The Best Strip Clubs in West Palm Beach

The best strip club in West Palm Beach is Rachel's, a gentlemen's club and steakhouse that has been trading for more than four decades and is open from 3 p.m. to 5 a.m. every day. Hideaway Palm Beach on Old Okeechobee Road and Cheetah on Shawnee Avenue follow. Eight clubs make the list.

Here they are in the order we would send someone, with the reasoning underneath.

Rachel's is the room the city is known for. It pairs the club with a USDA Prime steakhouse and a sommelier's wine list, opens at 3 p.m. every day with a happy hour until 7, and runs to 5 a.m. Entry is 21 and over with valid ID.

Hideaway Palm Beach is the late-night pick: it opens at 8 p.m. and closes at 5 a.m., every night, with guest DJs, theme parties, a ladies' night and SIN Sundays for people who work in the service industry. Cheetah, on Shawnee Avenue, is the all-day club, with three stages, a full kitchen, a free lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and VIP bottle service.

ORA Ultra Cabaret on Southern Boulevard is built around bottle service and VIP packages, and has a kitchen of its own. Monroe's, on North Congress Avenue, has Legends Steakhouse inside and has run a feature-entertainer tournament for six years.

Ultra on South Congress Avenue is the full nude club. The Rose, just off Purdy Lane, opens at 11:30 a.m. every day. Spearmint Rhino runs a day-shift happy hour with half-price drinks until 8 p.m., seven days a week. Ranked on how much each club offers and how consistently its guests rate it.

West Palm Beach splits two ways. Rachel's, Monroe's and Cheetah are restaurants as much as clubs, with steaks or a full dinner menu, and they work for a long evening that starts at the table. Hideaway does not open until 8 p.m. and is built for the hours after midnight.

Nearly every club here stays open until 5 a.m., so closing time rarely decides it. Opening time does: Cheetah and The Rose open at 11:30 a.m., Monroe's and Ultra at 2 p.m. on most days, and Rachel's at 3 p.m.

If the vocabulary is new: a lap dance and a private dance are not always the same thing, and striptease is the stage show itself.

One club on Belvedere Road is missing because we could not find a website of its own to confirm it is still open. We would rather leave a club off than send you to a locked door.