The Lumberyard

If you’re planning on coming out of state to work at this place I would definitely would not recommend!
the staff is absolutely rude walking in the door your first day, even though we had talked to several managers weeks prior to coming. they treated us like we were garbage right we walked in. Why are you’re here why do you want to work here? well we’ll see if you’re even going to work out. We were dressed nice our make up in here we’re completely done very nice so it’s not like we needed to get ready.
We’re very good dancers we come from a club that is very strict we had called to make sure this club wasn’t sketchy and turns out to be super sketchy
The girls can come and go whenever they want the owners have no way of knowing if their girls are prostituting or not because the girls are able to just leave. You can take as many breaks as you want
We were told by management that there was only going to be up to 20 girls on the weekend 15 on the weekday
we worked Wednesday there was over 30 girls Thursday there was over 30 girls Friday there was over 40
Don’t expect to go onstage of your new girl because all the other favorites Will skip you and your rotation you will never make it onstage most of the money at this club is always made on the stage so when you’re fucking the bouncer or the DJ then you may have a chance of making money there
The girls were absolutely rude when we walked in the owner had told us that there shouldn’t be any drama or anything we are absolutely not about drama we rather just make our money and not talk to the other girls coming from downstairs up to the dressing room almost every time we walk past their girls they would make smart ass comments like oh my god they smell at least I have real hair
You can tell at least a half of them are heroin addict’s most of those girls don’t even have make up on or don’t even care about their appearance
Their main clientele are broke college students that just sit at the stage and don’t tip
We come from a club that you’re not allowed to sit in the dressing room Half of these junkies are just sitting upstairs sleeping at their station
So we are very pissed coming in at 6 o’clock at night when all these other girls are coming in nine 10 o’clock at night and they still need to get ready we been on the floor actually talking and entertaining the customers all night and then we get skipped onstage because little heroin junkie needs to go onstage more than me bullshit!
So if you’re looking for a junkie or a prostitute this is your place
(not saying that all of them are We did meet some girls that were pretty nice but two out of 40 is not a very good ratio)

Don’t waste your time getting off the freeway. Go to the next big city and maybe you’ll have some luck. It’s the employees that ruin it. Not the girls. Well not all the girls at least. Why do the employees kill the fun and atmosphere? Customers just want to spend money and have fun and so do the girls. I left and I’ll keep my money for businesses that want it.

They advertise having over 100 girls on staff, but on the night I went there were only 2 working. To top it all they spent the whole night downstairs doing lap dances and private shows! I went on a recommendation by dancer in South Dakota, but do not intend to go back to this club again anytime soon!

Took the whole family, we had a blast! The women are phenomenal and love the beautiful tattoos on most of them! They love to dance an get the crowd involved! We got a bunch of buckets a’beer! Tipped alot of super women that entertained us all night! My daughter iin law was tickled purple as she had never been to a Exotic Club before! They kept it real and entertained I would even dance next to my table with some of there music!!! Loved it and we were all so very happy and even Excited! Lots of tipping, keep up the great work, girls!

I love Iowa, as well as the Lumberyard.
I’ve never seen a strip club where you can bring in your own beer, that’s nuts to see people walking around with cases of beer.
Cover is $ 15.00, not too bad — about the average price for strip club admittance. Lots of good looking girls (wasn’t initially sure what to expect from Iowa strippers).
Lots of fun and friendly interactions with the girls, a lot of the dancers actually seemed to be having fun an chit-​chatting with guests.
Really cool layout, there is 3 different stages that are on different levels that are all connected. Pretty sweet trip! There is another strip club or 2 in Des Moines that I might check out next time I’m in Des Moines, but I think it would be hard to beat the good time I had here.

