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Clubbing tips
The Clubs:
General: Speak to various people, locals who run decent clothes shops, concierges, other tourists as to where to go on which nights and then make your mind up. From what I can tell some clubs come and go, get renamed and if there newish then they will be busy.
Cameo: Attracts age crowd 20 - 25, Friday nights are hard hip hop - busy, Sat nights - dance / house, not so busy. People I found are generally easier to talk to. No attitude on the door about who they let in. How refreshing.
Mansion: Friday / Sat nights - always busy. Friday can be too busy, plays house, rock, hip hop and Mash ups. The latter if your not familiar is where the DJ plays a tune, and you think I love this tune, after 40 secs he they starts to play another one and you WTF. This is obviously popular in Miami I guess otherwise the DJ wouldn't do it. Again, crowd is 20 - 25. More attitude in here, its kinda of like I'm hot and I know it place. Very loud in main dance room, you can barely speak to anyone without shouting. You will have to wait to get in if your male
SET: 3 floors, if your guys, you have to wait, even if no one else is queuing, they like a strict 50-50 girl guy ratio. Attracts a mixture of people and ages, but tend to be 25 upwards.
Tantra: Awesome place on Mondays - get in there if you can. Go early, 10:30pm. For girls I suggest you get there early than most clubs as it's so small they may have to turn you down but if you're seriously hot I doubt it LOL. You won't be disappointed. Best DJ I've heard whilst I was in Miami and I should know I do most big clubs in Ibiza. Mixture of ages, though only saw one group of girls that looked under 23 and they kinda looked out of place.
The Delano: Go on to the Rose Bar for drinks until 1-1.30am on a Tues or sat / sun. Serious hot girls and guys. Its ultra chic. Try and get RSVP through hotel Delano (free obviously if your staying at the Delano) via your concierge to get you into the Florida rooms, the club round the side.
Mokai: 220 capacity, quite dark and loud, serious eye candy for both sexes. Good music on a Tuesday, good to go to, straight after the Delano.
Club Space: Only gets going 2am plus. When we arrived at 5am people were still flocking in. Go on a Friday or Sat only. We left at 7.30am and it was still rocking.
Nikki Beach: Ultra chilled, bit of the Ibiza vibe going on here during the
day. We went off season (September), and it wasn't busy but I imagine in
season this is awesome.
Hotel Gaansvoort: The rooftop party on a Thursday is supposed to be wicked. We never went as we had this night off.
ID requirements:
We had to carry our passports everywhere with us just in case and me and my friend are both 32 and 33! These are the bars / clubs asking for ID...
Mansion, Dolce, Wet Willies, SET, Mango's
...and those that didn't...
Finnegans, Playwright, Lost weekend, Waxy O Connors, the duece - all dive bars.
Clubs: Tantra, Mokai, Cameo and we were not asked at Dolce either. I think this was plainly because we look a lot older than 21. Some people clearly weren't though (i.e. had fake id probably) and thats why the door men had have to ask for Id I guess.
Getting in Clubs:
If your a guy or a group of guys to ensure entrance without queuing either have:
1) A hot girl on your arm, two is better.
2) Get bottle service
3) If in a group split up into two's and get to the big clubs early, 11ish
If your a girl, just get there looking hot, i.e. with your chest hanging out with a short skirt - don't worry you won't be alone in doing this, and its hot enough to do, then if you can catch the bouncer eye and say two girls, and heh presto you bypass the queue. If they try and charge cover, come straight out to the bouncer and say the covers too much to pay entrance. He will ensure you get in for free or at least cheaper. However its likely you won't be charged anything at all.
Cover (entrance) prices
Expect to pay the following if your a guy.
Mokai, Florida rooms, cameo, SET, Opium / Prive, Club Nikki / Pearl, Space - $20
Mansion $30
Tantra $40
No charges at Dive bars or places on Ocean Drive.
Drinks Prices
These are pretty much the same everywhere in the clubs / decent bars:
$8 for a Heineken, corona, $12 for a spirit and mixer, usually the same for a shot as well, cocktails $14 dollars. Red Bull is $9 a can in some place. WTF.
They will be a bit cheaper in the Dive bars, so go there first if you want a few drinks to get yourself in the mood. However one thing the English do not share in common with the Americans is that we drink in general far more, its in our culture. This means they will always be room to get the bar. Awesome!
Other tips...
1) If you need to draw cash out, don't do it in the big clubs, as ATM's have a limit of $100 or $200 and they charge a $9 withdrawal fee, which may be in addition to your own banks charge.
2) Get taxis everywhere, they are inexpensive if you are staying in South Beach and believe me you'll be sweating (if your used to the climate) by the time you've walked somewhere.
3) Stay on Ocean Drive if your can, Collins and Washington will be noisy with cars and trucks from 6am onwards, just as you want to go to sleep. That is unless of course you are staying a high rise hotel on a higher floor.
4) Speak to your concierge as they can provide flyers that help you skip queues or get you free cover entrance. We made this mistake and only asked him on our last night.
Food / restaurant
Go anywhere on Ocean Drive, look at menus, most places are reasonable for Sobe i.e. around $40 for a drink and a main meal for two people. Most places on Ocean Drive do happy hours every night on food and drink between 5pm - 8pm but this was too early for us to start drinking or to eat our evening meal.
If anyone needs any advice, please asked and I will do my best to answer.
Later guys and girls
Tequilaman X
Originally Posted by Kristine
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