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Exterior of Maisonette 9 in The Ballad of Gay Tony.

Maisonette 9 is a famous "members only nightclub" owned by Gay Tony in Liberty City in Grand Theft Auto IV as well as its episodic titles, The Lost and Damned, and The Ballad of Gay Tony.

The club is located at Galveston Ave in Westminster, Liberty City, accessible via the Hematite LTA J/A station or the Frankfort Avenue LTA K/C station.

Description

GTA IV and The Lost and Damned

The club itself is referenced occasionally in GTA IV, as in the case in "Out of the Closet" when Tom Rivas mentions the club and Hercules, another club owned by Gay Tony. Other characters from GTA IV are also known to have frequented the club, including Gracie Ancelotti (as revealed during "...I'll Take Her"), Alexandra Chilton and Carmen Ortiz (Carmen refers to the club as "Bungalow 9") in dialogues during dates with Niko. The club is later reported by the Libertytreeonline.com to be closed alongside Hercules following allegations of drug pushing in the premises. Although it is mentioned in both in GTA IV and The Lost and Damned, the club is inaccessible until The Ballad of Gay Tony.

The Ballad of Gay Tony

According to The Ballad of Gay Tony's official website, Maisonette 9 was founded in 2003 by "Gay" Tony Prince, and, as indicated in The Ballad of Gay Tony, has been designed to face Galveston Ave, at the Westminster—Meat Quarter border, in the basement levels of a warehouse-turned loft. The club itself only exists physically in The Ballad of Gay Tony, whereas the same location in GTA IV and The Lost and Damned is nondescript, with no hints of the club's existence. Maisonette 9 is one of Liberty City's hottest nightclubs, where Luis Fernando Lopez serves as a manager and personal bodyguard to the club owner. Other Maisonette 9 clubs are currently operating in London and Las Venturas. The club plays music from The Ballad of Gay Tony's and Episodes from Liberty City's rendition of Electro-Choc.

As Luis works in Maisonette 9 as a manager, the player can access the club and interact with its patrons. Luis can dance, compete in a champagne drinking game, drink shots or manage the club. Maisonette 9 also serves as mission destination points. In the near final storyline in The Ballad of Gay Tony, the club is later closed by the city but was re-bought and re-opened by Yusuf Amir in the later storyline.

Employees

Anthony "Gay Tony" Prince - (Owner)
Luis Lopez - (Head of Security/Manager/Co-Owner)
Dessie - (Doorman),
Joni - (CCTV Guard)
Cindy - (Waitress)
Various Bouncers
A Bartender
An Attendant in the Men's Bathroom

Trivia

The nightclub is inspired by a real bar in New York City called Bungalow 8; the owner of that club, Amy Sacco, does very brief voice work on the in-game radio, as a budding club owner named Larissa Slalom says that "Tony Prince is a loser". The real club was permanently closed in late 2009.
On Integrity 2.0, Lazlow and his sidekick, Jorge try to get into Maisonette 9, but Dessie stops them. A woman then suggests they go to Bahama Mamas, and later the two end up at Hercules, thinking the club is full of women due to the long line of men outside (unaware it's a gay club).
Yusuf Amir wants to franchise the clubs. After the storyline, Amir reveals that he had bought the place along with his father and might open more Maisonette 9 nightclubs around the world.
The bouncer, Dessie, is indestructible to anything aside from Luis. For example, punch him. Jump on top of a car, then dial 911 and select 1. Once the police arrive, approach them, then let them see Dessie punch you. They will fire continuously, to no avail. More and more police can be called, there is no limit, but they won't arrive on their own, you must call. He will fight them all off with his fists, then start back on you again. This also works with Troy, the bouncer of Hercules.
Strangely, if you kill Joni and leave the room, go back in and she is sitting down in the chair.
If you go in ladies bathroom, you can hear a woman in the toilet having sex, vomiting, or crying.
There is a glitch that allows you to enter Tony's office. Go to the doors that are in a little hallway next to the bar, and use option Go Through Doors. And you're in. You can also enter it, if you are in the bar, where the guy that hail drinks is. There are doors too, through which you can enter. You can do this by driving a bike into the club, parking it next to the door, and doing the climb/cancel glitch to get in. Only the walls and the floor are solid though.
The club's opening hours are from 9pm-6am, although there is a way to keep the club open all day and all night. When it's about 5:55am, go to the dance floor and start dancing. Once you've either completed the bus stop or have had sex with one of the female dancers, the club will remain open, no matter how much past 6am the time is. The only way to close the club is to leave and let the door shut all the way or pass out due to heavy drinking.

