DJ. At first staff was very friendly. The owner offered friendship and we had a few IM's.
Very curtious. As my friend list became very cluttered i had to decide to remove him since we had no interaction. No staff ever talks to me since then.
DJ's have started very faul language lately, and i have the impression that they are just there to pick up a girl in sl... DJ's supposed to be cool of course, and the staff supports that by shouting: "I'm his girl this evening". For me i don't have much with DJ's personally, i come for the fun and music.
Weird... i can't find the staff being chatty at all btw.
They chat yes, but mostly to staff.
However i found that this is a real problem in sl.
Sofar i have not encountered one place where the owner is very nice and interactive.
However i'd make exception the "The U'bar... In that place the owners really interact and by voice. Super !!
Oh yes, and to add to the above...
Hardly any chats, just a lot of gesture spamming and auto messages... That is so boring :(
Thanks guys! These are wicked comments. I agree, it's hard to judge a club in SL, they come and go, change around a lot, and try different things as SL grows and changes over time. I think that's one of the reasons why I wanted to start this site. Anyhoo, everyone's opinions are valid here - use our ratings as a guide but feel free to disagree and add your own thoughts! Opinions are all welcome, there's no science here. I trust my reviewers as they're impartial, but hey, we're also human, so sometimes we miss stuff. Let us know when we do! :)
I love your feedback anonymous (do we get to know who you are?). Why do you assume that we tell them that we are reviewing them before we do it? They didn't know I was reviewing them until after I had written it, so I was there just as a guest. I've been there several times, before and after I did the review. Yes there was alot of spamming but there was also chat too. I was greeted by the host, some of the guests and the dj so made to feel welcome. You and I have different tastes in clubs which is absolutely fine. Maybe if I went to a club such as U Bar I could form my own opinion for it, which may be different to your opinion!
I don't agree with the comment you make about DJ's using foul language, the ones I've met don't use it all that much, I'm also assuming that you are referring to male DJ's rather than female DJ's? I have many DJ friends from clubs I work/ worked in, and most of them are in relationships. There is always flirting, but that's harmless and part of the fun of being in a club. I've worked in clubs in sl for way over a year, since November 2007 to be precise, so I know what I'm talking about! lol
Thanks for the comments which have been submitted so far. As a Scoutlounge director, one of my tasks is to collect feedback from our Guests and to improve the quality level and the atmosphere in the Club. I think it would be fair and professional to provide the Readers of this Blog with some answers:
GESTURE SPAMMING: The problem didn't go unnoticed. As part of the training we give to our Staff members, we stress the importance of carrying on conversations in open chat in order to involve as many Guests as possible. Some of our Guests are pretty much into gestures and as we have an average of 20 people attending at any given time, the situation can be a bit itchy sometimes. The matter is that we don't want our Staff to act like guard dogs and we'd rather send IM's to those people who exceed with long text or sound gestures to ask them politely to keep them under control. As you might easily understand, education is a process which requires time and patience. We could easily solve the problem by enforcing heavy restrictions on gesture spamming, but the solution would be worse than the problem as many of our Guests complimented us on the relaxed and friendly atmosphere of the Club as well as the treatment from our Staff members, something (they said) they never found in other Clubs whose Staff are allegedly more into ejecting or being indelicate.
GUEST GREETING
It might have happened that some Guest wasn't welcomed upon arrival or waved goodbye upon leaving. I certainly do apologize for it. It's also true, on the other hand, that we would like our Guests not just to listen to music, but also to start or to join conversations in Open Chat. We don't drag anyone in as we are committed to respect our Guests' attitudes, but a little effort is always welcomed and appreciated.
MUSIC STYLES
Scoutlounge is a House Music Community (not just a Club) and we have DJs from all over the world who give their personal interpretation and feeling about House Music. This leaves them with a fairly wide frame of possibilities. The interesting point is to join in and listen to performances provided by Japanese, American, Romanian, German, etc. DJs and see how House Music is felt in different areas of the world. Putting a label to a genre or to a DJ is certainly a quick way to give an idea, but I also have to say it is the least accurate. Best way is, IMHO, just to come over and listen. As all our DJs mix live, you will never hear twice the same performance.
FOUL LANGUAGE
This hasn't been actually a major concern as we made clear to all our DJs and Staff members that innuendos and flirting are acceptable, whilst explicit language is not. Of course we cannot be responsible for tunes' lyrics, but I would say this is the only point.
Finally, I wish to thank you all for the comments, as we always strive to make things better. As well, I invite you not only to come over to Scoutlounge, but to use our Forum on our website for discussions, as we are a Community and all ideas and contributions are greatly appreciated.
Last but not least, I wish to thank Ryoko Flow and Evelyn Hartshon for putting up this very useful Blog and providing all the Second Life Community with a very professional yet fun information tool.
All the best to you all!!
I was recently at the Scoutlounge and i managed to stay for 2 hours plus...there was one host Missy kayor who i have to say did an awesome job at greeting people, beside her there were 3 scoutlounge mangers,Bab5 Gossipgirl, AngelsNaughty Destiny and Amelia Marialla, granted Amelia had only been here for approximately 1 hour, in all that time not one of the Managers greeted one person who entered the club , except for one who greeted a male...I just think Scoutlounge needs to really watch their staff an maybe delete a few tags and praise their hosts for the outstanding job they do.
Thanks for your comment. I need to highlight that tasks of Hosts and Managers differ greatly. Hosts have a more operative role and they keep the fun atmosphere going, interacting between the Guests and the DJ. Managers instead, have a more strategic role and their task is mainly to make sure that everything during their timeslot runs well, so a lot of their work takes place "behind the stage", but is nonetheless fundamental and I should add, extremely stressful and demanding. Roughly 90% of our Managers have been Hosts previously, so they know exactly what to do and what not to do. I am sorry if you saw as a form of disrespect the fact of not being greeted by a Manager, but this is not one of the tasks which we demand to them. Moreover, as we have as an average more than 20 Guests, we feel that being greeted and welcomed once is a fair balance which doesn't allow the mainchat to be flooded with greetings. I am also sure that during your 2-hour stay you did your best to promote some conversation and to keep the chat active, since you graciously appraised the work from our Hosts.
Best regards
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