Budapest Nightclubs, Budapest

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Had 8 nights stay in budapest, and i did a lot of clubbing and visited many places at the same night...

-First night was wednesday went to Bar Domby and Negro Both empty good cocktails though, then went to MOULIN ROUGE, this place is not that fancy and u can find very weird guys inside (on of them kept refusing to give the waiter an empty soda in front of him), but u can find beautiful girls inside and u ll keep dancing at least till 4 or 5..so over all goood place.

-Thursday I made a discovery a place called OTKERT, that place is not far from basilica heared about it, it was full of locals , very nice decor and gr8 drinks, and lots of beautiful girls who are hunting, gr8 place.

-Friday they told me about a place called DOKK CAFE in mamut, they said it s posh...mmm maybe on hungarian level and a lot of beautiful girls, i had 5 joining me because they saw i had lot of bottle of champagne in front of me, had one hell of a time there, if u tip the waiters u ll get great treatment...so remember that...
- Saturday Club Play, only go VIP i guess that where the beautiful girls are, amazing place, great music and very stylish everything inside and tried almost all the cocktails on the list most of them very good!
-Sunday happened to be halloween, visited the island both studio and Dokk club, studio was better and very nice, still u always have this feeling that it s not that crowded because it s veryyy big
- Monday it s dead except Morrison Pub Karaoke where plenty of erasmus students dance and sing the night away.
-Tuesday also not that busy day, it s bit difficult to find nights out..

Some other intresting pubs Instant, Most and szimpla are famous between locals, good place to start...
Last advice in budapest girls love guys well dressed and with money, so if u are expecting to get some it's the easiest way... A lot of girls told me that hungarian guys are not that top, many refered to them they are ***, I am sure there is exceptions of course but most of those exceptions have girlfriends, so if you are a tourist who wants to meet hungarian girls,dont be afraid of the hungarian language obstacle, u have other assets...Btw show u r a tourist in clubs, u ll get a lot of intrest. Hope my review will help other fellow travellers

Most clubs entry are 1500/2000 Ft ..VIP IS 5000 and u get to put ur coat for free + more beautiful girls and you wont get pushed around in the buzz. Drinks are around 1300 Ft to 1800 Ft , Local champagne From 3000 To 5000. Budapest taxi is a reliable taxi company but always call ur taxi if u want to go or come back from far night club

Dress Code: DRESS TO IMPRESS !!!

While I was walking on Vaci Ut two Croatian girls with Italian accent approached me asking for a street, I didn’t knew and they said they were on vacations and looking for a place to have drinks, if i want to join them, we walk few blocks to the Latin Bar with access thru elevator, we have few drinks and chat for 2 hrs, they were great actress, asking where are the toilets, never been in Budapest, etc, etc. When the bill came it was 215,000 Forint (1,100 usd) for 3 rounds of drinks, the waitress bring me the cheque and asked how I would like to pay, I told her by credit card and she said they dont accept it, but I can withdrow money from the ATM beside, then I saw the amount and need to take money from 3 different cards to get the total bill. I was confused with the exchange rate and realize that it was very expensive and asked the girls for the prices or help with the bill, they said they didn’t had money and did not knew the prices as there were theirs first time there… The waitress treat me to call the police if I dont pay the total bill. My vacation trip got ruined with this fraud and left me a very bad taste of Budapest. The girls were professionals actress, they work for the place and I end up paying a big bill.

Yep, as someone wrote down there, you can have really big parties on this island!

In the summer you have more places open, more times (from wed to sunday):
- Dokkolo: progressive house boat on thu,fri,sat, around 10pm-5am, no entry fee, around 500 faces
- Bed Beach: club/electro on wed,fri,sat, same time, 8eur entry fee, around 3000 faces. VIP 20eur, worth a visit.
- Dokk Beach: R&B on fri,sat, 4eur entry fee, closes around 5am, 2000 faces
- Coronita: progressive house afterparty and more... starts at 4am. On sat it is open until 12am, on sunday it "closes" at 5pm (13 hours after opening), but.... another club's after-afterparty opens at 5pm, and closes at around 5am, on monday...... 1000 faces, but it is sometimes opened together with Dokk, thus can swallow cca 3500 as well.
These all are within around 800meters.

In the winter:
- Studio opens each second week's saturday with around 5-6000 faces when full, great common party for everyone (4 eur cover fee), 10pm-5am. VIP around 20eur (I would never go for VIP...).
- Dokk opens each week's fri and sat, 10pm-5am, 4eur fee, around 3000 faces. VIP 20eur, does not really worth it, only if it's fullhouse. On friday it's dance/electro, on saturdays there are 1-2 more-or-less commonly known DJs invited; sometimes opened together with Studio as well to gather 8thousands!!!! faces....

All on these places the normal cocktails (bacardi+coke and something like that) are around 6eur, beer 3-4eur, water 2eur.

Also on the island, but further a bit, is MokkaCuka, for a bit slower rythms, mostly r&b/slow electro.

That's about the island...

Addresses:
studio-eh.hu
clubcoronita.hu
dokkclub.hu
dokkbeach.hu
bedbeach.hu

Dress Code: In the summer you'll find a white party once each month on Bed Beach, wednesday. You'll have to wear full white (except shoes). Otherwise, there is absolutely no dress code. Most people come in jeans and some trendy t-shirt - you can be a bit more elegant if you want to show you're full.... Girls really do like that..

