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Austria

Club entertainment in Austria

  1. A

    Palais Palffy

    This 550-sq-metre club occupies two floors of an illustrious old building used for live-music performances. The 1st-floor lounge bar – set with thousands of miniature glittering gemstones below a 12m chandelier with 80,000 Swarovski crystals – stocks more than 700 spirits. Less glittery is the luxurious upstairs dance floor. Thursday is mixed electronic and pop, Friday features house, and the Jetlag Club (oldies, current dance) comes to town on Saturday.

    reviewed

  2. B

    Pratersauna

    Pool, cafe, bistro and club converge in a former sauna – these days, you’ll sweat it up on the dance floor any given night. Pratersauna hosts light installations and performance art to check out before or after you groove to electronica spinned by international DJs. On warm nights it all spills out onto the terrace, gardens and pool – if you need to cool down, nobody bats an eye if you take a quick dip.

    reviewed

  3. C

    Ost Klub

    Ost Klub hooks right into the wave of European clubs with an Eastern European and Balkan flavour; you can see a Georgian choir going through its paces one night and hear kletzmer, turbo folk, world music or lounge and electronic the next in a mixture of turntable and live sounds in its ‘Klub’ and ‘Kantine’ rooms.

    reviewed

  4. D

    Camera Club

    Decked out with orange-walled seating inherited from the 1970s, the Camera Club gets Vienna’s top DJs and has even morphed into the wintering ground for one of the country’s most innovative – DJ Tibcurl and the Icke Micke Club. A live band usually plays the first Wednesday of each month from about 10pm.

    reviewed

  5. E

    Roxy

    A seminal club for years, Roxy still manages to run with the clubbing pack, and sometimes leads the way. DJs from Vienna’s electronica scene regularly guest on the turntables and most nights it’s hard to find a space on the small dance floor. Expect a crowded, but very good, night out here.

    reviewed

  6. F

    Alte AKH

    Also during the summer months, party-goers congregate at Copa Kagrana and Sunken City, an area around the U1 Donauinsel U-Bahn station. It's quite a tacky affair, but it can be a lot of fun. Summer Stage and the Alte AKH also wage war against the threat of melting indoors.

    reviewed

  7. G

    Dom im Berg

    The tunnels under Schlossberg were once used as air-raid shelters. Today, some of them have been refashioned into a large art-clubbing venue. The sound system and light show are the best in Graz. See the website for opening times.

    reviewed

  8. H

    Goodmann

    A tiny club attracting clubbers who want to dance into the morning, Goodmann serves food upstairs (until 8am) and hides its night owls, who are an eclectic mix of old and young (but always in a merry state), downstairs.

    reviewed

  9. Pacha

    Victoria Beckham (performing), Paris Hilton (posing)…they’ve all been spotted at this glamorous club brimming with beautiful people.

    reviewed

  10. I

    Why Not?

    Why Not? is one of the few clubs focusing its attention solely on the gay scene. The small club quickly fills up with mainly young guys out for as much fun as possible.

    reviewed

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  12. Salzhaus

    Always worth a shot on a good night –there’s a pizzeria and lounge to complement its disco events, a stone’s throw from the train station.

    reviewed

  13. J

    Club Take Five

    Chic and pricey club with a trio of bars, a VIP area and DJs spinning house, soul and funk.

    reviewed

  14. Trofana Arena

    The celebrity favourite is the wild Trofana Arena with frequent live music, laser shows and scantily-clad go-go dancers.

    reviewed

  15. K

    p.p.c.

    Electronic club nights with top-name DJs.

    reviewed

  16. L

    Joy

    Party haunt downstairs from Petrocelli’s, with DJs playing a mix of music.

    reviewed

  17. Weekender Club

    Happening warehouse club, with top DJs and concerts. It's a 10-minute walk south of Maria-Theresien-Strasse along Leopoldstrasse.

    reviewed

  18. Trofana Alm

    A huge wooden barn with live Austrian bands and potent apple schnapps working the crowd into a singing, dancing, drunken frenzy.

    reviewed

  19. M

    Postgarage

    Electronic, retro theme nights and everything between for 20-somethings.

    reviewed

  20. Empire

    Such deck-spinning royalty as David Guetta and Paul van Dyk have played this voguish club. See the website for the weekly line-up. The club is close to Donaupark, 500m north of the Brucknerhaus.

    reviewed