Nightlife Review: Buenos Aires
As we have done nothing else the last few days but go out, we thought we´d do a review on the top night spots in BA. Overall ratings are out of 10, the higher the better in our opinion:
Million
3 levels of converted mansion, high ceilings, restaurant area, unisex toilets. It was really packed and unless you find a seat they have the most riddiculous system for buying drinks, once more you have to pay to get a ticket and then give the ticket to someone else that gives you your drink. This made it hell at the bar. It was a nice looking place but the wannabe restaurant manager was extremely arrogant and too above our group to take a picture of us, she took the camera, clicked it at the floor and literally threw it back.
Overall rating:6
Opera Bay
Typical purpose built club, inspired vaguely by the Sydney Opera House. People had raved about this one but we weren´t that impressed. There was 4 different areas, we spent most of our time in the outside!
Getting in was a nightmare because they separate guys and girls and that causes caos, the girls get in first and then refuse to go in until their partners get allowed in, so it´s a huge mess.
The music was shockingly bad, you kept thinking to yourself "what am I doing here", and the DJ made some ear bleeding transitions between tracks. Too many teenagers.
Great to watch the sun rise over the city. Drinks were decently priced. Entry to the club twenty five pesos (about five pounds).
Overall rating:7
Ink
Very cool small nightclub, packed even at 6am on a Sunday/Monday. Silly bar system still applied here, but you didn´t have to wait so long. Great music, great club, wrote a whole blog entry on this one before.
Overall rating:9
Jobs
Aw WHAT WAS THIS PLACE!!!! It was very weird huge wharehouse type building, felt like a huge youth center with pool tables and benches, and a real mix of ages. It isn´t smokey because they passed a law here recently, but it feels like it ought to be. The music was unrecognisable because of the size of the place but none the less you had to shout at people to be heard.
It did have one very cool thing though, you could have a proper go at archery. They had instructors, targets and proper sharp arrows (which could have been worrying had it not been for the glass screen). More worrying was that Chris had a go and managed to hit the bulls eye despite being "slightly" intoxicated.
Entry ten pesos which included a beer.
Overall rating:4
La Cigual
We got there at 4am so probably a bit late but it was cool. It had good music, it was like a bar with a small dancefloor, quite latin feel. The boys drank Mumm champagne for 6 pounds a bottle. Luckery I was drinking water so I could point out all the lady-boys and posh prostitutes to them, and make sure they didn´t make any errors.
Overall rating:8
The Casino
We didn´t exactly get in, they wanted documents to prove age from some of us (I was gutted they didn´t ask me, but then I don´t think I´ve been asked since I was 15!).
I went in briefly to find a friend and....what a hole. It might have chandelliers but it is tacky, tacky, TACKY!
There was an overwhelming amount of sleazy old men, and it had a horrible vibe. It´s free to get in but thumbs down to the Casino.
By the way it´s on a boat, aparently it is illegal to gamble but they get away with it because it´s on the water.
Overall rating: 0
Kilkenny
Your feet stick to the floor if you stay still for too long. it{s like the Queen Vic only dirtier, smellier and darker. Hiddeous music, just yuck.
Overall rating: 0
Asia de Cuba
This is were the elite go aparently, and I can well believe it because it was fourty pesos to get in, that´s eight pounds! Luckily we knew a guy, who knew another guy, so we paid twenty.
Scrutinised heavily by the bouncer on the outside, we were deemed as worthy and allowed in after a short power wait that made him feel important (the rolls on the back of his head should have made him feel pretty unique).
Once inside we found probably the best place. The music was brilliant, and there was a great atmosphere. It was fairly big, very packed, and had a massive sculpture of a dragon with red eyes in the middle of it (irrelevant I know, but it was pretty cool). Drinks were expensive and frozen, and bar staff mega arrogant once more, but this one gets the thumbs up.
Overall rating: 9
Rumi
Again, a posh joint for the rich Argentines. Small and packed, playing trance music until 6am to a not so crazy dance floor. Drinks are expensive here, but we all had a massive night and got totally sloshed.
