Club entertainment in Florida
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Florida Room at the Delano
Framed posters of Snoop Dogg looking ghetto fabulous line the entrance to The Florida Room, which should give you an idea of the atmosphere here. This is as exclusive as clubs get – plus, there's a popular dancehall-samba piano lounge for local scenesters who eschew the tourist trap megaclubs further down the beach. Show up before 11pm or be on the list (or be Lenny Kravitz – who helped design this place) to get in.
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Space
This multilevel warehouse is Miami's main megaclub. With 30,000 sq ft to fill, dancers have room to strut, and an around-the-clock liquor license redefines the concept of after-hours. DJs usually pump each floor with a different sound – hip-hop, Latin, heavy trance – while the infamous rooftop lounge is the place to be for sunrise.
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White Room
Sitting as it does in edgy Overtown, it already feels like you're in on some secret when you find the White Room. Then the beautiful artists, hipsters and scenesters flock in, drinking, dancing and chatting as the requisite weird movies play on open-air projectors, near Lawrence of Arabia tents curving around an exposed-industrial main-stage. What we're saying is: hot hipsters get drunk and dance with other hot hipsters. You go, White Room.
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Feelgood's
Co-owned by Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil, this 8500-sq-ft rock bar–dance club has shiny choppers, rock memorabilia and a mammoth snake slithering into the rafters. Heads up: the place is packed with girls, from bartenders in skimpy outfits, to dancers on the poles, to customers coming to get wild – some visitors will love it and some will loathe it; bypass this place if you are of the latter variety. Not enough big '80s hair, but it's still good, cheesy fun.
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Cucina Dell'arte
Reminiscent of a Florentine cafe, this high-end eatery overflows with warm colors, art and some of the finest glitterati in Palm Beach. Around 10pm they shove the tables out of the way and blast the music. Expect to see dancing botox queens, beautiful visiting fashionistas, desperate old guys and totally normal people soaking it all in. Pretentious enough to be fun; if you arrive wearing a serious face, you'll be sorry.
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Cameo
This enormous, touristy club, where Gwen Stefani tracks get smooshed into Oakenfold, is where the sexy times are to be had – if by sexy time you mean thumping music, a packed crowd and sweat to slip on. Sunday's gay night (the specific party name frequently changes) is one of the best in town.
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Mynt
Join the partying stars – Justin Timberlake, Vin Diesel, Britney Spears etc – by bottle servicing yourself into the VIP section. Otherwise, make friends with the red rope until you can order a drink and then try not to spill it, which is tough in the sweaty scrum of models, Moët and mojitos.
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Skybar
Skybar is one of those SoBe spots that is so impossibly full of beautiful people you wonder if you've walked into a dream – and it's not just the clientele who are gorgeous. The setting: the Moroccan garden of delights that is the courtyard of the Shore Club hotel. Chill alfresco in a sultan's pleasure garden under enormous, wrought-iron lanterns, gaze at the patricians lounging around the pool, or try (and fail, if you're an unlisted travel writer) to get into the all-crimson, all-A-list Red Room.
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Dragon Room
A Japanese inspired lounge with an indoor waterfall, low tables and sofas, paper lanterns and an unusual neon blue bar. A black-clad crowd sips sweet cocktails before converging on the tiny dance floor.
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Tabu
A mishmash of thumping hip-hop, dance and techno beats against three huge video walls and flashing lights. Expect masses of grooving bodies throwing back shots and clutching domestic beers.
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Mansion
Every night the lines stretch around the block as plebs beg, cajole and strut in a vain attempt to get past that damned red rope. Inside? Well, they don't call it 'Mansion' for nothing. Expect megaclub grandiosity, plenty of attitude, waiting in line for hours and the chance to see young celebs do something tabloid-worthy.
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University Club
Predominantly gay, but straight-friendly, this place is the hub of the local gay and lesbian scene and is famous for its drag shows. The entrance is around back. DJs spin most nights, though karaoke is also a popular draw.
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Razzles
Clubs come and go, but this high-energy dance zone keeps on thumping. Twenty years after it opened, this cavernous warehouse features 10 bars, dazzling light shows, cutting-edge beats and more beads than Mardi Gras.
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Voodoo Lounge
A massive club with 50,000 watts of booty-shaking sound – look for Sunday drag nights, Latin nights and other themed events.
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Opium Garden & Privé
An open-sky bar with a lantern-strewn Asian decor and more action upstairs. House and dance reign supreme.
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Independent Bar
Hip, crowded and loud, with DJs spinning underground dance and alternative rock until the wee hours.
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Nikki Beach Miami
Get your groove on outdoors, wandering from immaculate gossamer beach cabana to cabana at Nikki's, which feels like an incredibly upscale full-moon party. On Sunday (Sunday?!), starting around 4pm, it's the hottest party in town, as folks clamor to get in and re-live whatever it was they did the night before.
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Slingapour's
A slick dance club with Asian influences and a large outdoor patio.
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Blue Grotto
A late-20 through 40-something crowd dances like nobody's watching at this underwater-themed waterfront club, with grotto rock walls, aquarium windows and a light-up blue bar. Avoid the food.
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Vagabond
If the South Beach Clubs are Manhattan and Hollywood, then the Vagabond scene is Brooklyn or Silver Lake, which is a travel writer's way of saying: if you tire of the lame Top 40, plastic and mediocre big-name clubs in Miami Beach, come to the Vagabond, a cool club in a rough part of Overtown. The folks are still fine, but they're funkier, definitely more local and the music is more experimental. The animal-print furniture and flying, loopy lines and curves are made to be gawked at, which is possible as no one keeps the Vagabond too dimly lit. Friday night, hosted by indie record shop Sweat, is a blast.
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Louis
The resident club at the Gansevoort South is dark, crowded, expensive and loud, the music is meh and a 17% gratuity is automatically added to your bill, so the bartenders have little incentive to be nice to you. But Louis, whose interior resembles Marie Antoinette's boudoir after it collided with a Sex Pistols party, is located in the aforementioned Gansevoort, and as such this is the sort of place where you may well rub shoulders with a celebrity. It's Miami Beach; you came here to drink with models and superstars, right? Well, here's a place to do just that.
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Atlantic Dance Hall
Blaring Top 40 tunes, dancing, and a massive screen with music videos by request. If you really want to shake your bootie, this is your only Disney option. Otherwise, no reason to come here.
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Beacham
Connected to The Social and owned by the same folk, this cornerstone of Orlando's nightclubs blasts hip-hop, reggae, salsa and old-school rock during the week and has live music on the weekend.
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Bardot
If you can't stand lines and crowds, we recommend visiting Bardot, in Wynwood, on a weekday. This could be said of any club in Miami, but you really should see the interior of Bardot before you leave the city. It's all sexy French vintage posters and furniture seemingly plucked from a private club that serves millionaires by day, and becomes a scene of decadent excess by night. There are a lot of gorgeous Miamians here and we stress: the crowd is local, so while it's a glam scene, it's a much more friendly, laid-back one than the ridiculous posturing you might see in South Beach (not that there's no posturing going on). The entrance looks to be on N Miami Ave, but it's…
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