Every stripper in town will tell you that summers are notoriously slow. Inevitably, the conversations in the dressing room begin to revolve around traveling to another city for work. I’m sure you’ve heard or participated in one of these conversations:
Barbie: This club sucks. I’m going to Vegas. I heard that Suzie went to Vegas and won a grand prize every night that she worked.
Brandi: Yes, I also talked to Suzy, but I heard that she only made big money one night and the other two nights she barely made up for the house expenses. Vegas is so overrated. But I heard Dallas was the new hot spot, lots of guys with oil money!
Sapphire: I’ll go to Vegas to have fun and work for a couple of nights, as long as what I earn pays for the trip.
Barbie: I have two children, if I go ANYWHERE, I HAVE to earn more money than here after paying for the hotel and the plane ticket.
Brandi: I also read on the internet that Alaska has tons of hot guys and not girls, maybe we should go there!
Sapphire: Are there other things to do in Alaska besides work?
Brandi: I heard about this reservation company that will pay for your hotel and airfare, but they send you to places in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes I wonder if it is worth the expense of traveling!
Three strippers, three different viewpoints. Whether or not the cost of the trip is worth it is entirely up to YOU. There are pros and cons to traveling, be sure to weigh them up before packing.
If you are profit-minded like Barbie, know that traveling may not be the best solution. Although Las Vegas has the allure of hitting the strip club jackpot, the clubs are swarming with girls. Overall travel costs also add up to more than hotel and airfare; You also need to have money for a taxi fare or a rental car, and also for food / drinks. Las Vegas has the lowest overall travel costs from Phoenix. If you book your trip 14 days in advance, you can fly roundtrip for $ 120, rent a car for $ 20 / day ($ 170 / week with taxes and insurance) stay at a great casino hotel like Stratosphere for $ 40 / night ($ 250 / week).
If you’re frugal and go to the grocery store instead of the 24-hour casino restaurant, you can keep a food / drink budget of $ 20 per day ($ 140). I know it’s a lot of numbers that I just threw at you, and if you don’t want to do math, just trust me … I was an algebra teacher before I decided to become a SuperStripper. If you’ve been doing the math with me, the total cost for this week-long trip is $ 680. Other cities, like Dallas, are much more expensive.
Airfare to Dallas is $ 250, a standard hotel room in a safe area will cost $ 80 / night ($ 560 / week), and rental cars are more than $ 250 / week for economy class. So assuming you stick to a $ 20 a day food / drink budget; his week-long trip to Dallas would cost $ 1,200. By comparison, a basic hotel room in Manhattan costs $ 150 / night, and the round-trip taxi fare is at least $ 25 / night. Once you include airfare and food, a week in the Big Apple can cost you at least $ 1,500 (and I challenge you to only spend $ 20 a day on food and drink in Manhattan!)
If you’re a fact finder like Brandy, you’ve probably already searched the internet for the best information. The free online forums have a treasure trove of knowledge about most of the clubs in the country. There are also booking agencies that will arrange transportation and accommodation for one way. This is a bit different from being a regular house dancer in a major metropolitan area. Unlike Las Vegas and Phoenix, where you only have to show up whenever you want … once you sign the contract, you are expected to work every night on the reservation.
If you are free and graceful like Sapphire, the world is your oyster! One of the biggest advantages of being a stripper is that you can work ANYWHERE! If you’re not worried about earning MORE money during your travels than at your local club, what are you waiting for? Pick a city you’d like to visit, find the strip clubs, and voila!
