Weekend at Bernie’s Beach Club

I’ve been Vacationing in OOB for the past several years and it’s not a drunken OOB night if you don’t wander in to Bernie’s. This place dresses itself up as a small club and plays your standard top 40 rap/​dance music. It does have a nice balcony overlooking the amusement park but the music blasting will drown out any good conversions you’d want to have outside.
The problem with Bernie’s is that they will over-​serve anyone and they attract some of your typical beach newly-​21-​year-​old-​doucebags that come out at night looking to scum up the OOB nightlife. It’s the hit sleazy place to be when you’re out way too late.
Do I want to go to Bernie’s again? Definitely not. Will I go again? Probably, yes. This is because it’s the type of place where a group of night wanderers want to go because it’s a good location downtown and the music pulls in ladies who will dance in a porta potty as long as they keep Beyonce in the rotation.

This place is disgusting do not go here owners are drunk don’t care what’s going on. They serve drinks to people who are way to drunk to stand. This place is the worst establishment I’ve been to in oob. They really deserve 0 stars. Jack and coke taste like they use some really cheap whiskey instead of Jack Daniels. Trust me pass on this place you’ll have a better time anywhere else. Security is crap too I had some drunk guy come try to steal my girls drink almost hit him but resisted security was no where to be found. TERRIBLE BUSINESS SHUT DOWN!!!

Everyone seemed to be too drunk to be served but everyone was still being served…
The outside area is nice, but one person complaining about beer prices being too high while drinking two beers at once and asking my name and my friends’ name at least 3 times can ruin anything. Especially when he starts smoking saying ‘I know I’m not supposed to up here’.
The music was standard club music.
We were getting stared at… maybe it was just a local thing.

This place is basically a train wreck. But we all still like to stare, right?
Came here with some friends while on vacation. Sat on the upstairs outdoor deck and stared in awe at some of the crazy behavior. Between the 90’s throwback music and the stripper pole… there was certainly a lot to see.
It seemed the owner was drinking and dancing with the patrons because I later saw her cleaning the restroom and drunkenly complaining about the smell. (How has bar rescue not been here yet?)
Can’t say I would go back but it certainly was an experience that everyone should witness at least once.

NEVER EVER, the music is SO LOUD you could hear it from two blocks away. I have seen some ratty run-​down crappy places, but this is the worst!!! They must have the police department on payola to run their noise machine through the night. The only consolation — music that loud is proven to cause male sterility… YAYYY — the gene pool won’t be able to sustain itself!

This place is a dump. We witnessed a hooker drink zero drinks and work the pole for about an hour. It is a dive bar created for simpletons.

Went here last night (8÷19÷13). The security here was rude. We had barely sat down at the bar (hadn’t even put our drink order in) when the upstairs bouncer pull my sister-in-law’s boyfriend aside and told him to «keep [my sister-​in-​law] from having too much fun.»
I found out and talked to the bouncer and asked him what was up. He said that he’s been doing this for 13 years and he knows trouble when he sees it. All my sister-​in-​law did was decide to start dancing first thing when we got there.
We decided to leave and on our way out, I talked to two security guards mentioning that the bouncer upstairs was rude. They said that they think they’ll «be fine without our business.» The upstairs bouncer also followed us all the way out. We weren’t causing a scene, didn’t raise our voices, we did nothing to provoke this kind of treatment. I don’t enjoy being harassed by the staff at a club where I haven’t done anything wrong.
My in-​laws and their friends have been to this place a bunch of times before and had a good time. I don’t know why the security had chips on their shoulders last night, but I won’t be going back and I don’t recommend this place to anyone else who actually WANTS TO HAVE FUN, because apparently it’s not allowed.

NEVER OPEN A TAB HERE. I had six drinks there, 2 of which were taken care of with cash. I left my card there and called the next day and they met me and said I owed MORE money. I thought this was for the drinks that were not taken care of, but then I checked my account and they has already charged me another $ 50. I told them that I know exactly what I got and the 4 remaining drinks would not come out to $ 70 total. Jane or Jill, the old bag who runs it with Bernie told me to come in and she would give me drinks. BS. I dont want that places weak and water downed drinks. I want this company to NOT be able to charge cards without authorization. I have opened a case with my bank and I also know several figures in Old Orchard Beach, because I own in Ocean Park, so they are fully aware of this place and everyone will know that this place cannot be trusted. It was a dive bar and the woman who owns it was swinging from the stripper pole… enough said.
Never will return and will always tell people outside going in how this business is run.

Now that the Ho-​asis and the Gay-​laxy are defunct where in OOB are you gonna go to let loose and dance the night away? Berndizzles ya’ll! They pretty much let you get as hammered as you want up in this place as long as you don’t bother anybody. $ 1.50 jello shots and affordable drink prices. I’ve never had to pay a cover charge and the owner and his wife are there all the time mixing it up with the patrons. Watch out for when Bernie gets the smoke machine going on the dance floor. He tends to get a little carried away with it. Newly renovated bathrooms and a great deck over looking Palace Playland make this a great stop on any summers day or evening.
FYI — If you happen to spot a dude with moves like Jagger when you visit, that’s Andy aka Weebles Pops. Buy him a Bud diesel, sit back and enjoy the show.
Viva Bernie’s!