Brilliant club, this is the place everyone in town ends up in by 11pm. Reccomended to get there…read moreearly as can get quite packed by 10-11pm, make sure you get a seat and keep it!! Smoking area out the back outside. Big dancefloor, 2 bars. Dj box next to the dancefloor, 2 lots of toilets. They play all the chart music and dance classics. Good night out here!

Top place to end your night, very busy after 11pm so get there reasonably early. They have opened…read moreup the back which is nice and quiet away from other main roads so you can have a fag without getting knocked down. Inside is a long bar, a medium sized dance floor which is always packed and on the other side are plenty of tables seats etc. Average prices for a bar stroke club, toilets are reasonably clean whenever i go.

Favorite club! Would recommend to anyone :)read more

Having been here a few times, I would say its great. however the older i get the older i feel in…read morethere. I would suggest it to under 25's as its mostly under 25's in there to be honest. Great staff and you arent stood at the bar too long waiting for a new drink.

The "real deal" night club in Southampton. I wouldn't use the phrase "the best" because it's so so…read moresubjective to just classify it as such. But this is definitely the most impressive. The venue is made up out of quite a few large rooms, dance floors, bar areas, and smoking terraces. The place is simply huge. After a few drinks you'd best be prepared for inevitably losing track of where all of your friends are, because if someone gets lost it's a miracle if they manage to rejoin the group. My experience of this place is pretty clouded to be honest. The drinks were so cheap on the Wednesday night I just totally lost track. I remember falling off of a bar stool. Drinking more. Losing everyone in my group. Drinking more. Doing The Worm (or trying to). Drinking more. And that's when my memory blanks out and I wake up the next morning feeling like death warmed up. What more can you possibly want from a night club?! Cheap drinks, great venue, huge array of rooms, plenty of smoking terraces, the list goes on. Of course, the club is defined by the night. Which is why I won't call it "the best"... but at the very least, it's great.

Decent on a Wednesday if you're a student on social. But on many times i've experienced extremely…read morerude bar staff and bouncers. The place is not a particularly fancy establishment but they still make you pay to check your jackets or jumpers, which has taken at least 20 minutes of waiting in line. Don't bother with this place if you're just traveling through.

Oceana is what it is. Its the biggest club in Cardiff complete with lots of different rooms to suit…read moredifferent music tastes. On Saturdays its always packed full and your guaranteed to get someone pinching your bum. It cost about 7 quid to get in so go early when its cheaper. The bar is expensive and the the queues are long. Music is variable. I tend to go for the cheesy disco room even thought its totally packed. I like the chill out type rooms where I can rest my feet if I'm going to be dancing till 5am. Staff are generally rude.

Despite being widely regarded as the king of Cardiff's nightlife, I have gone off Oceana in recent…read moremonths. After the huge anticipation the club built up surrounding its opening and the novelty of a brand new super club in the city, the club has become a bit samey and stale. With a £5-£7 price tag (depending on what night you go) before you even step through the door, you are already down by a drink or two before you start. And with typical Cardiff club prices greeting you at the bar, you are often in for an expensive night. While Oceana can be a great night out that offers many diverse rooms for your clubbing pleasure (including a disco, karaoke and boudoir room), like anything, the novelty can begin to wear off if you attend on a regular basis. But for sheer popularity, Oceana stands tall as one of the most prominent clubs in the city. It regularly fills up on a Friday or Saturday night, with a host of DJ's gracing the stage, and is the club of choice for many on a bank holiday weekend. With Tiger Tiger just a short walk down the street, Oceana has some stiff competition right on its doorstep. But with its regular weekend and student nights consistently bringing in hundreds of customers, it can't be argued that Oceana is still one of the most successful clubs in Cardiff.

Kaos is definitely a student venue, I'd call it more like a pit. Dirt cheap drinks and packed full…read moreof students all the time, is a great atmosphere and always a good time out! Students only and you will get checked on entry! Plenty of space inside and outside, whichever takes you're fancy..bit of a maze inside but that all adds to the fun. Can be a bit messy as you can imagine and the toilets are usually the cleanest of areas. I miss those student nights out.

