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Dady O: Traveler Reviews


TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4.5 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #28 of 96 attractions in Cancun
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Attraction type: Bar/club
Address: boulevard Kukulcan KM 9.5 | Hotel Zone, Cancun, Mexico
Tel: (52)+(998)+8833333

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Indifferent Management Practices

Dady O

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1 of 5 stars
EmeraldSeas   16 contributions
Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands
Sep 27, 2009

I WILL NEVER GO TO THIS CLUB AGAIN. The management is disgustingly indifferent when situations arise. Women (and possibly men) beware.

My girlfriend got drugged there on Friday night, August 14, 2009. I've partied with this friend many times over three years--until 1 am, until 10 pm, until dawn and beyond. NOT ONCE has she ever had to be carried out (much less helped out) of a club due to overindulging in alcohol.

The last thing she said to me at our Dady O booth as her eyes got heavier and heavier was, "I think I've been drugged". After that, boom, she passed out. There was no getting her up. An employee passed by our table and asked, matter-of-factly if we needed help getting her out of the club. I screamed, "NO, MY GIRLFRIEND GOT DRUGGED IN YOUR CLUB". He left and didn't come back. I then started crying because I wasn't going to rob my friend of her dignity by carrying her out of Dady O's in front of everyone while watching them snicker thinking she was drunk. As mentioned, my friend isn't the type of person who needs to be carried out of a club.

About a half hour later, another employee approached our table and told us we needed to leave. I said, "can we have 15 minutes?" He said, "no". Incredulously I said, "my girlfriend got drugged in YOUR club and you won't give us 15 more minutes? He said, "no" and left.

I got up from the booth, walked over to an elevated bar area, and asked the bartenders if I could see a manager. They told me the manager was home sleeping. I said, "no, the manager is not sleeping". When they realized that their answer wasn't sufficient for the situation, they all pointed to a languid guy leaning up against a wall and said, "he's the manager". I started toward the man with a baffled look on his face, turned back, and saw the all the bartenders holding back laughter. Enraged, I said, "that is not the manager, you (expletive)". I went back to the booth and didn't budge.

Another employee came over a couple minutes later and told me he'd show me to the manager's office. I followed him down a back hallway that led to backdoors that led to a back alley. Two men were there. One of the men said, "the manager is out these doors to the right" (meaning ‘as soon as you clear the club, we'll close the doors behind you’) which would’ve left my girlfriend and my husband alone in the club and me in a back alley. I screamed, "that is not the way to your manager's office." I looked at all three men, one at a time, gave them a hand gesture and said, (expletive) you. (expletive) you, and (expletive) you.” I returned to the booth and wouldn't budge.

Once again, another employee came over to the booth and told me he'd show me to the manager's office. For the third time, I followed him down the same back hallway that led to the backdoors that led to a back alley. He pointed at a green door right before the backdoors that led to the back alley. The employee said, "the manager’s in there."I pounded on the green door. No answer. I then turned to a guy who was sitting near the green door and asked him what the manager's name is. No response. In fact, no one was talking, period. Politics prevailed. I stormed back to the booth and didn't budge.

Within the next couple of minutes, my girlfriend, whose head had landed on my husband's leg right after she passed out from being drugged, awoke. She was in a panic and totally freaked out. She said she couldn't feel the rest of her body. She was asking what happened to her. She wanted to go to the hospital. While my husband emotionally comforted her, I started rubbing her extremities to see if she had any feeling in them at all. We, too, were incredibly scared and in shock (not to mention gravely saddened) at that point.

Finally she was able to feel some of her limbs. My husband and I were able to bear most of her weight and walk her out down that same back hallway that led to the backdoors that led to a back alley. We spent another 15 minutes on the curb comforting her and making sure that feeling in her extremities was coming back stronger and not weaker or remaining the same.

A few days later I talked to another friend who visits Cancun often. She will never go back to Dady O either, citing the same indifferent management practices as I’m citing now. Apparently she got drugged as well, her purse was cleaned of its contents, and management couldn't have cared less.

Can Dady O's prevent by lowlife predators with extremely bad intentions from entering their club? Absolutely not. ALL I ASKED FOR WAS 15 MINUTES FROM DADY O'S so that a drugged woman wouldn’t have to be robbed of her dignity. What all of us got was the old bait and switch, belittled, mocked, run out of dodge, and ignored.

