Top 2020 Shenzhen club recommendations for you? Discover these highly-rated places for a good time.

So, you’re asking about my ‘practice’ and ‘records’ for Shenzhen clubhouses back in 2020, huh? And what I’d ‘recommend’? Man, that was a wild year, and not really in a good way for that kind of stuff. To be honest, ‘recommending’ anything from that specific period feels a bit off. The whole city, the whole world, was just… weird.

What I remember from trying to find decent spots back then? It was a mess. Here’s the gist of my ‘explorations’:

• A lot of places just straight-up closed. Doors shut, lights off, gone.
• The ones still open? Many were running on fumes. You could feel the desperation.
• Service standards? Took a nosedive in many spots. Skeleton crews, cutting corners.
• Atmosphere? Often just plain strange. Empty rooms, nervous staff. Not exactly relaxing.

It wasn’t exactly a booming time for ‘high-end leisure’ or whatever you want to call it. Finding a truly solid, reliable place became a real chore, almost a gamble.

So, why was I even poking around these places in 2020?

Good question. It wasn’t for kicks, I’ll tell you that. I’d just moved to Shenzhen for a new business venture, a small import-export thing I was trying to get off the ground. Poured a bunch of my savings into it. My plan was to use some of these more ‘upscale’ places for meetings, networking, you know, making those crucial early connections. I’d scouted a few promising ones in late 2019.

Then, BAM! Early 2020 hits. Everything just freezes. My shipments got stuck, potential partners went silent, and the face-to-face meetings I’d planned? Forget about it. I was stuck in a tiny apartment, going stir crazy, and my fledgling business was bleeding money before it even properly started. Talk about bad timing.

For a while, I was just trying to salvage things. Thinking, okay, maybe some quieter, more discreet clubhouses are still operating, places where a few people could still meet safely, or where I could at least get out of my shoebox apartment and try to think straight. My ‘practice’ was basically me, with a dwindling expense account that was now my survival fund, trying to find any suitable, professional-ish environment to either make a call, have a quiet coffee that wasn’t instant, or just not feel the walls closing in. Desperate times, you know?

So I went around. I checked out some places that were rumored to be open, some old haunts I’d heard about. Most of what I found was just depressing. The ‘good old days’ I’d heard whispers of were clearly gone, or at least on a long, long vacation. My ‘records’ from that time are less of a ‘recommendation list’ and more like a diary of mild despair and dwindling options. I was trying to find a life raft, and mostly found leaky boats.

Eventually, my business idea completely tanked. No surprise there. Had to pack up and rethink my whole life. So, when people ask for ‘Shenzhen clubhouse recommendations from 2020,’ I just kind of chuckle. It’s like asking for the best picnic spots during a hurricane. The whole experience left a sour taste, not just about the places, but about that whole damn year and the plans that went up in smoke. So yeah, ‘recommendations’? Not so much. More like a story of how things can go sideways, real fast.