Gallery

A poster for Maisonette 9.
Maisonette 9 "STARS" poster.
Joni, one of the workers in the club. Often has sex with Luis Lopez

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 '''Maisonette 9''' is a famous "members only [[nightclub]]" owned by [[Gay Tony]] in [[Liberty City in GTA IV Era|Liberty City]] in [[Grand Theft Auto IV]] as well as its episodic titles, [[The Lost and Damned]], and [[The Ballad of Gay Tony]].
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 == Description ==
-===GTA IV and GTA The Lost and Damned===
+=== GTA IV and The Lost and Damned ===
-The club itself is referenced occasionally in GTA IV, as in the case in "[[Out of the Closet]]" when [[Tom Rivas]] mentions the club and [[Hercules]], another club owned by [[Gay Tony]]. Other characters from GTA IV are also known to have frequented the club, including [[Gracie Ancelotti]] (as revealed during "[[...I'll Take Her]]"), [[Alexandra Chilton]] and [[Carmen Ortiz]] (Carmen refers to the club as "Bungalow 9") in dialogues during dates with Niko. The club is later reported by the [[Libertytreeonline.com]] to be closed alongside Hercules following allegations of drug pushing in the premises. Although it is mentioned in both in GTA IV and GTA The Lost and Damned, the club is inaccessible until GTA The Ballad of Gay Tony.
+The club itself is referenced occasionally in GTA IV, as in the case in "[[Out of the Closet]]" when [[Tom Rivas]] mentions the club and [[Hercules]], another club owned by [[Gay Tony]]. Other characters from GTA IV are also known to have frequented the club, including [[Gracie Ancelotti]] (as revealed during "[[...I'll Take Her]]"), [[Alexandra Chilton]] and [[Carmen Ortiz]] (Carmen refers to the club as "Bungalow 9") in dialogues during dates with Niko. The club is later reported by the [[Libertytreeonline.com]] to be closed alongside Hercules following allegations of drug pushing in the premises. Although it is mentioned in both in GTA IV and The Lost and Damned, the club is inaccessible until The Ballad of Gay Tony.
-===GTA The Ballad of Gay Tony===
+=== The Ballad of Gay Tony ===
-[[Image:Maisonnette9-TBOGT-interior.jpg|thumb|330px|Main interior of Maisonette 9, The Ballad of Gay Tony.]]
+[[File:Maisonette9-TBOGT-interior.jpg|thumb|330px|Main interior of Maisonette 9, The Ballad of Gay Tony.]]
-According to GTA The Ballad of Gay Tony's official website, Maisonette 9 was founded in 2003 by "Gay" Tony Prince, and, as indicated in GTA The Ballad of Gay Tony, has been designed to face Galveston Ave, at the [[Westminster]]—[[The Meat Quarter|Meat Quarter]] border, in the basement levels of a warehouse-turned loft. The club itself only exists physically in GTA The Ballad of Gay Tony, whereas the same location in GTA IV and GTA The Lost and Damned is nondescript, with no hints of the club's existance. Maisonette 9 is supposedly one of Liberty City's hottest nightclubs, where [[Luis Fernando Lopez]] serves as a bouncer and personal bodyguard to the club owner. Other Maisonette 9 clubs are currently operating in [[London]] and [[Las Venturas]].
+According to The Ballad of Gay Tony's official website, Maisonette 9 was founded in 2003 by "Gay" Tony Prince, and, as indicated in The Ballad of Gay Tony, has been designed to face Galveston Ave, at the [[Westminster]]—[[The Meat Quarter|Meat Quarter]] border, in the basement levels of a warehouse-turned loft. The club itself only exists physically in The Ballad of Gay Tony, whereas the same location in GTA IV and The Lost and Damned is nondescript, with no hints of the club's existence. Maisonette 9 is one of Liberty City's hottest nightclubs, where [[Luis Fernando Lopez]] serves as a manager and personal bodyguard to the club owner. Other Maisonette 9 clubs are currently operating in [[London]] and [[Las Venturas]]. The club plays music from The Ballad of Gay Tony's and Episodes from Liberty City's rendition of [[Electro-Choc#The Ballad of Gay Tony and Episodes from Liberty City rendition|Electro-Choc]].
