Loafers Beach Club

My wife and I come to Raleigh once a year for the Farm Show and on Thursday night we go out for BBQ (Chop Shop just down the road) and country line dancing. We were pleasantly surprised by Loafers laid back atmosphere. The dance lesson for the night was the 2-step and the instructor was excellent. This is a small, intimate dance club with an extremely nice crowd. We stayed for about 3 hours and knew so many people, who were all excellent dancers and willing to help you learn. The music isn't so loud that you can't have a conversation with your neighbors. The drinks a really good and not as expensive as most dance clubs. This is going on our list of places to go in future visits.

Great people - it's a bar-room partnered dance club with County, Shag, and swing dancing on different nights. The place is a dive, the worst in Raleigh, so there's that. Worst of all, for AC, there are just a bunch of small windows units and fans blowing. So its a real dump.

Loafers.... it's fabulous! There was a mixture of people of all ages. Everyone was having good, clean fun. The music was great! The food was delicious. The bar tender was very efficient and fast. Friendly people in a friendly atmosphere. It was my very first visit, but I was with a friend who had been there many times before. If you want to have a good time and you enjoy meeting people, dancing, and enjoying a good cocktail, this is a great venue to check out! I will definitely be going back again. Even though we drove 100 miles to get there! Next time, I'll get a hotel room so I can stay later.

Excellent venue! We were a touch confused at the entrance with applying for membership. But the woman at the ticker counter was lovely and very kind. We paid the fee which was expected. And are looking forward to membership! Excellent class spent an hour learning an intermediate / advanced dance move. We had a great time. Can't say enough good things about loafers.

I've been in the ball room dance scene a while but never got the chance to go to Loafers despite the good things I had heard. Finally, my friend and I got some free time and went to check it out and wanted to catch the tail end of the 2 step class. When we entered the person at the door was pretty rude. She would not let us in because we weren't members, ok fine. But then she said "all the single men have already left" which to my friend and I, we felt like she thought we were there to pick up men. To which we both in unison stated, "we don't care, we're both married, we're here to learn two step". Believe me, we're both in our 40s and, weren't dressed provocatively, I mean neither of us showed any cleavage so I'm not sure where her assumption came from. All of our questions from them on were met with dismissive responses. We were miffed by all of this and abruptly left. Not going back, she left abad taste in our mouths... Also, I know the person who runs the 2 step classes and I don't have the heart to tell her we'll never go to her class at Loafers because of the door person. I'm sure she'll figure it out.

The wifey and I went for Dance lessons... Had to buy an annual membership, but that was only $10 and the 1st lesson was free. The dance instructor and the entire Loafers staff there were all incredibly friendly and made it fun. Even the other dance class members were fun snd helpful.

Loafers is a private club and these people are not members. Sometimes, folks will come after partying at another club and want to get in to use restroom or grab another drink. It is posted at our door that we are private. Many times, we feel they could already be under the influence or we are uncertain as to how much they have drank. It is really unfair that folks can post negative post and that venue can’t explain the real deal. One that posted was trying to come in and we felt she had already had too much of a party and refused to leave. No one was rude, just firm and she didn’t do well with that.