Yes, it's quite a club. Too bad I can't say the same about their management team.

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RIP OFF! Don't waste your time or money!

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1 of 5 stars
cdmackenzie   10 contributions
Phoenix, AZ
Aug 26, 2009
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One of the main reasons my friend and I went to Cancun was to party and go to the clubs. We are single in our late 20s/early 30s and we still like to party, however we were extremely disappointed by the Cancun club scene. We were approached by a guy on the strip selling wristbands to Dady'O. He told us we could pay a $25 cover each and buy drinks as we go, or pay $50 for a wristband, which included cover and open bar at Dady'O and Dady Rock. It seemed logical to pay the $50 so that's what we did. However, when we got inside, there is a complicated process for the people who pay for open bar, and also different drinks served to people with the open bar wristbands. It took us about 15 minutes to get our first drink. Bottles of cheap booze and mixers are marked with neon stickers for the open bar drinks. We tried three different drinks, including beer, all of which tasted terrible. The mixed drinks tasted like cough syrup and even the beer was nasty and bitter. They were so bad, we could not even drink them so we stood amongst the party crowd stone cold sober. The crowd was extremely young, probably 18-22 years old, which I can deal with after a few drinks. But like I said, the drinks were undrinkable so it was a lost cause. We tried to get our money back, but of course that is laughable in Mexico. The club seemed like it was dirty and falling apart. We felt hugely ripped off and only stayed for 1-2 hours before we gave up and went back to the hotel. HUGE disappointment!!

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WORST ever

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sdego   1 contribution
San Diego
Aug 19, 2009

My wife and I come from San Diego and Tijuana, and are familiar with the club scene. For us, this place no where compared to what we can experience at home. The music is mostly for Europeans -- trance and house -- very lame. This was the only bad experience on our trip. The guy at the door lied horribly to us -- and note that we speak spanish, for my wife it's her first language. There was no miscommunication. He lied that their show starts at 12, we were there at 11. We pay $45 each, he takes us next door to a sister club where there was bad music and no dance space, just tables where you watch idiots with whistles until they finish the song and then come to you begging you to buy flowers or drinks. We left, went into Dady O, and it was empty inside. It only started filling up at 12:30 / 1am. The music was terrible. The speakers were the worst quality ever. There was no dancing or incentive to dance with that crappy music, and they had some bad projectors showing video material advertising their club. Why wouldn't they put dancers around, play good music, and make it fun until the show? The drinks were terribly -- the beer was as close to pee-tasting as I could imagine such a taste would be. We finally asked a couple staff members inside, who then confided their show doesn't really start until 2 or 2:30am. We just had to leave -- like some others had already done -- what a terrible place.

Good reviews here from people on spring break -- I get that, because anything is fun for a college student who just wants to drink and wants to be like everyone else and not say something was bad. And for other people who liked it -- I just don't get it. For that $90, in San Diego you get cover into cool downtown clubs. And in Tijuana, you can get into clubs with no covers, live DJ'ing and all the latest hip hop and dance music with arguably better quality drinks (even though they're still cheap).

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Best nightclub in Cancun

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Suzilovestotravel   2 contributions
Florida
Jul 8, 2009

We went to Coco Bongos, The City, and Dady O while in Cancun. We had the best time at Dady O. They played the best music and their open bar drinks were the best quality. It doesn't have any live entertainment (at least on the night we went) and is not as large as the other clubs. There appeared to be more locals at this club and less tourists. The service was much better here as well.

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FUN!!

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5 of 5 stars
dmarie15   6 contributions
California City, California
Jun 17, 2009
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My 1st time to Cancun..me and my boyfriend when here on a saturday night. We bought wrist bands prior so we had free entry ,table service, and unlimited drinks! Our travel agent gave us advise, something to tell out waiter: "TAKE CARE OF US AND WE'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU" . it worked like a charm. We told him our drink order, a sex on the beach for me and a adios for my bf. without even asking we keep bringing them over. We werent even done with our drink, but he still keep them comming. GREAAAT! The dance floor is kinda small but thats the only negative. At the end of the night we ended up tipping our waiter $30. over-all a fun time and money well spent!

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boulevard Kukulcan KM 9.5 | Hotel Zone, Cancun, Mexico Tel: (52)+(998)+8833333