Im a travel dancer i live in vegas originally from austin tx. I worked a week here. Im gonna say i deff like this club, tall spinning poles 2 on the main stage, then regular poles on the 2^nd and 3^rd stage. Vip rooms, byob i thought i wouldn’t like that about a club but i just came from a club that did serve alcohol n when i turned down a drink it was bad for alcohol sales so id end up taking my drink in the back and not drinking it, or giving it away :) hehe. Im smart, after so many shots i dont want any more drinks, so i like that we can bring our own drinks here, n dancers wont be pressured into getting drinks, tho if they did serve alcohol im sure it would be better for business, n then maybe the girls could keep more of the vip section sales, when i 1^st got here i broke a few rules accidentally cause i didnt know those where the rules, the rules where explained to me wrong the 1^st time. One girl called me a slut the 1^st day when i walked by, she was a house girl n was talking smack about me to the make up artist. I didnt really care, «haters make me famous» as long as she left me alone i can work w. Girls who hate on me. The rest of the dancers where nice. The customers where «mostly» nice. Compaired to the ones in vegas. They r big on being respectful here, the manager got upset @ me for not saying thank you one time, but that was b.c. i have add, n was in the dressing room w. A bunch of naked women running around me, talking to me, while i was trying to get me stuff 2gether to leave so i forgot. Then later said ty. N i also saw one person almost get kicked out for disrespecting a manager, duh if u arent respectful to management they will kick u out. They keep it hot upstairs cause they dont want the dancers up there, but it dosnet stop girls from staying up there. I wish they kept it cold up there instead cause when u dance u get hot, n u will be putting ur make up on and sweating it off in the heat, then there are curling and hair flatners all over the place making it even hotter. In vegas and most other clubs they keep it freezing cold, which in my opinion is better cause then ur not sweaty, sweating on the poles, or customers, it got so hot up there sometimes it was mind numbing. After i got off stage id run up stairs and stand out in the out door cold smoking section to cool down. They take more out of the vip sections from the dancers then any other club i have worked @ maybe cause no alcohol sales, i heard a manager say something about how vegas has high house fees, n thats why the clubs in vegas give the dancers there more from vip sales and they should do it like vegas does it. Im just gonna mention that if they do it that way the clubs i work @ hustler and crazy horse 3, have a time frame that if dancers come in early its free, thats when i come in. Clubs in vegas make alot of money off alcohol sales also. The girls are hot in my opinion, and i have seen them enjoying there selves, i read the one review where she said the girls looked like robots. I like this club tho i wish they wouldn’t keep it so hot up stairs, n it would be nice if they could figure out a way to give the girls more percentage from dance sales. Maybe next time a take a trip out here ill bring my 2 roommates from vegas. I didnt like working on the weekends so much, it was to packed up stairs in the dressing room for me. N also by that time working every day of the week, all the lactic acid in my body was to painful. A customer gave me a deep tissue massage for a short while, wish i would have gotten his # cause i was working n didnt want to sit down for to long n miss out on any dances. Fyi for other travel dancers they have a washing and drying machine up stairs, and a shower.

I gotta say, I truly enjoyed this strip club. Three levels, very crowded, almost felt like a nightclub feel. BUT WITH BOOBIES!!!
I liked that for the lapdances they played the entire song, so you really did get your moneys worth. Yeah, there were a few girls who walked around but most were pretty busy. It might be hard to find the girl you want to dance with due to the crowds, but hey, it’s still a chill place. Can’t blame em for makin money.

lol byob, fully nude, sh*t is ratchet.

This stripclub is not bad at all. The girls are OK looking. What I like about this place, it’s BYOB. Bring your own beer. This place is better than Heavenly Bodies in Illinios, that’s for sure. The girls at Heavenly Bodies look like the Spice Girls on crack. They also play good hip hop music at this place. This place can give any stripclub in Illinios a run for it’s money. That’s a dam shame, a stripclub in little Iowa is just about better than any stripclub in Illinios.

This place was disappointing. We went this weekend and it was just, weird. The girls were like ROBOTS. There were two girls to a stage, and all they did was walk down the row of guys sitting there like it was an assembly line for them to show off their goods. Barely any dancing, (and I mean hardly any at all.) I tried to look several of them in the eye to get their attention, but all they do is stare blankly at nothing, and randomly crawl over to another guy to give him a mini strip tease or grind on him or the stage for a few seconds. How is this stripping? It’s more like a cattle call.
I’ve been to quite a few strip clubs in different states and I felt so weird at the Lumberyard. These girls do NOT look like they enjoy what they do, and if that is the case, they should find a different job. Going here made me feel BAD for them. Every other place I’ve gone the girls at least know how to make the customers have a fun time, either by talking to them or having fun on stage. There was none of this at The Lumberyard.
The layout is also horrible. Cramped bar stools lined up along high stages, but tons of room along the walls. If you aren’t sitting at the edge of the stage, you won’t get ANY attention. I think we had maybe 3 or 4 girls come up to us the whole night, and we were there at least four hours. I am a good looking girl, and my boyfriend and his two friends are young, in shape, attractive, and respectful guys. So what gives?
Two stars for the small amount of fun I did have dancing to a few good songs that played, and the upstairs area in the back with the VIP looking booth we sat at for free. Also, we had no problems with the bouncers or management.
I feel bad for people who think this is a great strip club. Most of the guys there looked like they were having fun (for obvious reasons) and I don’t blame them, but they probably don’t know what a real strip club is like so they have nothing to compare it to. I don’t know how this place isn’t on Unilocal yet since there are hundreds of reviews on a local Iowa rating site, and when I tried to add a review there it wouldn’t let me submit it. Also, the women’s bathroom here is a complete JOKE. It was smaller than small, trash spilling on the floor. DIRTY and GROSS. If you are a lady coming to the Lumberyard I suggest you don’t drink anything and bring some hand sanitizer so you can avoid going in that dungeon.