Tel Aviv nightlife

Tel Aviv has a great night life scene. Getting in is easy for a foreigner (so it seems). With both Susan at the beginning of September and with Anna at the end of September, it was a piece of cake to get into a club. Just say hi to the selector and she would waive us through.None of the clubs charged any entrance fees. Drinks were between 40 and 50 Shekkels for a mix (GT or wodka red bull)

The first club for me to visit in Israel was the Clara a.k.a. Fashion Club. It’s located opposite to the XXX hotel in the direction of Jaffa, next to the dolfinarium. First floor has a mix of club house and ‘90s remixed while the 2nd floor is a rooftop club with more relaxed house. The view over the sea is great. Crowd is somewhat younger and the guys are a little more trained and into tight outfits than in the rest of Tel Aviv. Too bad the club closes at the end of September for the winter.

Zizzi Tripo is an excellent club in the basement of 7 Karlibach St. Club house is the music and the crowd is 25-35, so I felt right at home :-). Below a compilation of three short clips I shot with my wonderfull Nokia N95 8Gb.

Apartment 98 (98 Dizengoff St., second floor.) is a nice place, but we ended up here when the party was apparently at its end. The place is really a club in an apartment building. Nice touch is the Mini Cooper they’ve built in the place. To get to the second floor, you have to use an old and crampy lift.

Uptown (old port) turned out to be my favorite. The hardest to get in, not the best music (house mixed with popular, 80/90s and some Israeli music) and clearly regular DJs (the second Saturday, the mix really resembled the first when I heard Cela Cela again) it did have a great atmosphere with a large outside area. Below a short phone movie shot at September 12th 2008.