BALI AFTER DARK
Night life in Bali starts late, which means around midnight.
Many visitors wonder where crowds of expats suddenly come from
around 1:00 in the morning – even when all of Kuta has
been very quiet during the whole evening, the IN-places often
become crowded after midnight.
There's a simple explanation: during the early evenings many
of Bali's night owls either still work, visit friends at home,
or simply sleep. Most of them visit pubs, bars, or discos only
in the early morning hours. Therefore, if you plan a night out
don't start your dinner too early. Between 9:00 p.m. and midnight
there are not many places we can recommend.
Visitors looking for company don't need to worry. Wherever
you go in Sanur and the Kuta area, there are many other single
travellers with the same problem around – day and night.
In Bali's discos you'll meet also many "kupu kupu malams"
("night butterflies" or working girls) and young boys
who compete with the females and service all sexes. All taxi
drivers know the more popular karaoke bars and massage parlours
in Kuta and Denpasar, and the various "Houses of ill Repute"
in Sanur's narrow back lanes.
As reported in the BALI travel FORUM: "Prostitution is
illegal in Bali. However, like in many countries, everyone turns
a blind eye. Many girls can be found in nightclubs and bars
in most areas. They look usually just like the girl next door,
albeit with a bit more make up on, and they usually dress to
please the eye. For the most part, they are gentle, easy to
be with, and a lot of fun if you want to dance, drink and have
a little fun with. Most will be yours for the whole night for
about 300,000 Rupiah although prices range from 100,000 Rupiah
to 1,000,000 Rupiah and more – depending on the season,
the time of night, the situation and the quality of service".
SANUR & NUSA DUA
Some quite popular places in Sanur are the BORNEO PUB on Jalan
Danau Tamblingan and the TROPHY PUB in front of the Sanur Beach
Hotel. Both, however, close around 1:00 a.m.
The JAZZ GRILLE, located at the Komplek Pertokoan Sanur Raya
No. 15/16 at the By-Pass opposite the Radisson hotel, was opened
in February 1999 and attracts tourists and locals alike with
live bands (from 9:30 to 12:00 p.m.), a smallish menu, and a
billiard table upstairs. KAFE WAYANG in the same building has
life music with a good local band and jam sessions with foreign
guests every Friday – no wonder it's very popular with
many residents. JANGER is currently the only disco in Sanur.
Most tourists and even the expats living in Sanur prefer to
go to "Kuta" if they look for some fun.
The discos and pubs in Nusa Dua's 5-star hotels are often rather
empty. They are mostly frequented by those visitors who stay
in-house and are too tired to make the 30 minutes drive to Kuta.
THE "KUTA" AREA
Everybody looking for some action and fun in the evening goes
to "Kuta" which nowadays means the area extending
about 4 miles or 7 kilometers North from the original village
of Kuta and includes now Legian, Seminyak and even Basangkasa.
Here are most of the better entertainment places offering EVERYTHING
single male or female visitors as well as couples might be looking
for.
There are several places such as CASABLANCA etc. – down-market
open-air pubs and very noisy discos full of stoned Aussies courting
Javanese "Kupu Kupu Malams". PEANUTS Discotheque on
Jalan Raya Legian at the Jalan Melasti corner (about the border
between Kuta and Legian) has been re-opened very soon after
it was gutted by a fire. The huge (air-conditioned) dance floor
is often crowded, guests are a mix of locals and younger foreign
visitors.
Closer to the center of Kuta you find the BOUNTY SHIP with
a noisy, over-air-conditioned disco in the basement and the
re-built PADDY'S not far from the original PADDY'S. Much more
"IN" nowadays is the newer M-BAR-GO which features
really good music and a better crowd than most other places.
SKY GARDEN is also on the main road and an interesting place
to go. The bar is on the top floor, the three storeys below
feature all different lounge areas. The menu is huge but the
food is often disappointing. When most places close around 2.00
or 3.00 in the morning, night owls of all kinds continue drinking
at nearby MAMA'S until sunrise.
