A Trip to "Pleasure Island"

After dinning at Del Frisco's on Ken's Birthday, our driver took us to Walt Disney World's Pleasure Island. It is an adult entertainment complex featuring dance and comedy clubs and it has been around for almost twenty years.

It came to our attention that they would be closing their doors at the end of September 2008 for renovations so we decided Ken's birthday was a perfect occasion to visit the old place one more time.

One of the best dance clubs in Central Florida, Mannequins Dance Palace, was my favorite dance club at Pleasure Island and a tie for best dance club in the Orlando area with The Club at The Firestone.

This multi-level, sound and light extravaganza was always packed on Saturday nights for 20 years. Featuring a rotating dance floor, revelers would flock to the rotating floor to dance until there were enough people on the dance floor to make it "stop".(Usually around midnight) The crowd would roar in its accomplishment and the dancing continued till 2 AM.

Another standout feature of this club were the live models posing as mannequins on the main stage.

Mannequins has entertained patrons from around the world it its years of service to this area.



This visit was on a Friday night, so it was not packed but it was still well attended and the crowd was having an excellent time including us. The music that night was great. We people watched, had several cocktails and danced until 1:30 AM when we called our driver to pick us up at the front gate to Pleasure Island and we headed home.

Please don't drink and drive. Take a taxi or call a friend or better yet leave the car at home and hire a driver for the evening as we do.



This was the perfect ending to a wonderful birthday celebration.



I am so happy that I had a chance to visit the old club one more time. I will always remember it fondly.

We look forward to seeing what Disney is going to do with the renovations and what it will become. I hope it continues to be home to world-class dance venues.