Let’s be frank, KTV is great. It’s literally like having your own private little club, where the drinks are as strong as you make them, everybody’s your friend and nobody hassles you for ‘napping’ on the couch. Blue chip KTV institutions like Chun-K even go so far as to have dedicated vomitoriums for guests who party a little too hearty. No kidding.
However, there is another side to KTV parties in China. For rich young (and not-so-young) things, KTV is an opportunity to bask in luxuriously appointed, ultra kitsch palace-like rooms, where XO Cognac and Champagne replaces whisky and green tea mixes.
MuseK, owned by the Muse Group, who count The Nest and Italian steakhouse Capo in their arsenal, is the latest KTV to join this unusual elite, and rather than styling itself on Playboy Mansion-style opulence, they’ve gone for a deep space techno theme in their main room, a KTV pièce de résistance designed to look like the interior of a space ship. Renting this room will set you back upwards of RMB10,000, and is probably only worth it for rich kids or seriously minted Star Trek fans.
Happily, smaller 12-seater rooms at MuseK have a more reasonable minimum of RMB3,000 (including drinks) per night. Though sadly the space ship theme doesn’t extend to here, some of them are enormous (like seriously, 200-pax enormous) and given a more tasteful black leather, beige and chrome aesthetic. Ideal for special occasions and the seriously popular.
Price: minimum spend RMB3000 per 12-person room
Who’s going: rich locals
Good for: KTV, special occasions, groups, birthdays
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