The Hookah Lounge

The Smokers Den is located in downtown Bloomington on Main Street is a very cool place and I would recommend everybody check it out at least once. Now the Smokers Den is a hookah lounge and when I went with buddies to this place I had a lot of preconceived notions about a place like this I felt like a hookah lounge was a place for hipsters and other random people but when I went inside the place was pretty cool it had a movie playing for their customers the movie Gladiator. Smoking hookah was one flat rate of only $5 regardless of how many people you are with so it is very cheap. The place was also packed we had to wait to be seated the only had seating in the lounge was in the front of the building. The owner told us that the basement was under construction and soon the whole top floor would be where the hookahs and different shisha (tobacco) will be on display while down stairs will become the lounge where you and your friends can enjoy the hookah. When we finally were seated we started striking up conversations with people all around us everybody there was really friendly and some people were pretty interesting. One person had been hitch hiking across the USA. Now the way a hookah works is on top is a bowl and that is where the shisha is placed under that is a wind guard and inside the wind guard is hot coals. Under the hot coals is a tube that runs down till it hits a plate which the tube goes through and only allows the tobacco smoke through the tube continues to go down father till it hits the end at the water jar where the smoke is released into the chamber to smooth out the smoke then finally the smoke travels out another tube and then finally to your mouth.