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 Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:13 am Post subject: NIGHTLIFE IN URUGUAY / URUGUAY NIGHTLIFE GUIDE |
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NIGHTLIFE IN URUGUAY
MONTEVIDEO
Nightlife in Monte Video is pretty good. Ther is no reason to be bored here. If you want to do nightlife the way Uruguayans do it, you should try out one of the boliches which are cafe-concert, penas (kind of pub).
As in Buenos Aires, nightlife in Montevideo means drinks after 10pm and dancing after midnight. For earlier entertainment, ask around or call the Teatro Solís, Calle Buenos Aires 652 (tel. 02/916-0908), the city's centre for opera, theatre, ballets, and symphonies, for performance information. SODRE, Av. 18 de Julio 930 (tel. 02/901-2850), is the city's "Official Radio Service," which hosts classical music concerts from May to November.
Gamblers should head to the Plaza Victoria Casino, Plaza Independencia (tel. 02/902-0111), a fashionable venue with French roulette tables, blackjack, baccarat, slot machines, horse races, and bingo. It opens at 2pm and keeps going through most of the night.
Mariachi, Gabriel Pereira 2964 (tel. 02/709-1600), is one of the city's top bars and discos, with live bands or DJ music Wednesday to Sunday after 10pm. Café Misterio, Costa Rica 1700 (tel. 02/600-5999), is another popular bar, while New York, Calle Mar Artico 1227 (tel. 02/600-0444), mixes a restaurant, bar, and dance club under one roof and attracts a slightly older crowd. Montevideo's best tango clubs are La Casa de Becho, Nueva York 1415 (tel. 02/400-2717), where composer Gerardo Mattos Rodríguez wrote the famous "La Cumparsita," and Cuareim, Zelmar Michelini 1079, which offers both tango and candombe, a lively dance indigenous to the area. La Casa de Becho is open Friday and Saturday after 10:30pm; Cuareim, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after 9pm. The tourist office can give you schedule information for Montevideo's other tango salons.
PUNTA DEL ESTE
The Conrad Resort & Casino, Parada 4, Playa Mansa (tel. 042/491-111), is the focal point for evening entertainment in Punta, featuring Las Vegas-style reviews and other music, dance, and magic shows -- sometimes around the torch-lit swimming pools. The enormous 24-hour casino has 450 slots and 63 tables for baccarat, roulette, blackjack, poker, dice, and fortune wheel.
Bars and discos come and go with considerable frequency in Punta. The concierge at Conrad Resort & Casino is a good source for what's hot in town. The best bar is Moby d***, located at Rambla de la Circunvalación (tel. 042/441-240), near the yacht harbour. Punta's bronzed Latin bodies then make their way to Gitane and La Plage (tel. 042/484-869), two discos next to each other on Rambla Brava, Parada 12. The Conrad Hotel's own disco, La Boite, is another upscale club free for hotel guests and US$10 to enter for outsiders (this US$10 can be redeemed for chips in the casino). |
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