Pandora Karaoke & Bar
Noraebang · SF Bay Area · · 5 reviews here
Noraebang in SF Bay Area.
What locals say
Half off Monday and Tuesday deal on private rooms made this reasonably affordable for a group of ~10. Would have been pretty expensive on a full price night. I attempted to both call and email to make a reservation. Response times were slow, they never answered the phones, and they wanted a credit card number via email(!) to reserve a room. As it turns out, it wasn't really necessary to reserve for a Tuesday. The place was dead. The song library was very limited. I was expecting something with a larger library (e.g. KaraFun), but instead they had only a handful of songs from very popular artists, and generally did not even have any songs from less popular artists. If you just want to sing Billboard Top 40, this might be fine for you, but if you enjoy depth and breadth of song selection, you will find their library lacking. They did appear to have a number of non-english-language songs, but I can't comment on whether the non-english selection is any good. To add insult to injury, the song selection all has to happen via a single touchscreen on the wall. Although the televisions have a QR code that looks like it ought to allow you to browse the song list and enqueue songs from your phone, neither browsing songs nor controlling the queue from a phone works. So you're stuck standing off in a corner of the room poking at this tablet on the wall, trying to browse a very limited selection of songs to find one to sing.
Honestly the place itself is fun, decor, rooms and systems are nice too, but the staff are sketchy, bartenders overcharge/inconsistently charge for the same drinks, and several of us had items like jackets, jewelry and car keys stolen from our reserved room or as we were upstairs. Not worth the trouble so highly recommended Taisho if you want to do karaoke.
It was a chill fun atmosphere with everyone eager to see the next act. Everyone who performed were great!
The room was adorable and that’s where the compliments stop. The staff was incredibly rude and couldn’t be bothered to even pay attention and when they did they acted as id it as a giant hassle. They ran out of diet in their fountain at 830 on a Friday. The machines were not user friendly. Thank goodness I have good friends to make it worth it.
Nice rooms and great service. Their music systems have pretty up to date music selection and is easy to use. You can set the lights to set the mood of the room. Service is excellent.