-As Luis works in Maisonette 9 as a bouncer, the player can access the club and interact with its patrons. Luis can [[Rhythm-based Minigames|dance]], compete in a [[Champagne Drinking Contest|champagne drinking game]], drink shots or [[Club Management|manage the club]]. Maisonette 9 also serves as mission destination points. In the near final storyline in GTA The Ballad of Gay Tony, the club is later closed by the city but was re-bought and re-opened by [[Yusuf Amir]] in the later storyline.
+As Luis works in Maisonette 9 as a manager, the player can access the club and interact with its patrons. Luis can [[Rhythm-based Minigames#The Ballad of Gay Tony|dance]], compete in a [[Champagne Drinking Contest|champagne drinking game]], [[Drinking#The Ballad of Gay Tony|drink shots]] or [[Club Management|manage the club]]. Maisonette 9 also serves as mission destination points. In the near final storyline in The Ballad of Gay Tony, the club is later closed by the city but was re-bought and re-opened by [[Yusuf Amir]] in the later storyline.
 == Employees ==
-#Anthony "[[Gay Tony]]" Prince - (Owner)
+# [[Gay Tony|Anthony "Gay Tony" Prince]] - (Owner)
-#[[Luis Fernando Lopez|Luis Lopez]] - (Head of Security/Manager/Co-Owner)
+# [[Luis Fernando Lopez|Luis Lopez]] - (Head of Security/Manager/Co-Owner)
-#[[Dessie]] - (Doorman),
+# [[Dessie]] - (Doorman),
-#[[Joni]] - (CCTV Guard)
+# [[Joni]] - (CCTV Guard)
-#[[Cindy]] - (Waitress)
+# [[Cindy]] - (Waitress)
-#Various Bouncers
+# Various Bouncers
-#A Bartender
+# A Bartender
-#A Lackey in the toilet
+# An Attendant in the Men's Bathroom
-== Activities ==
-*'''[[Drinking]]'''
-You can drink alcohol shots at the bar for free. If you drink too many, Luis will get wasted and blackout. Then Luis will wake up in different places around the city (such as [[Middle Park]], [[Happiness Island]], [[Star Junction]] etc.) a few hours later, still slightly drunk.
-*'''[[Rhythm-based Minigames|Dancing]]'''
-If you go on the dancefloor, you can dance with the other people. In the first part, you dance using both analog sticks (pressing them in rhythm) and in the second part, you must push the buttons which appear on the screen. If you dance good on the first part, you can dance with a girl. If you get that second part correct, you will both have sex in the toilets.
-*'''[[Champagne Drinking Contest]]'''
-You can try the Champagne mini game in the VIP floor upstairs. First, shake the bottle then spray the champagne on the other people. Now you need to drink the bottle without puking. Turn the joystick not too fast or too slow and should win (if you have drunk at the bar before, you may lose the game even if you rotate the sticks perfectly.)
-*'''[[Club Management]]'''
-If you go to see [[Joni]] in the security room right near the entrance, you can put on a bouncer's suit and help watch out for trouble "in this club". Your objective is to watch if everything is OK during the night, and kicking out any drunks, jerks, or people causing trouble. At the end of a [[Club Management]], you will receive a call from either [[Gay Tony]] or [[Dessie]] asking you to help out a VIP celebrity. There are 8 celebrities that need to be assisted.
-Beware: if you use a gun inside the club, you can't return in it for few days.
 == Trivia ==
+* The nightclub is inspired by a real bar in New York City called [[wp:Bungalow 8|Bungalow 8]]; the owner of that club, Amy Sacco, does very brief voice work on the in-game radio, as a budding club owner named [[Larissa Slalom]] says that "Tony Prince is a loser". The real club was permanently closed in late 2009.
-* As the [[GTA IV Episodes|Episodes from Liberty City]] version of The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony share the same Liberty City design, the exteriors of Maisonette 9 and Hercules intended for use in TBoGT are also present in TLAD. Obviously, both clubs are still inaccessible in TLAD. These exteriors are not present in the DLC version of TLAD.
+* On [[Integrity 2.0]], [[Lazlow Jones|Lazlow]] and his sidekick, [[Jorge (TBOGT)|Jorge]] try to get into Maisonette 9, but Dessie stops them. A woman then suggests they go to [[Bahama Mamas]], and later the two end up at [[Hercules]], thinking the club is full of women due to the long line of men outside (unaware it's a gay club).
