We went to The Townhouse last night as both our first club and first swinging experience. We took advantage of the 'free Friday night admission for couples if you register on-line' offer that's on their website.
The owner put us at our ease, gave us the ground rules and lots of useful advice, and then one of the bar staff gave us a full tour of the facilities. The bar staff were incredibly friendly, as were most of the guests, though some of the couples didn't seem to want to bother with us and were perhaps happy in their own cliques.
As first timers, we have no benchmark to compare it to, but we felt that the facilities were clean and mostly well planned. We had expected to see some other couples having fun to get us into the mood, but we seemed to be the first couple to get things going.
Unfortunately, we did find the behaviour of some of the singles rather offputting. Maybe being watched silently wouldn't have been a problem, but the loud conversation and laughter that was coming from some of the guys was a real mood killer, and had us on the verge of leaving at one point.
We returned to the bar and paired off with a couple who we'd previously met in the spa pool. We found one room that would have been ideal for us to play, except for the fact that it had a viewing window with a congregation of singles on the other side. We ended up in a private room that had two double beds, which had to be pushed together to make room for the four of us to properly interact.
Overall, the positive points heavily outweighed the negative and we wouldn't hesitate to go back, maybe trying a BDSM night next time around. If we could make one change, it would be to add the option of privacy to some of the larger rooms so that couples can play without being watched.