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Lost in Madrid for a weekend or two? Well, I am going to give you some tips to keep you busy dancing, meeting people, and having a great time as long as you want, can or desire.
 
First, get to know the city:
 
1.- Arguelles and Moncloa: area to meet University students. Many dance clubs are found here, along with ale houses and fast-food joints. The area is bounded by Pintor Rosales, Cea Bermúdez, Bravo Murillo, San Bernardo, and Conde Duque.
 
2.- Plaza de Santa Bárbara, Glorieta de Bilbao, and Alonso Martínez: good place to start the night in one of its popular bars and pubs. You can also have a bit in a fast food restaurants.
 
3.- Malasaña: nearby Plaza de Dos de Mayo. Lots of cafés and bars with live music. If you don’t like fast food, you can try any of its moderately-prices restaurants.
 
4.- Plaza Mayor/Puerta del Sol – Very, very, very popular. Filled with tapas bars and cuevas (drinking caves). Major streets to have some tapas and try different bars are Cava de San Miguel, Cava Alta, and Cava Baja. You can order pinchos y raciones (tasty snacks and tidbits).
 
5.- Gran Vía – Movie and theater area which concentrates all nightlife action on little streets branching off the Gran Vía.
 
6.- Plaza de Isabel II/Plaza de Oriente – Packed with tourists. Many restaurants and cafes flourish here, including the famous Café de Oriente.
 
7.- Chueca – the centre of Madrid’s gay scene, but it’s also the place to be for the determinedly hip. Famous streets: Hortaleza, Infantas, Barquillo, and San Lucas. You can also enjoy a nice dinner in any of its cheap restaurants.
 
Clubs and Discos:
Arena
Princesa 1
Metro: Plaza de España
Phone: +34 91 562 00 02
Disco with trendy music and two dance floors. There are two session at this disco, the first for the very young, the second for the young. There are queues outside for both sessions.
 
Flamingo
Mesonero Romanos, 13
Pone: +34 91 532 15 24
Metro: Callao / Gran Vía
Flamingo Shangay Tea Dance is famous for the drag queen’s, organized by the Shangay Express review. Open sunday. The local becomes Disco Inferno on fridays and Goa (after hours, from 6.00 til 10.30) on saturdays.
 
Bash
Pza. Callao, 4
Tel: 91 531 01 32
Metro: Callao
 
El Sol
Jardines, 3
Tel: 91 532 64 90
Metro: Sol
It holds concerts followed by disco with a wide variety of music. Peek hour: 4 am

Joy Eslava
Arenal, 11
Phone: +34 91 366 37 33
Metro: Sol / Opera
An old and popular disco, rumored to be popular among the soccer players. It is the granddady of the glitzy monster discos that live in the triangle between Sol, Callao, and Gran Via.
 
Kathmandú
Señores de Luzón, 3
Phone: +34 91 634 42 01
Metro: Sol / Opera
Funk, good ambiance, but crowded, open until 5 am.
 
Pachá
Barceló, 11
Phone: +34 91 447 01 28
Metro: Tribunal
A chain of trendy, expensive clubs for the wealthy & those who wish they where. In madrid since 1982. Open until 6 am.
 
Rastatoo
Lagasca,120
Phone: +34 355 24 52
 Reggae & Caribbean music.
 
Kapital
C/Atocha 125
Phone: +34 91 420 2906
Every kind of music in any of its seven flors. A rooftop bar for gazing at the stars.
 
Casa Patas
Cañizares 10
Phone: +34 91 369 04 96,
For traditional flamenco performances
 
Cool
Isabel la Católica 6
Phone: +34 91 542 34 39
Where the crowd and the decor wrestle for aesthetic supremacy. 

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