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Going out in Barcelona is an unforgettable and exciting experience. But the hardest part of nightlife here is choosing where to go. Therefore I have listed some places to go out, for different people with different styles!
Clubs
Barcelona has a wide range of good clubs, offering many different music styles. To enter the clubs you will have to pay a certain amount and probably have to stand in a queue first, but this is the same everywhere in the world, I think. Most clubs don’t have a dress code but do require you to dress with a “smart casual attire” 
. Here are some of the most well-known clubs in Barcelona:
Shôko: This is an Asian style restaurant/club facing the beach where they play everything from house to hip-hop music, have a good cocktails offer and international atmosphere
You can subscribe to the guestlist of Shôko and enter for free through this website
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Otto Zutz: A club with three floors, on the first floor you can enjoy hip hop-music, on the second floor house flourishes combined with techno and on the third floor you can listen to mixed music, focusing on the 80′s.
You can subscribe to the guestlist of Otto Zutz and enter for free through this website
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Opium: Close to Shôko you will find Opium Mar. A lounge club with one of the biggest terraces along side of Barceloneta’s beach. Most of the time they will play R&B, lounge and house music.
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You can subscribe to the guestlist of Opium Mar and enter for free through this website
Catwalk: Catwalk is one of the most vistited and fashionable clubs in Barcelona! There is a perfect combination of locals and tourists. Also situated at Barceloneta’s beach it offers R&B, hip-hop, house and dance.
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You can subscribe to the guestlist of Catwalk and enter for free through this website
Razzmatazz: Sala Razzmatazz is probably one of the biggest clubs in Barcelona, with 4 floors and many concerts of known DJ’s.
http://www.salarazzmatazz.com/
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Le Kashba: A relatively new club to Barcelona’s nightlife, situated in Barceloneta. A Marroccan influenced lounge club, with different styles of music.
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Nasty Mondays: http://roombarcelona.com/life-in-barcelona/nasty-mondays.html
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Districts
Port Olimpic: In Port Olimpic, a bit further than Shôko, Catwalk and Opium Mar there is a street with many bars. The bars are perfect for people who don’t like to pay too much in clubs but still like to dance.
La Rambla: La Rambla is the place where you will find most tourists in Barcelona, so as in all cities, you will find a lot of Irish pubs and international bars where you can have a drink 
El Raval: El Raval is the place to be if you want a cheap night out, there are many cheap restaurants where you can sometimes have a three course dinner for less than 10€. Beside them you can find many authentic bars that really represent Barcelona. One example is Bar La Marsella, one of the oldest bars in Barcelona and known for its Absynthe! Another example is La Oveja Negra, known for its great Sangria and Beers.
Barri Gotic: In Barri Gotic there are many small and cozy bars where students can have a drink and nice tapas. Two nice bars are Bar El Agüelo (C/ d’Avinyó) and Bar Can Pumuki. El Aguëlo has a wooden interior with barrels and “Jamones” hanging from the sealing. Many students can get together there, especially after exams! Can Pumuki is special for their cocktails, you can order a cocktail in a big glass and drink from it with different people from different straws, it is really cosy!
Also in Barri Gotic you can find Bar Mariatchi, this is a bar, according to the legend going around, owned by the famous singer Manu Chao.
El Born: On the other side of Via Laietana, you will find el Born. Another district with many bars, some of the most known are, Rosa Negra (a mexican Cocktail Bar), Suborn and the Cactus Bar.
For more detailed descriptions of the various districts of Barcelona and what each district has to offer, click here.
Gay
Barcelona is one of the gay capitals in Europe so there is a very wide offer in gay bars and gay clubs!“In Barcelona, a gay couple can walk the streets hand in hand without so much as raising an eyebrow. The gay scene is fantastic with a great choice of gay bars, gay friendly restaurants, gay clubs and gay beaches. Barcelona’s ever growing gay scene gets better and better season after season, year after year.” www.barcelona-home.com
The most important places for the gay scene in Barcelona are the districts of Eixample and Grácia. There you will find many clubs and even restaurants exclusively for gay people. The most known clubs are: Metro Disco (C/ Sépulveda, 185), Arena www.arenadisco.com – there are many different Arena’s in Barcelona, Atame (C/ Consell de Cent, 257), Space Barcelona (on sundays, Metro L3 – Tarragona), Bear Factory (Passetge Domingo, 3) …
More info on the gay scene in Barcelona
If you want the latest info on what is happening in Barcelona, concerts, good parties and places to go to, you can check out the following websites:
Barcelona is a great place for fans of Reggae. Concerts, festivals, bars and shops for people interested in this music scene are to be found all over town.
If you like reggae maybe you should check out Rimshot Records in Barri Gotic, the only specialised reggae store (that I know of) in Barcelona, with records, clothes, jewellery etc.
In the same street (Carrer de Gignas) there is a bar with a DJ playing reggae music on Sunday evenings. And the drinks are cheap!
If you want to see a free reggae concert, the band Microguagua are playing in Grácia in Eldorado Bar, Plaza del Sol 4, 22:00 April 16th.
You may listen to their music by clicking this link (http://www.myspace.com/colectivomicroguagua)
To check out more reggae concerts and events, check out this link http://www.bcn-reggae.com/
The perfect nights are the ones that you never really know where they’ll end. You can go out without any plan and have the best night ever!
So one friday evening we went out to have a couple of beers with some friends of my boyfriend. They were visiting Barcelona for a few days and were really excited to make the most of their stay. We started the night at a bar in Barrio Gotico, had some beers, some nachos and enjoyed the great music! After the beers we felt for some sweeter drinks and headed to the Paseo de Colom at the seafront. There is a bar called Chupitos (=shots), which is both tiny and really crowded! The fun thing is to have the shots together with a bunch of people, so our group of seven were just perfect! We had shots like “Harry Potter” and “Acid”… they taste like sugar, but the good thing is that they’re really cheap! Details
