Playground Martini And Tapas Bar

Not really a huge fan of this place. Not really sure what the fuss is about. It's not my scene in terms of music, but that's not what puts me off. The whole place is a long rectangle. Think clubbing in a shipping container. It's pushy, it takes for ever to get from one end to the other, all the seating is side by side against one long wall, with the bar on the parallel wall, and there is always a constant stream of people trying to get in or out down the middle. There is a spot right up the back that's more of a square layout, but it's high priority and hard to land, everyone seems to just make their way up to the end, see it's taken, then make their way back. Scathing review based on layout only, I know, but I feel there are much better put together clubs in Canberra, where you can actually breathe.

I'm absolutely appalled at how my friends and I were treated last night because one of your door men was on a power trip!! More than 10 people left and he let nobody in and when I said awesome we get to go in now (after queueing for about 30 minutes) he said no you'll wait 5 more minutes after that comment (in the freezing cold). Following up with 'you're welcome to leave if you don't like how I run things, we don't need your f**king money, I get paid no matter what'!!!! The other door man was nice and tried to help but we decided not to go into a place where their staff treat people so badly!! I will never go back here and I would highly recommend that people go somewhere else!!!

Will never step foot in this place, stood in line for about 20-30 minutes last night and the door man actually told me to f**k off and go elsewhere, all because I asked if he could tell me roughly how much longer we would need to wait as we were so cold. He let so many people in from a different line and I could swear he was taking money off them and making us wait. Such a terrible way to run a business, I wish I read the reviews before wasting my time.

I got to the bar at about 11.30pm yesterday and we had to wait outside until 12 when we gave up and left. Now don't get me wrong I don't mind waiting, the problem was that during those 30 minutes where the line didn't move, the security guards let around 20 to 30 people into the club, who I assume they knew as none of them waited in line with the rest of us. There was no list that these people could have signed up or anything like that, as they never checked for names. People seemed to get there smile shake their hands and go straight in. At one point a girl from inside come out, got close to one of the security guards and asked if they could let her 6 friends straight in without waiting. Of course once the 6 girls arrived they entered dancing like no one else was waiting. The security guards numbers were 18493 and 72461. I will definitely take this up with their management but with the ridiculous amount of negative reviews here I think they really should work on a better system. Maybe a fair one for a change.