Went here for my birthday party about a week ago. We all had a good time– the rooms are about average in price, were clean & set up well. The song selection was pretty good as well :) A few of my friends got food & drinks, no complaints there. The downsides were that our room was BOILING hot for half the night– we had to ask a couple times to get that fixed. One of the girls there was nice, but the other was a bit snooty. Also, the place smells weird. And I say that knowing full well that it’s a Korean place & it might be food smells that we’re not used to, but this is the 4th Korean karaōke bar I’ve been to & none of them smelled like that. It bothered my sister all night. For me though, the one thing that would prevent me from coming back there(& from giving it a better rating) was that they automatically add a 15% tip onto your bill when you have 6 or more people-which can add up given that you’re paying $ 30−40/hr– regardless of the fact that the staff, well, do pretty much nothing for you service-wise. And they didn’t mention this when I called asking for pricing info, either. It was just, come end of the night, «Surprise! We want 15% more than what we quoted you!» If we had all ordered food, perhaps that could be justified, but my friends paid a tip on their own food bills. But as for the room itself, they only did the bare minimum of what was required, and even then, we had to pester them a bit for it. And I’m supposed to pay them an extra $ 12 for that? No thanks. I did complain & had it removed from the bill, but in the future I think I’d look elsewhere just to avoid the issue.
Cindy M.
Place rating: 5 Edmonton, Canada
(This was formerly Bobos Karaōke) Hangover is by far the cleanest and nicest karaōke bar in Edmonton! I believe they only have 1 large room(fitting around 20 people) and several small-to-medium sized rooms that can easily fit 10+ people comfortably. The rooms have soft leather seating areas as well as benches and chairs should you need more seating. Drop-ins are allowed, but this place gets pretty busy, so it is highly recommended to make reservations on the weekends. This is a Korean owned establishment but, similar to all other karaōke places, they offer a large variety of songs — Korean, English, Chinese, Japanese, etc. Although they may not offer all the latest songs, they come pretty close to being the most updated. The remotes are super fancy and will take some getting used to(read the buttons and you’ll be fine). In addition to singing, they offer food items. I’ve only ever tried one — their kim chi pizza. I’ve never been a fan of kim chi so I can’t say I liked the pizza, but a lot of my friends love it. What’s karaōke without some liquor to relax the environment? Drinks are decently priced and, in addition to the regular drinks, they offer Soju(similar to Chinese rice wine). You can get straight Soju, or you can get flavoured(my favourites are watermelon and lychee). WARNING: flavoured Soju tastes like juice! So be careful you don’t drink it like juice. =) I have to say… one downfall to this place is the fact that the main area doesn’t have open karaōke. So if you don’t get a room, you are left with options to leave or to eat/drink in the main area. Many other places have open karaōke set up so overflow customers can take turns singing in public instead(for free). If they improved this aspect, they wouldn’t have to turn away drop-in customers. Overall, this is my go-to karaōke place. I think that says it all.
