Best Nightclubs In Berlin | Top 10
Oh Berlin, you really know how to make a clubber happy! Here is what you need to know about the Best Nightclubs In Berlin | Top 10.
Basically, after the German reunification Berlin became the world’s techno capital. Here is where DJs like Paul van Dyk, Ricardo Villalobos, Ellen Allien and Paul Kalkbrenner got their careers launched.
The most well-known clubs in Berlin are also some of the most famous clubs in the world.
Let’s see which these hot spots are:
10Reingold Bar
Reingold Bar is fashionable lounge where one can share stories and laugh over delicious cocktails, while being surrounded by glowing hues of amber and red, with matching live DJ entertainment in the background.
Presenting itself as “an old speakeasy for the modern century”, this ‘designed to the max’ venue is a pleasing mix of contemporary chic and old fashioned charm, offering up an excellent selection of cocktails and bar food in a super stylish setting.
The motif is from the 30’s so anticipate some Motown and swing tracks and guests bobbing their heads to the music while sat on the oak wood bar or the plush leather seats.
There’s a long bar and plenty of seating in this spacious venue that nevertheless manages a warm, welcoming ambience.
9Stattbad
Designed by Ludwig Hoffman in 1907, Stattbad used to be a state swimming pool formerly known as Stadttbad Wedding.
In the late 50’s and beginning of the 60’s, the building was rebuilt due to the damage of the Second World War. It went back to being a public pool and in 2001 the place was finally transformed into a space dedicated to art, music and culture in general.
New art exhibits open regularly but on weekends raucous parties draw the dance-obsessed from around town into the blue-and-white-tiled pool and various other nooks and crannies.
Maybe you’ll be lucky and also have the chance to get into one of the many small offices, charming ateliers and creative studios they have. During summer they open their huge terrace with a breathtaking view from Panke, the river that crosses Wedding.
8Sisyphos
Sisyphos is a place like no other. Here you will find diverse ways of having fun.
With a huge chill out area, an abandoned bus, a small lake surrounded by sand, a pizza place and a labyrinth of dance floors, you might lose yourself for hours or maybe even days inside this abandoned dog food factory.
Sisyphos is a magical village, where every two weeks they throw memorable parties. It’s the perfect escape for those who are looking for a original partying experience and for those who want to get to know an undiscovered part of town.
Different dance floors inside, a large area for drinking, eating and chilling outside, and a variety of artists performing every now and then: this club feels more like a festival than a club.
7The Pearl
In the best location of Charlottenburg, just across the Theater des Westens this elegant club opened its doors.
The elegant interiors with a 10-metre-high waterfall in the lounge, a powerful sound system and the LED dance floor provide for a great party atmosphere.
There’s a different theme nightly. During Thursday popular after-work party professionals get to loosen their ties and libidos. Fridays are big with wrinkle-free hip-hop and black music lovers, while weekend warriors invade on Saturdays for high-octane nights of electronic dance music.
6Clärchens Ballhaus
This legendary Berlin dance hall celebrated its 100th anniversary in late 2013, perfect proof that good things never go out of fashion. Originally called Buehlers Ballhaus, it was renamed in the 1920s after Claerchen, one of its most beloved regulars.
There’s always a bit of a traffic jam at the entrance of Clärchens Ballhaus. That’s because once people enter Berlin’s most beloved dance hall, they’re often astonished by what they see.
Dark wood paneling covers walls flanked by candlelit tables and antique bars, and at the center of it all, worn by decades of shimmying and shaking, is the dance floor. If the doors are open, there are almost always people on it.
5Monkey Bar
Monkey Bar on the top floor of the recently opened 25 Hours Bikini Hotel in Berlin is one of the hippest and trendiest lounge bar in town today.
This urban jungle themed bar can be booked exclusively upon request and has a direct express lift from street level.
Large comfy and colorful sofas, floor to ceiling glass walls for panoramic views, ambient lighting, and a hip vibe attracts yuppies who enjoy live beats from house DJs. It has a huge outdoor terrace where the monkeys of Berlin Zoo are quite visible.
Monkey Bar revelers also enjoy delicious cocktails, international fine wines, and bar group from next door Neni Kitchen.
4Cookies
The cream of the crop rated the hippest long running club in the capital.
Cookies offers the best of underground house and disco in its central room, plus a more varied playlist, from indie to hip-hop, in its smaller second room.
A more glamorous, uptown experience than its counterparts, this is nevertheless an organic, family-and-friends enterprise: DJs include local spinners as well as fancy imports from clubs such as the old Paradise Garage in New York.
Mature partygoers book a table at its upstairs restaurant, though leaving the dance floor before 6am is not going to happen.
3Tresor
Tresor is the biggest and most respected Techno club in Berlin. Its history began basically together with the creation of the city’s clubbing scene, right after Germany was unified.
They started as a record label called Interfish at Ufo, the original center of Berlin house and techno. After its closure, the Tresor crew thought it would be a good idea to establish their own club.
An abandoned power plant, the sheer size of the building impresses and its derelict nature makes it reminiscent of a horror movie set: it holds several dance floors with never-ending pounding music, dark red lit corners, a huge outside area, and of course amazing sound system and acoustics.
So if you’re passing through the city you definitely have to check out this Techno legend.
2Watergate
Watergate is a hotspot for those who want to enjoy a great night with world’s premier DJ talents.
Watergate is an essential destination thanks to a flawless booking policy that brings in cream-of-the-crop DJs from international labels every weekend. It also gets our vote for most beautiful club in Berlin and not just for its magical riverside location.
Watergate enjoys a terrace overlooking the river and the majestic Oberbaumbrücke right in the heart of hipster heaven.
There you’ll get one of the most beautiful views from the Spree through its floor-ceiling plate glass windows.
From the outside it looks like nothing special but once inside it will blow your mind. The sound system is very good and the lighting with its huge LED panel on the main floor is unreal.
1Berghain
Berghain is the most famous club in Berlin, the best one and also the hardest to get in one.
This converted power station Berghain lives up to its worldwide reputation, and carries the torch for Berlin’s deathless techno inheritance.
If you’re the kind of person who appreciates good techno music, you’ll feel like you’re in paradise once you step inside Berghain. Their lineup is always impeccable and you’ll probably listen to the best DJ’s blasting their best tunes out loud, every weekend, from Friday until Monday morning.
Berghain became a meeting point for the clubbers of Berlin and it’s already part of the city culture, which is one of the main reasons why the door policy is so harsh.
A “lifetime experience” is definitely the expression that better describes the time you’ll have in this huge temple of music and fun.
Where would you go to listen to the music of the world’s best DJs?
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