Bachelor Party - Portland, OR

Portland lacks nightlife. Great day time drinking city tho. Best area to say in is pearl. Just bar hop, so many places.

Awesome. Thanks! Gives me a good starting point.

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So, East Portland (Buckman)...not Downtown is the place to be?

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Downtown may be a bit more convenient but more expensive too.

To further illustrate:

East Side Breweries:







West Side Breweries:







West side is a little more upscale and fancy. East side is a little more laid back and hipsterish.

I would stay within 7-8 blocks of Burnside. That is the main road dividing North Portland from South Portland. All of those breweries that I showed you are within walking distance of Burnside. The Westside breweries in the photos are all within 3 blocks of each other. The Pearl district is in NW Portland, but there is plenty of bars and restaurants south of Burnside in SW Portland, as well. The Pearl is going to be expensive, but you may find cheaper accomodations just west of I-405 near Providence Park. That is still walking distance, or a short Uber. There is also a Fred Meyer right there, and you can stock up on everything, there.

Portland is easy to get around in. It is divided into quadrants: NW, SW, NE, and SE. Burnside divides the city into N and S. The Willamette River (it's pronouced wil-LAM-it, damnit) divides the city into E and W. If you are north of Burnside and west of the river, all of the street names will be prefaced with NW.

For example: 100 NW 14th Ave is in the 100 block North of Burnside and 14 blocks west of the river.

There are two 14th Avenues in Portland. One is on the east side of the river, and the other is on the west side of the river. 1st Avenue runs parallel to the river on both sides. The one on the west side is either NW 1st Ave or SW 1st Ave, depending on whether you are north of Burnside St or south of Burnside St. The one on the east side of the river is either NE 1st Ave, or SE 1st Ave, again, depending on where you are, relative to Burnside.

The numbered streets go up as you go away from the river, so if you find yourself on SW 20th Ave, you are south of Burnside and 20 blocks west of the river.

So look at the street numbers and you'll be able to orient yourself. Hope that wasn't too confusing.

Man - Serious props! Much appreciated!

I did a Portland bach Party summer of 2015 we drove down from Seattle where the wedding was. I sober drove which sucked, but was worth it. The best man screwed it up, we were supposed to limo or stay the night and he was a terrible best man. There's an obscene amount of strip clubs there.

There's a ton of Strip clubs and we went to 4. The best were:
Casa Diablo: They put things in things....All the time...basically watching a live girl on girl porn half the time. I'm not kidding at all. I would say its one step above Mexico type stuff. It was out by itself though definitely have to uber. Only use $2 bills which was BS but worth it.

Devil's Point: Real small place maybe 5-6 girls working but they were all amazing dancers, very good looking, and the roll car for the bachelor was literally a 10/10. There were 2-3 other clubs within 1 block but the others sucked.

We drove down around noon and drank/ people watched/ bar hopped. Then went to the strip clubs until 1, then drove back. Sucked for me, but was a blast for sure.

ETA:I didn't plan it and didn't really know the guy that did but we had to drive 4 different times I think. I'm sure there was better walkable stuff, but both the strip clubs above seemed by themselves more so than in an area with bars and what not.

Casa Diablo
Union Jacks
Devils Point


...supposedly a good Ribeye at one of these joints..?

I would add Pine State Biscuits on the eastside to your list. Good stuff after a night of drinking!

Know anything about woodsman tavern or the country cat?