Batchwood (St Albans)

Batchwood Hall

this club-in-a-mansion-in-the-middle-of-nowhere sounds exotic and it is. The music is commercial and RnB like with a fairly cheap entrance- at about £5 and cloakroom.  The entrance winds round to the right onto the first Bar (where bottles and beer are overpriced) and to the right again is a veranda where a BBQ occurs of summer. You would now be in the main hall with staircase either side of a stage leading upstairs and loungers and armchairs along the back wall. There is another bar in the top corner and one down past the bottom of the stage on the left. There is a champgne/cocktail room straight ahead with different music and tiger-skin armchairs. Upstairs is an 80's and Rock room which appeals more to my tastes making this place very very busy but with short bar waiting times. The downbside is it is a nightmare to get to, in deepest darkest st. albans, but its all about the thursdays.

Overall 8/10 if you can get there and have the money for an expensive night out.