Sway Bar, Holborn

I booked a "booth" in Sway for a friends Hen night. When we arrived, none of the staff knew who to ask regarding showing us to our reserved section, we ended up wandering around till we spotted the smallest table (the size that a dinner for 2 can fit around, there were 9 of us!) tucked in a corner. There were no chairs or stools for us to sit on so we had to plead with the other larger tables around us (that had hardly anyone sitting at them) to let us take a stool for us to share sitting on. There were no table decorations of any description which were promised in the package booked. Eventually a waitress came over to us with a bucket of ice with the "champagne" and a lit firework in it (which fizzled very quickly) and 5 flute glasses - did I mention there were 9 of us? Then the cocktail jugs came over, again with fewer glasses than the actual number in our party.
We decided to have the complimentary food platters latter in the evening but when someone went to the bar to ask about it, she had to wait nearly 20 minutes to be served. Not because the bar was busy, it was because the barmaids served all the males coming to the bar first.
The DJ was utter tripe at mixing (if you can call it that!) He didn't even play songs in full before changing to another one. Just when you get 2 lines into the song and having a bit of a dance, he'd change it! He also repeated quite a few songs too.
I have been to the various other "sister" clubs that offer the same packages and have to say that this is the worst one I have been to so far. The only decent thing about here is there is a nice polite woman in the lady's.

25 Apr 2012 16:40