This review is based solely on the night out I had here for New Year's Eve, so I can't really speak for what it's like normally, but I had a great time!
Having decided to spend NYE in Paris with some of my friends I hadn't seen in a long time, we just had to decide what to do! One of my friends who lives in Paris gave us a few suggestions (including a boat party) but when we saw that Bus Palladium was having an 80s party, we knew it just had to be here!
Tickets were €60, which seems pretty expensive but this included 10 drinks, so for €6 a drink plus entry in Paris on NYE, we got a pretty good deal in my opinion.
In true French style, dinner beforehand took aaaaaages, so by the time we got to the club it was already 11.40pm, and I have to admit I was freaking out slightly as I didn't want to spend midnight standing in a queue outside in the cold. Luckily there wasn't much of a queue, plus the fact we already had our tickets meant we got in pretty quickly and managed to celebrate midnight with drinks in hand!
We were given drinks cards with 10 spaces for stamps and there were different options for the drinks - 1 stamp on your card got you an ordinary drink which could be a spirit and a mixer, of which there were loads to choose from! For my first couple of drinks however, I decided to go for "Vodka + Energy Drink" which counted as 2 stamps, because I had just arrived in Paris that day and I was pretty tired. These sorted me right out, I have to say! The drinks definitely weren't watered down or anything either, they were definitely worth it! The bar staff were nice and also served drinks really quickly which is obviously also a bonus!
The music and atmosphere were great - there was a good mix of French 80s and other 80s stuff, so although myself and my non-French friends didn't know all of the songs, we still had a really good time! There were also plenty of party streamers, hats etc. lying about which we had a lot of fun with!
The toilets were much better than I'd been expecting, and they even had separate male and female ones which is always a plus. There was a bath in-between the toilets as a sink, which we ended up getting our photo taken in! The bouncers (obviously) weren't initially keen on this idea, but they caved and even took the photos for us which I thought was pretty nice of them haha.
All in all, a great night out! read more