What is there to like?
If you're in a pub there's generally music, you can actually hear people speak, you only really have to drink a couple of pints or less, less chance of getting groped/hit on by slobbering weirdos...
When I go to clubs I never really enjoy it because I think you need to get absolutely smashed to even start to enjoy it, and I can't drink much at all so that's kind of ruined to begin with... Then it's just hours of standing on a dancefloor sandwiched between other sweaty folk, can't hear anyone, can't really catch up, then you gotta leave the club in let's be honest frankly dodgy areas of town at frankly dodgy times in the morning...
Plenty of people enjoy it but it's just not for me. Maybe I don't have the right friends or haven't been to the right club (honestly, after the first few, I wrote them off altogether)... I prefer a pub or even a bar anyday.