Overall rating: 8
Million
3 levels of converted mansion, high ceilings, restaurant area, unisex toilets. It was really packed and unless you find a seat they have the most riddiculous system for buying drinks, once more you have to pay to get a ticket and then give the ticket to someone else that gives you your drink. This made it hell at the bar. It was a nice looking place but the wannabe restaurant manager was extremely arrogant and too above our group to take a picture of us, she took the camera, clicked it at the floor and literally threw it back.
Overall rating:6
Opera Bay
Typical purpose built club, inspired vaguely by the Sydney Opera House. People had raved about this one but we weren´t that impressed. There was 4 different areas, we spent most of our time in the outside!
Getting in was a nightmare because they separate guys and girls and that causes caos, the girls get in first and then refuse to go in until their partners get allowed in, so it´s a huge mess.
The music was shockingly bad, you kept thinking to yourself "what am I doing here", and the DJ made some ear bleeding transitions between tracks. Too many teenagers.
Great to watch the sun rise over the city. Drinks were decently priced. Entry to the club twenty five pesos (about five pounds).
Overall rating:7
Ink
Very cool small nightclub, packed even at 6am on a Sunday/Monday. Silly bar system still applied here, but you didn´t have to wait so long. Great music, great club, wrote a whole blog entry on this one before.
Overall rating:9
Jobs
Aw WHAT WAS THIS PLACE!!!! It was very weird huge wharehouse type building, felt like a huge youth center with pool tables and benches, and a real mix of ages. It isn´t smokey because they passed a law here recently, but it feels like it ought to be. The music was unrecognisable because of the size of the place but none the less you had to shout at people to be heard.
It did have one very cool thing though, you could have a proper go at archery. They had instructors, targets and proper sharp arrows (which could have been worrying had it not been for the glass screen). More worrying was that Chris had a go and managed to hit the bulls eye despite being "slightly" intoxicated.
Entry ten pesos which included a beer.
Overall rating:4
La Cigual
We got there at 4am so probably a bit late but it was cool. It had good music, it was like a bar with a small dancefloor, quite latin feel. The boys drank Mumm champagne for 6 pounds a bottle. Luckery I was drinking water so I could point out all the lady-boys and posh prostitutes to them, and make sure they didn´t make any errors.
Overall rating:8
The Casino
We didn´t exactly get in, they wanted documents to prove age from some of us (I was gutted they didn´t ask me, but then I don´t think I´ve been asked since I was 15!).
I went in briefly to find a friend and....what a hole. It might have chandelliers but it is tacky, tacky, TACKY!
There was an overwhelming amount of sleazy old men, and it had a horrible vibe. It´s free to get in but thumbs down to the Casino.
By the way it´s on a boat, aparently it is illegal to gamble but they get away with it because it´s on the water.
Overall rating: 0
Kilkenny
Your feet stick to the floor if you stay still for too long. it{s like the Queen Vic only dirtier, smellier and darker. Hiddeous music, just yuck.
Overall rating: 0
Asia de Cuba
This is were the elite go aparently, and I can well believe it because it was fourty pesos to get in, that´s eight pounds! Luckily we knew a guy, who knew another guy, so we paid twenty.
Scrutinised heavily by the bouncer on the outside, we were deemed as worthy and allowed in after a short power wait that made him feel important (the rolls on the back of his head should have made him feel pretty unique).
Once inside we found probably the best place. The music was brilliant, and there was a great atmosphere. It was fairly big, very packed, and had a massive sculpture of a dragon with red eyes in the middle of it (irrelevant I know, but it was pretty cool). Drinks were expensive and frozen, and bar staff mega arrogant once more, but this one gets the thumbs up.
Overall rating: 9
Rumi
Again, a posh joint for the rich Argentines. Small and packed, playing trance music until 6am to a not so crazy dance floor. Drinks are expensive here, but we all had a massive night and got totally sloshed.
Overall rating: 8
posted by Chris at 2:09 PM
1 Comments:
sadly you have been to more nightclubs in the last week than i have been to in the last 5 years. you put me to shame!
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