RetroRoom Lounge

While there are a variety of one off karaoke nights in Palm Springs, this is the only true karaoke bar in town and it's a good one. Despite rolling up at 11pm on a packed Friday night, I still managed to get a song in. The KJ was kind and gracious and frankly has to put up with a lot, as it's a bedlam on a weekend in there - and I mean that in a good way. It's slammed. I liked the vibe and venue and I'm glad it's there. Fun and recommended.

Overall a good place for karaoke. What’s great is that they have self-directed karaoke before the DJ gets there. You can sign up for songs on your phone. The atmosphere was great. The only food they have is chips though. Everything is cute, would come back again.

This place was a scam. I paid $15/person to reserve a spot for 11 girls and we only got to sing three songs total. I wasted $165 dollars and 2 hours of my time for this experience and it was a let down. Stay away from this scam trap.

We chose this spot to celebrate a friends birthday. It would of been a great experience if the karaoke dj wasnt so condescending. We watched 4 parties up and leave before we finally did due to his unfair singer queue. He promoted bad business, made the environment awkward with his snarky remarks, and pressured us to order drinks even when majority of us weren't singing. My friends and I left feeling punished and disappointed.

I wish I could give this place a better review—the bartender (Britt, I think?) was great, the vibe was cool, but the KJ really ruined our night. I was with a group visiting for my friend’s birthday. Not everyone wanted to drink, but a few of us did, and we followed the one drink minimum to song karaoke rule. The KJ walked over to stare at us and pressure us into drinking more multiple times over the 2 hours we spent there. The KJ wasn’t playing songs in the order they were requested. I have no idea what logic he was following. My friend waited over an hour to sing (I joined the queue right after her, but somehow sang way before her), and when the KJ finally played her song, he had turned her mic down for no reason. When another patron called that her mic wasn’t on, he yelled “it’s on, just can’t hear it over you” in the middle of my friend’s song. This upset the patron and they started to get into it, which upset my friend, so we left, and the KJ heckled us for leaving in the middle of the song. Unless they hire someone else to run karaoke, I wouldn’t come back.

If you are a singer, the quality of the equipment is not the best, and vocals were dry without reverb, and the KJ did not know how to adjust. That being said, the vibe and spot are absolutely worth stopping in for, and it's generally not too packed. Also tons of talent from the area.

I've come here a number of times before and have always had a good time, but recently one of the employees was rude and condescending to my group and really rubbed us the wrong way. It was some of my group's first time visiting, so some of my group had mistakenly brought in water cups from the nearby Starbucks without being aware it was against the policy. Instead of kindly letting us know the policy so we could throw them away ourselves or finish them quickly, the employee immediately brought over a trash can and started grabbing and tossing our cups without warning, crudely saying "This isn't allowed, this isn't allowed." On top of that, as we were expressing we didn't know and understood, he said something to the liking of "I get it, you guys are young. You guys are babies compared to me." Just because our group is somewhat younger doesn't mean you can call us "babies" and treat us as though we're children. We left soon after that, as it had completely ruined our mood. Rude and arrogant, discouraging of our demographic visiting the RetroRoom. I'm remorseful and disappointed since this was a good spot I was recommending to this group for a while (we all enjoy music and singing). We won't be coming back unless it's a different employee working the night we visit again. Please do better.

Bartender is a very rude person, is a woman not polite at all, owner is a nice person. Sometimes, the place is overcrowded,no bathroom in place. You have to go out of the place and use the general restroom of the building usually not clean.