Portland Dance Clubs
Ararat
Specifically: Until 6am / $5 Cover
Armenian disco that attracts the whole eastern Euro bloc sect, often open until 6am on weekends.
Aura
Good happy hour, decent food, lovely design, professional service...the crowds however, kill it.
Branx
Rotture's downstairs pool/gaming room.
CC Slaughter's
On a scale of 1-10, 1 being there may be some gays holding hands here, and 10 being you will definitely see naked gay boys, this is an 11.
Cuda Beach Club
New name for Barracuda - the longstanding mainstay of Portland's very own Jersey Shore set.
Dirty
Specifically: Two Dance Floors
Meat market for suburban set, located in the heart of the date rape district.
Element
Newish downtown "Martini bar" and dance club that's a fav of the younger Blazers.
Embers
Queer-ish Dance Club
Fez Ballroom
Big dance club with big personality.
Grand Cafe
Popular karaoke bar attached to a Latin dance club.
Groove Suite
Multi-room lounge with dancing and sofas thrown in intermittently.
Holocene
Pretty much only open during events. Runs the gamut of live music, DJs, cartoon breakfasts and gay dance parties. Oh, and hipsters galore clog the sidewalk while waiting for admission or smoking.
Lola's Room
Bouncy floor dance club, heavy on the 80s, set beneath the Crystal Ballroom.
Lotus Cardroom
Perfect around happy hour, CEG's finest establishment slowly transforms from downtown 9-5 drone lunch crowd, to bump'n'grind meat market in a span of 6 hours.
Ponderosa Lounge
Huge truckstop honky-tonk, offers free dance lessons, all things C&W.
Red Cap Garage
Specifically: sunken dance floor
Mainstay of the "Vaseline Alley," with loads of cheap offerings and debauchery.