I've only been to Kaos once in my life and that was a couple of years ago now when I was a student…read more It was very fitting with that lifestyle, but I would probably enjoy it more now, ironically. Student lifestyle - really cheap alcohol, grungey scene, packed full with students. It has a mosh pit feel to it, the nights get messy if you frequent here but I'm not sure how different that is to anywhere else! Staff are friendly and its not cliquey at all.

This place does not really care about any customer service. I guess its a club after all I suppose…read more I used to go there a lot but will not be returning. A friend of mine was asked to leave by the door staff (Jack I believe) just because he was tired as we all got there after a long shift in hospitality itself. None of my friends were drunk as they usually do not drink alcohol. But that one night that I asked them to go out with me and this was how I was embarrassed. Spoke to management, he did say he will speak to the bouncer and allow my friend in. I was too upset to even bother boing back in. Disgusting attitude. There were people who were actually asleep next to us but they were only woken up but not asked to leave. Are you kidding me??. What kind if discrimination is that?. And just so you know, those booths are meant for sitting.

Full Disclaimer - I do not live in the Southampton area so my views may be slightly skewed as I am…read morean American and was here visiting family. With the lack of information available on Yelp for fun things to do at night in Southampton, I let the outdated and very positive posts sway me to taking a visit to the Buddha Lounge. The Good: This bar/lounge sits within an area with a cluster of other very similar bars/lounges. Security is very tight. You will need a valid ID and it will be scanned in a machine prior to your entrance. Security does a great job in not allowing too many people in at once. I found it to be crowded but not overwhelmingly so- there was room to walk around and as a New Yorker who has my personal space invaded every day on the subway, this place felt roomy AF. There was also a massive line to get in after midnight. The DJ here was playing fantastic music. It was a nice variety of popular songs like Bodak Yellow with classic hip hop mixed in. Couldn't help but dance. The Bad: The drinks were very WEAK. I ordered a cranberry vodka and the bartender measured an ounce of vodka into a plastic cup with lots of cranberry juice - I didn't taste a thing and I am not a seasoned drinker. I think a safe bet is to order shots or beer; or both. I'm assuming that the regular patrons know this since outside the bar people were staggeringly drunk. The Ugly: The crowd. This was by far the worst experience I have ever had at a lounge. Perhaps it is English culture but in a not so crowded bar, my small posse and I were elbowed, shoved, and bumped into all freaking night as if the place was as packed as the downtown 6 train at rush hour on a Monday; spoiler alert- it wasn't. I recall a few instances after being shoved, the jerk would wait for my reaction - possibly to start a bar fight. There is some very serious LDE among the males patronizing this bar. So, Not For me.

Rumoured to be the worst night club in Britain, Jesters is so bad it's good. There is often a funny…read moresmell lingering around, and some of the toilets are missing doors. But you are guaranteed to have a brilliant night none the less. Monday night is 50p pints and shots. The jesticle is the famous drink of jesters, costing £4 it contains 2 vodkas, one rum and one schnapps. then whatever the bartender feels like putting in it that night.

