Dresden Nightlife

This "balcony over Europe" is a great place for people watching. A short walk from the Semper Opera and the Zwinger, the Bruehlsche Terrasse is the place to see and be seen or to catch a glimpse of the beautiful Elbe river.

Dress Code: Come as you are!

PLANWIRTSCHAFT - It´s a nice bar in Neustadt. Here you can enjoy delicous food and the athmosphere of GDR times.
Doreen, Richie and me had one of our meetings there. We enjoyed the beer there...;)
and it´s own of the bars where you can find a delicous brunch on sunday.

Dress Code: students look

If you will be in Dresden you must go in the NEUSTADT. There you can find a lot of bars, pubs and some discopubs. A lot of young people and students like to spend their nights in this area.

Dress Code: You can wear normal clothes like jeans and shirt or it´s better to say like a students dress.

Bottums up you will find in the Neustadt of Dresden. It´s a little pub mostly for students where you can sit outside in the sommer or inside on comportable couches. In this pub you can drink belgian beer - Duvel. I had the pleasure to have a meeting with Richie & Doreen there in 2002 and 2004. Perfectly we have drunken some glasses of Duvel.
In addition you can eat some snacks there.

Dress Code: students look

Strange but true, we ended to places with same name both in Dresden and Leipzig. However, the Dresden version was a better experience. We found this place by asking from locals where you should go on Saturday evening in Dresden.

The place contains several floors and dance areas, and it was totally packed with people. Drinks were pretty cheap, but you could not really find a place to enjoy your drink. So you'd better concentrate on dancing. And the place gets HOT with so many people in it...

In the upstairs there is a pool area, and we even got a table to play on. It was a bit chillier upstairs, so you can get some breaks here after hard dance sessions.

And there really were locals in this place. We couldn't identify any tourists in the place besides us...

I managed to drop my jacket here by accident, if someone has seen it, send me mail..:)

Dress Code: Be trendy.

Go to a Concert on the Elb in July or August. This picture was taken from the Ärzte Concert in August of 2004. We were outside of the concert and relaxed on the grass with thousand of other people who listened the music of this band. It was fun and we had this great background of the other side of the Elb. And it was a cheap possibilty instead of buying a ticket for this concert...
Every year in July and August are the "Filmnaechte" on the Elb where you have such great concerts or you can watch open air movies.

"Dresden Unity Night" is only one time every year. It?s mostly in october. There you can go in a lot?s of locations like bars with music, discos. You have to pay one time for all locations and get a ribbon on your hand and so you can go in all these locations in the Altstadt of Dresden. they are close by the Altmarkt.
And the highlight of this night is the big firework on the Altmarkt! It? s beautiful!!
On that way we have often fireworks on the weekends on the elb.

Dress Code: disco look but have a warm jacket if you wanna move the locations. It´s cold in october in germany.

this is the most enjoyable area to be at night. This part of town has a very special own charactar where you will find lots of places to eat and drink for all different kind of travelers budget. also, there are hostels located (e.g. Mondpalast). The area is save, but not as clean. However, bars and restaurants are highly recommended. send me an e-mail and i will take you around for an evening or night trip with my friends.

Dress Code: no dresscode.