For a somewhat more civilized evening out, you can have dinner
and a couple of drinks at the bar at either TJ's or KORI in
Kuta, at POCO LOCO in Legian, at the open street side bar at
NERO Bali right opposite AROMAS Restaurant in Kuta, at the re-built
MACCARONI CLUB in Kuta, at MADE'S WARUNG in Basangkasa (see
BALI - Restaurants to Enjoy), or at the trendy HU'U Bar &
Lounge near the Petitenget temple, LA LUCIOLA and THE LIVING
ROOM.
One of the most trendy venues in Bali is KU DE TA right on
the beach adjacent to the Oberoi hotel. This is the place to
see and be seen, and from late afternoon on Fridays, Saturdays
and Sundays there is a DJ providing rather noisy entertainment
for Bali's beautiful people. Hot contender is SUNSET ON SIX
(SOS) on the sixth floor rooftop terrace of the up-market ANANTARA
RESORT — set right on the beach next door to GADO GADO
and opened in May 2008. Both places are great to watch Bali's
famous sunsets, but expect to pay for a cocktail around US$7
and more.
Something more outrageous and only for open-minded people is
HULU CAFE in Garlic Lane between Jalan Padma and Jalan Melasti
in Kuta/Legian, a place which calls itself the "only real
gay bar in all of Bali" with drag shows starting at 11:00
p.m. three times per week. The performances are actually kind
of funny!
You'll find a large and quite popular HARD ROCK CAFE right
at the beginning of Kuta's beach road with live music from 11
p.m. to 2 a.m. Expect to find many singles of all kinds here
looking for company. If you think this is too noisy, too crowded,
or the air-conditioning too cold for you, try the CENTER STAGE
at the HARD ROCK RESORT located in the back of the CAFE. As
the name implies, the band performs on a raised stage in the
middle of the huge round lobby bar until 11:00 p.m. Both HARD
ROCK outlets are expensive by Bali standards.
The JAYA PUB on the main road in Seminyak features also live
music and attracts many Indonesian customers who don't mind
the chilling air-conditioning and the sometimes horrible bands
and singers.
Seminyak's best place to have a drink and some fun at night
are nowadays probably OBSESSION World Music Bar and SANTA FEE
Bar & Grill, Jalan Abimanyu (also known as Gado Gado Road
or Jalan Dhyana Pura). Life music, reasonably priced cocktails,
a surprisingly good wine list (you have to ask for it, but the
prices are very low for Bali standards), and a menu offering
local, Mexican, and Japanese dishes as well as a choice of pizzas
around the clock and the friendly service attract many visitors
until the early hours. If you feel too hot downstairs, you can
move to the small air-conditioned "Wine Lounge" upstairs
where you find also a rather good choice of wines to take home.
Other popular night spots nearby in the same street are SPY
BAR, LIQUID, Q BAR ("for the alternative lifestyle"),
SPACE and THE GLOBE. New bars and "Chill-Out Lounges"
are opening all the time, and most of them feature DJ's and/or
live music on certain nights. Just walk down the road and check
them out !
Later, from 2:00 a.m., it's party time at the SYNDICATE, BACIO
and DOUBLE SIX, a large open-air disco with several bars, big
dance floor, and many tables. All three are located next to
each other on the beach in Seminyak and charge an entrance fee
of 30,000 to 100,000 Rupiah (depending on the day) for which
you get a voucher for a free drink. Here and in nearby DE JA
VU you'll find most of Bali's night owls drinking and dancing
the night away until 4:30 a.m. or so. (The legendary GADO GADO
Disco has been re-converted into a restaurant.)
Also, watch out for notices and small posters in Kuta and Seminyak
announcing special events such as Full Moon Parties, House Warming
Parties, Body Painting Parties, etc, etc. If these "parties"
are announced to the public (even if only by word-of-mouth),
they are open for everybody. You'll have to pay for your drinks,
therefore, don't be shy.
UBUD
Don't expect too much here. We are not Ubud nightlife experts,
but names frequently mentioned include PUTRA BAR, Jl. Monkey
Forest (every night live music ranging from Reggae to rock),
MAGIC BAR, Jl. Monkey Forest (live music and sometimes great
atmosphere), JAZZ CAFE, Jl. Tebesaya (live music and jam sessions
on different nights), EXILE BAR (Saturday nights only, great
music), and FUNKY MONKEY (early hours cafe).
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