-*On [[Integrity 2.0]], [[Lazlow Jones|Lazlow]] and his sidekick, [[Jorge (TBoGT)|Jorge]] try to get into Maisonette 9, but Dessie stops them. A woman then suggests they go to [[Bahama Mamas]], and later the two end up at [[Hercules]], thinking the club is full of women due to the long line of men outside (unaware it's a gay club).
-* The nightclub is most likely inspired by a real bar in New York City called [[wp:Bungalow 8|Bungalow 8]]; the owner of that club, Amy Sacco, does very brief voice work on the in-game radio, as a budding club owner named [[Larissa Slalom]] says that "Tony Prince is a loser".
 * [[Yusuf Amir]] wants to franchise the clubs. After the storyline, Amir reveals that he had bought the place along with his father and might open more Maisonette 9 nightclubs around the world.
-* The bouncer, [[Dessie]], is indestructible to anything aside from Luis. For example, punch him. Jump on top of a car, then dial 911 and select 1. Once the police arrive, approach them, then let them see Dessie punch you. They will fire continuously, to no avail. More and more police can be called, there is no limit, but they won't arrive on their own, you must call. He will fight them all off with his fists, then start back on you again. This also works with [[Troy(The Ballad of Gay tony)|Troy]], the bouncer of [[Hercules]].
+* The bouncer, [[Dessie]], is indestructible to anything aside from Luis. For example, punch him. Jump on top of a car, then dial 911 and select 1. Once the police arrive, approach them, then let them see Dessie punch you. They will fire continuously, to no avail. More and more police can be called, there is no limit, but they won't arrive on their own, you must call. He will fight them all off with his fists, then start back on you again. This also works with [[Troy (TBOGT)|Troy]], the bouncer of [[Hercules]].
 * Strangely, if you kill [[Joni]] and leave the room, go back in and she is sitting down in the chair.
-* If you go in ladies bathroom, you can hear a woman in the toilet having sex, puking or crying.
+* If you go in ladies bathroom, you can hear a woman in the toilet having sex, vomiting, or crying.
-* There is a glitch that allows you to enter Tony's office. Go to the doors that are in a little hall way next to the bar, and use option Go Through Doors. And you're in. You can also enter it, if you are in the bar, where the guy that hail drinks is. There are doors too, through which you can enter. You can do this by driving a bike into the club, parking it next to the door, and doing the climb/cancel glitch to get in. Only the walls and the floor are solid though.
+* There is a glitch that allows you to enter Tony's office. Go to the doors that are in a little hallway next to the bar, and use option Go Through Doors. And you're in. You can also enter it, if you are in the bar, where the guy that hail drinks is. There are doors too, through which you can enter. You can do this by driving a bike into the club, parking it next to the door, and doing the climb/cancel glitch to get in. Only the walls and the floor are solid though.
+* The club's opening hours are from 9pm-6am, although there is a way to keep the club open all day and all night. When it's about 5:55am, go to the dance floor and start dancing. Once you've either completed the bus stop or have had sex with one of the female dancers, the club will remain open, no matter how much past 6am the time is. The only way to close the club is to leave and let the door shut all the way or pass out due to heavy drinking.
 == Gallery ==
-{| align="center"
+<gallery width="auto" perrow="3" style="font-size:95%; padding:0; text-align:left" widths="160">
-|<gallery width="auto" perrow="5" style="font-size:95%; padding:0;" widths="120">
+File:Maisonette9-TBOGT-poster.jpg|A poster for Maisonette 9.
-Maisonette_9.jpg|A poster for Maisonette 9.
+File:Maisonette9-TBOGT-poster2.jpg|Maisonette 9 "STARS" poster.
-MaisonettePoster1.jpg|Maisonette 9 "STARS" poster.
+File:Joni-TBOGT.png|Joni, one of the workers in the club. Often has sex with Luis Lopez
-Joni-TBOGT.png|Joni, one of the workers in the club. Often has sex with Luis Lopez
 </gallery>
-|}
+[[Category:Businesses in Liberty City in GTA IV Era]]
 [[Category:Nightclubs]]
 [[Category:Algonquin]]
-[[Category:Businesses in GTA IV]]
-[[Category:All Businesses]]