Babylon II

I would not recommend this place to any of my Tampa friends. I was in my hometown for the weekend and was having a relaxed Saturday evening catching up with my girl friend of years. After leaving westchase we wanted to go to a hookah lounge near by. Neither one of us had been here before so we figured we would try it out. I wish we would have taken the longer drive to have a better experience at another Tampa lounge. The shisha selection and price was fair and ambience decent, but all of their empty sofas had pieces of paper on them that said, «reserved.» They sat us at a small table with uncomfortable iron chairs. When I asked to move they said everywhere else was reserved for a private party and they were going to have a band, so it’s up to us if we want to stay. This is after we paid around 10:00pm. We decided we would stay since we were already there. I ordered a Turkish coffee with our hookah. After about 20 minutes after receiving our hookah and no coffee my friend went up to ask about it, they brought it to me about 15 minutes after that. They weren’t even that busy or crowded and seemed to have about 4 people working. No one came to check on us once. Our coals needed to be turned, no one came. I told one of the girls and she pointed at another guy who works there. I got his attention and he crushed the coals with his hands and said he would get us new ones. After waiting about 10 minutes we left. This was around 11:30pm and they still had empty sofas that they wouldn’t let us sit on. Even though the guy told us they were going to have a band they played a lot of modern hip hop (which we like) on their sound system, which was terrible. The entire experience just wasn’t good.

Great hookah, Friday, Saturday and Sunday dance all night great dj fun crowd, if you are up for drinks and good hookah try this place, great service as well the owner is always there very nice guy