For girls... you can almost wear anything you'd like (except for the white party), the less the better :-)

Sorry I cannot comment "jlfloyd on June 26, 2008".
homeclubbbudapest is closed at all :-(
but what he wrote about, is "rio" and "zold pardon".Rio is open only in the summer.

Anyway, if you want to check what's up, go on http://partyphoto.hu/. Even if it's hungarian, up there you'll find what's up on the closest dates, or you can check your dates on the right in the calendar. Everything is written 1 week ahead..

Dress Code: almost nowhere.

Budapest? Nightlife? Where to go out?

Join to the Budapest Pub Crawl called "AllNightCrash". This is the best (and maybe the cheapest)way to know Budapest's underground nightlife, to walk around the streets downtown, to know many bars, and clubs (even outdoor places) where the local people have fun as well.
Free shots, all night long!!! The AllnightCrash guys show you the real face of Budapest.
Must-known Experience..

Phone: +3630 2025600
Address: check out webite
Directions: Inner city, VII. district, Margaret Island, etc
Website: www.allnightcrash.com

This is a cool night club that is an open air complex. It has multiple bars and 2 dance floors, one with techno and one with American hip-hop music. Its a really fun place with both locals and people from all over the world. Its a bit more expensive than other clubs I heard of in Budapest, with cover for girls being free and guys were 1000HUF. A mixed drink will set you back 1300 HUF. Its a fun place though and is open until the sun rises.

Dress Code: More than casual, but not particularly dressed up. I think shorts or jerseys for men is not okay, but jeans and nicer shirts are accepted. They advertise they use face control, but I dont know how strict that is.

As two 20 year old University students we were well up for checking out some of Budapest's nightlife on a recent trip to the City. We spend Monday-Friday in the city and although we were worried that it would be a bit dead, it really wasn't.

Monday night - The whole city in general was a bit quiet, maybe because it was a Monday but also because the weather was horrible. We went to a few bars and then returned to our hotel and asked behind the desk where we could go. We were guided to a club called Morrisons 2 (owned by the same people as Morrisons Music Pub near the Opera House) which is situated not too far from the metro station Nyugati Pu. The underground, cellar club was brilliant for a quirky, European night out with the ever popular Karaoke room and seperate rooms for popular music and another room playing a different selection of music. Drinks were average priced (similar to at home as we found in most places). Many of the patrons were young with the off older Hungarian male who was into pulling a younger girl! The club filled up at around midnight and people seemed to file out at about 2am when the karaoke finished and only the main dance floor remained open.

Tuesday night - We went to the School Klub (Student Union) also in Pest near Kalvin ter metro station. It was another interesting basement club, in a huge town-hall looking building but very cool. Free internet was provided upstairs with the dancefloor downstairs (and again a seperate area for karaoke). The club filled up at around 2am and was still busy when we left at around 3.30am. It played trance and dance music with the odd popular British tune. There were more drinks offers here. Patrons were university student aged mainly.

Wednesday night - We heard that Moulin Rouge club was popular on a Wednesday (as it had been closed both on Monday or Tuesday). We thought that this club looked a little posh so dressed up a bit, although my friend still got in wearing trainers and jeans. The club was more expensive than the other clubs we had been to and by 1am was absolutely heaving, which wasn't really comfortable. The club was beautiful, in an old theatre with tiers and private VIP boxes it was brilliant. Music was hardcore trance and European dance music which was hardly recognisable. The patrons here were very very scary for 2 young females and many of them seemed to be members of the Hungarian mafia. Average age was around 25. We left early due to general fear of the huge beefy men in leather jackets.

Thursday night - We went to Morrsions music pub near the Opera House that others have talked about on this forum. It was a really good night, similar to Morrisons 2 but slightly bigger. The music was around the same and on this night it was busy and had a good crowd (although many of the males are touchy and we saw one man steal a girls bag). Nonetheless it was good for a dance, busy by midnight and when we left at 2.30am was still busy. Try the Morrsions Vodka, as although it doesn't actually taste like Vodka and more like Sherry, it's pretty cheap.

Dress Code: Pretty much could get away with anything.

The two words to know for Budapest are kerts ("gardens") and romkocsma ("ruin-pubs"). Do a search for "Budapest kert" and you'll get a bevy of articles written about most of the best places. However, some of the newest ones you'll have to ask around.

Corvinteto (corvinteto.com) is great as it is on the roof of an old department store. Szimpla (szimpla.hu) is the "original kert." Piaf Klub is a really interesting and maybe a bit scary bunch of clientele in the early hours of the morn when everywhere else is closed. (piafklub.hu)

A38 ship is a cool venue (a38.hu) on the Buda side. Zold Pardon (zp.hu) is a beer garden and music venue at night frequented by students of the nearby uni.

There's also a 24 party club scene going on Hajogyari Island in III which you may be interested in. Do a search for "hajogyari sziget" or "hajogyari island" for more articles and info.

Check out the decent recs on these pages for things I missed:

http://wikitravel.org/en/Budapest/Pest#Drink.
http://wikitravel.org/en/Budapest/Buda#Drink

Have a great time!