Whaler — Restaurant in Old Orchard Beach

I’ve had 2 bad experiences now at this bar both times we’ve gone. The first time they were playing slow depressing country music but we stayed and endured through it. We were running a bar tab and toward the end of the evening I tried to pay. I was literally trying to flag the bartender down who would look at me and then serve a male customer (I am female) who approached the bar way after me. She was laughing and flirting. I went to the other end of the bar thinking she couldn’t ignore me because she virtually had to walk past me. This kept happening! I couldn’t believe it! I had to have my husband go in to pay the tab and he sure got served. What the??? We decided to still go a second time. This time was WORSE. It was still pretty early in the evening and the bar wasn’t busy. They were still playing the super depressing slow country music and we wanted to have fun and play more upbeat music. We were buying drinks, tipping well and PAID for music from the Touch tunes. It was more modern dance music and we were enjoying it. Suddenly the music stopped in the middle of our song and there was silence. No music was played until our music in the queue was over. We sat in silence and then the same old (were talking 70s-80s) old country music came back on. We couldn’t believe that because we actually had PAID FOR THAT MUSIC! We were shocked. I had to contact Touch tunes to get a refund because the Whaler had stolen money from us in doing this. If you want to have a good upbeat time this bar is definitely not the place for you. I will never go back. The bloody Mary’s didn’t even taste good either- flat and bland. We will not be...

So this is a shout out to Laura the bartender at this bar. Or should I say “her bar”. Most suspicious bar tender I’ve ever encountered. She has taken my ID and passed it down the bar to men I have not seen a day in my life to “verify its real”. She has been over the top disrespectful to me and my friends every time we come into this bar. She accused my friend of being intoxicated. Which it’s a bar… isn’t that the point?? Anyway. The accusation was wrong. She was the designated driver & Laura’s reasoning for us getting kicked out was because we “went to the bathroom first instead of ordering a drink” Laura straight up admitted to that is why we were getting kicked out… because we I went pee before I ordered a drink HAHAHA. Insane. Then she says “see the people getting in a fight over there? I thought you were with them so that’s another reason I asked you to leave” she pointed to a group of people getting in a fight and said that’s why WE were getting kicked out. GO DEAL WITH THE PEOPLE FIGHTING. So wack. This review was jumping all over the place but what I’m trying to say is if you’re a group of pretty girls avoid this bar unless you want to be disrespected...

it's clearly biased I only walked in after I worked 60+ hours and got denied thinking that I'm drunk this place is not worth it and they never said the reason they denied me when I walked in the second time asking how do they think im drunk they clearly didn't want to serve i just wanted to them to say they didn't wanted to serve no more but people buzzed out of there minds still keeps getting served excused my grammar im very frustrated after walking two miles...