Sep 17, 2009

Welcome to the MOULIN ROUGE! pt. 2

We arrived at the Moulin Rouge, only to be asked about a dozen times if we had a reservation. Yes, we did, we answered every time.

I had to surrender my camera to the coat check because no photos are allowed. Fine.

We were guided to our seats, which weren't very good. We were at the far left of the stage and really couldn't see much.

Other guests had come to enjoy dinner and the show. They were being entertained by a warm up act. Those tickets were twice what we paid.

After a couple of minutes and speaking to the waiter to tried to take our drink order, we realized that we were in the wrong spot. We were quickly moved up to the upper and cheaper sections. We were more than happy to go as those seats were far better than where we had originally been seated.

Now, there were some who sat near us, who weren't too happy to have to seat is what they believed to be the nose bleeds. We tried to explain that these were pretty good seats considering it was Paris on a Friday night. We had not doubt that the really good seats had been sold out for weeks.

The show was amazing. Yes, there was a lot of boobs. It was the Moulin Rouge for pete's sake. But the performances were really good and between the acts, we were treated to a couple of variety acts which were far superior to warm up act who did a very bad rendition of Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton's Islands in the Stream.

Was it worth 180€ (about 270$US)? It was something that is synonomus with Paris, so it was. Would I go back? Not likely.

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