There is a reason people call this place 'The Palace of Dreams'. Whether you go alone or in a group…read moreof 20, you are guaranteed to have a great night out at Jesters. Cheap drinks, great music, amazing crowd of people, everything about this place leads each second of the night to glory. Well, except the actual state and hygiene of the place, but you'll hardly notice when you start having too much of a good time. Monday nights in Jesters are revered as just about the best Mondays in Southampton with 50p pints and shots. If you're looking to get drunk (for some reason on Monday) then you'll definitely want to show up here. You cannot go to Jesters without at least once ordering a Jesticle, what I like to call the 'Elixir of Dreams'. Despite a slightly cringe-worthy name, these pints of heaven are the essence of Jesters itself, filled with a concoction of vodka, rum, schnapps, and a dash of other ingredients all topped up with some juice and lemonade. While it may not sound appetising, I assure you that it is unbearably good. Not to mention it'll get you to the point of not needing to drink any more within a few pints. The dance floor, while chaotic, has an amazing vibe filled with some of the best music I've found from clubs. There's no generic, random beats and remixes, just good ol' songs that everyone knows and just about everyone in the club sings along to. Just a tip, don't pay too much attention to the floor in there, and definitely don't try to make it into the crowd with a drink in hand. Outside in the garden, you'll find plenty of space to sit, as well as lots of room to stand around, with a great balcony area fitted with lots of seating and tables away from the floor of the inside. Generally, the people in Jesters are friendly and all out for a good night, so if you're going on your own, it won't be difficult to find some drinking buddies to sing away with til the early hours of the morning. The toilets are the biggest eyesore (and not too great on the nose either) of the place, so I wouldn't recommend wearing your best shoes to this place. Security is good, no bouncers kicking you out for spilling a drink or denying you access because you're wearing trainers or shorts. Every single time I've been to Jesters has been an absolute blast, other clubs don't even compare. Despite it's status as the 'worst nightclub in the UK', you won't have more fun anywhere else. Oh, and don't forget to finish your night stumbling next door for some burgers and chips, that's an absolute must.

Fashionable, hip and trendy bar in the popular Bedford Place area of Southampton. Attracts the…read moreyoung professional crowd and the upmarkets students. Closer to the Soton Institute than the Uni. Has funky club feel to it Thursday-Sat evenings, when the upstairs bar is open and there's a wicked DJ up there on Friday nights. Cocktails are fantastic. They do food in the day and early evenings, with 2-4-1 pizzas early in the week, which is really good value. Live DJs Thursday-Sat/Sunday, with some famous faces popping in on occasion. Carl Cox (Ex-Radio1, in case you're not sure who he is) once sponsored me £50 for a 10k run I was doing. It's next to it's sister bar, The Orange Rooms, owned by the same people. It can be pretty difficult to hop between the two places if they're busy. They have quite different vibes. Bedford Place is probably the best place to go out in Southampton city centre.

Ok so mono is next door to orange rooms. Its defiantly for the hardcore-ish clubber. They play…read moremainly pure house and it does get busy in there, especially after the boat parties. Again, as with orange expect lots of pretentious kids. Southampton lacks decent places and unfortunately orange and mono are the only two places worth going. Generally theres always a que so get there early. I found bar staff to be very friendly.

Recently opened, Bunker's marketing strategy seems to be pull people in with super cheap drinks…read moredeals, and with prices starting at a quid I'm sold. With prices like that it's unsurprising that this is a bit of a student haunt, at least on the night I went along anyway. The Bristol uni hordes manage to fill up the three rooms and garden out the back, creating a proper buzz on a Friday night. They also make a long queue, which combined with the five pounds asked for some nights makes this place slightly less attractive that it otherwise would be. That the only criticism I can think of is because this place is popular should tell you that you won't be disappointed by a night out at Bunker.

I am literally torn in half with The Bunker. One one side, its cheap and cheerful and always…read morepromises a decent night out without breaking the bank. On the other side I have been severely let down in the past. I will explain...... Situated near Clifton Triangle and Park Street, The Bunker nightclub is open 6 nights a week with drinks starting from £1, popular DJ's, 3 rooms and a very large smoking garden. The queuing can be quite ridiculous so make sure you do not get there to late. Music ranges from chart music to dance and drum and bass with a raised seating area and large dance floor. The toilets are fairly small so expect a queue. On one particular night, they had let in far too many people on the venues legal capacity resulting in a 'power cut', which then the venue turned very much into 'a war bunker' with emergency lighting and scared people. Magically all the staff swiftly disappeared and there was literally no-one to tell us what was happening. Everyone started to pile towards the stairs to leave and no joke I was almost crushed to death and £5 out of pocket from the entrance fee. I was not happy!